v1.2.0

Download BranchBalance v1.2.0 for Android. The release includes signed APKs for arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a devices plus their SHA-256 checksums.

Highlights

Start from the camera action beside Add expense, then photograph a paper receipt or choose an existing image from Photos.
Read receipt text entirely on the Android device with bundled PaddleOCR models; receipt images and recognized text are never uploaded for OCR.
Prefill the normal expense form with a detected merchant, total, and date when confidence is sufficient, and check an explicit receipt currency against the group's currency.
Review ordinary editable fields before saving, with clear warnings for ambiguous totals, currency mismatches, missing values, and lower-confidence results.
Retake a receipt or continue with manual entry at any time. Category, payment method, payer, and split remain deliberate user choices.

Existing groups, expenses, settlements, activity, and analytics remain compatible; no repository migration is required.
OCR models are bundled in the Android APK, so this release is larger than v1.1.0 and does not download a model after installation.
Receipt capture, image preparation, OCR, parsing, and review work without a network connection. Saving the confirmed expense still requires GitHub connectivity.
BranchBalance requests camera or photo-library access only when that input is used; manual expense entry remains available without either permission.

Android remains the supported platform, and this build uses Android version code 3 for in-place upgrades from earlier releases.
Prepared images live only in a bounded application cache and are deleted after handoff, cancellation, or failure; the original photo remains under Android and user control.
Receipt pixels, OCR blocks, detected values, and confidence data are not attached to the expense or written to the group's GitHub repository.
Only the final expense fields explicitly reviewed and saved by the member use the existing GitHub-backed expense workflow.

OCR accuracy depends on lighting, focus, receipt condition, print quality, and layout. Every detected field must be reviewed before saving.
The first parser targets common English and Portuguese receipt labels and supports EUR, USD, and GBP currency checks.
Receipt line items, categories, payment methods, payers, and split choices are not inferred, and BranchBalance does not retain a receipt image with the expense.
Expo Go cannot run the custom OCR module; receipt scanning requires the packaged Android app or an Expo development build.