Release Notes
What each release contains, and the limitations that carry forward.
Ramanuja App — Android 1.7.0-android.1
Released 2026-09-23 · artifact Ramanuja.apk · 2.6 MB
Highlights
- Sri Bhashya, Gita Bhashya with Tatparyacandrika, and Gitarthasangraharaksha in one reader
- The Quotations and reference-abbreviation key
- The Ontology Explorer (a reviewed vertical slice, not corpus-complete)
- Offline full-text search across 1,439 passages
- Sanskrit-first interface with a built-in Devanagari keyboard and IAST transliteration
- Optional voice input on Android (uses the device speech recogniser)
- Everything reads offline once installed
Known limitations
- Qualification scope: the Śrībhāṣya navigation hierarchy (Adhyāya → Pāda → Adhikaraṇa → Sūtra), the three authorized Śrībhāṣya text corrections, asterisk-free search and deep anchors (including Gitābhāṣya) were verified at runtime on Android 10 for this build; reboot persistence and uninstallation were not independently re-verified and are not claimed.
- This release is a debug build (buildType "debug"), signed with the debug key.
- Voice recognition requests the sa-IN locale; results depend on the device provider and are shown for review, not auto-searched.
- The Ontology Explorer is a reviewed vertical slice (14 concepts, 19 relations, 46 evidence records), not a complete corpus ontology.
- Verse-level coverage of Gitabhashya / Gitarthasangraharaksha is partial because the source is raw OCR.
- The release includes a microphone permission used only for the optional voice button.
Known limitations
- Voice input is not implemented on Windows; the Voice button reports that it is unavailable.
- The installer may use the internet once, to install the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime if it is absent. Reading, navigation and search then work fully offline.
- Qualification scope: reading, the Śrībhāṣya navigation hierarchy, the authorized text corrections, search (including the former stray-asterisk issue), deep anchors, the offline block, Back/Alt+Left and window resizing were verified for this build; reboot persistence and uninstallation were not independently re-verified and are not claimed.
- The ontology and text coverage limitations are the same as the Android release.
History
| Version | Platform | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.0-android.1 | Android | 2026-09-23 | Current Android release. Śrībhāṣya navigation rebuilt as Adhyāya → Pāda → Adhikaraṇa → Sūtra, the three authorized Śrībhāṣya text corrections, removal of stray * OCR markers from search and menu labels, and a deep-anchor scroll fix for the Android WebView. |
| 1.7.0 | Android | 2026-09-19 | Built-in Devanagari keyboard, voice input and a markup-free search index (1,439 passages). |
Earlier builds exist in the project's build history but are not offered for download here. Only the releases above are published on this site.