AnkiDroid 2.21.0 Changelog

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It’s been a while… AnkiDroid 2.21 time! AnkiDroid 2.22 (with Anki 25.07/FSRS6) is in alpha, and should be ready to go when the Anki website is updated with the stable releases.

Firstly, thank you so much for the donations, we really appreciate it! :heart:

General releases should be rolling out once Google are done with their reviews, they’ll be available:

Changelog

AnkiDroid (& features from Anki 25.02.7)

  • Browser: Multi-column support and ‘Manage columns’ screen
  • Controls: Support previewer shortcuts
  • Reviewer: Much better multilingual support, via the Noto Sans Mono font for type-in-answer
  • Deck Picker: allow panel resize on larger screens
  • Custom Study: Anki Desktop ‘custom study by tags functionality’
  • Browser: New option: ignore accents
  • Card Template Editor: Support ‘restore to default’
  • Browser: Support FSRS columns (Difficulty/Stability/Retrievability)
  • Export: Use modern export format by default [apkg/colpkg]
  • Reposition: Implement all upstream functionality (steps, randomize order, shift cards)
  • Reposition: Display queue positions
  • Tags: huge performance improvements
  • Set Due Date: Display interval of card
  • Previewer: Add ‘Front is empty’ indicator
  • Previewer: Keyboard/controller remappable bindings
  • Previewer: support non-combining (nc:) typed answers
  • Browser: Support sorting by deck name
  • Congrats Screen: support unburying only siblings/manually buried cards
  • Note Editor: Allow pasting images as PNG
  • Note Editor: Add MathJax block and MathJax chemistry
  • Check Media: Anki compatibility (tag missing, media report, keep notes, make undoable)
  • Import: Support text files from more apps (Gmail etc…)
  • Import: Add drag-and-drop support for txt/csv/tsv
  • Import: Add support for sharing .txt files to AnkiDroid
  • Settings: Add Option to remove Deck Picker background
  • Settings - Controls: Show keyboard shortcuts if keyboard attached
  • Settings - Controls: Support one-sided gestures
  • Shared Deck Download: Warn if no internet connection
  • Shared Deck Download: Add ‘manual download’ link on download failure
  • Undo Made more actions undoable (for example: “empty filtered deck”)
  • Translations: add Uyghur language
  • Error Dialog: copy stack trace & debug info
  • About: Add licenses wiki page link
  • Reviewer: Support localStorage again in JavaScript (via Advanced Setting)
  • JS API: Added setTags and getTags
  • API: reimplement ‘empty_cards’

Design Improvements

  • Settings - Controls: Improved UI for control and gesture entry
  • Note Editor: Add tooltips
  • Reposition Field: Pre-fill previous value
  • Set Keyboard Hint: Improve dialog
  • Deck Options/Import/Export: Improve progress notifications
  • Set Due Date: hide ‘set interval to same value’ if FSRS is enabled
  • Deck Overview: stopped “+0 buried” being displayed
  • Deck Picker Support multi-line footer
  • Debug Info: Better output for copying
  • Login Fix truncated text issues
  • Widgets: Better resizing support & add rounded corners
  • Black Theme: Better dialog themes
  • Browser Appearance: improve icon design
  • Settings: Fix status bar color
  • Predictive back gesture support
  • A preview of the previous screen is now displayed
  • Improve transition animations
  • Various improvements when using a large font
  • Translatable strings: improve newlines after digits
  • Right to left language support improvements
  • Screen reorientation / app reopen improvements
  • Various menu, icon & tooltip related improvements
  • Various keyboard appearance/focus improvements

Fixes

  • Sync: Fixed our top crash bug! (issues with collection open on media sync)
  • Sync: Fixed UI hanging if app did not have notification permission when syncing
  • Sync: Ensure latest note type data is used after a sync
  • LTR languages: fix layout padding
  • Deck Options: Only show ‘discard changes’ if changes occurred
  • Deck Picker: Various fixes for the deck expansion arrow
  • Crop Fix crash if image is too large
  • Settings: Fixed missing entries in the search
  • Deck Picker: Hide background image if no cards available
  • Deck Picker: Handle quotes in deck names and searches
  • Note Editor: Options no longer open more than once
  • Note Editor: Fixed conversion to JPG on image crop
  • Import: up to 100x import speed improvement
  • (when importing from outside AnkiDroid)
  • Image Occlusion: better handle files with special chars in filename
  • Card Browser: Maintain selection after changing flags
  • Card Browser: A flag name may no longer be blank
  • Card Browser: Maintain scroll positioning
  • Card Browser: Fix keyboard not closing after search
  • Preview Fix audio autoplay
  • Settings: Correctly highlight header on tablets
  • Shared Deck Download: Fix ‘navigate’ button
  • Reviewer: Reset zoom on card flip
  • Reviewer Improve deep link support
  • Deck Picker: Improve congrats message when no cards due later in day
  • Deck Picker: Only show Backup prompt dialog at startup if there is no one-way or auto sync
  • Deck Picker: “Deck is empty” no longer appears when deck has empty subdecks
  • Deck Picker: Adding to an empty deck adds to the correct deck
  • Deck Picker: Allow search to show subdecks if they match the searched term
  • Stability: Fix a number of memory leaks

Feature Removals

  • Keyboard shortcuts: Card Template Editor - Change Ctrl+A to Ctrl+N
  • Keyboard shortcuts: Remove Alt + K keyboard dialog shortcut
  • Gestures: Remove long touch
  • Custom Study: Remove ‘Study a random selection of cards’
  • Equivalent functionality in ‘Study by state or tag’
  • Remove Automatic Display Answer global setting
  • Now in the Deck Preset, for Anki Compatibility
  • Remove “Close review screen and sync” action

See more in the Anki 25.02 changelog

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If you encounter any problems, please don’t hesitate to get in touch, either on this post, or Discord [#mobile-apps]. Working in public is preferred, but my DMs are open if you need anything.

Thanks for using AnkiDroid,

David (on behalf of the AnkiDroid Open Source Team)

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After the update my audio files don’t play anymore (using both my registered gesture and the button from the menu). It seems that I’ve used a way to add sound which isn’t supported anymore. I couldn’t find it in the docs though.

I’ve got a field Sound on my note which I previously added as <!-- {{Sound}} -->, which before added the sound but hid the play button.

I removed the comment markers and now it shows correctly for Front → Back. Unfortunately it still doesn’t show for Back → Front.

When I add the sound as [sound:googletts-18d042b1-7250e324-0f489342-173721df-966ff1f0.mp3] directly in a field on a card then it works in both.

Did this replacement stop working?

Many thanks in advance :smiling_face:.

Front → Back:

<div class=chinese>
{{Color}}
{{Sound}}
</div>
<br><br>

<div style='font-family: Liberation Sans; font-size: 20px;'>{{Context}}</div>
<br><br>
<div class=reading>{{Reading}}</div>

Back → Front:

<div>{{English}}</div>
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Hi, could you:

We’ll take a look

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This stopped working in Anki 25.02 because Anki changed how it handled HTML comments. See:

I’m not sure what is going on with it working Front → Back but not Back → Front once you take it out of the comment though.

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I just thought, are you sure you have uncommented {{Sound}} in all templates?
There should be 4 templates but you have only shown 2:

  1. Card 1: Front → Back (Front Template)
  2. Card 1: Front → Back (Back Template)
  3. Card 2: Back → Front (Front Template)
  4. Card 2: Back → Front (Back Template)

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That’s it, thanks a million. I didn’t see the distinction on the buttons below, I only checked one template and wondered :sweat_smile:. It’s such a long time I changed this, and I’m currently without a desktop.

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