Thor v1.81.4 Release Notes

This release brings visual polish with Shared Element Transitions and Material Expressive Motion, optimizes memory scoping by upgrading to Lifecycle 2.11+, and includes dependency updates.

What's Changed

🚀 Features & UX Enhancements

• Shared Element Transitions: Added smooth Jetpack Compose shared element transitions for app icons (shared elements) and names (shared bounds) when navigating from lists to details and permission screens.
• Material Expressive Motion: Migrated legacy animations across counters, distribution charts, snackbars, and navigation transitions to use physics-based tokens from the theme's MaterialTheme.motionScheme.
• Freezer Load UX: Fixed privilege loading delay so the Floating Action Button (FAB) appears immediately on the Freezer screen.

🛠️ Architecture & Lifecycle Scoping

• Lifecycle 2.11+ Upgrade: Upgraded the Android Jetpack Lifecycle library to 2.11.0-rc01.
• Destination-Scoped ViewModels: Integrated the new androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-navigation3 package. Sub-route ViewModels (AppInfoDetailsViewModel and PermissionManagerViewModel) are now scoped to their navigation back stack entries and automatically cleared when popped.
• Stable Tab Scoping: Retained core tab ViewModels at the parent level to prevent unnecessary disposal and reload cycles when switching tabs.

⚙️ Build & Dependencies

• Compiler Warning Cleanup: Removed the redundant -Xexplicit-backing-fields Kotlin compiler argument.
• Dependencies: Bumped various Gradle plugins and dependency coordinates in the version catalog.