The "Good Old Paper" Release
This release brings the new LXMF paper message functionality to Sideband, and greatly improves UI performance and usability on many Android devices. This release also fixes Bluetooth functionality on Android devices running Android 7 through 10, and makes it easier to set up RNodes for Bluetooth connectivity on all versions.
With the LXMF paper messaging functionality, you can output messages as encrypted QR-codes and transport them on paper or digitally. Messages can even be encoded as lxm:// links, that can be embedded anywhere, and Sideband will respond to and decrypt these links as messages.
Changes
- Added paper message functionality
- Greatly improved overall UI responsiveness
- Added pagination to messages in conversations
- Added support for Bluetooth-connected RNodes on Android versions 7 to 10 (11, 12 & 13 already supported)
- Added ability to control bluetooth settings on RNode devices that were connected over USB after Sideband was started
- Improved conversation list performance
- Improved connectivity status formatting
- Various UI layout tweaks
- Implemented a caching layer for mitigating slow SQLite reads on some Android devices
- Disabled Kivy multitouch emulation on desktop
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused conversations to be scrolled to an incorrect position on loading