Gander 2.10 deletes several of a folder's photos with one prompt, opens text files saved in older encodings, gives long file names two lines, and makes search in a PDF find more words and mark them in the right place.
Gander is on Google Play, signed with the same key as these releases.
Photos
- Several photos in a folder you added in Gander can be deleted together, with one prompt from Android for all of them, where each photo brought the prompt up again. In the folder's list, hold a photo down to start selecting, or use Select photos in the menu, then tap the photos to delete and the bin in the title bar. In the viewer, Select photos in the menu turns the title bar into a count with a button that selects the photo on screen, so you can swipe through a folder selecting as you go, and the bin then deletes them all. Back ends selecting. As before it works from Android 11, for photos on the phone's own storage, and Android keeps them in its bin for 30 days. Thanks @0xlne, #75.
Files and folders
- A text file saved in an older encoding, as Windows saved Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Western European text before UTF-8, opens in that encoding, where it came out as garbled characters and a large one took twice as long to show. Greek, Turkish and Central European files are read so on a phone set to that language. Thanks @Allureglorious, #78.
- A long file name in a folder's list takes up to two lines, and one longer than that loses its middle, so a folder of books named by author still shows each title and its year, where a name had one line and kept little more than the author. Thanks @XZY123lol for passing it on from 4PDA, #77.
- A .doc that Word saved as a single XML file, as some systems hand out their records, opens as a Word document, where Gander said it was not an OpenDocument file and showed nothing.
PDFs
- Search finds a word the file keeps in two pieces, as some do where a ligature such as "fi" sits or the font changes inside the word, where it found nothing. It also finds a word whose accents the file keeps apart from their letters, and a Chinese word the file spells with a look-alike character.
- Search finds a Thai word, where it found nothing, and the highlight on a word whose accents the file keeps apart from their letters reaches the word's last letter. PDFs are now drawn by pdf.js 6.5.438, up from 6.3.289.
- A search highlight sits on the word it found in Turkish text, where every capital dotted İ before the word moved it one letter to the right.
- On a phone set to a larger font size, search marks the words it found, where it marked a spot beside each, a whole word off in Persian or Arabic. Selected text is shaded over the words too, where the shading ran past them.
Install
Gander-2.10.apk runs on every phone. The app ships no native libraries, so there is no architecture to choose.
Viewing PDFs in full needs Android System WebView 125 or newer (May 2024), Word documents 80 and Markdown files 93. Any phone still receiving WebView updates is well past all three. Below 125, on Android 9 and later, PDFs open in a simple view.
Verify before installing if you like. Signing certificate SHA-256:
5B:5C:F6:4A:94:23:7C:D5:F0:E0:85:76:00:38:BC:1C:EB:DF:18:DA:BA:5C:B3:EA:CA:7C:15:9F:22:A7:E2:4B
And the APK itself:
d32abed191a22b5e037ddfaa89ac096d06554a4e37be3ddf5288f3556149872b