🚌 Stride v1.0.5 is out — please update

This one fixes a real bug, and it is the kind that quietly ruins your numbers.

Accurate step filtering wasn't filtering

A user walked 15 minutes to a bus stop, rode to work, and arrived with about 17,000 steps instead of about 2,000 — with the setting switched on the whole way. He'd done nothing wrong. The switch said it was on while nothing was actually running behind it.

Four separate faults, all mine:

• The detector stopped after a reboot or a background kill and never restarted
• It could only filter Stride's own sensor — the same ride logged into Health Connect by another app came straight through
• Sitting still on a smooth bus counted as proof you'd got off
• Every failure was silent, so the switch kept looking healthy

All four are fixed. Settings now also tells you when the filter isn't running instead of pretending.

To be clear about one thing: accurate step filtering is free. It's in Settings → Tracking, and it never was a paid feature.

Stride can tell you about updates again

You're reading this because you follow the channel. That has been the only way to find out a release existed.

The in-app update checker was pulled ahead of the planned Play launch, which made sense for a Play build and no sense at all for the APK actually being handed out here. So 1.0.4 shipped with no way to announce itself.

It's back: Settings → Updates — check by hand, or automatically daily, weekly or monthly, with the release notes shown before you download anything. Set it to Never if you'd rather not.

If you skipped 1.0.4

You also get: a Step source setting so a watch or band's steps aren't thrown away in favour of your phone, Health Connect write-back so your steps reach your other health apps, a rebuilt home-screen widget in four sizes with distance and calories, and a start/stop tracking button on the home screen.

⬇️ Download
https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/tag/v1.0.5

Classic stays free and always will. Retro and Verdant are premium — one-time, no subscription.