Version by version
· Version 1.11.0
The Quran section
A new round Quran button opens the section. Al-Fatiha comes first, then the readings that a hadith graded sahih or hasan ties to a time of the day or week, such as al-Kahf on Friday and al-Mulk at night. Each reading names the hadith it rests on and, where there are any, the scholars who dispute it.
The Arabic text is coloured for tajweed.
Because of a bug, a new version of AWAS that came out less than three days after the last update offer was never offered to you. This is fixed: each new version is now offered as soon as it is on Google Play.
· Version 1.10.0
New versions, offered in the app
When a new version of AWAS is out, the app now offers it in Google Play's own window, at most once every three days, and you are free to decline. The update downloads while you go on using the app, and Restart, on the bar that follows, installs it and opens the new version.
The app still declares no internet permission. To know whether a new version is out, it asks the Google Play app on your phone, which checks online as it does for all your apps; the privacy policy says what Google Play handles for this. The window first appears with the version after this one.
· Version 1.9.0
The Hijri date, and the Hijri day
The Hijri date. It now shows under today's date, computed by the rule each place follows: Umm al-Qura, a forecast of the Moroccan or Algerian announcement, a sighting from the place itself, or the Istanbul 2016 calendar. If an announcement differs, move the date by a day or two in Settings. The Calendar tab can show Hijri months too.
The Hijri day. The home screen can follow the day as the Hijri calendar counts it, from sunset: Maghrib and Isha first, then Fajr to Asr, with the Hijri date on top. The round Day button under the qibla circle switches between it and the Gregorian day, and the app asks once, at its first start, which one to show.
And also. After the day's last prayer, the countdown runs on to the next day's first. The Diyanet method adds the precautionary minutes it publishes. At high latitudes, a prayer the Sun does not reach is shown as a dash on its own, and the rest of the day stays. A reminder can now come up to 30 minutes before a prayer.
· Version 1.7.1
Alerts that arrive at the minute
A reader reported prayer alerts arriving early, and sometimes late. Two unrelated faults, both fixed.
Late. Since Android 14 an app has to ask for the right to set an alarm on the minute, and AWAS only offered it from a settings row. Turning an alert on now asks for it, and so does opening AWAS with one already on.
Early. After a restart, alerts that fell due while the phone was off were all firing at once. They are dropped now.
An alert Android will not let arrive at the right minute is turned off rather than delivered late, and AWAS says so when it happens.