Amber iX Mobile (iOS/Android) Release Notes
iOS: Requires iOS 12 or newer
Android: Requires Android 8 or newer
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0.11.5
2021.08.25
New Features
- Support camera roll backup path folder change including external drive (NTFS only).
- Support upload from the destination.
- Support album sharing. (video playback and download not yet supported)
- Support photo EXIF information display.
- Add Background Service in the Settings and add an option to allow file upload/download executing in the background.
- Add video indexing status to the indexing status page.
- Support removing notifications on the Notification page.
- Support new backup information panel.
- Support share link removing in the Share panel.
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0.10.5
2021.06.29
Improved + Enhanced Features
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Display videos on the “My Photos” page in the Amber iX Mobile App:
- Allow adding videos into albums.
- Add filters for photo and video type.
- Provide indexing status page in the Amber iX Mobile App:
- Allow users to see how many photos, faces and objects are recognized by the Amber X OS.
- Enable control to hide/show duplicate photos on the “My Photos” page.
- Enable options to hide/show unwanted AI object photo categories.
- Enable options to disable/enable AI face recognition and object detection.
- Enable ability to edit and change “cloud share permission” settings in the Amber iX Mobile App.
- Support contact list import for ease of file sharing with existing contacts (email addresses).
- Add Recycle Bin feature for Amber and Cloud files page.
- Enable LED Brightness Control in the Amber X management page.
Bug Fixes + Enhancements
- Amber iX Mobile: Improved backup performance for local network environment.
- Amber iX Mobile: Unified share and export with single entry to prevent confusion.
- Amber iX Apps: Enhanced the performance for multiple file copy.
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0.9.3
2021.05.18
Improved + Enhanced Features
- Enable users to manually select photos for backup, in lieu of a general all-photo backup. Back
- Enable acceptance for “any” file type from third-party app share.
- Add photo count on the photo filter conditions.
Bug Fixes + Enhancements
- Improved performance for error handling and battery drainage during backup.
- Enhanced p2p performance and improved backup speeds by 30% - 100% (depending on p2p mode).
- Add resource control support in the Amber iX App to improve backup and photo browsing performance (throttle lag due to indexing).
- Fix file list does not sort by name issue in the previous app version.
- Fix cannot cast from external drives issue and other casting issues.
- Display external drive non-supported information.
- General bug fixes and UI improvement for album, photo filtering, casting, and file browsing.
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0.8.5
2021.04.13
Improved + Enhanced Features
- Improved UI to support filter view for recent history.
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Improved UI with delete button in camera roll image preview page.
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Improved UI to support backup detail status on Home page.
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Improved Android app UI to support back key
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Enhanced app feature to support location filter on My Photos.
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Enhanced app feature to support list and thumbnail view for albums.
- Enhanced in-app setup support for hidden WiFi networks.
Bug Fixes + Enhancements
- Fixed iOS App issue affecting battery drainage.
- Fixed app auto-login issues
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Enhanced Android background backup performance.
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Enhanced network detection to improve backup performance issues.
- Extended Android backup duration time from 15 mins to 12 hrs.
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Improved error notification for images that failed to back-up.
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Improved in-app notifications and UI messaging.
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Improved photo filter related issues.
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0.7.7
2021.03.03
New Features
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Add “Free Space” App functionality to auto-delete older backed-up camera-roll items
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Enable Photo Deletion on the “My Photos” page.
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Enable Photo Deletion on the “Camera Roll” page.
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Enable Auto-Notification when a new App version is available.
Bug Fixes and Enhancements
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P2P Connection and Network Monitoring Enhancements.
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General App Performance Improvements.
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Add backup stop-limit on low battery
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Enable optional usage and analytics information for developer debugging.
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0.7.2
- performance improvement.
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0.6.6
- Support for optional Volume Encryption during setup
- Support filtering photos by Folder, Camera, and Time
- Support multi-selection for actions including Share / Copy / Download / Add to Album
- Support casting on MyPhotos page
- Support thumbnail display in Offline folder
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0.5.3
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Album creation.
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0.4.4
- performance improvement.
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0.3.0
- Add tips and quick guide.
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- 0.2.5
- performance improvement.