Novix v1.2.4: The Polish & Performance Update! ✨
Following our initial launch, version 1.2.4 is all about refining your experience! We've focused on major UI/UX upgrades, performance boosts, and squashing bugs to make Novix smoother, faster, and more enjoyable to use. Plus, we've added some highly-requested features!
What's New? 🚀
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🔖 Introducing Bookmarks: You can now easily save movies to your custom watchlists from almost anywhere in the app! A new bookmark bottom sheet makes managing your lists a breeze.
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📱 Modern Edge-to-Edge Design: The app now utilizes your entire screen, providing a more immersive and modern interface that looks stunning on all devices.
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✨ Smoother Loading Experience: We've replaced jarring loading spinners with sleek shimmer effects and content skeletons. Now, browsing feels seamless while content loads in the background.
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🔔 New Notification System: A brand-new, non-intrusive snackbar system provides clear and concise feedback for actions like saving a movie or deleting a rating.
✨ Enhancements & Fixes
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🎨 UI Overhaul & Consistency: We've conducted a massive refactoring of our UI components. Screens like Search, My Ratings, and Categories now use a new, consistent grid system, making the entire app feel more unified and responsive.
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🔒 Improved Data Safety: For your privacy and security, logging out of your account now clears all your personal preferences and cached data from the device.
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🚀 Faster & More Reliable UI: By bundling fonts directly into the app, we've eliminated the reliance on network font providers. This means the UI loads faster and looks consistent, even on slower connections.
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💅 General UI & UX Polish:
- Implemented a beautiful background gradient on several screens for a more polished look.
- Navigation flows, especially after logging in, are now smoother and more intuitive.
- Pager dots in image carousels now only appear when there are multiple images to view.
- Fixed dozens of minor design issues, including inconsistent padding, icon visibility, and button styling.
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🐞 Bug Squashing: Fixed a number of bugs, including issues with the new bookmark sheet hanging, incorrect API paths for TV show ratings, and improper state handling on various screens.
⚙️ Under the Hood
This release includes a massive refactoring of our data, domain, and presentation layers, along with a significant increase in test coverage to over 60%. This work was crucial to improve the app's stability, eliminate technical debt, and pave the way for exciting new features in the future!
📦 Download Binaries
We provide builds for multiple CPU architectures, plus a universal build.
| Binary | Filename suffix | Devices |
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| Universal | -universal.apk |
Works on all devices, but larger in size |
| ARM64 / v8 | -arm64-v8a.apk |
Most modern Android devices (64-bit ARM, phones & tablets after ~2017) |
| ARMv7 | -armeabi-v7a.apk |
Older Android devices (32-bit ARM, most phones before ~2016) |
| x86_64 | -x86_64.apk |
Modern Android emulators and some Intel-based devices |
| x86 | -x86.apk |
Some older Android emulators and a few rare Intel-based phones |
👉 Recommended: Most users should download the Universal build or the arm64-v8a build (for modern Android phones & tablets).
Thanks for being part of the Novix journey. Enjoy the update, and keep the feedback coming! 🎬