Thor v1.81.5 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-navigation3package. Sub-route ViewModels (AppInfoDetailsViewModelandPermissionManagerViewModel) 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-fieldsKotlin compiler argument. - Dependencies: Bumped various Gradle plugins and dependency coordinates in the version catalog.
What's Changed
- Localization and dep upgrades by @trinadhthatakula in #158
- Bug Fixes by @trinadhthatakula in #172
- Dev by @trinadhthatakula in #177
- New Freezer by @trinadhthatakula in #180
- Auto Freeze by @trinadhthatakula in #181
- Shell-first execution by @trinadhthatakula in #184
- Fluidity by @trinadhthatakula in #189
- fix(appList): use active filterType from uiState instead of stale _ra… by @trinadhthatakula in #190
Full Changelog: v1.80.6...v1.81.5