Introduced a cleaner AdbCommandForm for running custom ADB commands and toggling OS updates. The DonorsListView and MainForm UIs are modernized with rounded, shadowed windows, updated color schemes, and improved button and label styling. Removed legacy data bindings and redundant controls.
Implemented a custom theme with a new color scheme and extensively refined UI logic and architecture for improved modernity and consistency. Relocated and reworked numerous options (mount device, select device, share app, uninstall app, pull-to-desktop, filters, etc.), and updated all message boxes to use the new themed styling with enhanced visual polish. All message boxes now use custom themed styling with enhanced visual polish. Corrected grammatical or logical flaws across text, tooltips, and title updates throughout the application. Added smooth animations to left-side navigation / container elements. Fine-tuned sizing, positioning, and colors across numerous UI components. Enhanced GalleryView with proper favorites support including context menu integration, favorite border styling and favorite badge, as well as some bug fixes. Implemented custom modern ToggleSwitch component (iOS-like) with animations. Completely overhauled quest option and rookie option menus to utilize new toggle switches in modernized layouts. Refined sorting and installation status logic to streamline UX; rookie now also functions as an efficient installed-quest-app browser with easily accessible view/uninstall controls. Added WebView2.dll validation to ensure runtime dependencies exist. Re-implemented trailer option. GalleryView is now shown on very first launch, but rookie remembers your preferred view thereafter, so list-view users won't be bothered, while everyone still gets to see the new gallery view at least once. Gallery performance has also been validated on very-low-spec hardware and confirmed to run fine and fast there, due to numerous optimizations. Given the extensive scope of changes across this commit series for beta-2.35-yt, I believe this update represents a significant milestone warranting v3.0 designation. In my opinion these changes represent one of the most significant set of logical and visual changes and enhancements the rookie application has seen in years. Changes have been summarized in changelog.txt for update.
Improved performance and reliability of metadata extraction by using faster directory deletion, parallel operations, and atomic game list updates. Refactored game list initialization for better memory usage and parallelized device connection and metadata updates. Logger initialization message is now more prominent. Minor UI and code cleanups included.
- Added a uninstall button for installed items to list view and gallery view.
- Fixed uninstall (TodaysDate) prompt text.
- Added sorting functionality with custom sort panel / buttons for Name, Updated, Size, and Popularity fields, including ascending/descending toggles, to gallery view.
Introduced a virtual gallery panel for displaying games in a high-performance, animated gallery view. Added a toggle button for toggling between list and gallery view, with synchronized data and selection between views. The new gallery view supports dynamic scaling, smooth scrolling, hover animations, status badges, search, filters, and is optimized for displaying large numbers of items with LRU image caching.
Overhauled UI (left side navigation bar, device information, search, background, text colors) for a cleaner and more modern-looking interface. Removed no longer used resources. Adjusted layout and visibility of certain panels and controls for a cleaner interface.
TODO:
- Finish the full UI overhaul.
- Fix MainForm Designer so it doesn't override the changes.
Massively improved game list initialization and metadata extraction, reducing game list processing time from ~11 seconds to under 1 second (~20x faster) on my end. Refactored initListView with batched version code retrieval and parallelized blacklist/whitelist loading. Optimized Sideloader/RCLONE metadata extraction and improved directory operations. Minor UI and logging tweaks.
Removed the splash form, associated images, and all references to splash screen logic from the project. Refactored startup logic to run directly, with improved asynchronous initialization and cleanup.
Improved the search functionality by adding a search index for faster lookups and updating the debounce timer for quicker response. Modified the search bar color and changed the "Search" text placeholder color.
Added a local blacklist button to DonorsListView, allowing users to permanently skip donation requests for locally blacklisted apps. These apps are stored in a local blacklist.json file and locally merged with the server blacklist, enabling users to stop donation prompts for selected apps without waiting for them to be blacklisted on the server side. Also performed some minor code cleanup.
Replaced string equality check with semantic version comparison in Updater.cs to ensure updates are only prompted when the server version is greater than the local version. Also removed unused usings from MainForm.cs for code cleanliness.
Trailers are now initialized and shown next to thumbnails. Removed the 'Use Trailers instead of Thumbnails' setting and related UI/control logic. Cleaned up associated code, settings, and designer elements for a simpler, unified trailer experience. Also cleaned up list filtering logic with massively improved performance (from several seconds to now being instant on 'UP TO DATE' / 'UPDATE AVAILABLE' / 'NEWER THAN LIST' button clicks).
Replaced embedded video URL loading with a local player.html using the YouTube IFrame API and WebView2 message bridge. Added per-game video ID caching, improved trailer search reliability, streamlined initialization and navigation logic for faster trailer loading.
