Changelog
Changelog
Every release of Movier, newest first, described by what it does rather than by what changed in the code.
2026.8.3
A new look
This app is drawn in the design these apps now share: paper and slate, a single accent, one typeface, and thin rules where Android puts shadows. Nothing about what it does has changed.
The colours no longer come from your wallpaper — these apps have one look now — and everything reads a size larger, because the text was a step smaller than the rest of your phone.
2026.8.2 — beta, 28 August 2026
Appearance, and the same appearance as the other apps here. The Info tab and the cards every screen is drawn on are shared components now: the app’s own mark above its name, which build you are running beside the version, and the changelog folded to the last few releases. Nothing moved and nothing was renamed — from this version the look is defined in one place for all of these apps, so the next change reaches them together.
2026.8.1 — not released yet
The first build, and it is deliberately half an app. It is finished and tested but is not being distributed: the F-Droid repository these apps use is being reorganised. The date goes here on the day it actually ships, never before (rules.md §5).
What is on in Italy. The first screen lists what is on release in Italian cinemas right now, with the poster, the synopsis and — the detail this app is built around — the original title beside the Italian one. The Odyssey is on here as Odissea, and it is the first of those two names that a versione originale listing will use.
A screen per film, with the synopsis, the runtime, the original language and the Italian cinema release date. That last one is fussier than it sounds: the international film databases carry a global “primary” date that is frequently not the day a film opens here, and Movier goes and asks for the Italian theatrical date instead.
Search, in Italian or in the original title. Both work, because the databases index both.
A watchlist that keeps what nothing else keeps. Follow a film and it lands in one of three groups: in cinemas now, announced with a date, or no date yet. The third group is the point — every listings portal can tell you about a film that has been scheduled, and none of them will remember the one that has not. The list lives on your device and works with no network.
There are no showtimes, and that is not an oversight. No cinemas, no times, no original-language filter — which is, awkwardly, the reason the app exists. There is no free, public, legal source for Italian cinema listings: the three that cover the country properly are commercial and priced on request. Scraping a portal would breach its terms and break on their next redesign, so Movier does neither and says so on its own first screen instead. That question is the next thing to solve, and it is a licence rather than a feature.
Film data and posters come from The Movie Database (TMDB), credited in the app under Info.