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## ✅ Stable Release – Major Improvements and Fixes from v20.608.77 Alpha 2–4

### 🧱 Stability
- 📌 **Promoted from Alpha to Stable**  
  This release is now considered reliable and production-ready.

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### ✨ Added
- ➕ New items in **Code Palette**, **Components**, and **Local Libraries** — expanding your toolkit with more ready-to-use functionality.
- 🕰️ **Rediscovered First Version**:  
  The original version of Sketchy Codex was found via our social media post and is now archived under version 1.0's changelog.

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### 🔄 Updated
- 🧠 Improved several existing Code Palette entries for **performance**, **readability**, and **compatibility**.

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### 🛠️ Improved
- 🗂️ Better organization and structure for easier browsing and integration of components/libraries.
- 💾 Updated file-saving logic to prevent naming confusion:  
  - **Before**: `my file v1.0 1.zip`  
  - **Now**: `my file v1.0 (1).zip` — clearer, avoids version mix-ups.

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### 🎨 UI Enhancements
- 🧭 Smoother activity transitions using **Z-axis animations**.
- 🎨 Refined outline & surface colors for improved visual clarity.
- 🧱 Unified theming across the app using `SketchyCodexTheme` (based on **Material 3**).

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### 🔍 SearchView Upgrades
- 🎞️ Fixed Lottie animation visibility.
- ❌ Improved empty-state design.
- 🔎 Added search support for **Components** and **Local Libraries**.

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### 👤 User Experience
- 🛡️ Confirmation dialog added before downloading updates.
- 🧠 Update dialog is now shown **only once per version**.
- 📨 Replaced **Toast** with **Snackbar** for cleaner, contextual feedback.

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### ⚡ Performance
- 🧹 Removed unused files and cleaned up unnecessary resources.
- 🚀 Eliminated launch lag — now uses a **lightweight preloaded splash-to-home transition**, similar to SearchView.

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### 📱 Compatibility
- ❌ Dropped support for Android 5.0–5.1 (API 21–22)
- ✅ **Minimum OS is now Android 6.0 (API 23)**

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### 🎨 Theme
- 🧩 Fully transitioned to **Material 3**, applied globally via `SketchyCodexTheme`.

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### 🐛 Bug Fixes
- ✅ Resolved multiple crashes, layout glitches, and feature issues reported in **alpha 2–4**.

Author: lazyprogrammer-create

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