2.1
2021-05-31
This version brings new icons as well as many medium and small improvements including new features.
Search Filters and Improvements:
• Filter ASCII search with RegEx and select case sensitivity
• Share search results
• Select search results in the document
Jump to Offset:
• Jump to a given hexadecimal offset
• Highlight the byte at the given index
Codepages Support:
• Select one of multiple codepages
• Support for ASCII, ISO Latin, and EBCDIC
• Select multiple syntax themes for each
• Classic HexFiend and HexDump modes
Metadata Information:
• View metadata in analysis tab
• Inspect UTI, creation date, modification date and Unix Permissions
iPadOS Cursor Support:
• Cursor snaps accurately to bytes
• Cursor snaps to byte frequencies
• Added secondary click options to many buttons
Visual Improvements:
• New app icons!
• New “Shaded of Purple” theme
• Alternating rows option
• Indicate currently open sidebar
• Change sidebar color to resemble iWork apps
• Increase sidebar width
• Removed sidebar slideover mode
• Indicated byte in frequency grid
• Changed some contrasts for accessibility
• Linked new website and mail
• Further small design tweaks
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
• Removed a bunch of crashes and memory leaks
• Improved performance when scrolling and resizing in a variety of ways
• Restored ability to launch on M1 Macs
• Decreased app size
2.0
2021-01-02
Large scale changes to the entire app:
User Interface Overhaul:
• Modernized and native-ized user interface
• Toggle a sidebar in different modes next to or over the document depending on context
• Sidebar can be toggled using navigation bar buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and sideswipes
• Navigation bar and sidebar will use light or dark theme depending on the syntax theme being light or dark
• Added custom tint color
• Added support for multiple windows
Search:
• Added search mode to sidebar
• Search for content in the hexadecimal, ASCII, or binary column
• Preview results with context and jump to and highlight them in the document
• Jump between results with arrow keys
• Search results are limited to the first 1000 hits to increase performance
Analysis:
• Added analysis mode to sidebar
• Get information about the selection or the entire document
• Decode to integers
• See byte frequencies
• See detected file signatures (magic numbers)
Significant Performance Improvements:
• Document load times and scrolling performance is drastically increased
• Fixed crashes during (too fast) scrolling
• Fixed crashes during pinch-to-zoom
• Fixed crashes during opening documents
• Fixed crashes when putting the app into background
Misc Additions and Changes:
• Unified column reorder and hiding menu
• Mono Green themes split into light and dark
• Mono Green themes and corresponding icon changed to use app tint (solarized) green
• Options now show keyboard shortcuts next to them on iPad
• About screen shows version number
• Added changelog to the app
• Added symbols for newline (\n, 0x0a) and tab (\t, 0x09) characters
• Moved easter egg
• Changed the way the outer background is colored
• Rounded corners in secondary selection
• Removed little endian option due to backend changes
Misc Fixes and Improvements:
• Better support of Dynamic Text (Accessibility font size)
• Text rendering should be slightly sharper
• Improved scroll position after rotating or resizing
• The document no longer appears scrolled after opening on some devices
• the document browser no longer appears to rotate when opening a document
• Open from share sheet works reliably
• Slightly tweaked about screen order and icons
• Rudimentary cursor support for theme and app icon buttons