Release notes

• 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