Version 5.5 is the first update in 2025, and although I’ve only added one video (paravertebral nerve block), it was one of the largest backend updates. In other words, the app doesn’t look any different for the end user.
I rewrote a substantial amount of code (focus was efficiency) and optimized the images/videos through lossless compression techniques. The net result is that version 5.5 is only 40% of the size of version 5.4 (84 MB versus 208.8 MB for the compressed binaries of EchoTools). Pretty cool!
In the process of rewriting the code, I also made it much easier for me to add new videos and images. Previously, this required modifying at least four different arrays, but now with the single structured tuple-based array I have for each class, adding more content as it becomes available is a breeze!
