2.4.4 Hotfix 6

If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please post them in github issues or in our discord server

Hotfix 6 - 2.4.4+4205 (29-08-25):

• Update dependencies
• Fix for artist: and oc: tags with underscores for booru-on-rails/philomena-based boorus, also added captcha detection for derpibooru
• Fix text layout on the widget for page loading/failed state
• Fix some gifs playing too fast
• Changed how tags work for Philomena(Derpi) and BooruOnRails(Twibooru)
  • If a tag contains a space on the site you can use its tag with an underscore
  • If a tag contains an underscore you must wrap it in quotes when searching e.g "artist:runic_the_wolf"

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Hotfix 5 - 2.4.4+4204 (25-08-25):

• Fix r34xxx functions that broke after last update (post url, tag data fetching), fixed r34xxx items favourited before last update appearing as if they are not favourited
• Possible fix for info drawer turning into a grey screen in some conditions when viewing items in favourites/downloads

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Hotfix 4 - 2.4.4+4203 (20-08-25):

• Added instructions when rule34xxx fails to load results (it now requires user id/api key), also fixed some requests not using the api key
• Possible fix for huge delays when saving files in custom directory
• Fixed current snatch progress indicator in viewer toolbar not updating
• Fix viewer breaking if there are no items to view (i.e. you added a tag from current search to hated)

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Hotfix 3 - 2.4.4+4202 (28-07-25):

• Fixed gelbooru favourited items possibly saving urls in the wrong format (extra slashes), which caused them to appear as not favourited
• Fixed twibooru and derpibooru multiword tag searching, fixed tag formatting to replace + with _
• Fixed videos not loading on r34us
• Fixed video controls dissapearing when exiting fullscreen video (for real now, I hope)
• Attempt to fix viewed item still being highlighted after leaving the viewer

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Hotfix 2 - 2.4.4+4201 (10-07-25):

• Attempt to fix random freezing (need more info on this, please report on github/discord with your device info if it still happens to you after this update)
• Added a button to quickly share app logs from settings menu
• Added booru selector to tag preview
• Added double tap to favourite on tag preview thumbnails
• Favourited items can now be refreshed from the info drawer (if booru they are from support this), also added icon and name of the related booru
• Added item refresh support for Idol Sankaku
• Added limited item refresh support when in multibooru mode
• Item refresh will now try to scrape updated image/video links for gelbooru
• Fix broken links for favourited videos from Gelbooru (video-cdn1 -> video-cdn3)
• xyz-based sites - fixed older items using wrong url scheme (404 error)
• Philonema-based sites - fix encoding of search queries, fix tag suggestion parsing, you can use underscore as word divider now
• Sankaku - expired image/video links sometimes returned an image with [Expired link...] text, app now tries to detect them and treats them as a failed request
• Removed commas from formatting of [...with tags] share options
• Fixed video controls dissapearing when exiting fullscreen paused video
• Fixed device sleep lock not restoring correct state after exiting fullscreen video
• Performance improvements
• Fixed wrong changelog being shown on first start in some cases

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Hotfix 1 - 2.4.4+4200 (24-06-25):

• Fixed build number difference with 2.4.3 which caused downgrade error during install
• Reverted http2 setting
• xyz-based sites - Fixed tag data loading, fixed older images not loading, possibly fixed other variants of this engine not working correctly

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Release - 2.4.4+199 (23-06-25):

New features:

• Tag preview now has same functionality as main viewer, also added a button to quickly create a new tab from the preview
• Viewer toolbar options can now be individually disabled
• Added a [Performance] settings page, it combines all existing performance-related settings in one place. Includes some improvements to low performance mode
• Broken favourites items can now attempt to refresh their data when user manually retries loading in thumbnail grid/viewer (works only for some boorus, highly experimental)
• Added a tag prefix editor (-, ~, 1#...) to search view, can be accessed by using [Prefix] option when selecting text in input field
• All share menu options now have a separate option which allows to select tags and share them with the url/file

Changes:

• Performance improvements related to thumbnail grid and viewer info drawer (especially when there are a lot of items/tabs loaded)
• All requests now use http2 (there is a setting to disable it in [Network], in case it causes issues)
• Added a dialog to update custom directory path if app could not access the previous one
• Backup path is now validated, will reset if app cannot access it
• Reworked viewer animation, added dismiss animation and haptic feedback when reached dismiss threshold
• Collapse details in viewer info drawer (use [Viewer -> Expand details by default] to change initial state of this block)
• Logging is now always active (it is still kept on-device and not sent anywhere, this change is to simplify user reports process)
• When debug is active - shows a button to quickly access tools from any part of the app
• Cookies from normal requests are now saved nad reused in future requests (previously only cookies from webview requests were saved)
• Added small descriptions to http status errors
• Manual retry of thumbnails/images can now trigger captcha check
• Ask which booru url to use when opening webview from multibooru tab
• Show changelog on first start after each update

Booru changes/fixes:

• Added instructions when Gelbooru gives 401 error
• Gelbooru can now update item data in viewer info drawer
• Fix broken Gelbooru favourites links (image server change - img3->img4, happens during start, may take some time to complete)
• Restores realbooru support (has some limitations due to changed parsing method)
• Added atf captcha detection

Fixes:

• Fixed loading animation still rendering when it was not visible (caused constant redraws and therefore high CPU use and battery drain)
• Fixed some notifications not appearing from the top like they should
• Fix buttons in update dialog overlapping with system ui in some cases
• Fix possible tab data loss when app tries to load tab with wrong booru data
• Fix long comment names overflowing the container

and other small fixes and changes...

2.4.3 Hotfix 1

If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please post about them in github issues or in our discord server

Hotfix 1 - 2.4.3+198 (07-04-25):

• Added a setting to move input field to the top in search view [Interface->Move input to top in search view]
• Added an experimental favicon on thumbnails for favourites/downloads
• Added a setting to change to which Preview display option app will fallback to if using Staggered is not possible
• Added button to open settings from the starting screen
• Site can now be excluded when searching in favourites/downloads (-site:...)
• Fixed some boorus not loading past first page when using Multibooru
• Fixed [Long tap to fast forward] not working when viewing video in fullscreen
• Fixed file names when snatching on paheal
• Fixed sankaku item update tool not appearing in database settings page

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Release - 2.4.3+197 (03-04-25):
Main changes:

• Search redesign
• App lock
• Another video player backend option
• Ability to retry failed downloads
• Fixes for Sankaku and other boorus

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New features:

• Search redesign

Tab and booru selectors are now combined
Metatags syntax support for danbooru, gelbooru and sankaku with links to detailed descriptions
Many of the actions can be long-tapped for additional actions, experiment with them! (FYI: This applies to other places in the app too!)
Related settings - [Interface->Show search bar in preview grid, Search view quick actions panel, Search view input autofocus]

• Ability to lock the app with biometrics/PIN [Privacy->App lock]

Adds a button to main drawer to manually lock the app
Otherwise it will lock after 2 minutes (by default) if the app is in background [Can be changed or disabled in Privacy->Auto lock after]

• Added a setting to blur app content when it's not in foreground [Privacy->Blur screen when leaving the app]
• New video backend option - MDK
• Added an option to change search starting page from [Add new tab] dialog [Long tap on add tab button]
• Random sorting in favourites/downloads (sort:random)
• You can now retry failed/existing/cancelled items in Snatcher drawer
• Added option to sync snatched items to lolisync
• Added a setting to fast forward videos at 2x-4x speed when you hold down the finger [Video->Long tap to fast forward video]. Experimental for now, may become default behaviour in the future update. Any feedback would be appreciated

Changes:

• Upgraded Flutter and all dependencies to latest versions
• Added an option to manually set item as snatched when you long tap the Snatch button in viewer
• Added a favicon preview when adding/editing a booru config
• Show item thumbnail on notification when you add a single item to snatcher queue
• Filter snatcher results using tag filters
• Redesigned video speed dialog and added more options

Booru changes/fixes:

• Fixed Sankaku 403 error if config used old url
• Added support for R34US (limited, requires data update before vieweing the content/favouriting/viewing tags info/filtering)
• Restored support for R34 xyz/world/valut, but in a limited capacity (requires data update before favouriting/viewing tags info/filtering)
• Fixed e6ai not being possible to add due to a data parsing error

Fixes:

• App theme now should properly update when system theme changes
• Fixed batch removal of tabs (tabs removed in wrong positions)
• Disabled mouse wheel scrolling zoom on mobile

and other small fixes and changes...

2.4.2

If you encounter any issues, please report them in github issues or in our discord server

Small release to fix problems with some boorus and add some QoL features and changes

New Features:

• Added a button to viewer toolbar to select/deselect current item
• Added a setting to change preload size limit (can be found in Settings->Viewer, 200mb by default)

Changes:

• App will now remember last used backup folder
• Long tap on playback speed button will reset the speed
• Mute button will now be colored if global mute is enabled
• Search can be restarted by tapping on the message on the bottom if it takes too long or seems stuck

Fixes:

• Fixed performance issues related to avif image decoding (mostly related to sankaku)
• Fixed idol sankaku auth logic
• Fixed comments on gelbooru
• Fixed comments not loading on r34xxx if there are only one comment (may prompt you to complete captcha)
• Fixed search on r34xyz/world if there are multiple tags in the query
• Fixed items being sent to snatch queue twice when both "Snatch on fav" and "Fav on snatching" settings are enabled
• Fixed download notifications spamming on every download, instead of at the end of each batch
• Fixed text and icon colors on some buttons
• Fixed Inkbunny artist and order searches

and other small fixes and changes...

Known Issues:

• avif animated images may start animating even when gif thumbnails are disabled
• old sankaku favourites may be unrecoverable due to a changed id format

Full Changelog: 2.4.1...2.4.2

2.4.1

If you encounter any issues, please report them in github issues or in our discord server

[Note] Starting from this version only devices on Android 6 and up are supported

Main changes in this release:

• Alternative video player backend
• Proxy support
• Fixes for Paheal and Sankaku
• Ability to cancel downloads
• Tabs manager filter improvements

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New Features:

• Alternative video player backend [Settings->Video]. Has better performance, but may need tinkering with settings depending on booru/device to work properly. Based on media_kit package
• Proxy support [Settings->Network]. Beta, doesn't apply to videos on stream mode
• Added a dialog with detailed options of how new tab will be added. Can be opened by long pressing the "Add new tab" button (the one with the plus icon) in the main drawer
• Added ability to filter tabs by tag type and multibooru status
• Added ability to sort by booru in tabs manager
• Added a setting in [Settings->Privacy] to set keyboard to Incognito mode (will tell keyboard to disable learning based on your input)
• Added a button in Viewer toolbar to open videos in external players
• Item data on r34xxx will now update when opening the tag drawer in the Viewer. If it fails, you may need to complete a captcha by manually refreshing the data (refresh button is in the Tags section header)
• Added ability to manually edit tag type in the dialog with tag info
• Added ability to cancel current download
• Added progress indicator on thumbnails of currently downloading items
• Added a button in main drawer to quickly open webview for current booru, useful for retrying captchas without needing to load next page
• Added page up/down buttons on thumbnails grid. Disabled by default, can be enabled in [Settings->Interface]
• Added a Halloween theme 👻

Changes:

• Updated to latest version of Flutter and all of the dependencies
• Completely switched to Material3 design, removed the setting to switch between v2 and v3
• Improved zoom gestures logic, removed setting to disable some zoom gestures
• Moved some settings to new or different pages
• Improved wording of some descriptions
• Renamed [Gallery] to [Viewer]
• Changed the Viewer page change animation, can be changed back to old one in [Settings->Viewer]
• Booru tab filter will now show only boorus with at least 1 tab available
• Added icon on thumbnail if item has user comments
• Added copy/paste buttons on some text fields
• Text fields with sensitive data (i.e. passwords) are now obscured by default
• Increased search history limit to 10k
• Replaced setting dropdowns with lists if there are only 2-3 options
• Videos will restart in cache mode automatically if initial buffering takes more than 10 seconds on videos smaller than 25mb
• Error info in thumbnails grid can now be collapsed
• Redesigned downloads cards a bit
• Tab backups will now keep and restore multibooru status
• Tab backups now use json format
• Multibooru will now let you pick which secondary boorus you want to use before running a search
• Updated logger ui
• Automatic search until a set page (started in Page changer) can now be ended early
• App will try to guess any unknown file type extension when in Viewer
• Removed thumbnail animation when opening/closing comments
• Added a setting to favourite an item on snatching in [Settings->Snatching & Caching]
• Added a setting to disable vibration in [Settings->Interface]
• Added support for monochrome launcher icons (current icon is a placeholder, better design will be added in future versions)

Fixes:

• Fixed parsing of Paheal, Normal and Idol Sankaku
• Tags on sankaku are now sorted alphabetically
• Fixed ghosting issues on some scrollable elements
• Fix video player controls not responding to taps on top of the screen
• Attempt to prevent opening multiple viewers at once
• Fixed some dialogs overlapping with system ui
• Fixed zoom gestures conflicting with double tap on videos on some devices
• R34hentai should now properly detects when cookies are expired and tries to update them automatically
• Fixed share booru deeplink not parsing in some cases, causing grey screen when opening it
• Fixed cookie cleaner not working in some cases
• Fixed booru favicons not rendering correctly for some boorus
• Fixed database backup restore crashing if file is too big
• Restore page will be locked up until current operation is completed to avoid data corruption from multiple actions running at once
• Added a root certificate, should fix cert errors for older devices. If you had these errors before, you can now disable [Settings->Network->Enable self signed SSL certificates]
• If Viewer is open and device changed rotation (i.e. opened video in fullscreen), app will try to restore previous scroll position
• Fixed loading state in some cases ending while the loading is actually still in progress, causing the "No data loaded" message
• Fixed forcing https when opening custom urls in webview

and a lot of other fixes and changes...

2.4.0 - Hotfix3

Hotfix apks have been published to fix a paheal issue

[Warning:]
[!!!] FIRST START AFTER THE UPDATE MAY TAKE A WHILE IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF FAVOURITES, PLEASE WAIT AND KEEP THE APP OPEN UNTIL THE PROCESS IS COMPLETE TO AVOID DATABASE CORRUPTION

If you encounter any issues, please report them in github issues or in our discord server

Main changes in this release:

• Reworked tab manager
• Downloads drawer
• Improved performance, especially if you have a lot of tabs or loaded pages
• Fixes for Sankaku Idol, Paheal and others
• Database indexing for improved local search speed
• Filter for AI posts

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New Features:

• Completely reworked and redesigned tab manager and expanded it with new options and filters, it replaces the previous tab dropdown and old tab manager on long tap of that dropdown
• Added database indexing to improve local search speed (enabled by default, index generation will take some time, depending on the size of the database, can be disabled in [Database] settings)
• Show info about app initialization progress
• Added a special booru to view downloads history
• Added a Downloads drawer (with batch actions for selected items), will be on the opossite side of the main drawer (depending on your Hand Side setting) [work in progress, will ve improved in the future releases]
• In multibooru mode thumbnails will show a favicon of their booru in the top right corner
• Improved logic of duplicate tab indicator dot on "New Tab" button and added a new color to it - Yellow, which means that there is a tab with the same tag, but on a different booru
• Added an option to preview tag contents in tag dialog in gallery info drawer
• Mark items with AI related tags with a robot icon
• Added settings to [Tag Filters] to filter snatched items and items with AI related tags
• App will now ask before changing default booru
• Added a button in gallery to toggle between loading sample and full quality of the image
• Added settings to disable image scaling and use gifs as thumbnails public in [Interface], those can cause performance issues and are recommended only for high spec devices
• Added a setting to [Gallery] to allow rotating images
• Added a setting to [Gallery] to disable animation when entering/leaving the viewer
• Added a setting to [Gallery] to start videos muted
• Added a setting to [Gallery] to hide notes by default
• Added a setting to [Snatching & Caching] to select quality of the snatched file
• Added a setting to [Snatching & Caching] to snatch item after favouriting it
• Added [Network] settings page and moved some settings there
• Added auth for Sankaku Idol

Changes:

• Massively improved performance across the board, especially if you have a lot of tabs or loaded pages on the current tab
• Updated flutter and all dependencies to latest versions
• Redesigned all dropdown menus
• Bumped targetSdk to 34 for Android 14
• Improved search in tag view
• In gallery double tap will now zoom to where you tapped instead of the center [work in progress]
• Added a double tap-hold-drag zoom gesture (and a setting to disable it in [Gallery]) [work in progress]
• Redesigned comments page
• If current booru doesn't have tag types API, app will try to fetch that data from other boorus which support it, if available
• Added a dialog to Hydrus share action which asks which url to share: post or file
• There will always be at least 4 buttons in gallery before they overflow into three dots menu
• Improved auth for r34hentai (you need to edit the config and add login/password if you used the old (manual cookies) way to auth)

Fixes:

• Fixed excluding tags not working when searching in favourites
• Fixed Sankaku Idol parsing
• Fixed Paheal parsing
• Fixed agnph parsing
• Fixed Hydrus favourites
• Fixed scrollbars on thumbnails grid and gallery info drawer not being interactive
• Removed Source field in Sankaku (they deprecated it completely on their side)
• Fixed notes scaling
• Fixed tag suggestions sometimes displaying older results if newer loaded faster
• Fixed videos pausing/unpausing when they shouldn't (usually after creating a new tab)

and a lot of other fixes and changes...

General Fixes and Improvements

If you encounter any issues, please report them in github issues or in our discord server

New features:

• Updated Flutter and dependencies
• Improved search in tabs manager by moving all filtering away from text field into a separate menu + added a new [Duplicates] filter
• Share button now shows download progress and tapping it while there is an active download will give you options to stop the current download or replace it with a new one
• Since Realbooru API doesn't give correct file extensions, app will now try to guess them by making multiple requests to their servers to get the extension, if possible. This approach can lead to some issues, report us any bugs or problems
• Added a button to go directly to a created tab from a notification after pressing [New] button in gallery tags drawer
• Webview cache can now be cleared
• Added Support for wildcritters

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash when restoring backup from a huge (50mb+) database file
• Fixed encoding when searching tags with special characters (i.e. &)
• If request triggered a captcha check it will try to load again after exiting the webview
• All requests (except for a few boorus) now use app useragent string instead of a browser one
• Added a setting in [Snatching and Caching] to set a custom useragent string, please note that some cloudflare protected sites could have problems with useragents from normal browsers
• Renamed [User ID] to [Login] for Danbooru to avoid confusion
• Fixed [Write Image Data to JSON] setting causing issues with saving on Android 13
• Fixed Sample quality setting not being used
• Fixed [Default tags] setting inside a booru config not being used

and other small changes and fixes...

Image rework and Material3

This release was a bit rushed due to the need to fix problems with recent changes to Danbooru api.
Please report any bugs or problems in github issues or our discord server.

Main changes:

• Reworked image loading and caching logic
• Improved file downloading
• Material3 Design Preview
• Fixed issues with Danbooru

New features:

• Updated Flutter and dependencies
• Added options to use Material3 design theme and use dynamic colors generated by the system (Android 12 and above only). You can access them in the Theme settings page. [These are currently in a preview state, some minor bugs and coloring issues may be present]
• Added a small dot on "New Tab" button in tags list view
  -- white dot means that there is a tab with ONLY that tag
  -- blue dot means that there is a tab CONTAINING that tag
• Small redesign of tags list view
• Added a search field to tags list view
• Now if the app suspects that api request was blocked by captcha, it will automatically open the webview to give you the option to complete the captcha and unblock future requests
• Most of the requests now include cookies obtained from the app's webview
• Changed history viewer to better handle scrolling of a huge list
• File saving now uses streams, which should fix crashes when downloading very big files and reduce stutters during the process
• Snatch button in the viewer will now have a green colored subicon if that file is already marked as snatched and present in the current snatch folder (due to how file search works, it can take some time to detect if file is already present if there are too many files in the folder)
• Snatch button now has a dialog on long tap which allows you to force the download of already snatched item or drop the snatched status from the item
• Snatching info in the appbar will now show percent progress of the currently downloaded file

Fixes:

• Fixed appbar and icon theming using wrong colors under some conditions
• Fixed wrong search behaviour when adding first booru config to the app
• Fixed some elements conflicting with system ui
• Fixed broken thumbnails when favouriting item with "Hide favourites" option enabled
• Fixed a bug when a dot in the booru or file name could break file naming structure
• Fixed thumbnail loading indicators not updating correctly
• (Possibly?) fixed small flicker when big images are loading
• Fixed 403 error on Danbooru
• Fixed files not snatching on Danbooru
• Fixed some exceptions related to app init processes
• Images that are over 100mb will now only be cleared automatically from the cache after a month passes no matter what settings for cache clearing you set
• Removed timeouts from all requests (some requests will have timeouts readded in the future versions)
• Removed Hydrus from automatic booru detection when adding a booru
• Added check to danbooru rating change so it only effects donmai

and other small changes and fixes...

Fixes and Improvements

Changes in this version:

• Fixed danbooru api key check
• Fixed freezes after loading a new page when "Remove Items with Hated Tags" setting is enabled
• Fixed not being able to exclude tags when searching in favourites
• Simplified http error messages text
• Fix hydrus
• Fix tag completion replacing tag before cursor if it contains the same substring

Better late than never

[!!!] We created a Discord server, you can find an invite link to it on the github page or in the settings page inside the app. Come join us!

[Note]: In this release we refactored a lot of our code and reworked some important systems. If you encounter any problems or bugs, please create an issue on Github or post about it in our discord server.

[Warning]: Starting from this version, minimum Android version is 5.0 (sdk21)

You probably thought that this is an abandonware at this point, yeah?

Main things in this version:

• Tag types / Colored tags
• Improved Tab Manager
• Fixes for multiple boorus
• Better immersive mode

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New Features:

• Tag types/colors system
  -- Works on: gelbooru, danbooru, sankaku,
  -- Will work on other boorus too, but only for tags you encountered on supported boorus
• Expanded Tab manager: move tabs by long press+drag or through tab dialog option, delete multiple tabs, show tab index...
  -- [Reminder] You can access Tab manager by long pressing the tab selector

Changes:

• Main toolbar now includes tab selector instead of title
• Redesigned tab manager, search history and comment viewer pages
• Added "Hand Side" setting in Interface - (for now only allows to change where button to open the main drawer is placed, will be expanded with more changes in the future)
• Added a fancy shimmer effect when first page and previews are loading
• Reworked how system status bar is handled - now you can enter immersive mode by tapping on the media in gallery view (on videos you still need to long tap)
• Removed "Show Status Bar" setting
• Video controls now don't zoom with the video
• Search bar now uses word on the left side of the cursor, instead of the last word in a string
• Added support for ~(OR) in search bar
• Search bar can now detect search modifiers (rating:..., sort:...)
• Completely reworked floating buttons in gallery view (zoom, next/prev item)
• Animated loading bars in gallery view
• Moved "Page Number" dialog button from toolbar to the drawer
• Added ability to select and delete multiple search history entries
• Tabs which haven't been loaded yet or have zero items in them now will be displayed in italic text
• Improved filtering in tab manager (see help dialog there for more details)
• Improved comments parsing and rendering
• Added a warning when user enters incorrect rating on gelbooru/danbooru, app will autocorrect api requests for these searches
• Added notes support to danbooru
• Added ability to search on tags filters page
• Added a setting to disable download notifications

Fixes:

• Fixed coloring and styling of some parts of the UI, now app correctly updates colors when theme changes

• Fixed "Started X sec ago" message not resetting when it should

• Fixed a possibility when app could be opened in multiple instances

• Fixed comments on sankaku

• Fixed broken api data on realbooru

• Fixed broken api data on rule34xyz/world

• Fixed error handling on gelbooru

• Fixed favourite booru duplication bug, also disables sharing and saving of fav booru

• Added validation to booru names to avoid path conflicts

• Added a check for duplicates when backupping data

• App will now restart after restoring database from backup to guarantee that restore completed correctly (this will also restore tabs from that backup)

• Fixed empty searches on Hydrus

• and a lot of other small changes and fixes...

Backup/Restore and Fixes

[Note] If you will encounter any bugs or issues with this release, please create an issue on Github.

Main Changes:

• Changed backup/restore function to use SAF Filepicker
• Added option to disable wakelock Settings > Gallery > Prevent Device From Sleeping

Fixes:

• rule34.xyz snatching
• realbooru videos