ChangeLog

COL Reminder What’s New

3.7.6.1 – 2023.01.25


NEW
New language Esperanto
UPDATE
Updated internal libraries to newer versions
UPDATE
Updated translation Greek, Vietnamese, Spanish
FIX
Fixed problem with Support area

3.7.6 – 2023.10.20


UPDATE
Android 14 Updates
UPDATE
Updated internal libraries to newer versions

3.7.5.9 – 2023.01.25


NEW
WEB: Possible to add basic repeat options
UPDATE
Updated translation Afrikaans, Croatian, Haitian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil
FIX
Notification on Android 13 are now sticky again and can’t be removed
FIX
Crash on loading the profile photo if logged in
FIX
After snoozing app crashed sometimes
FIX
Some start problems and crashes
FIX
Crash on create shortcut widget (Android 10 and lower)

3.7.5.8 – 2022.12.30


UPDATE
Recoded a lot of parts like navigation drawer and in app billing, to try to fix the weird problems
UPDATE
External libraries are updated to their latest version

3.7.5.7 – 2022.10.25

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FIX
Fixed some database related problems
UPDATE
External libraries are updated to their latest version

3.7.5.5 – 2022.09.25


FIX
Fixed some database related problems
UPDATE
External libraries are updated to their latest version

3.7.5.4 – 2022.09.21


UPDATE
Android 13 Updates
UPDATE
External libraries are updated to their latest version
UPDATE
Update of Billing Library (inApp purchases)

3.7.5.3 – 2022.08.29


UPDATE
Android 12 Updates
UPDATE
External libraries are updated to their latest version
UPDATE
Translations Persian, Spanish, Slovene, Turkish, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Albanian
FIX
Fixed problem with attached images

3.7.5.2 – 2022.05.27


FIX
Fix for DropBox Backup
FIX
WearOS App – Fix for double notifications on Galaxy Watch 4
UPDATE
WearOS App – Check if app is installed on watch and sending data only if installed
UPDATE
WearOS App – Optimizations in sending data to the watch
UPDATE
WearOS App – Shows now the reminder text as title in the notification
UPDATE
Translations Hebrew, Lithuanian, Czech and Portuguese

3.7.5.1 – 2022.04.08


FIX
Local backup problems fixed on Android 9 and 10
FIX
Fixed rare problems adding device to web after we get a new token from the web
FIX
Display problems with this whats new list
UPDATE
Translations Slovak, Modern Greek, and Portuguese

3.7.5 – 2022.03.18


NEW
Use of the alarm clock api instead of the notification api
UPDATE
Languages Hungarian, Danish, Swedish Lithuanian, Spanish and Russian updated
UPDATE
Updated check for the legacy app COL Reminder Donate
UPDATE
Changed to scoped storage (Needed since Android 12 – API30)
UPDATE
Migrated to Jetpack WorkManager for automatic backup to Google Drive and local storage

3.7.4.3 – 2021.05.02


UPDATE
Translation Croatian and Italian updated
FIX
Crash with Turkish language on Birthday Reminder

3.7.4.2 – 2021.04.24


UPDATE
Translations French, Russian and Slovene updated
FIX
Fix for different label char

3.7.4.1 – 2021.04.18


UPDATE
Translation updated Arabic, Russian, Norwegian, Persian, Slovak, Hungarian, Dutch, French
UPDATE
Added missing translations

3.7.4 – 2021.03.06


NEW
Widget: New possibility to remove the header/toolbar
NEW
Setting: 4 New date formats
NEW
Setting: Hide all day events in calendar conflicts bottom sheet (settings, date and time -> calendar settings)
NEW
Setting: New warning if “Override DND mode” is active in system settings
FIX
Setting: Languages was listed in wrong order
FIX
General: Update of all external libraries
FIX
Add Reminder: Calendar conflicts layout problem with 24 hours events
FIX
Add Reminder: Calendar conflicts all day event was not always detected
UPDATE
Main: Changed share icon
UPDATE
Add Reminder: Calendar conflicts new layout for asking permission
UPDATE
General: Translation Update of Danish, French, Modern Greek and Dutch

3.7.3 – 2021.01.24


FIX
Settings: Snooze Minutes are not sent to Wear App
FIX
Widget: Automatic Theme refresh if Widget Theme is System Based (Android 10+)
FIX
Some other small bug fixes
UPDATE
Translation Update of Turkish, French, Portuguese, Russian and Bulgarian

3.7.2 – 2021.01.21


FIX
Snooze Picker problem if screen is zoomed
FIX
Webinterface: Phone reminder text is now correct set
UPDATE
Translation Update of Turkish, Vietnamese and Portuguese

3.7.1 – 2021.01.06


FIX
Text corrections in the welcome wizard
FIX
Fix for Samsung phones in the welcome wizard’s autostart option
FIX
Native date picker light theme problem fixed
FIX
Main list shows now only links and mail addresses as link
FIX
Fix for notification channels and some settings issues
UPDATE
Translation Update of Dutch, French, Slovak, Spanish and Italian

3.7 – 2020.12.21


NEW
Add reminders from the PC (activate it from the navigation panel)
NEW
Navigation Panel shows now the logged in status
NEW
Login/Logout to/from Google inside the Navigation Panel
NEW
About screen shows now the current donation status
NEW
About screen shows the current web subscription status
NEW
Links are now clickable in the main view
NEW
Troubleshooting menu entry. Shows don’t kill my app for your phone.
NEW
First start tutorial shows now info for AutoStart on some phones
UPDATE
Min Android version is now Android 5.0 (API 21, Release 2014)
UPDATE
Update the ‘no reminders’ image in the main view
UPDATE
Behind the scenes updates
UPDATE
Recurring reminder has now long tap on dismiss to move it to history in the Dialog
UPDATE
Updated languages Afrikaans, Serbian, Italian, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Hungarian and Bulgarian
FIXED
Donation Page Layout fixes
FIXED
Removed the setting ‘Call Reminder’ from Android P and up
FIXED
Asking now for permission on contact share if no permission was given
FIXED
Group Notification list Theme problem on Dark Mode fixed (Android 10+)
FIXED
Birthday contact name is now shown in the fullscreen calendar
FIXED
Birthday Date is now shown correct and not 1 day earlier
FIXED
Fixed snooze problem after 11 pm on Android 8 and lower
FIXED
Calendar integration shows now also recurring calendar entries

3.6.4.2 – 2020.09.04


FIXED
Widget Crash on some languages
UPDATE
Language Ukrainian, Swedish updated

3.6.4.1 – 2020.08.15


UPDATE
Language Turkish, Hungarian, Tamil, Hebrew, Afrikaans, Dutch, Polish, Vietnamese, Swedish, Norwegian

3.6.4 – 2020.03.13


UPDATE
Language Russian, Norwegian, French, Czech, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Polish
FIXED
Snooze dialog is messed up if screen zoom is used (Samsung, Huawei, ..)
FIXED
Smart date and time was wrong selected if the next smart time was the next day
FIXED
Time Picker AM/PM not enough space to tap
FIXED
On edit of location reminder sometimes date/time AND location is displayed

3.6.3 – 2020.01.18


NEW
“Show Popup” is back and now known as “Show High Priority” [Android 10 and up]
The system UI may choose to display a heads-up notification, instead of launching the dialog, while the user is using the device.
UPDATE
Updated languages (Polish, Norwegian, Slovene, Spanish, Hungarian and Turkish)
FIXED
Upload Debug Log failed sometimes
FIXED
Sharing of contact shows sometimes a wrong contact
FIXED
Sharing of contact is crashing sometimes
FIXED
Snooze Picker shows year 1969 if you rotate the phone
FIXED
Dialog Buttons Text is now automatically resized if it has not enough space
FIXED
Internal debug log fixes/updates

3.6.2 – 2019.12.13


NEW
After a restore the ringtone, vibration settings are also restore in the system notifications [Android 8 and up]
UPDATE
Updated languages (Tamil, Russian, Ukrainian, Persian and Italian)
FIX
Fixed theme problem with “Group Notification Dialog”
FIXED
Fixed crash if Vibration test was clicked but no vibration was set
FIXED
Fixed text overlapping on the quick add bar
FIXED
Buttons on native date picker are not visible on some devices
FIXED
Crash in notification settings details after restore if the ringtone was not installed on the new device
FIXED
Some other reported small bugs
FIXED
Internal debug log fixes/updates

3.6.1 – 2019.11.01


UPDATE
Updated languages (Dutch, Hungarian, Vietnames, Chinese, Finnish, Polish and Catalan)
FIXED
Removed “Show Popup” setting [Android 10 – See details here]
FIXED
Snooze dialog doesn’t show time and the text “Tomorrow” was cutted off
FIXED
Custom vibration settings – The test vibration does not stop
FIXED
Some theme color problems
FIXED
Fixed problems with creation of support tickets

3.6 – 2019.10.23


MIN 4.2
Minimum Android version is now 4.2
NEW
New appointment info. If you set a date/time for your reminder you see now a info about your appointments at that time. So you can quickly see if your reminder conflicts with an appointment in your calendar!
NEW
Updated first start and SD-Card tutorial. The first start tutorial you see after a fresh install gets a slightly design update. Also the SD-Card selection tutorial inside the Backup/Restore Settings.
NEW
New empty screen layout
NEW
Vibration Pattern and Ringtone Types. Welcome back vibration pattern and ringtone type selection to Android 8 and up! You can now again select your own vibration pattern and select which ringtone type you want (Alarm, Notification, Ringtone).
NEW
New theme setting “System Based” (Android 10 Dark Mode)
NEW
New setting “Show repeat and priority info in notification” [“Notifications” => “Advanced”]
NEW
Target is now Android 10
UPDATE
Updated all external libraries to the latest version
FIXED
Fixed a few reported bugs

3.5.9 – 2019.07.07


UPDATE
Smaller install size (Only selcted languages are downloaded)
UPDATE
Updated Place Picker to latest version
UPDATE
Updated Place Picker to latest version
UPDATE
Update all external libraries to latest version
FIX
Fixed Parking Pre Alarm wrong text
FIX
Fixed showing dialog arrows if no reminder active
FIX
Fixed a few reported bugs

3.5.8 – 2019.05.29


UPDATE
A complete new backup file format was made to fix the problems on restore on some devices with Android 9. Please be aware that the new format is not compatible anymore with the old one
UPDATE
Update all external libraries to latest version
FIX
Fixed a few reported bugs

3.5.7 – 2019.03.16


UPDATE
Google Drive Backup Rewrite
UPDATE
AndroidX Framework upgrade
FIX
Android 9 backup/restore problem fixed
FIX
Fixed donate crash on Android 4.3
FIX
Fixed problem with date picker to set past date
FIX
Fixed share contact problem with special chars in the name
FIX
Fixed problem with date after change of type from location to date
FIX
Fixed display of the date without year

3.5.6 – 2018.12.18


NEW
Widget refresh icon
NEW
New bottom bar inside Fullscreen calendar picker
NEW
Long tap to see the current reminders inside Fullscreen calendar picker
UPDATE
Fullscreen calendar picker optimized performance
UPDATE
Show Popup behaviour changes
UPDATE
Layout change on notification popup dialog
UPDATE
Updated all external libraries to the latest version
UPDATE
A lot of under the hood improvements and changes
FIX
A few reported bugs

3.5.5 – 2018.09.25


NEW
Fullscreen calendar picker. Shows small dots on the days where you have already reminders and you can view them inside the calendar
NEW
New designed FAB for selecting the category
NEW
New shiny reminder dialog
NEW
Updated layout on the snooze dialog
NEW
The label char can now be set to any char you like (Settings, Labels, Label Char)
UPDATE
Language translations
FIX
Restore of the backup on Android 9 does not work anymore
FIX
Support Developer Donation does not work (fixed again)
FIX
PreAlarms doesn’t work anymore
FIX
Widget crashes sometimes and shows “loading”
FIX
Widget settings screen is not scrollable
FIX
On bundled notifications the first notification sounds twice
FIX
Some labels are not translated
FIX
Small layout problems

3.5.1 – 2018.07.02


FIX
After resume the data does not get refreshed
FIX
Alarm List problems on a right to left layout
FIX
Performance was bad if you have a lot of reminders (over 1000)
FIX
Crash after startup of version 3.5 (new table label was not created)
FIX
Crash on Android 7 if you want to delete a label with backspace
FIX
Labels are shown multiple times on Android 7
FIX
A lot of reported crashes and improvements

3.5 – 2018.06.05


NEW
Label Support – Type # followed by the label name to create or select a label inside the reminder text
UPDATE
License checking is now performed to www.colreminder.com
UPDATE
Share reminder server is now also on www.colreminder.com
UPDATE
Delete of a reminder shows now a yes/no dialog instead of the message at the bottom
UPDATE
Widget Size is now by default 2×2
FIX
Some layout problem on the alarm list popup
FIX
Swipe to snooze calculates the time wrong
FIX
Widget shows ‘loading’ for a view minutes
FIX
Parking countdown notification is shown in the same group
FIX
Parking notification are sometimes not removed after cancelling
FIX
Night mode over midnight does not work correctly
FIX
Repeat text in the main list is not correct sometimes
FIX
Widget does not show the third line

3.4 – 2018.03.23


NEW
Widget shows now category icons
NEW
Widget shows now the contact icon on the left
NEW
Widget shows now rounded contact images
NEW
Widget Header, Icon, List Layout changes
NEW
Widget shows now a text if no open reminders are available
NEW
New widget setting: Show Icon
NEW
New widget setting: Set transparency
NEW
Default Widget size is now 2 (height) x 3 (width)
NEW
Swipe to left is now “Snooze” instead “Delete”
NEW
It is now possible to snooze a reminder from the main screen (swipe left or open menu 3 dots)
NEW
Recurrence Picker Daily can now be up to 999 days
NEW
Hourly reminders shows now the between hours in main view
NEW
Repeated reminder with counter shows now the counts left in main view
NEW
New design for the donation options
NEW
New Theme – OLED Black
NEW
If a notification tone in Android 7 is not supported anymore the app shows now a warning message
NEW
New warning message if the notification volume is silent
NEW
New Setting to sort the alarm list popup descending (Settings, Notifications, Sort Descending)
FIX
Permission was not asked to show the local backup date
FIX
Edit of hourly reminder doesn’t show the between hours
FIX
Colors and Icons are wrong in search view in the main view
FIX
Every x hours and between hours are not worked correctly in some situations

3.3.3 – 2018.01.13


UPDATE
Reduced app size down by 2 MB
UPDATE
Optimized Start Up time and overall performance
UPDATE
Optimized list and scroll performance
UPDATE
Splash Screen is shown instead of grey blank page on start
UPDATE
After boot all active open reminders are only sounding once instead of multiple times
UPDATE
Delete swipe shows now a confirmation message to prevent accidental deletes
UPDATE
ist shows now the shadow again on Android Lollipop and up
FIX
Parking CountDown is not correct and get not not removed sometimes
FIX
Workaround for the MIUI problem with external sound selection on Android 7.x
FIX
Other reported small fixes