What's New in Gelesen 1.3?

We're excited to announce the release of Gelesen 1.3, packed with new features and improvements to enhance your experience. Here's a quick look at what's new:

Panorama (360) Background Images: Take your story to the next level by setting panorama (360) images as chapter backdrops.

 

New Themes: We've introduced two new themes: ”FaceTime” and ”Phone Calls”, giving you more options to personalize your story.

 

Advanced Text Customization: Now you have more control over your text. Customize fonts, colors, and sizes to make your story truly your own.

Download the update: https://gelesen.app

Notable improvements since Release 1.2.0:

• Compliance with the UK Online Safety Act.
• Compliance with the EU Digital Services Act.
• Compliance with multiple other countries age assurance requirements.
• Fixed: Client-Server Sync Problem.
• Fixed: Text alignment not correct, when using Discord theme.
• New: You can now set panorama (360) images as backgrounds.
• New: Facetime, and Phone call theme.
• New: Different sound for delivery status.
• New: You can now customize the text.
• Improvements: Visual Novel theme was refined.
• Fix: Change background action not working properly.
• New: Title & Interlude text customization.
• New: Message Hide/Show Option
• New: Modifiable Screen Fade.
• Fix: When using the visual novel, it would result in the app lagging and eventually crashing.
• Fix: Then Statements Missing Functionality.
• Fix: Transitioning to next scene does not stop audio.
• Fix: Downloading story does not download audio and videos.
• Fix: Resource Lock Violation, resulting in the app crashing.
• Fix: App crashes when database migration file does not exists.
• Fix: Uploading problems.
• Improvement: Option to remove "Start From Message".
• New: Gallery Feature.
• Fix: Not being able to upload images to ”Story World”.
• Fix: Updating story not working properly.
• Fix: Cloud story not getting synced with local story.
• Fix: Crash when cloud files are not available to be downloaded.
• Fix: Jump to message and start from message not working.
• Improvement: Remove ”Offline Dialogue” when playtesting.
• Improvement: Ensure sensitive profile pictures are blurred everywhere they appear.
• Improvement: The date of when a message was sent will now be saved.
• New: In-App Notification History.
• New: Custom profile picture for group chat.
• New: You can now edit or remove the welcome message in the ”Discord” theme.
• New: You can now set the online status for the ”Discord” theme.
• New: You can now set the starting message.
• New: You can now set a custom date for a message.
• New: ”Character Name Change” action now allows for custom images.
• Fix: UI overlapping.
• Fix: App would crash on older devices with limited computing power, while handling videos.
• Fix: When reaching end of conversation, the background image would disappear.
• Fix: ”Background Image” action change not getting saved, when continuing story.
• Fix: Settings not scrollable.
• Fixed: CPU/Memory getting overloaded, leading to the app becoming unresponsive and/or crashing.
• Fixed: When reordering an item it would have a visual bug.
• Fixed: (Android) Keyboard sound issue.
• Enhancement: Older Android devices are now supported again.
• Fixed: When dragging an item it would not scroll.
• Fixed: Issues with WebM and WebP files not working properly.
• Fixed: When downloading a cloud saved story with media, it would not download videos.
• Fixed: When replacing a story with a newer version, it would remove all videos.
• Fixed: Sensitive stories not getting hidden, when sensitive content is disabled.
• Fixed: Sensitive stories not showing up in the feed.
• Fixed: Custom tags not showing up.
• Fixed: Profile picture not showing properly.
• Fixed: Android deep linking not working.
• Refined: Android navigation.
• Refined: Further improvements to the rendering engine.
• Improvement: You can now download all cloud saved media, when going to the individual cloud saved media screen.
• Improvement: When a chapter is set to hidden, it will be shown with less opacity.
• Fixed: When a chapter is hidden it would loop the story.
• Fixed: Uploading a video from storage would result in an error.
• Fixed: Various sound issues.
• Fixed: Hidden chapters not getting hidden from chapter selection.
• Improvement: When a video ends it automatically continues the story.

And many behind the scenes improvements and fixes.

For a full list of closed issues please refer to 1.3.0 Milestone.

Download the update: https://gelesen.app