Hermit 9 — Web Monitors & Sharing
Jun 10, 2017
- 🆕 Web Monitors — track changes to any Web Page, e.g. Facebook Notifications
- 🆕 Improved flow to add multiple Lite Apps at once: one-click for Lite Apps from Library, and many more options for Create Your Own (monogram, custom icon, colors, etc.)
- 🆕 Auto Update all Lite Apps from the Hermit Library (no action required to get new features in individual Lite Apps)
- 🆕 Allow sharing articles to native apps such as WhatsApp and SMS. (Note: installing new native apps is still blocked for your protection)
9.0
- 🆕 Turn off notifications for a particular Lite App from the notification itself
- 🆕 Option to sync feeds at 15 minute intervals. (Previous options included 5 minutes and 30 minutes)
- 🆕 Premium users can hide the Help menu, Social Media link, and “Invite Friends” menu
- 🆕 New setting to skip creating home-screen icons
- 🆕 Splash screen is less splashy: no app name shown, only the icon
- 🆕 More accessible sticky buttons in left drawer for Close, Customize, and All Lite Apps
- 🐞 When a new version is available, don’t notify at every app launch, and show a clear message (say “New version available” instead of “What’s New”)
- 🐞 Import Lite Apps from content:// URIs correctly on Android Nougat and above
- 🐞 Reader View now correctly shows the hero image for all articles correctly
- 🐞 Small fixes to URL editing code (applies to Feeds, Web Monitors, Bookmarks, Sharing, Search, and FAB)
- ⚡ No more blank white page on Facebook when redirecting to an external site (Hermit resolves Facebook & Google redirects natively)
- ⚡ Better article parsing for many more sites
- ⚡ Improved start-up time due to lazy initialization, background database handling
- ⚡ Merge Settings and About into a single screen with swiping to toggle between them
