'Coon Cave

Patrick’s blog about Android, apps and everything in betweent. May contain traces of rambling. Feedback and subscriptions welcome!
Friday, March 1, 2019

Raccoon 4.5.0

  • Updated the search response parser to cope with Google latest changes to the search result data format: The list of search results can now be scrolled down again to load more entries.
  • Speedhack: request server side scaled app icons to make the search result pages load faster on slower internet connections.
  • Fixed a few typos.
  • Fixed download size calculation.
  • Play detects when the user searches for popular apps (e.g. Mozilla Firefox) and returns not one, but two lists of search results. The first contains just the app, the user was likely looking for, the second contains all close matches. Raccoon now merges those two lists instead of just showing the exact match.
Monday, February 18, 2019

Raccoon 4.4.0

  • Added support for Google’s new publishing format: App Bundles.
  • Added split APK installer.
  • Added a download booster feature to cut down download time.
  • Use the app Icon from Play, if one cannot be extracted from the APK (e.g. because it’s a bundled app).
  • Bumped the default device profile again to support App Bundles.
Friday, February 8, 2019

Raccoon 4.3.0

  • With this release, the versioning scheme of Raccoon changes to a two digit string. NOTE: for technical reasons, the third digit will be hardwired to 0 for the time being.
  • Updated the build in default device profile to keep up with compatibility demands of apps (this will mostly affect more recent games).
Friday, January 18, 2019

Raccoon 4.2.7

  • Fixed some typos/phrasing
  • Virtual device should now show up again on the Play “device settings” page (this might have prevented some search results from showing in the past).
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Raccoon 4.2.6

If an APK download does not specify a proper app name in it’s manifest, fall back to the packagename instead of outright rejecting the APK (after downloading it).

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Raccoon 4.2.5

Switched to a newer version of the APK Parser library. The old one would choke on some APK files under certain circumstances resulting in Raccoon rejecting them as corrupt after download.

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Raccoon 4.2.4

  • Updated the windows launcher (should no longer cause trouble on 64 bit windows with 32 bit Java)
  • Added a few clarifications in the gui.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Raccoon 4.2.3

No longer show 3 broken buttons on some app searches.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Raccoon 4.2.2

Changed the device, Raccoon mimics as by default, to a Samsung Galaxy S8.

Monday, January 22, 2018

Raccoon 4.2.1

  • Don’t download the latest version of an app over and over again, if old versions are kept.
  • Don’t choke during update if Play returns app details that were not requested.
  • Don’t choke during update if the database contains an incomplete record for an app.