What's New?

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Changes

The Big Stuff

• New notification options
• New theming options
  • Ability to dynamically theme the app based on the current song's album cover
  • Ability to copy and save those dynamic themes
• Tablet mode
• Unknown senders tab option
  • Senders with no associated contact info will be separated
• Other new features, UI, and UX improvements

The Nitty Gritty

New Features

• New Notification Options
  • Added the option to schedule a reminder for a message by long-pressing the message
  • Added new notification settings page
  • Added the ability to change the notification sound
  • Added the option to disable notifying reactions
  • Added the ability to set global text detection (only notify when a text contains certain words or phrases)
  • Added the ability to mute certain individuals in a chat
  • Added the ability to mute a chat temporarily
  • Added the ability to set text detection on a specific chat - only notify when a text from the specified chat contains certain words or phrases
• New Theming Options
  • Added the ability to get background and primary color from album art (requires full notification access)
  • Added the ability to set an animated gradient background for the chat list (gradient is created between background and primary color)
• Other New Features
  • Added a better logging mechanism to make it easier to send bug reports to the developers
  • Added ability to add a camera button above the chat creator button like Signal
  • Added "Unknown Senders" tab

Bug Fixes

• UI bugs
  • Fixed custom bubble color getting reset for new messages
  • Fixed 24hr time not working properly
  • Improved smart reply padding in Material theme
• UX bugs
  • Fixed some bugs with the fullscreen photo viewer

Improvements

• UI Improvements
  • Move pinned chat typing indicator to the avatar so the latest message bubble can always be seen
  • Completely revamped icons for iOS theme to match iOS-style
  • Improved URL preview
  • Removed Camera preview from share menu to reduce lag. Replaced by 2 buttons, camera and video
• UX Improvements
  • Added pagination to incremental sync (messages should load faster)
  • Increased chat page size to reduce visible "lag" when resuming the app from the background

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