CC prerelease 3.3.0a has been published and will available soon to people who are
members of the CC prerelease program.
This prerelease contains the following enhancements and bug fixes:
- Allow closing the grouping pane with a right-to-left swipe. This works best if you swipe over empty space because there are some interactions with group selection.
- Add an option to tell CC to auto-close the grouping pane when a leaf item is selected.
- Sort by calibre's publication date.
- Add an option to move the Sort, Connect, and View commands from the action bar to the app's menu. This makes space available in the action bar for more "current grouping" text. This option is mostly useful on phones.
- Left and right swipe in book details now change the book being displayed.
- Reorganize some of the preferences, separating grouping preferences from more display-oriented preferences.
- Change the URLs to use the new Calibre Companion mobileread forum.
- [BUG FIX] Fix a few cases where out-of-memory errors crashed the app.
- [BUG FIX] Fix problem where the "Use grouping drawer buttons" required an app restart to take effect.
IMPORTANT NOTE: installing this prerelease will force a database upgrade to allow sorting on publication date and to prepare for adding a synced "book read" feature (checkbox). The upgrade will take approximately 1/3 second per book. You can use CC while the upgrade is running, but you will not be able to use grouping features until the upgrade finishes.
As before, Google Play will offer you the opportunity to upgrade CC. There is no requirement that you do so immediately, or even at all. For example, if you have a large library you might want to wait until you have the time to let CC's database upgrade finish before you need to use the app.