LaunchBox for Android - 1.23 Beta Thread

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Hi Everyone,

A new beta round has begun for Android for version 1.23.

The first beta is out and introduces a major RetroAchievements update, improvements to the Boxes Grid games view, better streaming video handling, and additional diagnostics to help us track down startup, launch, and playlist issues.

While the changelog is fairly straightforward, we would really appreciate focused testing, especially around the new RetroAchievements features.

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Testers: Things to Focus On

Please help us validate the following:

• RetroAchievements: Log in from the new RetroAchievements main menu section, confirm your profile, stats, recent activity, recently played games, and leaderboard links load correctly. Test supported games to confirm achievement summaries appear on game details pages.
• Game Achievements Page: Open achievement sets for supported games and test Grid and List views, controller navigation, portrait and landscape layouts, sorting, searching, grouping, and filters such as earned, locked, missable, progression, and win condition achievements.
• Emulator Credentials: Test configuring RetroAchievements credentials for supported emulators, especially RetroArch, and confirm settings save and work after restarting the app.
• Achievement Notifications: Launch supported games through supported emulators, earn achievements if possible, then return to LaunchBox and confirm newly earned achievements are detected and shown correctly.
• Boxes Grid View: Test the Boxes Grid games view with large libraries. Please check scrolling speed, responsiveness, image fit options, spacing options, controller navigation, and touch navigation.
• Startup, Launch, and Playlist Diagnostics: If you run into slow startup, slow game launches, playlist save issues, missing playlist games, or playlist deletion problems, please report them. This beta includes additional diagnostics to help us track these down.

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Beta 1 Changelog

• Added a new RetroAchievements section to the main menu. You can now log in, view your RetroAchievements profile, see key stats, recently played games, recent activity, and open the global leaderboard from LaunchBox for Android
• Added a dynamic RetroAchievements main menu label. The menu can show your selected RetroAchievements stat, such as score, achievements unlocked, games beaten, completed games, or mastered games
• Added a redesigned game achievements page for RetroAchievements. Game achievement sets now support Grid and List view modes, controller navigation, detailed achievement information, earned and locked badge states, unlock rates, achievement type badges, and responsive portrait and landscape layouts
• Added filtering, grouping, sorting, and searching to RetroAchievements game achievement sets. You can filter by progression, missable, win condition, earned, locked, and other achievements
• Added RetroAchievements progress summaries to game details. Supported games can show earned achievements, completion percentage, earned points, and RetroAchievements-provided beat and master time estimates
• Added an option to show or hide RetroAchievements information on game details pages
• Added optional LaunchBox achievement notifications. When returning from a supported emulator, LaunchBox can check for newly earned RetroAchievements and open the related achievement page
• Added support for configuring RetroAchievements credentials for supported emulators, including RetroArch
• Improved the Boxes Grid games view with faster scrolling, better responsiveness, and new image fit and spacing options
• Improved streaming video handling and media playback stability
• Improved startup and launch diagnostics with startup/load tracing, deferred Android startup work, and slow game launch reporting to help identify loading and launch issues in beta builds
• Improved playlist diagnostics and error reporting to help track down cases where playlist names, games, or deletions do not save correctly
• Fixed an issue where newly added playlist games could be missing when opening the playlist immediately afterward
• Fixed an issue with downloading media and logging in to EmuMovies
• Fixed a possible crash when the LaunchBox Themes folder was missing or inaccessible
• Fixed a possible crash on older Android versions caused by unsupported media foreground-service behavior
• Fixed an issue where preview videos could continue playing while launching a game
• Fixed several controller and touch navigation scroll issues across list and grid views

 

Thank you for helping us refine LaunchBox for Android. Your testing and feedback continue to make the app better with every beta.

[RinoaSkye]

Thank you for the update, I got my retroid pocket 6 last thursday and I've loved having LB on there!