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Changelog & Release Notes
Track every feature update, new region, and performance improvement across all official releases.
Settings & Saved Screen Fixes
- ⚙️ Fixed Blank Settings Screen: Fixed a bug where the Settings screen could appear blank after navigating back into it from another screen.
- 🎨 Fixed Faded Collection Cards: Your Saved collection cards were showing up washed-out and hard to read — they now display in StreamFolio's proper blue colour scheme.
Buttery-Smooth Scrolling, Full 120Hz Support & Bookmark Fixes
- 🚀 Smoother Everywhere: A top-to-bottom pass on animations and scrolling — opening a story, switching tabs, and scrolling through your feed all feel noticeably smoother and more responsive.
- 📱 Full 120Hz Support: StreamFolio now runs at your phone's full high refresh rate on supported devices, instead of being held back to a lower rate.
- ✨ Smoother Story Transitions: Tapping into an article now flies in cleanly with no stutter, and thumbnail images fade in smoothly across the whole app instead of popping in abruptly.
- 🔄 Fixed Post-Refresh Stutter: Scrolling right after pulling to refresh no longer stutters while new thumbnails, tags, and summaries finish loading in the background.
- ⚡ Faster App Startup: The app now starts up faster, especially the first time you open it after installing or updating.
- 🔗 Snappier "Also Covered By" Loading: The list of other sources covering a story now appears faster and no longer competes with the article-opening animation.
- 🔖 Fixed Saving to Collections: Fixed an issue where some users couldn't save an article to a collection because no "Saved" option appeared in the save sheet.
- 🎨 Consistent Colours: Fixed the Saved screen and save-to-collection sheet showing an off-brand purple highlight instead of matching the app's blue theme.
- 🏷️ Consistent Naming: The Saved screen's title now matches its navigation bar label, so it's called "Saved" everywhere instead of switching between "Saved" and "Bookmarks".
Custom Bookmark Collections, Redesigned Settings, 100% Full Backup & Modern Notifications
- 📌 Custom Bookmark Collections & Lists: Create custom reading lists (e.g. Tech, Favourites), save stories to multiple collections at once, switch between Grid and List views with thumbnail artwork, and tap "Change" on saved banners to organise stories on the fly.
- ⚙️ Redesigned Settings & Layouts: A beautifully polished settings experience with consistent spacing, smooth transitions, and sleek modern card layouts across all sub-pages.
- 💾 Complete 100% Backup & Restore: Backup every piece of data — custom RSS feeds, bookmark collections, reading lists, saved stories, swipe gestures, search history, and AI settings — with seamless restore across devices.
- 🔔 Theme-Matched Notification Banners: Floating notification banners that match your app theme seamlessly, letting you manage your audio playlist and saved stories.
- 🖼️ High-Res Publisher Logos: Automatic high-definition publisher logos for news feeds and sources, with clean initial badges as fallbacks.
- 🕒 Smarter Story Timestamps: Improved publishing time calculations so every article accurately shows relative timestamps ("5 min ago", "2 hours ago", "3 days ago").
- 🏷️ Polished Filter Chips: Filter chips now feature clean, natural title casing for effortless reading and navigation.
Smarter AI Summaries with Better Error Handling
- 🤖 Robust AI Summarisation: Improved on-device summarisation reliability with smarter text preprocessing, typed error handling, and better recovery for long articles — summaries fail less and handle edge cases gracefully.
StreamFolio FM DJ Easter Egg, Redesigned Region Selection & Play Store Launch
- 📻 StreamFolio FM DJ Radio: Secret multi-tap Easter Egg in Settings that unlocks an interactive DJ radio broadcast card with live audio equalizer visualizer and continuous headline TTS playback.
- 🌍 Redesigned Region Picker Modal: Modernized region selection with a full-screen bottom sheet modal featuring region flags, active feed counters, and smooth selection animations.
- 🇮🇳 Expanded India Feeds: Added rich new curated RSS feed sources for India news region coverage.
- 🎨 Glassmorphic Navigation Bar Polish: Fixed top header element spacing and padding so navbar items no longer touch or clip background elements.
- ⚡ Feed & Article Stability: Removed pull-to-refresh spinner artifacts and resolved article flashing bugs during feed stream updates.
- 🛍️ Official Google Play Release: StreamFolio is now officially available for installation on the Google Play Store!
5 New Regions, 30+ New Sources, Article Grouping & Feed Health Tests
- 🌍 5 New Regions: South Korea (Yonhap News), Japan (NHK World, Japan Times), Brazil (Folha de S.Paulo), South Africa (Daily Maverick, IOL), UAE (Arab News).
- 📰 30+ New Curated Sources: Expanded all existing regions with high-quality publishers — Le Monde & Futura Sciences (France), Heise, Spiegel & FAZ (Germany), New Scientist (UK), The Hindu, NDTV & Economic Times (India), Guardian Australia & SMH (Australia), Mothership & Business Times (Singapore), and more.
- 📚 Article Grouping: Similar stories from multiple sources are now grouped together so you can see different perspectives on the same topic at a glance.
- 🔄 Silent Background Refresh: Feed updates now happen silently in the background without blocking the UI or resetting your scroll position.
- 🧪 Automated Feed Health Tests: New unit test suite that validates every default feed returns articles, detects HTTP redirect issues, and checks publisher name coverage — catches broken feeds before they reach users.
- 🔧 Network Security Fix: Fixed SCMP, RTHK, TechRadar, NHK, and other feeds blocked by Android's cleartext HTTP policy.
- 🗑️ Removed Low-Quality Sources: Dropped MarketWatch (no article bodies) and independent.sg (bot-protected, returns no content).
- 🔒 SSRF Protection: Added security interceptor to block requests to private/internal network addresses from custom RSS feeds.
- 📶 Offline Indicator: Clear visual banner when your phone loses internet connection.
- 🦦 Eddy the Otter: Friendly mascot appears on empty states to guide you when no articles are available.
- 🔍 Improved Search: Search suggestions and better result formatting.
- 👆 Long Press Actions: Long press articles for quick actions.
- ✨ Page Transitions: Smoother animations between main screens.
- 📳 Expanded Haptics: Tactile feedback added to more interactions throughout the app.
Audio Memory, Security Hardening & Offline Banner
- 🎧 Persistent Audio Queue: Your Text-to-Speech playlist now saves automatically. If you close the app or restart your phone, your audio queue picks up right where you stopped.
- 🔒 Enhanced Link Safety: Upgraded background security protection for custom RSS feed links to keep your device safe.
- 📶 Offline Status Banner: Added a clear visual indicator when your phone loses internet connection, so you know you're browsing saved stories offline.
- 📳 Haptics & Animations: Smoother page transitions and tactile haptic feedback for app interactions.
Material You Theming, Article Backup & Sleep Timer
- 🎨 Material You Theming: StreamFolio now matches your phone's wallpaper colours dynamically.
- 📦 Article Backup & Restore: Export and import your saved articles and OPML feed lists effortlessly.
- 🎙️ Notification Media Controls & Sleep Timer: Control audio playback from your notification bar and set a custom sleep timer.
Playback Speed Control & Simplified Settings
- ⏱️ Audio Speed Controls: Choose your preferred listening speed (0.5x to 2.0x playback).
- 📖 Article Utility Bar: Quick access toolbar for text formatting, bookmarks, and reader mode.
- ⚙️ Reorganised Settings: Simplified settings layout so options are easier to find.
Custom Swipe Actions & Background Refresh
- 👆 Customisable Swiping: Set custom swipe gestures to mark stories read or save them to your bookmarks.
- 🔄 Background News Refresh: Automatically fetch new stories in the background while preserving your AI summaries.
- 🖼️ Fresh App Icons: Updated sleek app launcher icons.
Hong Kong News Region & Smart Language Skip
- 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Region Added: Read top stories from South China Morning Post, HKFP, RTHK, and GovHK.
- 🌐 Smart Translation: Automatically detects your system language to avoid translating articles already in your native tongue.
- 📱 Improved Onboarding: Streamlined welcome walkthrough for first-time users.
AI Setup Guide & Category Fixes
- 🤖 Clearer AI Setup: Improved instructions and fallback options for setting up on-device AI features.
- 📌 Category List Fixes: Fixed an issue where custom news channels didn't appear properly in category tabs.
Faster Image Loading & Performance Boost
- 🖼️ Smart Thumbnail Retry: Automatically retries loading article cover images on slow connections.
- ⚡ Faster App Performance: Optimised app size and reduced memory usage.
On-Device Gemini AI Summaries & Smart Tags
- ✨ On-Device AI Summaries: Generate 3-bullet takeaways for any story using local AI running directly on your phone.
- 🏷️ Smart Topic Tags: Automatically tags stories by key subjects and trending topics.
- 🌐 Article Translation: Translate headlines and stories locally without sending data to external cloud servers.
Audio Player UI Fixes & Faster Navigation
- 🎶 Audio Player Overlay Fix: Fixed mini-player positioning so it no longer overlaps story cards at the bottom of the screen.
- ⚡ Faster Article Opening: Smooth transition when tapping a story to open the detail reader screen.
Android Home Screen Widget
- 🧩 Home Screen Widget: Read top headlines directly from your Android home screen with dark and light theme options.
- ⏳ Smooth Animations: Added subtle loading animations for feed updates.
Source Toggles & Storage Retention Controls
- 🔧 Source Toggle Fix: Resolved a bug where toggling news providers linked unexpected categories together.
- 💾 Retention Settings: Choose how long read stories stay saved on your phone before automatic cleanup.
Enhanced Feed Parser & Feed Management
- 📰 Smarter XML Feed Parser: Added support for non-standard RSS and Atom blog feed formats.
- ⚙️ Customisable Storage Rules: Set custom rules for how many stories to keep in offline cache.
Extended Compatibility for Older Android Phones
- 📱 Android 8.0 (Oreo) Support: Lowered minimum system requirements so older Android devices can run StreamFolio seamlessly.
India Region Updates & Source Management
- 🇮🇳 India Regional Feeds Updated: Refreshed default news channels for India.
- 🛠️ Empty State Helper: Easy button to add custom RSS links when no default providers are enabled.
StreamFolio Official Launch
- 🌍 Global Region Support: Subscribe to curated news from the US, UK, Singapore, India, Canada, and Australia.
- ⚡ Drag-and-Drop Curation: Reorder your news categories and custom RSS folders with drag and drop.
- 📰 Ad-Free Distraction-Free Reader: Clean reading layout with custom font size adjustments and dark theme.
- 🔒 100% On-Device Privacy: Zero cloud accounts, zero analytics tracking, and local-only SQLite storage.