Convertor is under active development; enhancements and bug fixes are actively
being rolled out. Below you'll find a history of these updates, with a brief list of
the changes which occurred in each.
If you installed Convertor through Google Play, Barnes&Noble,
or the Amazon Appstore, you should receive notification of updates automatically. Otherwise,
head on over to our Download page for a link to the latest
and greatest.
| Version |
Date |
Summary of Changes |
| 8.0 |
6 May 2015 |
- New, Material-compliant app icon
- Add Material Design options to UI Theme setting
- Add Castilian traditional units for Area, Length and Weight
- Add long tons-force to Force category
- Add long tons, tons, kips, and ounces per square inch to Pressure category
- Add femtoparsecs to Length category
- Change Lithuanian Lita over to fixed-exchange rate
- Fix bug in gauge millibars
- Fix bug in conversion rate download from Bank of Canada
- Fix layout issues on some tablets
- Remove single-tap-to-select on unit fields
|
| 7.0 |
1 Sep 2014 |
- Rename Data Storage and Bandwidth units for greater clarity
- Add *bits to Data Storage
- Add min/*byte to Bandwidth
- Add cal/min and cal/sec to Power
- Add miles/litre to Fuel Economy
- Add US Survey Feet to Length
- Add absolute & gauge scales to all Pressure units
- Add the Saudi Riyal to Currency
- Add kilotons & megatons to Energy
- Refine conversion factor of TCE (Energy)
- Fix bug in the display of Quads (Energy)
- Fix bug: Convertor Free sometimes showing too few unit rows in landscape
- Change to Amazon as in-app ad provider (Free only)
|
| 6.1 |
25 Apr 2014 |
- Support single-tap to select category, or unit (on active unit row)
- Remove "Use fractions" checkbox from unit selection dialog
- Fix occasional crash when dis/enabling ads in settings (Free only)
- Fix bug: "Hide action bar" setting visible on some Samsung devices w/o a hardware Menu button
- Discontinue support for Android 1.6 (Donut)
|
| 6.01 |
21 Apr 2014 |
- Special build for Samsung PVP (no other changes)
|
| 6.0 |
1 Feb 2014 |
- Add Holo Light skin
- Rework button graphics for Holo Dark
- Add dynamic row-sizing to display/editing area
- Add new fraction increments: 1/10, 1/20, 1/25, 1/50
- User request: add ability "to turn categories on and off at will, preserving the unit selection"
- User request: increase the font size of the unit display on the main screen (Android 4.x)
- Brighten colors in app icon
- Fix bug: Pro showing an upgrade message from the Category list
- Fix bug: Category list in Settings not reliably updating count of enabled units
- Currency exchange-rate fixes:
- Improve handling of situations where some rates can't be downloaded
- Show date of exchange rate for each currency
|
| 5.1 |
19 Jan 2014 |
- Make "–" button always visible for Temperature category
- Remove Latvian Lats from Currency (in the Eurozone since 1/1/14)
- Standardize dialog title color
- Fix bug: currency rates not downloading automatically
- Fix bug in temperature: negative Celsius behaves differently than other temperature units
|
| 5.0.2 |
28 Dec 2013 |
- Fix bug in zero currency editing when device locale uses a decimal separator other than "."
- Fix bug: Settings window closing on device orientation change
|
| 5.0.1 |
26 Dec 2013 |
- Fix crash bug in About screen when device language not set to English
|
| 5.0 |
21 Dec 2013 |
- Migrate Convertor Lite to Convertor Free: optional ads enable full Pro functionality
- Expand currency list: now includes 61 world currencies!
- Add dry quart to Volume category
- Add feet, mile, and km per minute to Speed/Velocity
- Add lbf+ozf, tnf+lbf to Force category
- Add a bunch of units to Bandwidth, such as TB/GB/MB/kB/bytes per min, hour, day
- Add option to hide ActionBar on 3.0+ devices with hardware menu button
- Update app icon
- Standardize design of Settings screen across platforms
- Reorganize About screen, and move into top-level menu
- Catch Android 4.3 clipboard bug
- Fix bug in Fortnight (Time Span category)
- Fix some display glitches in Action Bar (Android 3+)
- Fix display glitch on HVGA devices running running Android 4+
- Fix bug: in Holo Dark skin, equals button goes black when main activity loses focus
- Discontinue support for Android 1.6 (Free only)
- Discontinue support for original Galaxy Tab 7
|
| 4.4 |
8 Aug 2013 |
- Currency updates from ECB: remove Estonian Kroon, add Israeli Shekel
- Add various units to Flow category
- Add Minim to Volume category
- Revert to calc buttons in landscape only as default
- Fix incorrect conversion of Drop
- Fix formatting issues on various less-common screens
- Fix bug: equals and delete buttons incorrect after turning calc mode on/off
|
| 4.3 |
19 Feb 2013 |
- Remove analytics (was never actually in Lite anyway)
- Fix portrait font sizes on HDPI phones running Android 4+
- Fix bug in chained calculations (e.g., 1+2+3) affecting certain units
|
| 4.2 |
10 Feb 2013 |
- Add minim to Volume units
- Add send-log functionality to About screen (Android 4.1+)
- Show the current calculator state in the description of its settings item
- Improve support for chained calculation operations, such as a+b+c
- Fix conversion error in Volume unit Drop
- Tweak font sizes on phones running Android 4.0+
|
| 4.1.1 |
19 Dec 2012 |
- Bug fix: Holo Dark skin causing crash on Android 2.x devices
|
| 4.1 |
17 Dec 2012 |
- Tweak font sizes for medium-size HD tablets
- Accommodate system font size settings of Large and Huge
- Improve support for multiple users on device (Android 4.2+)
- Restyle ActionBar background (Android 3.0+)
- Fix App Shop link in Lite on Nook HD devices
- Discontinue support for Android 1.5 (Cupcake)
|
| 4.0 |
17 Nov 2012 |
- Enable calculator buttons in both orientations by default
- Move the delete button to the upper-right corner when calculator buttons enabled
- Add Smoot as a unit of length
- Fix bug on Android 4.1+: unable to enter numbers larger than 9999
- Fix bug in dividing fractions
- Fix error in mW calculation
- Improve layout on Android 4 tablets
- Update various icons for Android 3+
- Remove incomplete translations
- Update for compatibility with Nook HD and Kindle HD devices
|
| 3.0.1 |
21 Mar 2012 |
- Fix bug: UI broken if system font size changed
- Fix bug: fraction enable settings STILL not working
- Fix discrepancy between cd⋅sr abbreviation and name (in Visible Light category)
|
| 3.0.0 |
17 Mar 2012 |
- Add unit categories for Light, Luminance, and Illuminance
- Add Chinese and Hong Kong units
- Add some other new units
- Area: Square Centimeters, Square Millimeters
- Length: Barleycorns
- Volume: Drop (Pharmaceutical), Pony
- Flow: Cubic Meters per Minute
- Speed: Meters per Minute
- Add UI skins; Holo Dark is now the default on Android 3+ (Honeycomb/ICS)
- Add option to place buttons on left in landscape
- Add option for fixed decimal places
- Improve category & unit menu/actionbar icons
- Improve operation of copy/paste
- Improve accuracy of Shoe Size conversions
- Reorganize Settings screen
- Add About screen (in Settings)
- Fix bug: fraction enable settings weren't working
- Fix keyclick support for Kindle Fire
|
| 2.6.2 |
11 Feb 2012 |
- Support for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
- Fix bug: calculator operations not working if device's locale doesn't use a period (.) as decimal separator
- Fix force close error when process was stopped in the background with Settings activity open
- Initial BlackBerry PlayBook release
|
| 2.6.1 |
18 Nov 2011 |
- Support for XHDPI devices (like Galaxy Nexus and Note)
- Add mesh to length units
- Split bar (pressure) into gauge and absolute
|
| 2.6.0 |
21 Oct 2011 |
- Add Radiation Exposure category
- Change zero point of water-based Pressure units to 1 ATM (was 0 ATM)
- Fix abbreviation of Foot-Pounds per Second (was ft-lb/m)
|
| 2.5.2 |
14 Sep 2011 |
- Fix occasional roundoff errors in mixed units & fractions
- Improve precision display logic in Pressure and Temperature categories
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| 2.5.1 |
2 Sep 2011 |
- Fix bug in pounds-per-gallon Density conversion: US/Imperial labels reversed
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| 2.5.0 |
1 Sep 2011 |
- Add Magnetic Flux and Density categories
- Add points and picas to Length category
- Add Brazilian sizes to Shoe category
- Improve rounding behavior for multiplication & division
- Fix text colors in some dialogs on NOOK Color
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| 2.4.2 |
5 Jul 2011 |
- Fix fraction round-up bug
- Fix font size issue on Galaxy Tab 7
|
| 2.4.1 |
29 Jun 2011 |
- Fix bug with European digit separators (broke in 2.4.0)
|
| 2.4.0 |
27 Jun 2011 |
- Add support for digit grouping separators when editing large numbers
- Add 1/24 as a supported fraction increment
- Reinstate currency rate display (inadvertently deleted from v2.3.1)
- Fix clearing behavior for some temperature & pressure units
|
| 2.3.2 |
13 Jun 2011 |
- Fix formatting of units popup on some tablet devices
- Fix calculation bug in certain units
|
| 2.3.1 |
11 Jun 2011 |
- Decrease APK size
- Fix free trial configuration for NOOK Color
|
| 2.3.0 |
8 Jun 2011 |
- Change DEL button's auto-repeat to all-clear on long-press
- Add support for mixed-unit calaculations (like miles + km)
- Add NOOK Color support
|
| 2.2.0 |
6 Jun 2011 |
- Add miles+yards as mixed unit
- Add pferdestärke (metric horsepower), microbars, millitorrs
- Add haptic feedback option
- Improve clearing behavior of denominators
- Improve calculator behavior
- Improve tablet support
- Fix bug: number of displayed digits sometimes wrong for currencies
- Fix bug: button text white on some SE Xperia devices
|
| 2.1.0 |
28 Feb 2011 |
- Add additional pressure units (psig, torr, etc.)
- Fix bug: precision not handled correctly with non-. decimal separators
|
| 2.0.0 |
8 Feb 2011 |
- Fractions!
- Improve precision handling
- Show list of categories at startup if app not opened in last 24 hours
- Improve tablet support
- Add Frequency category
- Rename Money category to Currency
- Numerous small bug fixes
|
| 1.4.5 |
11 Nov 2010 |
- Improve display of negative mixed units (like -2ft 3in)
- Tweak display formatting
- Add derived FFF units
|
| 1.4.4 |
3 Nov 2010 |
- Add support for large-screen devices
- Improve license verification when offline
|
| 1.4.3 |
20 Sep 2010 |
- Make category/unit selection dialogs more space-efficient
- Fix possible memory leak
|
| 1.4.1 |
26 Aug 2010 |
- Add Imperial fluid ounces
|
| 1.4.0 |
20 Aug 2010 |
- Improve app startup speed
- Add hints to main display
- Remove autorepeat keyclick sound for delete
- Add torque, moment of inertia, force, & shoe size categories
- Add mach to Speed
- Add license verification
- Honor system-wide data connectivity setting
- Add analytics disable option
- Improve currency exchange rate download
- Limit speed to c and temp to 0K
- Various minor bug fixes
|
| 1.3.2 |
2 Aug 2010 |
- Add litres/second to Flow
|
| 1.3.1 |
15 Jul 2010 |
- Fix roundoff bug (1 football field = 299' 12")
- Improve support of negative units again
|
| 1.3.0 |
2 Jul 2010 |
- Add currency conversions
- Add some inverse speed units, like minutes per mile
- Improve support of negative units
- Decrease size of APK (Lite only)
- Various minor bug fixes
|
| 1.2.0 |
24 May 2010 |
- Support "," as decimal separator
- Support installation to SD card (Android 2.2+)
|
| 1.1.0 |
17 May 2010 |
- Split into Pro/Lite versions
- Improve trackball/dpad support
- Make calculator buttons visually "sticky"
- Make UK localizations work
- Bug fix: copying text data caused force close
- Bug fix: copy/paste keyboard shortcuts were reversed
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| 1.0.1 |
17 May 2010 |
- Fix keyclick sounds on autorepeat
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| 1.0.0 |
21 Apr 2010 |
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