Changelog

Every release of Flighter, newest first, described by what it does rather than by what changed in the code.

2026.9.5 — beta, 20 September 2026

A prompt to rate the app

Follow two flights at the same time, and the app may ask you, once, whether you’d rate it. It never asks on a first launch, and never while you’re adding your first flight — only once there are two you’re actually watching. The F-Droid build carries none of this: there is no Play Store listing to rate it on, so it asks nothing.

2026.9.3 — beta, 4 September 2026

Housekeeping

Nothing in this release changes what the app does. It brings a years-out-of-date piece of Google’s own code up to date — a piece only the store build carries, and one Google had started warning about. The F-Droid build never carried it at all, and differs from the last one only by its version number.

2026.9.2 — beta, 2 September 2026

A new look for the icon

The mark is one blue gradient from end to end now, where it used to be dark ink with a blue accent on it. And it sits where the eye reads it as centred: the family framed its icons by a rule worked out on paper until now, and that rule has been replaced by one measured against a person moving each mark until it looked right.

2026.9.1 — beta, 1 September 2026

A new icon

The mark is the same one. What changed is how it is placed: every app in this family now frames its mark by a single rule — centred so the space around it is even all the way round, and stopping the same distance short of the circle a launcher masks with. Ten icons that were each framed by hand now line up with one another on a home screen.

The blue is a gradient rather than a flat tone, and there is a dark copy of the icon for dark surfaces. Nothing else changed in this release.

2026.8.8 — beta, 30 August 2026

One icon, one background

The icon is white now, on every screen. It used to go black whenever the phone was in dark mode. That was meant as a home-screen touch, and Android has no way to keep it there: the switch that darkens the home screen darkens F-Droid’s list, the recents screen and the app list in Settings too, so the icon went black in all of them. It is white in all of them instead — like the other nine.

2026.8.7 — beta, 30 August 2026

It opens, and it has its own icon

The previous release did not start at all — it closed the moment you tapped it. A rule the release build needs was missing, and Android could not find something it looks for by name. Nothing caught it because that step only happens in the version that goes out.

And Flighter has its own icon now. It had been wearing FastCompass’s compass — the same drawing shipped in three of these apps. Flighter’s is an approach coming down to the ground, which is what somebody at arrivals is actually waiting for. Deliberately not a plane: every app in this category ships one, and this one is not for watching aviation.

2026.8.6 — beta, 30 August 2026

It opens

The previous release did not start at all — it closed the moment you tapped it, before drawing anything. A rule the release build needs was missing, and the part of Android that sets up background work could not find something it looks for by name.

Nothing caught it because that step only happens in the version that goes out: every test passes on the build we run them against, which does not have the problem. There is now a check that installs the real release and makes sure it opens.

2026.8.5 — beta, 29 August 2026

No byline on the Info tab

The author’s name and their personal site have come out of the Info card. What it says now is what the app is, which version you have, and where its own site is — which is what anybody opens that screen for.

2026.8.3

A new look

This app is drawn in the design these apps now share: paper and slate, a single accent, one typeface, and thin rules where Android puts shadows. Nothing about what it does has changed.

The colours no longer come from your wallpaper — these apps have one look now — and everything reads a size larger, because the text was a step smaller than the rest of your phone.

2026.8.2 — beta, 28 August 2026

Appearance, and the same appearance as the other apps here. The Info tab and the cards every screen is drawn on are shared components now: the app’s own mark above its name, which build you are running beside the version, and the changelog folded to the last few releases. Nothing moved and nothing was renamed — from this version the look is defined in one place for all of these apps, so the next change reaches them together.

Not released yet

Flighter is being built. This page takes its first entry on the day something ships — with the date it actually shipped, not the date it was tagged.