Hexer — Hex File Viewer

May 31, 2021

This version brings new icons as well as many medium and small improvements including new features. Search Filters and Improvements: • Filter ASCII search with RegEx and select case sensitivity • Share search results • Select search results in the document Jump to Offset: • Jump to a given hexadecimal offset • Highlight the byte at the given index Codepages Support: • Select one of multiple codepages • Support for ASCII, ISO Latin, and EBCDIC • Select multiple syntax themes for each • Classic HexFiend and HexDump modes Metadata Information: • View metadata in analysis tab • Inspect UTI, creation date, modification date and Unix Permissions iPadOS Cursor Support: • Cursor snaps accurately to bytes • Cursor snaps to byte frequencies • Added secondary click options to many buttons Visual Improvements: • New app icons! • New “Shaded of Purple” theme • Alternating rows option • Indicate currently open sidebar • Change sidebar color to resemble iWork apps • Increase sidebar width • Removed sidebar slideover mode • Indicated byte in frequency grid • Changed some contrasts for accessibility • Linked new website and mail • Further small design tweaks Bug Fixes and Improvements: • Removed a bunch of crashes and memory leaks • Improved performance when scrolling and resizing in a variety of ways • Restored ability to launch on M1 Macs • Decreased app size

January 2, 2021

Large scale changes to the entire app: User Interface Overhaul: • Modernized and native-ized user interface • Toggle a sidebar in different modes next to or over the document depending on context • Sidebar can be toggled using navigation bar buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and sideswipes • Navigation bar and sidebar will use light or dark theme depending on the syntax theme being light or dark • Added custom tint color • Added support for multiple windows Search: • Added search mode to sidebar • Search for content in the hexadecimal, ASCII, or binary column • Preview results with context and jump to and highlight them in the document • Jump between results with arrow keys • Search results are limited to the first 1000 hits to increase performance Analysis: • Added analysis mode to sidebar • Get information about the selection or the entire document • Decode to integers • See byte frequencies • See detected file signatures (magic numbers) Significant Performance Improvements: • Document load times and scrolling performance is drastically increased • Fixed crashes during (too fast) scrolling • Fixed crashes during pinch-to-zoom • Fixed crashes during opening documents • Fixed crashes when putting the app into background Misc Additions and Changes: • Unified column reorder and hiding menu • Mono Green themes split into light and dark • Mono Green themes and corresponding icon changed to use app tint (solarized) green • Options now show keyboard shortcuts next to them on iPad • About screen shows version number • Added changelog to the app • Added symbols for newline (\n, 0x0a) and tab (\t, 0x09) characters • Moved easter egg • Changed the way the outer background is colored • Rounded corners in secondary selection • Removed little endian option due to backend changes Misc Fixes and Improvements: • Better support of Dynamic Text (Accessibility font size) • Text rendering should be slightly sharper • Improved scroll position after rotating or resizing • The document no longer appears scrolled after opening on some devices • the document browser no longer appears to rotate when opening a document • Open from share sheet works reliably • Slightly tweaked about screen order and icons • Rudimentary cursor support for theme and app icon buttons

October 1, 2019