What's new in CLZ Books? (page 7)

This update to the CLZ Books app for Android brings user interface improvements to the Add Books screen:

• All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
• When adding a book that is already on your wish list, the app now lets you change its status to “In Collection”.
• Adding By ISBN barcode:
  • Camera scanner is now integrated in Add screen, not a separate screen
  • Tap the keyboard icon in the camera panel to enter an ISBN manually
  • ISBN Barcode queue is now remembered between sessions
  • Press and hold to delete an ISBN barcode from the queue
• Adding By Author/Title:
  • Book not found? Easy add it manually using the special entry in the results list

New in 4.5.2:

• New Details View templates which are easier on the eye:
  • Clear Light template
  • Clear Dark template
• Changed layout in some templates (repositioned “Subtitle” to make more room for “Title”).

Fixed:

• The last book in a list could not be selected.
• Covers were not updated in the main list after editing a book.
• Login now does a receipt check.
• “Change Template” button moved to right sidebar in the main screen.
• Better thumbnail layout in Landscape Mode.
• After closing the add books automatically screen, it now selects the latest added book.
• After syncing “collection status” no longer reverts to “all”.
• Improved “tap” area of hamburger menu so you can back out of a folder more easily.

A huge v4.5 update for the CLZ Books app is now available.

And prepare to be shocked 🙂 (in a good way, don’t worry):
The app looks completely different now, with a cleaner brighter look and an improved user interface.

What’s new in CLZ Books 4.5 for iOS?

• A completely new look, that is cleaner and brighter.
• The choice between two skins/themes: Light & Dark.
• No bottom toolbar means more screen space for your book collection.
• Big floating blue ‘+’ button on bottom right for adding new books.
• Access all other features and tools from ‘hamburger’ menu top left.
• Access all view settings from menu on top right.
• Quickly switch between All / In Collection / Wish List at the top.

How to update your CLZ Books app to version 4.5:

• On your device, open the App Store app.
• On the bottom, switch to the Updates tab.
• Find the CLZ Books entry and tap “UPDATE” on the right.

Do you like the new look?
Then please let the world know by posting a nice review in the App Store!

Important: this is the FINAL iOS 7 compatible version.
Support for iOS 7 will be dropped for future versions.

Fixed:

• iOS 7: Crash in Add screen when opening the Add by Barcode tab.

Coming up: Fresh look and layout

Please look forward to the next build coming up in a couple weeks with a complete new fresh look and layout!

Fixed:

• Local book deletes sometimes not synchronized to the CLZ Cloud

New:

• Redesigned missing ISBN screen with additional fields

Fixed:

• Edit buttons missing for manage pick list fields in the edit screen

An important v4.3.9 update for your CLZ Books Android app is now available.

This update introduces an easier way to deal with “Unrecognized ISBNs”.
A new screen that not only helps you to add the book to your database anyway, but also helps your fellow CLZ Books users by instantly adding the missing ISBN to the CLZ Core central online book database.

(this feature was introduced for our Windows, Mac and iOS versions earlier, and in the meantime, people have used this new tool to add over 22 thousand new books to our Core!)

• In the Add screen, when a scanned ISBN is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized ISBN” screen will appear.
• In this screen, just enter the Author, Title, Publisher and Year, then click Add Book.
• This will:
  1. Add the book to your own database, with the information you filled in.
  2. Add the book to our Core central online book database.

The result: for the next user who searches for this particular ISBN, it will be recognized 🙂

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New:

• Edit screen with tabs (main details/personal details)
• Added folder options: country, store
• Main list
  • Scroll position now remembered after editing/removing a book
  • Now updates live after editing a book
• Added a ‘show all’ folder item in empty folders on tablet devices
• Added collection status folders

Fixed:

• Fixed list view section headers stopping at X
• Crash in the in-app-purchase screen
• App freezing when entering a 20 character password in the login screen
• Manage Pick Lists:
  • Wrong sorting of numeric values
  • Crash when adding an empty item
  • Issue renaming an item with 1 letter only
• Fixed database limit message appearing in the old desktop sync when the limit was between 100 and unlimited

Fixed:

• Fixed iTunes Store credentials pop up on startup of app

New:

• New: Add Manually button if nothing can be found.

Fixed:

• Add Auto Screen: Barcode search by voice

New:

A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Books mobile app for iOS is now available.

In this update, we completely re-designed the Add Book screen, to make it clearer, easier-to-use and to help you add books more efficiently.

New: Re-designed Add Books screen

• Switch between By Author/Title and By ISBN modes using tabs at the top
  (Add Manually is now a separate screen, under Tools menu)
• All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
• Add button is now at bottom right (blue circle with “+” icon)
• Adding By ISBN:
  • Camera scanner is now integrated in Add screen, not a separate screen
  • Tap the keyboard icon in the camera panel to enter an ISBN manually
  • Delete ISBN from queue by swiping from right to left
  • ISBN queue is now remembered between sessions

New: Easily add books that come up as “Unrecognized ISBN”:

• When an ISBN is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized ISBN” screen will appear.
• In this screen, just type the Author and the Title, then click Add Book.
• This will:
  1. Instantly add the ISBN/Author/Title entry to our Core online book database.
  2. Add the book to your own database with ISBN, Author and Title filled in AND linked to the new Core entry.

In other words, this new screen not only helps you in adding unrecognized books, but it also helps your fellow CLZ Books users by adding the missing ISBN to the CLZ Core.

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• Fixed app closing on CLZ Account registration

• Added Folder options for Country and store
• CLZ Cloud Sync button now indicates “out of sync” status using red exclamation mark
• App now automatically restores the Unlock Full App in-app purchase
• Fixed hardware keyboard enter not working in tablet search field
• Fixed screen rotation not working on phones

Fixed:

• Field Defaults were not immediately stored after closing the screen
• Syncing screen: Sometimes the sync button was wrongly disabled

New data entry interface for date fields:

• Allows manual entry of year/month/day
• Allow “partial dates”, e.g. just year and month
• Open the calendar tool with the calendar button.

• When using folders, a new [None] entry contains the items that have no value (yet) for the selected folder field.
• Tablets: New always available search box in top bar.
• Add screen: some performance improvements.

• Redesigned Selection Mode screen.
• New floating “+” button with in Add screens, with “Add to Collection” / “Add to Wish List” options.
• Fixed: empty menus on some devices.

• New: App now remembers the last opened tab in the add automatically screen
• Small details template adjustments
• Fixed local search not working on tablet devices
• Fixed auto selection in main list not working on tablet devices
• Fixed several crashes on smaller tablet devices

A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Books app is now available.
And prepare to be shocked 🙂 (in a good way, don’t worry):

The app looks completely different now, with a cleaner brighter look and an improved user interface.

What’s new in CLZ Books 4.3 for Android?

• New “Material”-based interface, with two skins/themes: Light & Dark.
  (The app now starts in the Light skin. If you prefer the Dark look, just use the View menu top right)

• Big floating blue “+” button for adding books.
• Access all other features and tools from “hamburger” menu top left.
• Clear and easy switch between All / In Collection / Wish List at the top.
• Access all other view options from menu on top right.
• Add screen: tabs at the top to switch between Author/Title and ISBN modes.
• Add Manually is now a separate menu item in the menu on the left.
• Redesigned book list entries.
• Old Import from Book Collector has been moved to Settings screen!

Fixed:

• CLZ Cloud Sync: Notes were not down-synced.
• Edit Screen: Year picker: it was not possible to pick a year before “1888″.
• Manage Pick Lists screen: labels width was too short.

• Fixed losing changes when suspending the app while editing
• Fixed already in collection highlighting in the add auto screens

• New “Manage Pick Lists” screen (under new Tools menu).
  This new screen lets you take control of your pick lists, that is Authors, Publishers, Genres, Subjects, etc… Use it to:
  • Fix typos in names.
  • Remove unused entries.
  • Merge duplicate entries.
  • Edit the SortNames for Authors.
• Edit screen improvements:
  • New “value picker” screen for pick list fields, like Authors, Genres, Subjects, etc… Just tap the field, pick a value from the pick list that appears and done. No more need to type the first few letters of a value (we all hate typing on mobile devices, don’t we?)
  • Tap the pencil icons to directly edit names of pick list entries.
  • Tap the pencil icon for Authors to directly edit Names *and* SortNames.

• New “Manage Pick Lists” tool for editing and merging Authors, Publishers, Genres, Subjects, etc…
• Edit screen: Edit the Sort Names for Authors for complete control over correct author sorting.
• Edit screen: Now edit the names of Publishers, Genres, Subjects etc…
• Edit screen: New “value picker” screen for quickly filling fields like Author and Genre.
• New Tools menu, with Manage Pick Lists, Field Defaults and Empty Database tools.

• Fixed crashes in in-app purchase screen on certain Xiaomi phones
• Fixed crash in in-app purchase screen when only one in app purchase was offered