Found Around

• Foldable & Wide Screen Support: Added adaptive responsive layouts optimized for foldable devices, tablets, and landscape orientations with dual-pane views across home, creature details, and categories
• Enhanced Camera & Review Layouts: Added side-by-side camera capture and photo review interfaces for wide and unfolded screens
• Responsive Onboarding Experience: Introduced a unified responsive onboarding layout that seamlessly adapts to both compact and wide displays
• Interactive Multi-Pane Navigation: Added interactive side-by-side selection and inspection for categories and creature collections on larger displays

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• Responsive Layout & Onboarding: Converted onboarding tutorial screens and the photo review screen to scrollable views for improved layout responsiveness across all screen sizes
• Improved Permissions Flow: Added in-app camera permission request handling and enhanced photo library permission alerts with direct links to device settings
• Visual & Typography Polish: Refined category tile layouts, typography hierarchy, and header line heights for improved visual consistency
• Build & EAS Updates: Updated EAS build configuration, service account configuration, and project documentation

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• Expo SDK 56 Upgrade: Upgraded the project to Expo SDK 56 for improved performance, stability, and compatibility with modern Android versions
• Header UI Overhaul: Redesigned headers with a statistics summary, normalized creature image types, and a simplified back button
• Enhanced Data Management: Added cleanup logic to remove non-default categories and creatures from local storage during updates, keeping user progress and photos intact
• Alpha Track Publishing: Integrated EAS build and automated submission workflows for Google Play Store Closed Testing (Alpha)
• General improvements and tooling updates

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• Improved Onboarding Visuals: Updated the welcome tutorial with new full-screen photos and refined layout across all onboarding steps for a more immersive first-time experience
• Consistent Typography: Standardised text styles across all screens using a shared typography system for a more cohesive look and feel
• Android Display Fix: Resolved an edge-to-edge display warning to ensure the app is fully prepared for Android 16+ screen requirements
• General improvements and stability updates

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• Home Screen Refresh: Improved layout spacing, header styling, and visual structure for a cleaner and more consistent main screen experience
• Header Improvements: Added more flexible header background image handling and refined cross-platform visual polish
• Settings Access Updates: Improved settings button alignment and icon sizing, and hidden the tab bar on the settings screen for better focus
• Progress Tracking Fix: Corrected completion percentage calculation to ensure values are handled consistently
• Bug fixes and stability improvements

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Instead of emailing a form through and waiting for me to send out a manual email. You can now simply join the private Google Group and that will enable you access to the play store test app.

• Welcome Tutorial: Added a comprehensive onboarding experience to help new users learn how to discover creatures and take great photos
• Enhanced Camera Controls: Added zoom functionality to get closer shots of wildlife, plus a camera flip button to switch between front and back cameras
• Better Getting Started: New users can now access a helpful tutorial from the settings page to learn all the app features
• Improved First-Time Experience: Step-by-step guidance through exploring, photographing, and collecting creatures

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Created this dev journal to keep track of progress. There is lots of development so far that I'm not going to get in to but it's been a slow journey.

Next thing on the list should be some kind of onboarding/how-to-use Found Around and maybe this can be replayed as a Help section.

• Visual Fixes: Made some improvements to the visual, adjustments to colour scheme
• Enhanced Photo Experience: Added photo review screen with retake functionality
• Animations!: Improved creature page animations
• Better Button Interactions: Button responsiveness and visual feedback across all screens
• Refined UI Components: Updated tiles, headers, and navigation elements for improved aesthetics
• Streamlined Camera Flow: Simplified permission handling and improved photo capture process

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• Enhanced creature and category tiles with a sticker style
• Fixed data storage issues that were clearing user progress on app restart
• Better preservation of captured photos and discovery progress
• Improved app startup to properly load saved data

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Refactored the way that images are stored — previously they were only being stored in a cache location. Now they are more permanent.

• Enhanced visual design with improved global styles
• Updated header icon for better visibility
• Improved tip tiles with better styling and descriptions
• Refined home screen title
• General UI improvements and refinements

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• Added more animals for you to discover in your local area
• Made it easier to find and track new creatures in your collection

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Small improvements to make the app run more smoothly.

• Added fascinating information about the Lyrebird
• Made pop-up messages look better
• Updated creature photos and information
• General performance improvements

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• Added a beautiful set of five new birds from the escarpment to discover
• Improved text readability throughout the app
• Made the camera screen clearer with better creature names

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• Made category labels easier to read
• Added delightful sound effects
• Improved how categories look on your screen

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Our first major release!

• Fixed camera permission issues
• Added a helpful About page
• Added a "More Coming Soon" message to preview future updates
• Made everything look nicer and work better

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• Gave the app a fresh new look
• Added a back button to help you navigate
• Added an About section with helpful information

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• Added more fascinating facts and helpful tips about each creature
• Updated the app icon to look better on your device
• Made all text clearer and easier to read

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• Added category pages to organise creatures better
• Made navigation simpler and more intuitive
• Added beautiful custom fonts

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• Added a full-screen camera view for better photos
• Made it possible to capture and save images of creatures
• Added a way to track which creatures you've discovered

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• Added the creature store to save your discoveries
• Added basic creature pages
• Added the first set of UI controls

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First release of Found Around!

• Basic app navigation
• First version of the creature viewing page
• Clean and simple design to get started

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