1 year later.

March 28 2014
Very soon a year since version 1.0.0 was released. I've been working on and off with the app (now version 1.6.4) which means there has been a lot of updates. The app works really good and is 100% stable with exactly no crash reports ever.

I'm still no fan of Java programming, in fact I dislike it even more now. The biggest drawback is that one can not easily mix code written in other languages such as C++. That's one of the strengths when programming for iOS, mixing C++ and Objective-C is super simple. Also I really miss the C preprocessor or something similar to make it easy to test different code paths. But I will continue to work on the Android version, I guess the next big thing will be 64-bit support when Android version 5 appears?

2 years later.

April 8 2015
Two years since version 1.0.0 was released. I continue to develop the app (now version 1.9.0) and have added some new features and support for more file types but also skipped supporting earlier Android versions than 4.0.

Android 5 Lollipop is released with support for 64-bit devices and Amazing Slow Downer of course works fine there. The current version 1.9.0 has native support for Intel 32-bit processors, there aren't that many Intel devices yet but I guess they will become more and more common. The next version will have native support for ARM 64-bit devices (Nexus 9 etc) and I also plan to support Intel 64-bit devices. Native support is important since else all DSP code will be emulated. This makes the audio processing very slow which drains the battery very fast.

3 years later.

April 24 2016
Three years since version 1.0.0 was released. The current version is now 2.1.3 and I've added some more settings and support for AMR audio files (anyone using that?) and fixed the last bug that could crash the app. Crashes was very rare even before this last fix (December 2015 version 1.9.4) and since then there are exactly zero crash reports!

The biggest addition is support for Spotify playlists, which was very tricky to implement (Android audio programming is difficult). As with the iOS version, I wanted the player to work exactly the same regardless if playing a Spotify song or a regular physical audio file stored on the device. Some of the most difficult programming I've been doing so far (mixing Java and C++ code isn't what you want to do for your every day programming).

4 years later.

May 29 2017
Four years since version 1.0.0 was released. The current version is now 2.3.1 and the biggest addition is probably that the app now works on Google Chromebooks. Other than that it's mostly minor changes that I've made to the app. Why? Programming should be fun and Android/Java programming is among the most boring stuff I can think of. Since C++11 arrived a couple of years ago my feelings for C++ is stronger than ever, it's almost like falling in love a second time. Then having to mess with Java, which is a garbage collected programming language invented for moderately gifted programmers, is dull. I rather spend my time writing apps in C++ or painting watercolor. Maybe I'm getting old?

5 years later.

May 5 2018
Five years since version 1.0.0 was released. The current version is now 2.3.4 with some minor changes and a couple of bug fixes. The Java honey moon is over, actually it never happenend.

6 years later.

May 3 2019
Six years since version 1.0.0 was released. The current version is now 2.5.2 and the most important change is much better support for blind users.

7 years later.

May 7 2020
Seven years since version 1.0.0 was released. The current version is now 2.6.2 and only a couple of minor bug fixes. The app is very stable and working very good.

8 years later.

May 5 2021
Eight years since version 1.0.0 was released. The current version is now 2.6.5. Most changes are related to Google messing up stuff with Android 10 and finally fixing it with Android 11.

9 years later.

May 9 2022
Nine years since version 1.0.0 was released. The current version is now 2.7.2. Mostly some minor stability improvements.

10 years later.

May 2 2023
Ten years since version 1.0.0 was released. The current version is now 2.7.6. Biggest change is that Spotify support is gone!
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