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<h2>Crosswords 4.4 beta 97 release</h2>
<p>This release changes how networked games are started and
communicate.</p>
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<h3>New with this release</h3>
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<li>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</li>
<li>Game creation requires only picking whether you&apos;re
networked or not, not how to communicate (though you can
still control that if you like)</li>
<li>Separate inviting from playing: e.g. you can invite via
Bluetooth to a game that will be played via SMS</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>But when a game hasn&apos;t connected yet, warn, and
don&apos;t let it send an invitation</li>
<li>On startup, if on a phone configured for other than English,
offer to download an appropriate wordlist</li>
<li>New games are placed in the selected group (if any,
otherwise in default as before)</li>
<li>Add new-games buttons to main screen, and offer to hide them
after a while</li>
<li>Offer to turn Bluetooth and SMS on directly rather than just
take you to the Android prefs app</li>
<li>Hide public rooms interface by default, and add a preference
to turn it back on</li>
<li>Remove option to invite using SMS, since invitations are too
large now. (Will address in a release soon.)</li>
<li>Kill play-via-SMS for non-GSM phones. (Google&apos;s making
it too hard to support this, and non-GSM phones are only
found in one country anyway.)</li>
<li>Deal with deletion of dictionary that&apos;s been set as
default</li>
<li>In popup menu from in-game wordlist button, show only
wordlists in same language as game</li>
<li>When assigning new tiles, don&apos;t sort tiles to left of
tray divider</li>
<li>Remove &quot;Reconnect&quot; button from network status info</li>
<li>Include info for all communication means being used in
network status, and only show an icon in networked games </li>
<li>Show status message after writing to SD card</li>
<li>Fix a few crashes</li>
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<p>(The full changelog
is <a href="http://xwords.sf.net/and_changes.php">here</a>.)</p>
<h3>Next up</h3>
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<li>Offer &quot;Rematch&quot; when game&apos;s over (Easy via
SMS and Bluetooth; harder via the internet/relay)</li>
<li>Fix invite-by-SMS (and then re-enable)</li>
<li>Look into supporting play via peer-to-peer wifi</li>
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<p>Please let me know
(email <a href="mailto:xwords@eehouse.org">xwords@eehouse.org</a>)
what&apos;s broken and what features you&apos;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!</p>
<p>Thanks!<br>--Eric</p>
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