Most visible updates

• Less power used when not animating rain. This gives roughly an hour more runtime compared to the default. By default the app runs for more than six hours on my device from 100% full down to the default 30% battery threshold, with animation disabled, it should run for more than 7 hours. To turn this on, open the system menu and uncheck “animate”. (The biggest factor in lowering the power usage is updating the screen less often when not animating the rain)
• Fade audio in when resuming from pause or locked states.
• Added animations for card view, launching the app, wrapping paper, and icon-highlight
• Updated testing features adding several new modes and creating global functions for each, so they can be enabled from non-Mac Simulators. Updated the help text displayed when connected to a Simulator:

| Hello curious person!
|
| Backyard Rain Soundscape supports several development & testing commands.  
| On Mac, use single letter keyboard shortcuts. On any platform use the "Enter
| Command" Simulator's Console window to eval the listed function name. 
|
| d   toggle debug status overlay
|         eval: toggle_debug_ui()
|         ti: target intensity - from user input
|         i:  actual intensity right now, including offset 
|             from slow rain intensity variation
|         lv: light rain volume level
|         mv: medium rain volume level
|         hv: hard rain volume level
| i   take a screenshot and save into: images/screenshot-EPOCH.gif
|         eval: screenshot()
| b   toggle battery safety mode
|         eval: toggle_battery_alert()
| v   toggle rain intensity variation
|         eval: toggle_riv_enabled()
| p   start logging power percentage & voltage to a CSV file
|         eval: start_power_log()
|
| In the Simulator, choose "Control Device with Simulator", then 
| type one of the above keys on the computer running Simulator.
|
| Happy listening! 

Details

Most folks can skip the rest of this and download the new version, it’s probably only interesting to other Playdate developers… and even then, only maybe. ;)