Announcing Sandblaster 1.7!

As promised yesterday, I've wrapped up the next set of new features for Sandblaster and am ready to release them to the Android Market. Changes in this release include:

• New drawing tools and tool settings.
  
• More speed improvements.
  
• Faster switching between portrait and landscape orientations.
  
• Status notifications to let you know your file was saved.
  

You'll now find a few new items at the top of the screen. This is the new toolbar, which was the main focus of this release. This toolbar includes a tool selector on the left, a pen size slider in the middle, and a preview of what the drawing mode looks like on the right. Here's a quick rundown of the new tools:

Spray tool

The spray tool is the default pen style. This draws not-quite-solid circles of the selected element wherever you touch or drag your finger on the screen.

Pen tool

The pen tool is like the spray tool, except that it draws solidly.

Spout tool

The spout tool allows you to continuously stream elements onto the screen. This replaces the old feature of holding your finger in place on the screen for half a second (which was pretty much impossible on actual phones).

Line tool

The line tool helps you draw perfectly straight lines of any element.