Found Around

• Photo Timestamps: Your captured photos now record the date and time they were taken
• Bug fixes and stability improvements

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

First release of Found Around!

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