github BlueBubblesApp/bluebubbles-app v0.1.16-rc1
BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc1

pre-release3 years ago

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 the Beta 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

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