Improved memory management and fixed leaks to make the wallpaper, widget, and app more stable and last longer, with general code cleanup for better performance.
* Preferences screens now clearly show the selected component, with enhancements for Android TV, Google Chromecast, and Google Chromebook.
* Maintenance Release: Fixed a small number of bugs that could occur only in certain situations.
* Refined Preferences Screen: Horizontal scrolling removed. Tap on header texts for navigation.
* Enhanced Text Customization: Added new options to influence the text displayed below the clock.
* Solar Altitude Angle: Introduced the solar altitude angle, showing the angle between the Sun and the horizon.
* New Screensaver Menu Entry: Added a dedicated menu entry to use Sunclock as a screensaver (Daydream).
* Text Customization: Adjust the text size to ensure it doesn’t obscure the clock face.
* Zodiac Alignment: Lock zodiac positions in place, with Aries fixed from 12 to 1.
* Performance Enhancements: Enjoy a smoother experience with minor tweaks and improvements behind the scenes.
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* Enhanced moon phase customisation options, including the ability to display a pink moon shadow.
* Minor bug fixes and cosmetic improvements.
Maintenance Release
Major release Sunclock 4.0:
● Added new astronomical spiral clock. Discover a new way to read dawn and dusk directly on a 12-hour dial.
● Added undo mechanism. Exploring Sunclock's rich controls has never been easier.
● Bug fixed: moon phase image and moon phase text had to be rotated 180 degrees when showing night at the top.
● Rollback to the old standard design (yellow of hands and hand width).
● ... and some small changes.
Maintenance release with focus on the clock gallery.
MOON PHASE - Sunclock can now display the moon phase. Activate it in the moon settings or select your moon clock from the gallery. Read more about Sunclock's three moon displays in the built-in help.
Fixed four minor bugs, added two clocks, optimized app icon and other maintenance work.
* Added Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) "Zulu time" text and hand.
* Accessibility optimized by enlarging the touch area etc.
* Changed app icon.
* Updated "more apps" section in About page.
* Bugfix: Equation of Time text from 0:00 to -0:59 is shown positive.
* Bugfix: wallpaper stops roughly once a week sometimes.
• ?? Added Ukrainian translation
• App size reduced by 45%
• Maintenance work
• Dark theme is now fully supported through all screens.
• Optimized clock gallery and screen transitions.
• Added Sunclock screen saver, Remove Ads menu entry and swipe through preferences.
• Fixed minute marker 24h color, Dauphine hands line mode and analemma regression.
• Maintenance and improvements.
* Updated to Android version 13
* The equation of time algorithm has been replaced with more complex and accurate one
* Replaced the Horae Temporales clock in the clock gallery
* Minor cosmetics and bug fixes
• Clock gallery updated
• Equation of time displayed with pointer and text
• Manual animation by swiping the screen is now slower
• Fixed and maintained minor bugs and imperfections
• Background image selection
• Clock moveable and scalable
• True solar time (time on a classic sundial)
Maintenance and bug fixes.
Privacy policy copied to app.
Updated for the latest Android 13 (Tiramisu).
Clock gallery extended and improved.
Manual animation made more flexible when swiping the screen.
New option to display 60 minute marker on 24 hour dial.
Added two "Flat Earth" dials (topography and colorizable UN emblem) with corresponding help chapter.
Updated to Android 12 with the latest support libraries and build tools. Added Bulgarian language. Fixed small bugs.
Christmas version with bug fixes and no ads from December 24th - 26th.
• Show the time until the next event such as sunrise.
• Back button in full screen mode to make exiting this page easier.
• Help chapters revised.
• Temporal hours radiobox text extended.
• Maintenance and improvements.
- hotfix for upcoming Android 12
- added 時長 chinese zodiac times
- fixed twilight and moon pointer calculation for regions near polar circle
* Share your Sunclock preferences and screenshots.
* Import and export your preferences via social media apps, storage or email, for example.
* Preview the preferences before importing.
Send us your Sunclock preferences for adding a large user clock gallery in next release.
hngbke@gmail.com.
* Fixed: moon and sun culmination is shown now on 24 hour dial (again)
* Fixed: Golden Hour near polar circle (eg Lappeenranta Finland 61,1 : 28,2)
* Hungarian and Czech added
* Stability improvements
- Scandinavian languages added (DK, SE, FI, NO)
- Stability improvements and maintenance
- Built-in help updated
- Clock gallery improved
Stability improvements and maintenance.
Special features for Spain, Indonesia, Iraq,... added.
Maintenance release with special attention to the very first launch and the summer solstice on June 21: Great midsummer clocks have been added to the clock gallery.
* Japanese clock Wadokei added.
* Hebrew language added.
* Now drawing 6 sectors for the twilights instead of 3.
* Paste button displays now the correct warning message.
* Fixed a rare paint issue when pasting preferences.
* Golden hour drawn now above blue hour.
* 24-hour dial marking lines (true midday & midnight, quarter day) can be hidden now.
* Added one day to the Byzantine date.
The translation has been checked and corrected and maintenance work has been carried out.
The module "Clock Designer" has been added, in which you have extensive functions for styling the colors and dimensions of your personal astronomical analog clock.
Maintenance, minor fixes and cosmetics.
Moon fine tuned (color, moonrise moonset math and text)
- New display: Rahu Kalam the period of Rahu which is a certain period of time every day that is considered inauspicious for any new venture according to Indian Vedic astrology.
- Fixed vertical centering issue for Widget without text.
New Option: Show «Time since sunrise» (hours and minutes since sunrise).
Sunclock has translation for Brazilian Portuguese now
and has two more options for hemisphere view: "Keep the sun on top" and "Show analemma (equation of time)".
Bezel is removable and widget dial can be transparent.
- Maintenance and stability improvements.
- Clearified: GPS is optional.
- Sunclock in fullscreen mode keeps light on if phone is on charger.
- Italian translation added. Thanks to Luca Sasdelli.
- French translation added. Thanks to Kim King.
- Added the option to show minutes "5, 10,... 60" instead of hours "1, 2,... 12".
- Fixed: "Night hunting ban in Germany" unchecked after restart
Polish, Spanish and Greek translation added. Thanks to Dorota, Rodolfo Peña and Michail Argalias.
Widget issues solved (time update, self-shrinking)
- Turkish language added (Thanks to Muhlis Batman)
- Maintenance
Calculation error in daylight hours showing am/pm fixed.
Language selection added (Arabic, Russian, German, English)
Arabic language added
Midnight added (average time between Maghrib and Fajr or Magrib and Sunrise)
Palestinian Territory added to the location table
App icon improved
"Daylight hours" added, the time between sunrise and sunset.
Southern Hemisphere background added.
- Russian translation added.
- Widget improvement: "Home" and "Abroad" text is editable now.
Added shadow line on Northern Hemisphere background.
Candle Lightning Time revised.
Added golden rim around compass.
Maintenance.
Help is translatable now to any other language with translate.google.com
- location and timezone configuration refactored
- help extended
- cleanup and maintenance
- added share menu item and wallpaper shortcut to app icon
Location settings refactored: Time zone and automtic daylight saving time are now easier to use.
Northern hemisphere map can be shown now as dial background.
If the second hand jumps to the full second (simulating quartz watch), the minute hand will jump to the full minute as well.
- Optional Text rotating with second hand (eg personal motto of the day).
- Swipe date and time separated to upper and lower part of the screen.
- Help text and help images optimized.
Maintenance release
- Added golden hours for photographers (sun -6 to +6 degree relative to horizon)
- Bug fix: Home- and lockscreen location handling in Wallpaper
- Restructured Prefrerences screen by grouping options
- Maintenance and cosmetics
- fixed widget issues
- Added 2nd Widget
- App, Wallpaper and both Widgets can be configured individually now
- Maintenance
- added German translation
- widget can made smaller now (up to app icon size)
- hardware accelerated paint enabled for Android version 8.0 Oreo or later
- fix: linewidth was too big in some situations
- menu restructured
- second hand simulates now mechanical clock and linear clock additional to cristal clock
Bug fix:
- minuteHand halfturn error when 24h dial, 0h at top
- minutes markers on 24 hour dial
Added features:
- dusk- and dawn- text right bottom as text
- dusk and dawn segment on 12 hour dial if civil twilight is enabled
- menu entry "my clock invention" and "my clock invention animation"
- second hand option
- landscape mode for all screens enabled now
maintenance release
- maintenance for Android Android (9)
- configuration options added
Added Horae Temporales / Zmanim / Hebrew Hour
Optimized the new solar compass and added direction to Mecca with prayer times if prayer times are enabled in settings.
Added am/pm to show 2 x 12 hours on the dial
Added blue hour for photographer (sun is 4 to 8 degree below horizon)
FIXED: "Widget is frozen since Android 8.0 Oreo or newer"
- changed build target to Oreo (API level 26)
- fixed link to my clock book
Fixed: In timezone selection, the description was chopped off to the right: Switched to short timezone-name.
- Dark theme added- 24h dial added- Widget bugfix (was unsharp)- Link to my clockbook and to a conchoide clock animation added
maintenance (GPS permission)