What's new?

Note 1: For this update, we recommend updating your server to v1.0.0: https://github.com/BlueBubblesApp/bluebubbles-server/releases.

Please be advised that the next client update will require a minimum server version of 0.3.0 or greater!

Other Platform Releases

• Windows Desktop App: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9P3XF8KJ0LSM
  • If you do not want to use the Microsoft Store, the exe installer can be found bellow in this release's assets

The Big Stuff

• Database migration from SQLite to ObjectBox
  • If you run into any migration errors or black error screens, please let us know via Discord or email! If a close and re-open doesn't fix the error, please fully reset and re-sync the app with your server. If you are missing messages, please use the Manual Sync Messages feature in the chat details page!
• Material theme UI improvements, and new Samsung skin
  • Samsung skin is in Beta, it may or may not be laggy for you
• Private API Send - send regular messages with the Private API (try it out, the speeds are crazy!) (requires server 0.4.0+, best experience on server 1.0.0)
• Important fixes to message sending and notifications
• Lots and lots and lots of quality of life features, fixes, and improvements
  • You should see improved speed, stability, fluidity, etc
• All-new Desktop app, stable release! Supports Windows & Linux.

The Nitty Gritty

New Features

• Private API Send
• New Material theme UI
• New Samsung skin (Beta)
• Colon emoji insertion like Discord
• Added ability to selectively enable & disable typing indicators and read receipts
• Added ability to resize avatars
• Added box overlay to QR Scanner
• Added support for .tiff and .tif images
• Added green theming to SMS Relay/Text Forwarding chats (again, this is not Android SMS support!)
• The text box will now show iMessage or Text Forwarding to correspond with the type of chat
• The create chat view will now show iMessage or Text Forwarding to correspond with the type of chat
• Press and hold will now quick react if double-tap for details and quick react are both turned on
• .heic -> .jpg conversion will now be cached, so the lag when opening a chat filled with .heics should only happen once
• Added confirmation dialog before clearing local transcript
• Added easter egg to the initial setup screen (try and find it :P)
• Added show/hide password toggle on manual server password entry
• Added option to choose file path when manually downloading a file
• Added ability to pick address from contacts when adding someone to a group chat
• Added ability to set the order of pinned chats
• Open contact form when name is tapped in Material or Samsung theme
• Added ability to change pin column count on Desktop
• Effects automatically play when received / sent
• Added ability to reorder pinned chats
• Desktop / Web Features
  • Added option to disable close to tray
  • Added option to start on boot
  • Added GIF picker
  • Added keyboard shortcuts (see settings > about > keyboard shortcuts for the full list)
  • Support reconfiguring with server using manual entry
  • Added debug option to fetch contacts to debug contacts issues
  • Added download progress to files on web

Bug Fixes

• Fixed message lock issue when using Private API send
• Fixed issues with message duplication on new server rewrite
• Fixed issues with notification dots and active chat
• Fixed tapping/clicking outside the chat transcript dialog wouldn't dismiss it
• Fixed issues with contacts not loading when entering via a notification
• Fixed highlighting issues in right click context menu
• Fixed laser rendering in tablet mode
• Fixed big emoji messages don't show effect previews
• Fixed some emojis from smart reply not showing as big emoji
• Fixed system theme not actually switching with the system theme
• Fixed DM notifications appearing with a double name on Samsungs
• Fixed "black screen of death" for a random error with local_authentication
• Fixed issues with stickers crashing the app
• Fixed issues with stickers flashing when sending new texts
• Fixed some issues with stickers not showing - note that GIF stickers are still not supported at this time
• Fixed direction of arrow key scrolling on the message view (Web)
• Fixed adding multiple GIFs to send, and then removing one, would remove all of them
• Fixed message font color not updating after switching themes (Web)
• Fixed files shared from file explorer would not show image previews
• Fixed notification getting cleared when opening a new chat on top of an old chat that had a notification active
• Fixed homescreen shortcuts occasionally losing their contact picture
• Fixed issue where the app would try to render an error message as an image when an attachment failed to download from the server
• Fixed width calculation issues for big emoji when rendering reply lines
• Fixed mark chats read would keep manually mark chats read as "true", when it should be moved back to "false"
• Fixed API timeout errors not being shown to the user
• Fixed a crash that could occur when receiving a new notification
• Fixed messages sometimes showing out of order due to being ordered by ROWID
• Fixed Apple Pay detection
• Fixed IP address not being allowed in manual entry
• Fixed manual entry not allowing setups without firebase set up
• Fixed issues with parsing server versions with an -alpha suffix
• Fixed crashes on Android 7 and lower:
  • Replying to a notification in the shade
  • Downloading an attachment
• Fixed issues with downloading non-media in details popup
• Fixed padding on context menu for link previews
• Fixed logs download path on desktop
• Fixed issues with some big emoji showing as small
• Fixed focus loss issues on desktop & web when moving cursor off of the text field
• Fixed details menu not disappearing when items from the more menu are tapped
• Fixed incremental sync occurring instead of a full sync when resetting the app
• Fixed custom avatars and custom colors getting reset
• Fixed issues with chat highlighting on Desktop & Web
• Fixed issues with clearing notifications from the shade
• Fixed text color when playing an effect with colorful bubbles
• Fixed audio player widget on desktop / web
• Fixed gray tile when contact card does not have a name
• Fixed rendering bug when viewing reply threads on web from the message details popup

Improvements

• Added some padding under the selected attachments list
• Improved selected text highlight color
• Disable right click for effect on Desktop/Web when no text is in the text field
• Removed sync messages setup screen on Web
• Improved the alignment of stickers on messages
• Improved some theming on the setup screens
• Improved timestamp and client-side naming of settings & theming backups
• Improved some strings here and there
• Improved performance when images load in
• Improved speed of loading chats
• Improved speed of syncing
• Improved smoothness of keyboard animation
• Animation smoothness improvements
• Scrolling smoothness improvements
• Improved speed of opening chat details, compose chat, the message view, and the chat list
• Improved fullscreen photo view UI
• Updated dependencies and updated target SDK to Android 12 for build
• Lowered API request timeout duration from 30sec to 15sec
• Improved support for Cloudflare - now you shouldn't need to cycle WiFi for a new Cloudflare address to connect
• Made split view divider bar thinner
• Added mouse cursor indicator to split view divider bar
• Improved theming on message stats popup
• Removed sent / read / delivered indicators on group chats (since they will only ever show as sent)
• Only use tablet mode when there is sufficient width, not just when the available width > available height
• Hide immersive mode toggle on Desktop and Web
• Allow sliding the divider further to the left on Desktop and Web
• Fill the whole screen when opening an attachment fullscreen when in tablet mode, rather than just the right side
• Improved the details menu popup to be less cluttered and have better alignment and sizing
• Added disclaimer to immersive mode (may cause keyboard jank)
• Improved some text to alleviate confusion
• Improved the speed of initial sync greatly
• Optimized iOS emoji font rendering
• Removed reply option when message has not finished sending
• Removed custom titlebar on gnome Linux
• Shift + Enter will create newline on Linux
• Improved background isolate Java & Dart code
• Invisible ink notifications are now hidden
• Switched to REST API for attachment downloads - improved reliability and speed
• Improved user experience when thumbnails cannot be loaded for a video
• Load high resolution contact photos for pinned chats
• Lots and lots of code cleanup and small optimizations
• Flutter Engine & Framework updates
  • Framework: v2.10.2
  • Engine: v2.16.1

Notes

• These builds should support Android Auto, however, the Google Play Store version does not