What's new in CLZ Books Mobile? 2016
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CLZ Books Mobile
v4.3.1: Redesigned Add Automatically screen and new “Missing ISBN” screen
Nov 16, 2016
A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Books mobile app for iOS is now available.
In this update, we completely re-designed the Add Book screen, to make it clearer, easier-to-use and to help you add books more efficiently.
New: Re-designed Add Books screen
- Switch between By Author/Title and By ISBN modes using tabs at the top
(Add Manually is now a separate screen, under Tools menu) - All panels are now resizable (list, details, camera)
- Add button is now at bottom right (blue circle with “+” icon)
- Adding By ISBN:
- Camera scanner is now integrated in Add screen, not a separate screen
- Tap the keyboard icon in the camera panel to enter an ISBN manually
- Delete ISBN from queue by swiping from right to left
- ISBN queue is now remembered between sessions
New: Easily add books that come up as “Unrecognized ISBN”:
- When an ISBN is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized ISBN” screen will appear.
- In this screen, just type the Author and the Title, then click Add Book.
- This will:
- Instantly add the ISBN/Author/Title entry to our Core online book database.
- Add the book to your own database with ISBN, Author and Title filled in AND linked to the new Core entry.
In other words, this new screen not only helps you in adding unrecognized books, but it also helps your fellow CLZ Books users by adding the missing ISBN to the CLZ Core.
- Fixed app closing on CLZ Account registration
- Added Folder options for Country and store
- CLZ Cloud Sync button now indicates “out of sync” status using red exclamation mark
- App now automatically restores the Unlock Full App in-app purchase
- Fixed hardware keyboard enter not working in tablet search field
- Fixed screen rotation not working on phones
Fixed:
- Field Defaults were not immediately stored after closing the screen
- Syncing screen: Sometimes the sync button was wrongly disabled
New data entry interface for date fields:
- Allows manual entry of year/month/day
- Allow “partial dates”, e.g. just year and month
- Open the calendar tool with the calendar button.
- When using folders, a new [None] entry contains the items that have no value (yet) for the selected folder field.
- Tablets: New always available search box in top bar.
- Add screen: some performance improvements.
- Redesigned Selection Mode screen.
- New floating “+” button with in Add screens, with “Add to Collection” / “Add to Wish List” options.
- Fixed: empty menus on some devices.
- New: App now remembers the last opened tab in the add automatically screen
- Small details template adjustments
- Fixed local search not working on tablet devices
- Fixed auto selection in main list not working on tablet devices
- Fixed several crashes on smaller tablet devices
A huge v4.3 update for your CLZ Books app is now available.
And prepare to be shocked 🙂 (in a good way, don’t worry):
The app looks completely different now, with a cleaner brighter look and an improved user interface.
What’s new in CLZ Books 4.3 for Android?
- New “Material”-based interface, with two skins/themes: Light & Dark.
(The app now starts in the Light skin. If you prefer the Dark look, just use the View menu top right) - Big floating blue “+” button for adding books.
- Access all other features and tools from “hamburger” menu top left.
- Clear and easy switch between All / In Collection / Wish List at the top.
- Access all other view options from menu on top right.
- Add screen: tabs at the top to switch between Author/Title and ISBN modes.
- Add Manually is now a separate menu item in the menu on the left.
- Redesigned book list entries.
- Old Import from Book Collector has been moved to Settings screen!
Fixed:
- CLZ Cloud Sync: Notes were not down-synced.
- Edit Screen: Year picker: it was not possible to pick a year before “1888″.
- Manage Pick Lists screen: labels width was too short.
- Fixed losing changes when suspending the app while editing
- Fixed already in collection highlighting in the add auto screens
- New “Manage Pick Lists” screen (under new Tools menu).
This new screen lets you take control of your pick lists, that is Authors, Publishers, Genres, Subjects, etc… Use it to:- Fix typos in names.
- Remove unused entries.
- Merge duplicate entries.
- Edit the SortNames for Authors.
- Edit screen improvements:
- New “value picker” screen for pick list fields, like Authors, Genres, Subjects, etc… Just tap the field, pick a value from the pick list that appears and done. No more need to type the first few letters of a value (we all hate typing on mobile devices, don’t we?)
- Tap the pencil icons to directly edit names of pick list entries.
- Tap the pencil icon for Authors to directly edit Names *and* SortNames.
- New “Manage Pick Lists” tool for editing and merging Authors, Publishers, Genres, Subjects, etc…
- Edit screen: Edit the Sort Names for Authors for complete control over correct author sorting.
- Edit screen: Now edit the names of Publishers, Genres, Subjects etc…
- Edit screen: New “value picker” screen for quickly filling fields like Author and Genre.
- New Tools menu, with Manage Pick Lists, Field Defaults and Empty Database tools.
- Fixed crashes in in-app purchase screen on certain Xiaomi phones
- Fixed crash in in-app purchase screen when only one in app purchase was offered
- Fixed barcode search not working with hardware keyboards
- Search not working correctly after updating a book from Core
- Fixed crash while syncing broken images
New:
- Settings / Field Defaults: choose field values that will be set for each new entry automatically.
- Edit screen improvements:
- Improved layout to make it easier on the eye
- New “Select Value” screen for easier entry of pick list fields (e.g. Artist, Format, Genre, etc…)
- Cancel and Done buttons have been moved to the top bar.
- New Delete button at the bottom.
CLZ Books is now free to download, with a database limit of 100 books.
If you purchased CLZ Books *before* the 4.0 release, then the 4.0 version will be automatically unlocked to an *unlimited* database size. You do NOT need to pay again 🙂
If, for whatever reason, this didn’t work for you, then just CONTACT US and and we’ll unlock it manually, free of charge!
Improved Add Books screen:
- Easily switch between Add methods (Title/ISBN/Manual).
- Re-designed search results with included cover images.
- Add by ISBN now automatically opens Camera Scan screen.
It’s been a long time in the making, but it’s finally here:
CLZ Books 4.0 for iOS!
Apart from several improvements to the Add Book screen, the 4.0 version contains an important change: CLZ Books for iOS is now free to download
Starting with version 4.0, CLZ Books is free to download and starts with a limit of 100 books.
New: Improved Add Books screen
- Easily switch between Add methods (Author & Title / ISBN / Manual).
- Re-designed search results with included cover images.
- New black style for Preview Screen.
- Add by ISBN now automatically opens Camera Scan screen.
- Larger Camera Scan screen on iPad