Timeline

• Message threads with a delivery state per message, retried until the other station acknowledges
• A vector map with station symbols and trails, and a tile cache that keeps working offline
• The packet log, with an inspector that decodes every field of a frame
• The APRS service bots and gateways, each as a guided screen with its commands filled in
• Net rooms for #APRSThursday and the ANSRVR groups

• Recorded tracks export as GPX, or as KML for Google Earth
• Background running becomes one setting, on by default, replacing two that were rarely found
• Services that need a radio describe it as part of their setup rather than as a warning

• An AFSK modem in software: the phone's own microphone and speaker in place of a hardware TNC
• Channels — several named radios, each of any type, one connected at a time
• Six languages behind a switch: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese

• Bluetooth LE TNCs become a channel type: the Mobilinkd TNC4 in LE mode, and the B.B. Link
• The screen can be kept on — never, on the map only, or always
• Transmit delay moves to the radio settings, where it applies, rather than the audio modem's
• A pass over surfaces, corners and press states across the app

• Vector tiles for the whole planet, served from our own storage, with the map style shipped in the app
• Offline regions selected and downloaded, with the download size shown before it starts
• The map no longer depends on a third-party tile server

• CoreBluetooth support written for iOS, and a pass over every part of the app that assumed Android
• The subscription walls gain an export option, so data can be taken out from behind them
• The app's registered APRS device identifiers are used on the air

• The app is free over APRS-IS; radios, offline maps, radar, track export and capture replay need Pro
• Every screen reads its text from the translation catalogues, and the six languages are complete
• First run becomes seven steps, starting with three slides describing what the app does

• A message that has run out of retries can wait, and send again when its station is next heard
• Beaconing is consented to during setup, and the home screen says when it is off
• Position works on phones without Google Play services
• A net room shows how many stations are on the net and which have spoken tonight

• The phone can act as an IGate, each direction a separate setting, passing traffic only for stations it heard directly
• And as a digipeater, fill-in or wide-area, which stays quiet when another digipeater has already repeated the packet
• A coverage map of where a transmitter has reached a digipeater from
• Pinned stations sort to the top of the list and are followed on APRS-IS
• A grid square screen with the operator's locator, and the distance and bearing to another
• The tab bar becomes the first row of a drawer, and its tiles can be rearranged

• The app's map on the car's screen, with the same stations, symbols, trails and basemap as the phone
• A Send beacon button, a find-me button, and a station card when a symbol is tapped
• A damaged tile index is repaired automatically instead of leaving the map blank

The second release of the day; 1.8.0 was published that morning.