Botany

What is new?

  • App Storage shows what is using space on the iPad — photos, maps, and cached map data — tells you when this device's data was set up, and can clear cached map files without touching survey data.
  • Map tiles now draw in the display's native format, for a sharper map and faster redraws.
  • When uploading the local database fails, you are now offered the packed database file to save or share instead of losing the attempt. #393, #395

What has been fixed?

Botany specific bugs:

  • The first sync after opening the app no longer fails with a connection error. If the server is busy, sync now waits and retries quietly instead of failing on the spot. #287
  • The app no longer crashes on open shortly after signing in. #303
  • The app no longer runs out of memory and closes during long map use — the map releases tile memory as you pan and zoom, and sizes its cache to the memory the device actually has free. #309
  • Deleting a feature no longer fails with an OGR error. #310
  • Species search now matches from the start of the name — typing a few letters into Scientific Name returns results that begin with what you typed. #327
  • The Select Plant Species screen no longer adds another species on every tap while it is slow to respond. #345
  • Photos no longer keep a second full-size copy inside the app database. The database shrinks on the first launch after updating, and sync no longer fails or closes the app when survey areas change on records holding a lot of photos. #394
  • Photos stay put until they have been uploaded — several paths could remove photos that had not yet reached the server, including on surveys under an unassigned THP.
  • Plants added to a survey area that had not been assigned yet are no longer removed by a sync.
  • Sync messages now describe what actually went wrong instead of naming a screen.
  • Dropdowns no longer clear a value they do not recognise.
  • Records with an empty date field no longer freeze the app.

Atlas mobile specific bugs:

  • The Coordinate tool no longer misbehaves when the device is rotated. #506
  • Switching a GeoPDF from Standard to Tiled now works as expected. #685