Gander 2.9 draws PDF pages sharper and lets them be pinched down to a column of small pages, swipes through a folder's photos with Rotate and Delete, and turns a book's page with a tap on its side.
Gander is on Google Play, signed with the same key as these releases.
PDFs
- PDF pages are sharper at the screen's width, as a PDF opens. A page is now drawn with twice the screen's pixels and scaled down to fit, where it was drawn with about as many and came out soft, most of all on phones with a 720p screen (reported in a Play review). Zoomed in, the part on screen is drawn again at the zoom, from the same point as before.
- A PDF can be pinched smaller than the screen, down to a quarter of its width, so its pages show as one column of small pages to find a place by, where a pinch stopped at the page's width. Pinch out to bring them back to the screen's width, and again to zoom in past it as before. A double tap on the small pages brings them back to the screen's width about the place tapped. A document reopens at the screen's width. Thanks @XZY123lol, #52.
Photos
- A photo opened from a folder you added in Gander swipes to the folder's other photos, in the order you sorted the folder in Gander, by name, date or size, and a readout says which photo of how many it is. Opened with Open a file, from Recents or from another app, a photo still opens alone, since Android then shares only that one file with Gander. Thanks @0xlne, #75, and @DEWE-ex, #71.
- A photo opened from a folder you added in Gander can be deleted with the bin in the title bar, from Android 11. Android asks first, in its own prompt, then moves the photo to its bin, where it can be restored for 30 days, on a Samsung phone from Gallery's Recycle bin, and the next photo shows. Gander still only reads the folder. A photo in a folder with a .nomedia file in it can't be deleted this way, since Android doesn't list it as a photo. Thanks @0xlne, #75.
- A photo can be turned a quarter turn at a time with Rotate, and stays turned while the viewer is open. The file itself is left as it is. Rotate is in the title bar, or in its menu where Share and Delete fill the bar. Pictures that move, such as GIFs, and SVG drawings can't be turned. Thanks @DEWE-ex, #71.
- A photo or a track has its title bar over it in the dark, as a video does, and a tap on the photo, or on the track's screen around its buttons, hides the title bar and the phone's bars. Another tap brings them back. Thanks @DEWE-ex, #71.
Books
- A tap on the right of a book's page moves it on by a screen less a line, so the line it ended on is the first you see, and a tap on the left moves it back, as in a reading app (asked for in a Play review). In a book read right to left the sides swap, as Previous and Next do. At the end of a chapter a tap on the right goes on to the next one, and at the start of one a tap on the left goes back to the end of the chapter before. A tap on a link, or in the middle third of the page, does what it did.
Everywhere else
- A presentation full of photos needs much less memory to open, where on a phone with little memory it could stop the viewer with an error (reported in a Play review). The slide reader now writes out each picture in one go rather than a few characters at a time.
- An old PowerPoint slide show (.pps) or template (.pot) now says it opens once saved again as .pptx, as a .ppt already did.
- In a Word document, a tab on a line just below a picture the text wraps around, such as a logo at the top of a form, now reaches its tab stop. Since 2.7 it could fall short, with the text after it out of line with the rows below, when the paragraph beside the picture grew by a line as its own tab was lined up.
Install
Gander-2.9.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:
7ee8bad6a3c9cd29ae0b406f19d6af598ad7bd653c1ac41288dc79c061721b3b