Android Release Notes

Name: Band Central
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Updates released to Google Play for Band Central on Android phones and tablets.

Band Central for Android 3.71

July 10, 2026

New: tapping the play button now shows the auto-scroll speed controls so you can adjust the scroll rate mid-song. Turn it off under Configure Play Button if you prefer the old behavior.
Fixed an app freeze when swiping quickly between PDF charts, especially on tablets with large chart files.
Fixed a crash at app launch on some devices.
Fixed a crash after long lyric viewing sessions in big setlists.
Fixed the song key badge being unreadable in dark mode: it is now a white circle with black text.

July 7, 2026

Invite band members by email even if they do not have a Band Central account yet: they get an invite link and join your band automatically when they sign up.
Chord diagrams add three instruments -- Mandolin (GDAE), Bouzouki (Irish GDAD), and Piano -- plus a Labels setting for fingering numbers, note names, intervals, or plain dots with the root marked. Chord diagram setting changes made on another device now apply instantly.
Use the new Add to Setlist action on any song in the catalog to drop a song into one or more setlists at once.
Attach a YouTube link to a lyric and open it in one tap; songs without a link open a YouTube search for the song and artist.
The Display menu was reorganized with a Show option for the title, key, tempo, chords, and navigation bar toggles, and it now appears on PDF and document lyrics too.
Drawing fixes: starting an annotation stroke at the screen edge no longer triggers the system back gesture.
Also fixed: a bug that could reset a paid band plan when saving band settings, and a crash when leaving a lyric while chord diagrams were still loading.

June 28, 2026

Chord diagrams arrive. Band Central now draws fretboard chord diagrams for the chords in your ChordPro lyrics.
Choose how you see them: a Chord summary of every chord at the top of the song, Inline diagrams above each chord, or a pinned Bottom, Top, or Right strip that stays in view as you scroll.
Switch between guitar and ukulele, turn on left-handed shapes, make diagrams capo-aware so a capoed song shows the shape you actually play, adjust the size, and tap any chord to flip through alternate voicings and pick the one you use.
Diagrams follow the Transpose tool, and a ChordPro define directive in your song sets a custom shape.
Your choices are saved with each lyric and sync across your devices.

June 2026

A follow-up release focused on annotation and navigation fixes. Annotations you draw on an iPhone or iPad now line up correctly when the same ChordPro lyric is opened on Android, and your saved annotations reliably load every time you reopen a song.
Long-press a comment or a text note on a lyric to edit it directly.
The side menu has been redesigned to match the iPhone and iPad, with a header showing your band name and its song and setlist counts, and a footer showing your signed-in name, plan, and the app version.
Help now opens inside the app instead of jumping out to your browser.

June 2026

Drawing and markup arrives. Mark up any PDF chart or ChordPro lyric with a pen, highlighter, eraser, and movable text notes in 10 colors -- great for cuts, repeats, key changes, and cues.
Your marks are shared with the whole band and sync in real time, and they never change your original file.
You can now Share and Print a PDF chart with your annotations included.
Adding a lyric now makes it your default and clears the old one.

June 2026

Fixed a crash when importing PDF song files from Dropbox, and a crash that could happen when viewing your setlists.
Setlists now rearrange only after you tap Reorder, so songs do not move by accident.
The Songs A-Z index now shows non-Latin letters (such as Greek) instead of grouping them under "#".
Import now accepts more ChordPro file types (.cho, .crd, .chordpro, and more).
In Page Sections, each section is a fixed page that fits the screen, and a foot pedal moves one section at a time.
The free plan now includes up to 50 songs (up from 25).
Band cards now show your plan as a label, with an easy way to subscribe.

May 2026

Show/Hide display settings now sync across devices and stay applied as you swipe between songs.
Setlist total time no longer includes break duration.
Lyric scroll position is preserved when changing display settings.
Setlist contents update in real time.
Small Band plan raised to 6 members.
Fixed crashes, keyboard overlap when editing lyrics, stale metronome beat count, and improved Dropbox file sync reliability.

April 2026