docs(changelog): release 2.21.0

- lots of re-wording suggestions from David
- reordering with input from David

Co-authored-by: David Allison <davidallisongithub@gmail.com>

Author: mikehardy

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 = AnkiDroid Changelog
 
+== Version 2.21.0 (20250708)
+
+It is that time again! New AnkiDroid time!
+
+First, let me say thanks so much for the https://opencollective.com/ankidroid/contribute[donations], we really appreciate it ❤️ 
+
+Here's the list of new stuff:
+
+* General
+** Includes Anki 25.02.7 (25.07.1 with FSRS6 available in our alphas, and will be out soon)
+** Deck Picker: allow panel resize on larger screens
+** Browser: Multi-column support and 'Manage columns' screen
+** Controls: Support previewer shortcuts
+** Reviewer: Much better multilingual support, using https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Mono/license[Noto Sans Mono font] for type-in-answer
+** Export: improve progress notifications
+** Export: use modern format by default [apkg/colpkg]
+** Tags: huge performance improvements
+** Browser Appearance: improve icon design
+** Set Due Date: Display interval of card
+** Set Due Date: hide 'set interval to same value' if FSRS is enabled
+** Translations: add Uyghur language
+** Previewer: Add 'Empty Front' indicator
+** Previewer: Keyboard/controller remappable bindings
+** Previewer: support non-combining (nc:) typed answers
+** Browser: New options: default search text and ignore accents
+** Browser: Support FSRS columns (Difficulty/Stability/Retrievability)
+** Browser: Support sorting by deck name
+** UI: Android predictive back gesture support
+** Widgets: Better resizing support & add rounded corners
+** Reposition Field: pre-fill previous value
+** Card Template Editor: Support 'restore to default'
+** Congrats Screen: support unburying only siblings/manually buried cards
+** Reposition: Implement all upstream functionality (steps, randomize order, shift cards)
+** Reposition: Display queue positions
+** JS API: Added `setTags` and `getTags`
+** Streamline Debug Info
+** Error dialog: copy stack trace & debug info
+** Made more actions undoable (for example, "empty filtered deck")
+** Improve Deck Options optimization progress notifiations
+** API: reimplement 'empty_cards'
+** Maintenance: add licenses wiki page link
+* Note Editor
+** Add tooltip in note editor
+** Allow pasting images as PNG
+** Add mathjax block and mathjax chemistry
+** Improve LocaleSelectionDialog
+** Check Media dialog: Anki compatibility (tag missing, media report, keep notes, make undoable)
+* Custom Study
+** Replicate desktop custom study by tags functionality
+* Import
+** Improve import progress notifications
+** Performance: up to 100x import speed improvement
+** Add drag-and-drop support for txt/csv/tsv
+** Add support for sharing .txt files to AnkiDroid
+* Design
+** Use proper color for AlertDialogs background color in black theme
+** Improve Activity Transition Animations
+** Various improvements when using a large font
+** Right to left language support improvements
+* Preferences
+** Option to remove Deck Picker background
+** Controls: Show keyboard shortcuts if keyboard attached
+** Controls: Support one-sided gestures
+** Controls: Improved UI for control and gesture entry
+* Shared Deck Download
+** Warn if no internet connection
+** Add 'manual download' link on download failure
+
+* Fixes
+** Fixed our top crash bug! (issues with collection open on media sync)
+** Sync UI hanging if app did not have notification permission
+** Ensure latest note data is used after updates
+** LTR languages: fix layout padding
+** Screen reorientiation / app reopen fixes
+** Various menu, icon & tooltip related improvements
+** Various keyboard appearance/focus improvements
+** Deck Options: Only show 'discard changes' if changes occurred
+** Deck Picker: Various fixes for the deck expansion arrow
+** Limit size of image that can be used in the crop editor
+** Translatable strings: improve newlines after digits
+** Add missing setting entries to the setting search
+** Fix background image visibility based on collection state
+** Handle quotes in deck names and searches
+** "+0 buried" displayed uselessly
+** Fix DeckOption become closable if it's not loaded
+** Fix a number of memory leaks
+** Fix importing text files from other apps (Gmail etc...)
+** Fix multi-line support for the deck picker footer
+** Fix: note editor multimedia options opening more than once
+** Fix: note editor prevent PNG, WEBP to JPG conversion on image crop
+** Fix: Image Occlusion note creation with special chars in filename
+** Card browser: maintain selection after changing flags
+** Card Browser: a flag with an empty name is invalid
+** Fix audio autoplay when previewing
+** Browser: maintain scroll positioning
+** Fix: change Ctrl+A to Ctrl+N in Card Template Editor
+** Fix keyboard not closing after search
+** Correctly highlight settings header on tablets
+** Fix truncated text on Login screen
+** Fix Settings status bar color
+** fix shared deck download 'navigate' button
+** Reset Reviewer zoom on card flip
+** Reviewer: Support localStorage again in JavaScript (via Advanced Setting)
+** Better deep link support for the Reviewer
+* Fixes - Deck Picker
+** Improve congrats message when no cards due later in day
+** Only show Backup prompt dialog at startup if there is no one-way or auto sync
+** "Deck is empty" no longer appears when deck has empty subdecks
+** Adding to an empty deck adds to the correct deck
+** Allow search to show subdecks if they match the searched term
+* Feature Removals
+** Remove long touch gesture
+** Remove Alt + K keyboard dialog shortcut
+** Card Template Editor: change Ctrl+A to Ctrl+N
+** Remove Automatic Display Answer global setting
+** Remove "Close review screen and sync"
+** Translations: https://crowdin.com/project/ankidroid/activity-stream[Incredible amount of general translation work], thank you!
+
+https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/milestone/67?closed=1[Full changelog]
+
+
 == Version 2.20.1 (20241223)
 
 Happy Holidays from your AnkiDroid team!