What's new in CLZ Books Mobile? (page 8)

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