Adds German and Arabic across JobFrame, expands Voice Assistant and RTL support, and improves narrow-screen layouts for long translated labels.
German and Arabic
- Added German and Arabic throughout JobFrame, bringing the supported app-language set to ten.
- Added full right-to-left layout support for Arabic alongside Urdu, Persian, and Pashto.
Voice Assistant
- Added German and Arabic Voice Assistant commands, guided creation flows, and localized spoken responses.
- Kept confirmation and existing workflow safeguards in place before records are saved.
Layout and validation
- Improved narrow-screen handling for long translated labels in Create Job and Archived Records.
- Validated the final Build 11 candidate on a physical Android phone and passed the complete automated regression suite before the Production release.
Improves Android release optimization and expands Voice Assistant commands while preserving the existing schema-31 data model.
Android performance
- Enabled R8 Full Mode release optimization with code shrinking, obfuscation, and unused-resource removal.
- Google Play reports High app optimization for Build 10, with the release bundle reduced to a single 1.42 MB uncompressed DEX.
Voice Assistant
- Added more natural Audio Note phrasing and direct Voice navigation to Audio Notes, Job Photos, Payment Schedules, Change Orders, and Payments Received.
- Kept financial, approval, and visit-state changes behind the normal app workflows instead of adding direct Voice mutations.
Release validation
- Validated the Google Play-delivered Build 10 update on a physical Android phone with existing JobFrame data preserved.
- Validated Voice, Audio Notes, Job Photos, Payment Schedules, Change Orders, Payments Received, and normal native app behavior before the Production submission.
Adds construction billing tools, Progress Photos, visit timing, phone contacts, Brazilian Portuguese, and release-validated schema-31 migration.
Billing and contract control
- Added partial and final payments, Payments Received reporting, Payment Schedules, and Net/payment-term planning while keeping planned payments separate from money actually received.
- Added governed Change Orders that preserve the approved base contract while tracking approved additions and deductions.
Progress Photos and visit timing
- Added Before, Progress, and After Job Photos with captions, optional appointment links, editing, and sharing of selected original photos.
- Added appointment-owned En route, Arrived, and Finished timestamps with derived time on site while keeping appointment lifecycle status separate.
Phone contacts and languages
- Added user-controlled phone-contact import when creating a customer and export to Android’s Add Contact screen, without background contact syncing.
- Added Brazilian Portuguese across the JobFrame UI and Voice Assistant, bringing the supported app-language set to eight.
Release validation
- Validated the Google Play-delivered schema-31 update over an existing installation with real data preserved.
- Validated customer, job, and appointment creation, Voice, phone-contact import, Brazilian Portuguese, and release-only exclusion of Developer Testing.
Adds Audio Notes, Hindi UI and Voice support, JobFrame Pro subscription access, and stronger Android reliability.
Audio Notes and Voice
- Added Audio Notes with recording, playback, and links across customer, job, and appointment workflows.
- Expanded Voice Assistant so Audio Note recording can be started by voice while natural-language workflows remain available.
Hindi and languages
- Added full Hindi UI and Voice support as the seventh supported language.
- Added Devanagari PDF rendering while preserving full RTL layouts for Urdu, Persian, and Pashto.
JobFrame Pro and reliability
- Added JobFrame Pro subscription support with Google Play billing, read-only access when inactive, and clear upgrade and account-management controls.
- Improved Android compatibility, update behavior, validation, and Build 7 regression coverage.
A major workflow and accessibility update focused on appointment reliability, schedule reporting, conversational Voice Assistant, six-language support, and expanded guidance.
Appointments and reporting
- Added appointment reminders, Today’s Appointments, after-appointment follow-up, clearer status handling, and stronger linked-job safeguards.
- Added Day, Week, and Month appointment schedule PDFs alongside the existing CSV export.
- Improved mixed-direction appointment date and time formatting, including RTL languages.
Voice and languages
- Expanded Voice Assistant with natural-language search, spoken replies, and confirmed creation of customers, jobs, and appointments.
- Added Spanish, French, Urdu, Persian, and Pashto UI and Voice support in addition to English.
- Added full RTL layouts for Urdu, Persian, and Pashto with mixed-direction record handling.
Guidance and reliability
- Expanded Help & Learning to an 18-topic feature tour with contextual help and a replayable introduction.
- Improved Google Play update detection and release-facing diagnostics.
- Expanded automated and phone regression coverage across all six supported languages.
Improves everyday usability, makes scheduling rules easier to understand, and adds safe tools for correcting connected customer, job, and appointment records.
Usability and onboarding
- Improved the Jobs screen with full-page scrolling so filters, actions, and longer job lists remain easier to reach on smaller devices.
- Clarified customer-name guidance and validation while keeping support for either a display or company name or a primary contact name.
- Expanded first-run onboarding into a workflow-based tour covering customers, jobs, appointments, scheduling policies, local records, and backups.
Record correction and cleanup
- Added tools to reassign a job to the correct customer and to correct an appointment’s customer or linked job without rewriting issued estimate or receipt snapshots.
- Added duplicate-customer merging that transfers linked records and preserves restrictive outreach and follow-up information.
- Added guarded permanent deletion for truly empty accidental customer records plus a way to remove an invalid saved-customer link while preserving the job contact snapshot.
Scheduling and reliability
- Made business-profile duration, time interval, capacity, and Allow, Warn, or Prevent conflict behavior visible from appointment creation.
- Improved appointment validation by blocking calculated end times until a business profile is selected and moving directly to the first invalid field on save.
- Expanded automated regression and synthetic diagnostic coverage across major screens and deliberate validation, conflict, and cleanup states.
Adds local appointment scheduling, business-specific booking rules, appointment exports, and complete backup support.
Appointments
- Added Day, Week, and Month appointment views with expandable totals for upcoming, completed, cancelled, and no-show appointments.
- Added appointment creation, editing, rescheduling, status tracking, locations, notes, and links to customers, business profiles, and optional jobs.
- Added direct appointment access from linked Customer Records and Job Details.
Scheduling rules
- Added business-specific default duration, time-selection interval, simultaneous capacity, and conflict behavior.
- Added Allow, Warn before saving, and Prevent saving options for overlapping appointments.
- Added a direct Appointment Rules route from the Appointments screen and updated guided setup and contextual help.
Exports and reliability
- Added CSV export for the selected appointment day, week, or month and the active search filter.
- Added appointments and scheduling rules to versioned backup, restore, sample-data, and receipt-snapshot compatibility workflows.
- Added a one-time What’s New window for installed updates with a link to the full website release notes.
A field-workflow update based on the first real customer job completed during closed testing.
Estimate approval
- Added approval records for customer signature, phone, in-person, text, email, and other methods.
- Made approval notes optional and required a drawn signature only when Customer signature is selected.
- Corrected the Estimated → Approved → Active status flow and immediate status refresh.
Payments and receipts
- Added required payment-method selection when a job is marked Paid.
- Added cash, card, check, Cash App, Venmo, Zelle, bank transfer, other mobile payment, and other methods.
- Added the payment method to Paid Job Reports and paid detailed, summary, and payment receipts.
Signatures and reliability
- Clarified that completion signatures are optional and do not block completing or receipting a job.
- Fixed backup creation for older immutable receipt snapshots that predate the new approval fields.
- Preserved approval and payment details through restart, backup, and restore.
The first Google Play closed-testing build of JobFrame.
Core workflow
- Customer Hub with structured names, notes, tags, follow-up dates, activity, archive, and restore.
- Jobs, templates, itemized pricing, estimate revisions, photos, signatures, and customer/job navigation.
- Payment deadlines, overdue filtering, full-payment confirmation, Paid Job Reports, and CSV export.
Documents and records
- Detailed, summary, payment, and estimate documents with immutable revisions in the Receipt Book.
- Local-first backup, restore, recovery backups, and portable exports.
- First-launch setup, replayable guided tour, contextual help, and consent-aware outreach drafts.
