One fix, reported from a Xiaomi on Android 16: the font weight control did
nothing. Both bundled faces carry a single variable axis, wght, and the app was
asking for two — a font with no italic axis may refuse the whole request rather
than the part it cannot honour, and on a platform that does, every weight drew
at Regular with no error to show for it. The same declaration had quietly broken
the heavier weights on Android 7.0 and 7.1 as well.
A patch release, not a minor one: nothing else changed.
README.md and releases/README.md were written by tools/update_release_docs.py
rather than by hand, which is what it is for — and ReleaseDocsTest now has
something real to check, since the version, the archived APK and the checksum
all moved together.
The 0.4.0 row also gets its real commit in place of HEAD.
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Twenty commits since v0.3.0, and the tag still pointed at the old one: nothing
could be published while main declared a version that was already taken.
0.4.0 rather than 0.3.1 — this is not a patch. Tablets and unfolded foldables
read in columns now, the dictionary and the reading settings moved beside the
poem instead of over it, couplets sit in cards and share a line where there is
room, pages fill in where they load, and the design system that describes all of
it lives in design/.
Changelog 6 in all three languages, as F-Droid reads them from fastlane/.
The release APK is not archived in releases/ yet: the signing key is not on this
machine, and every release so far shares one key so that each upgrades the last
in place. Signing and archiving wait for it.
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A download control on each row in the list view: the arrow starts it, a spinner
replaces it while it runs and cancels on a tap, and a green tick says the poems
are already on the device. Only text is fetched — recitations stream when
played, and nothing about that changes.
The tick sits in a box the size of an IconButton although nothing about it is
tappable. A bare icon lands where the button's padding would have put it, so
the ticks and the arrows did not line up down the column.
The green is derived from the scheme's own luminance rather than fixed:
Material has no success colour, and one green goes muddy on sepia and glares on
OLED black.
Deleting stays on the downloads page, where the sizes are. A tap beside a
poet's name should not be the thing that throws their poems away.
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Three views, chosen by the chips: the poets you pinned, Ganjoor's own order,
and alphabetical. Press and hold a poet anywhere to pin or unpin — tapping
still opens them, and a pin marker sits beside the name.
Pinned is the default. With nothing pinned it is Ganjoor's order untouched, so
a fresh install never opens to an empty screen; the hint about holding a poet
shows only while the shelf is empty, because once there is something on it the
shelf explains itself.
Pins keep the order they were made in rather than being sorted. A shelf someone
arranges themselves should stay where they put it, and a new pin appearing in
the middle of the row is disorienting.
Cards or a list, switched from the app bar and remembered. The same storage as
bookmarks: a list of a few urls needs no schema.
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Two gaps in the licence file, both from work done after it was written.
The share, lookup and assistant glyphs are Material Symbols path data copied
into our own vector files. The Libraries table credits the Material icons
library, which is not the same thing as copying its paths, so the drawables now
have their own entry and appear in the app's About page.
The assistant was not mentioned at all. It ships no vendor SDK, no key and no
default endpoint, so nothing non-free is distributed — but a reader may point
it at a service whose terms are their own, and what a model writes back belongs
to neither Ganjoor nor this app. Written down for F-Droid's sake as much as the
reader's.
No new dependencies came with any of it: the assistant reuses the HTTP client
and JSON parser already here.
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Pre-1.0 while the app is still being shaped: 0.1.0 was the build after the
dictionary work, this is the one with share and the optional assistant.
The APK is named for its version, because a file called app-release.apk tells
whoever receives it nothing. Changelogs in all three languages, one per
versionCode, which is the layout F-Droid reads.
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Reading
- Naskh is now the default face, and both Arabic-script fonts are registered
at four weights so the text can be thickened for a lit screen.
- Category listings show each poem's opening line, fetched best-effort from
api.ganjoor.net since the data set doesn't carry excerpts.
- Tap a couplet to save that passage or copy it; a saved passage keeps a
tappable link back to its poem. Poem text is selectable for plain copying.
Languages
- Persian, Urdu and English, Persian by default whatever the phone's locale,
applied in attachBaseContext and switchable from the top bar or the sheet.
- English chrome uses Libron (OFL); poems stay naskh or nastaliq throughout.
- Each language gets its own values-* folder: with Farsi only in values/,
Android was resolving it to the Urdu strings, since a same-script locale
outranks the default.
Offline
- Downloaded poets mirror the data set's layout under filesDir, so offline
mode is one lookup rather than a parallel path. Downloads run one poet at
a time, skip what's on disk, and resume by restarting.
- Downloads screen lists every poet with their portrait and tick boxes for
picking several, plus storage used, delete, and download-everything behind
a size warning.
- Offline mode refuses the network and says what's missing rather than
blaming the connection.
Also: poet sort (Ganjoor's order or alphabetical, via a Persian collator),
RTL nav transitions, an original shamsa launcher icon with a monochrome layer
for themed icons, and preferences written with commit so they survive the
process being killed.
F-Droid: dependenciesInfo off, optional signing so the build works with no
keystore, fastlane metadata in three languages, cleartext traffic disabled.
Verified on an API 36 emulator: downloaded a poet, pulled the emulator's
network, read them offline, and confirmed an undownloaded poet reports being
missing rather than erroring.
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