1.8.1
Wallpaper blur is a slider from 0 to 40px in Appearance, applied to any of the eight bundled pictures or to an imported one; 1.8.0 drew the desktop picture sharp and offered no setting to soften it. The phone's status bar was three tap targets, the smallest of them 24 by 24px, and none of the three told assistive software that they opened a panel; it is four targets now, each one 44px, each reporting the sheet it opens. The website gains a second set of building blocks, seven components and thirteen classes sized for a poster rather than a paragraph, and the front page and the About page are rebuilt on them. Four figures sit in panels of their own on the front page, two of which it did not show at all before.
14 changes in this release
Highlights
- 01
Wallpaper blur, 0 to 40px
The desktop picture was drawn at full sharpness and there was no setting to soften it. A slider in Appearance, under Desktop picture, now takes it from 0 to 40px, on the desktop and on the phone home screen alike. It applies to all eight bundled pictures and to an imported one, and the setting survives a reload.
- 02
The phone status bar is one set of parts
The row's three controls shared no size: the bell was 24 by 24px, and the connection readout and the whole right side were each as wide as their contents. Both ends are built from the same capsule now, each holding a readout, a divider and one 28px action. The desktop menu bar has always built its row this way.
- 03
Every control in the row says what it opens
None of the three buttons reported that a panel was about to appear, and the price was announced as Open Widgets rather than as a number, because that was the label on the button holding it. All four buttons now report whether their sheet is on screen, and the price button reads its value, its direction and the day's percentage. Each is a 44px touch target inside the same 26px capsule as before.
- 04
The website has a second set of blocks
The site was built at one scale: a heading, a lead paragraph and a divided list, which reads well and lays out flat. Seven components and thirteen classes add a poster scale beside it, including figure panels on an uneven twelve-column grid, cards that carry tags along the top, and a heading column that holds still while its list scrolls past. The front page and the About page are rebuilt on them.
Everything in this release
New6
- Wallpaper blur: a slider in Appearance, under Desktop picture, from 0 to 40px. It applies to the eight bundled pictures and to an imported one, on the desktop and on the phone home screen.
- Add a widget is the fourth control in the phone's status bar. The widget gallery could only be opened from inside the Widgets overlay before.
- A second set of building blocks for the website: seven components and thirteen classes for figure panels, tagged cards, a heading column that stays put, and a closing block. They sit beside the reading-scale parts rather than replacing them.
- The front page carries four figures: apps, networks, integrations and releases. Each is read from the app registry or the changelog, so a figure cannot outlive the thing it counts.
- A closing block ends both the front page and the About page, with one line and two buttons.
- A neon button variant on the website, the fifth. There were four.
Improved7
- The phone's status bar is built from one capsule, one button size and one divider, the way the desktop menu bar builds its row. The bell was 24 by 24px, and the connection readout and the right side were each sized by their contents.
- Every control in the phone's status bar is a 44px touch target. The capsule around them is still 26px tall, so the row itself did not grow.
- The four status bar buttons report whether the panel they open is on screen, so a sheet is announced before it appears.
- The front page's app groups are cards carrying up to four app names each. They were a count, a category and a sentence in a divided list.
- The About page's network table is four cards covering seven chains, and what each chain can do is a tag rather than a column. Three of the seven are acted on and four are only read, which is what the heading says now.
- Roadmap and How it works on the About page keep their heading beside the list instead of above it, so it stays in place while the list scrolls past.
- The front page's What it is section uses the short positioning line. The long one opens the About page, and the four figures under it now make the same point.
Fixed1
- The live price in the phone's status bar is announced with its value. It sat inside a button labelled Open Widgets, and a label replaces the content it wraps, so a screen reader never reached the number.