As you’ve probably noticed, the Patreon campaign is over. Many thanks to all supporters for their kind support! Without your support, Aedict wouldn’t be so advanced as it is now. However, I came to a realization that Patreon is not the way to make money. I will therefore be closing the Patreon account and canceling all support pledges.

This however does not mean that Aedict is dead. I am definitely not giving up :) What I’m going to try next is to make the basic features of Aedict 3 available for free, locking out advanced features behind a recurring payment via Google Play. This way, the users can directly support Aedict via Google Play; this move will also protect against the piracy. I have no idea whether this move will yield more sustainable income, we have to jump the ship and see.

Currently the progress is behind-the-scenes: I finally succeeded in finding a replacement for the aging way of storing your notepad and tags. It’s not CouchBase Lite - that’s a piece of junk and it will go away. If you tried to use it please switch to the File-based database while the new way is implemented. The new UMN Database is still in alpha and the documentation is sketchy, but it’s based on a rock-solid and blazingly-fast H2 MVStore.

Android mandates that all app updates must support the runtime permissions, so I’m going to work on that next. That’s a lot of changes under the hood, and given Android fragmentation, I’m sure it’s going to crash a lot :-D Stay tuned, and thanks!