We are planning to release an update to the Dash Wallet for Android. This update includes bug fixes and other enhancements imported from Bitcoin Wallet for Android.
It also includes:
1. Recovery Phrase Support (BIP39) - View your recovery phrase (12 word seed) and Restore from one.
2. Fix a crash problem on Android 4.4.x devices when clicking on a warning icon next to a high balance.
3. Adding a Copy Address command from the Request Coins screen.
https://github.com/HashEngineering/dash-wallet/releases/tag/v5.14-beta-5
This is for TestNet only.
Updates from Bitcoin Wallet (4.66 through 5.14)
Under the hood:
It also includes:
1. Recovery Phrase Support (BIP39) - View your recovery phrase (12 word seed) and Restore from one.
2. Fix a crash problem on Android 4.4.x devices when clicking on a warning icon next to a high balance.
3. Adding a Copy Address command from the Request Coins screen.
https://github.com/HashEngineering/dash-wallet/releases/tag/v5.14-beta-5
This is for TestNet only.
Updates from Bitcoin Wallet (4.66 through 5.14)
- Add option to report issue with selected payment.
- Query a set of Electrum servers to swipe paper wallets.
- Material design for Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and above!
- For Android 7.1 (Nougat) and above, support the new app shortcuts.
- For Android 6.0 (Marshmellow) and above, bring back the ability to receive payments via Bluetooth. This means your customers can pay without being connected to the internet!
- Nicely animated appearance of main screen on phones.
- Fix background color in recent tasks list.
- The testnet version doesn't make files world readable any more.
- The app now requires Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) or higher. This makes UI development easier in future.
- Fix detection of network state. This needs the ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permission.
- Slightly more robust scanning of QR codes.
- Strengthen security of spending PIN for all existing wallets, too.
- Speed up wallet decryption when using a spending PIN.
- Strengthen security of spending PIN.
Under the hood:
- Update to bitcoinj/dashj 0.14.4.
- Move 'Report issue' from the diagnostics to the main screen options menu
- WalletActivity: Fix two WindowManager$BadTokenExceptions.
- Prevent creating double spends when swiping a paper wallet twice.
- Hopefully fix NullPointerException when scanning for files in directories
- ExchangeRatesFragment: Fix NullPointerException when exchange rates could not be fetched.
- Fix VerifyError on Android 4.3 and below because of usage of ReflectiveOperationException
- Add 'low RAM device' to reports. Low Ram Devices use differnet encryption (less)
- Fix storage encryption warning showing wrongly in some cases.
- Decrease autosave delay to 5 seconds. [For Wallet file]
- ScanActivity: If there is a problem with auto-focusing, just stop doing that rather than crashing.
- Significantly bump up desired number of scrypt iterations again.
- Speed up derivation of the spending PIN by switching to native code for Scrypt.
- Fix rare crash when sweeping a paper wallet that has multiple UTXOs created by the same transaction.
- Fix crash when requesting coins on Samsung "Knox" devices.
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