What's new?
To be honest, a ton. I probably will miss a few changes/fixes.
- Limits refreshing of contacts to once per minute (to prevent it from being kicked off multiple times)
- Merged the
Nightly
branch into theBeta
branch- Material & Samsung theme
- Private API features (behind a toggle in settings)
- Toggles for almost all private API features
- Fixes send button & recording in Material Theme (Former Nightly Bug)
- Adds option to show a button to manually mark a chat as read (Private API - Nightly Server Required)
- Adds toggle for marking a chat as read when you enter it (Private API - Nightly Server Required)
- Fixes issue with loading previews for certain YouTube links
- Fixes issue with showing a massive grey box for previews that fit an edge case
- Adds top padding to the typing indicator (Private API - Nightly Server Required)
- Moves incremental sync indicator to be next to the connection indicator instead of on-top of it
- Adds
Colorblind Mode
, which right now simply changes the connection indicators to icons instead of dots- See known issues 1
- Improves Smart Reply System
- Adds slider option to increase/decrease the messages sample size for the machine learning algorithm
- Fixes timestamp issues on Samsung/Material (Former Nightly Bug)
- Removes divider from the Samsung Theme (Former Nightly Bug)
- Fixes crash when opening share menu on Android 11
- This was due to a dependency package not being updated for Android 11
- Fixes alignment of the star icon for pinned chats for the Material Theme (Former Nightly Bug)
- Adds option to open the keyboard when you swipe it up
- Adds option to close the keyboard when you swipe it down
- Adds option to open the keyboard when you click the Scroll to Bottom button
- Adds option to close the keyboard when you scroll up in the chat
- Fixes issue with selecting multiple chats (in Material Theme) when tapping the avatar (Former Nightly Bug)
- Adds UX option to move the floating chat creator button to the AppBar (navigation bar)
- Fixes issues with keyboard focus when creating a chat
- Fixes bug where the Subject color would be different from the text color
- Other bug fixes
- Other improvements
- Lots of code refactoring
Known Issues:
- After toggling Colorblind mode, you must restart the app for changes to take effect
- I will fix this issue for the actual release
- The Samsung theme is incredibly laggy. If you have any feedback for it, don't mention the lag
- After customizing a contact's avatar, new incoming messages will remain using the old style
- This is fixed by leaving and re-entering the chat
- The option in Server Management to restart iMessage does not work since the server hasn't been updated to handle it yet