Release v1.2.0

• Adds the Helium Acceleration to Blur operations
• Significantly improves the performance of transform operations.
• Adds a series of new APIs for colour-filling-with-alpha-gradient operations
• Adds a dedicated helper service for user-defined fonts and adds scaling support to A1, A2 and A4 fonts
• Adds a manual scene-switching mode and adds a new fly-in switching effect with optional background blurring
• Improves the performance of user applications
• Adds new example controls, scene templates and demos
• Reduce the memory footprint of the examples, templates and demos
• Some fixes

For more, please check the ReleaseNote.md

Release v1.1.6

• Improves the pixel-pipeline
• Adds new APIs for colour-filling and tile-copy operations
• Enhances the support for ARGB8888 (ccca8888)
• Adds new helper services for dirty regions
• Adds the support for docking to the Layout Assistant
• Adds new example controls, scene templates and demos
• Reduces the memory footprint of the example controls
• Improves the performance of user applications
• Enhances the support for 3rd party GUI stacks
• Enhances the Display Adapter service (i.e. the Scene player and the PFB helper service)
• Some minor fixes
• For more, please check ReleaseNote.md

Release v1.1.5

Core and Library

• Improves the support for masks in the pixel-pipeline.
• Updates transform operations
  • Always generating a child tile for the target tile in transform operations.
  • Adds optimization for hollow out masks in C implementations
• Adds the support for adding Asynchronous acceleration, Synchronous acceleration and ACI acceleration.
• Adds the support for trace log
• Adds a new API: arm_2d_is_region_inside_target()

Helper Services

• Updates ttf2c.py for generating A1, A2 and A4 fonts.
• Updates the Display Adapter Service (the PFB Helper Service)
  • Introduces a Dry-Run mode in the PFB helper service.
  • Introduces the Dynamic Dirty Region, a new type of dirty region items that allows users to update its area during drawing and interact with the PFB. helper service.
  • Introduces the concept of virtual screen which is used to anchor the virtual screen in the PFB helper service.
  • Introduces the Dirty Region Optimization in the PFB Helper service.
  • Updates the performance statistic service in the Display Adapter service.
    • Introduces the CPU Usage info calculation.
    • Places the performance statistic to the Display Adapter class.
  • Simplifies the way of navigation layer customization.
  • Improves the robustness of the Asynchronous Flushing helper.
  • Improves the dirty region debug mode.
  • Updates the disp_adapter_task() to support Framerate-Locking in the bare-metal environment.
• Introduces helper macros for docking.
• Adds the char scaling support to A8 fonts.
• Updates the transform helper service.
  • Fixes an issue in region calculation.
  • Improves the performance.

Examples and Templates

• Adds a new example scene to demonstrate a curve-list-view.

• Adds a new example scene (arm_2d_scene_audiomark) to demonstrate the dirty region optimization

• Adds a new service, 3FB helper service for supporting the so-called Direct Mode.

• Updates example controls and scene templates.

  • Adds dirty regions to the Progress Wheel.
  • Adds a new API for drawing round corner image.
  • Updates the APIs for drawing round corner boxes and allows specifying user defined resources.
  • Updates the progress bars.
  • Adds a new scene template for fitness trackers.

• Updates benchmarks

  • Reduces the SRAM footprint of the tiny mode for the generic benchmark.

• Improve PC template

Documentation and Misc

• Adds an initial support for CMake.
• Introduces a header template arm_2d_user_arch_port.h and makes it easier to port arm-2d to a different architecture other than Cortex-M.
• Improves the support for C++ compilation.
• Fixes the support for the Arm Compiler 5.
• Improve the support for Arm Compiler 6.21.
• Adds a new document How To Accelerate Arm-2D
• Updates the document How To Deploy Arm-2D to introduce the supports for Asynchronous Flushing Mode and Direct Mode.
• Updates the benchmark generic result.
• Updates README.md.
• Adds ReleaseNote.md

v1.1.4 Release

• Enhances Helper Services
  • Adjusts the order of the scene player events handling
  • Supports user-customized True-Type Fonts
  • Supports bearing and advancing in the LCD-printf service
  • Adds a new helper service for Proportional-Integral Control
• Updates Benchmarks and Examples
  • Re-factories benchmarks to simplify their deployment
  • Introduces a project template for developing Arm-2D-based GUI applications on PC (including Windows, Linux and MacOS)
  • Adds a new control: dynamic_nebula
• Updates documents
• Some minor fixes

v1.1.3 Release

• Add Transform-Only operations
• Add a helper service for gif-like animations
• Update documents
  • Re-factory README.md
  • Add a document for Getting Started as An Application Designer
  • Update How to Deploy the Arm-2D Library
  • Add Table of Contents to some documents
• Other minor fixes

Release 1.1.2

• Enhance PFB Helper and Display Adapter services
  • Add Alignment support to the PFB Helper service.
  • Add a Debug mode for dirty regions.
  • Add two calculation modes for the real-time FPS display, i.e. the Render-Only mode and the Real-FPS mode.
  • Add a Transform Helper service to improve the framerate and user experiences.
• Add RTOS Helper Services
  • Support CMSIS-RTOS2 and RT-Thread.
  • Add a code template for users to implement their own RTOS supports.
• Add scene templates for UI panels of meters and watches.
• Add a document for How to Use Layout Assistant.
• Some minor updates
• Fix some issues

Release 1.1.1

• Add Layout Assistant Services
• Update example controls
  • Add a new battery gas gauge indicator
  • Update the control template with the new layout assistant
  • Update existing controls with the new layout assistant
• Some minor updates
  • rename alpha-blending to copy-with-opacity
  • rename alpha-blending-with-colour-keying to copy-with-colour-keying-and-opacity
  • etc.

Release 1.1.0

• Improve memory (ROM and RAM) footprint
  • Add APIs with different mirroring modes to tile copy/fill, tile copy/fill with colour keying, tile copy/fill with masks, etc.
  • Add APIs for filling colour with a source mask, opacity and transform.
  • Add support for A2 and A4 masks in colour-filing operations
• Enhance helper services
  • Add new macro templates for region alignment.
  • Add dedicated APIs for calculating time-based value changes.
  • Add A1, A2, A4 and A8 mask support to the virtual resource helper
  • Support customized font
  • Add new calculators and iterators to the list helper service (list-core)
• Add new example controls and reference codes.
  • Add list view
  • Add battery gas gauge indicator.
  • etc.
• Update documents
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed an issue in transform-with-masks operations, that the zero (NULL) address will be accessed in some rare cases.
  • Fixed an issue in transform-with-masks operations, that random addresses will be accessed in some rare cases.
  • Other minor fixes