Crosswords 4.4 beta 97 release

This release changes how networked games are started and communicate.

Please take this survey to help determine what gets done next in Crosswords.

New with this release

Change how games communicate: instead of using only one means (e.g. Bluetooth, SMS, or the internet/relay) a game can use all three, switching based on what works at the time
Game creation requires only picking whether you're networked or not, not how to communicate (though you can still control that if you like)
Separate inviting from playing: e.g. you can invite via Bluetooth to a game that will be played via SMS
A game that needs remote players has a dialog on top of it at all times you can use to invite players. The dialog goes away when invited players connect.
But when a game hasn't connected yet, warn, and don't let it send an invitation
On startup, if on a phone configured for other than English, offer to download an appropriate wordlist
New games are placed in the selected group (if any, otherwise in default as before)
Add new-games buttons to main screen, and offer to hide them after a while
Offer to turn Bluetooth and SMS on directly rather than just take you to the Android prefs app
Hide public rooms interface by default, and add a preference to turn it back on
Remove option to invite using SMS, since invitations are too large now. (Will address in a release soon.)
Kill play-via-SMS for non-GSM phones. (Google's making it too hard to support this, and non-GSM phones are only found in one country anyway.)
Deal with deletion of dictionary that's been set as default
In popup menu from in-game wordlist button, show only wordlists in same language as game
When assigning new tiles, don't sort tiles to left of tray divider
Remove "Reconnect" button from network status info
Include info for all communication means being used in network status, and only show an icon in networked games
Show status message after writing to SD card
Fix a few crashes

(The full changelog is here.)

Next up

Offer "Rematch" when game's over (Easy via SMS and Bluetooth; harder via the internet/relay)
Fix invite-by-SMS (and then re-enable)
Look into supporting play via peer-to-peer wifi

Please let me know (email xwords@eehouse.org) what's broken and what features you'd most like to see. And if you do get a crash, please let your device report it to Google so I can see it!

Thanks!
--Eric