Release notes

App search showed “no results” when trying to search with an expired or otherwise invalid session. Raccoon now automatically reconnects if possible or prompts the user to run the setup wizard again.

• App browser was not updating the list of apps after deleting an app from the local repository without a restart.
• Apps declaring permissions with really long names (>255 characters) could not be downloaded. Bumped the limit up to 8kb.
• Switched to sans serif fonts in the sidebar.
• Added pre v4.1.3 backwards compatibility to be safe.
• Phrasing changes

Follow up bugfix to 4.1.3.

Google broke things. Apps can now be downloaded again.

• The File|Import apps dialog gets no longer squashed after closing and reopening the window
• Apps can now manually be renamed in the App Details dialog (this is a workaround in case Raccoon extracts the app’s name from the APK file in the wrong language).
• Added tooltips to the buttons in the File|Import apps dialog.
• No longer hang when importing an APK file from the local filesystem that does not contain an icon.

• Catch up with Google’s latest changes to the login process.
• Fixed a display problem with apps requesting permissions not containing a dot character.

• Reworked app importing: Raccoon is now able to scan a directory tree for candidates.
• Added –gpa-search (developer only)
• Don’t choke when downloading an APK without an icon
• No longer delete app/profile association after changing the account’s password.
• Allow non-premium users to setup a new profile after deleting their current one.
• Vastly improved ADB file transfer speed
• Various GUI tweaks
• Explain premium features in the Help menu
• Friendlier formatting in the shoutbox
• Caught up with Google’s latest change for communicating search results, which gives special treatment to popular apps
• “VIP apps” now open directly in the details view when being searched for
• Preparations for accepting more forms of payment (other than Paypal)
• Lots of internal restructuring and cleanup

• Renamed the “QR tool” to “QR Code Generator”.
• Made the layout of the shoutbox more readable.
• Disable the “Help|Unlock features” menu entry if there’s nothing to do there.
• Various clarifications in how things are phrased.
• Minor code cleanup
• FIXED: In special cases, the setup wizard would get stuck, only displaying “1” below the progress bar.
  

• Gave the desktop icon a transparent background on MS Windows.
• Made the tooltip on the rating panel more explicit
• Allow copy&paste for the app description
• Moved the download button below the app description to make more for the install count.
• Mimic a more recent device by default.
• Adaptations to a change in the login process.

Complete rewrite