WARNING: due to some internal changes your local settings will be reset (logged out of accounts, removed instances, theme back to default)
In this release we focused on implementing missing core features: inbox, saved posts, messages, modlog. We also had our second external contribution which is exciting. For the next release we have planned making lemmur translation-friendly.
Full changelog
Added
- Added inbox page, that can be accessed by tapping bell in the home tab
- Added page with saved posts/comments. It can be accessed from the profile tab under the bookmark icon
- Added ability to send private messages
- Added modlog page. Can be visited in the context of an instance or community from the about tab
- You can now create posts from the community page (by wolf4ood)
Changed
- Titles on some pages, have an appear effect when scrolling down
- Long pressing comments now has a ripple effect
- Nerd stuff now contains more nerd stuff
- Communities that a user follows will no longer appear on a user’s profile in most scenarios
Fixed
- Time of posts is now displayed properly. Unless you live in UTC zone, then you won’t notice a difference
- Fixed a bug where links would not work on Android 11
Great job. Adding the inbox is pretty much enough to let me switch to this full time on Android.
Communities that a user follows will no longer appear on a user’s profile in most scenarios
This is due to changes in Lemmy, it is no longer exposed by the API due to privacy reasons
In Lemmy notifications are not going to be present, right? Still, great work, awesome application!
Also, if I update through GitHub now will it bring problems when the next update comes to F-Droid?
In Lemmy notifications are not going to be present, right?
I’m not sure what you mean?
Also, if I update through GitHub now will it bring problems when the next update comes to F-Droid?
It should not cause any problems, both apks are seen as the same.
There are two kinds of notifications, Android notifications which will have an icon in the status bar when someone messages you on Matrix, for example, and in-Lemmy notifications, that will tell you when someone comments on your post (you go to the bell symbol and you can see them). I was told by someone in the Lemmy room that Android notifications were going to take longer to be implemented, but that in Lemmy notifications were going to be within this update.
Ok I understand now. The Android notifications you are referring to are called “push notifications”, and in-Lemmy are called “in-app notifications”.
going to take longer to be implemented
Currently push notifications are impossible to implement (would require Lemmy servers to cooperate)
On the other hand in-app notifications are possible but are not in lemmur yet
You can already do push notifications over websocket, but we are not going to support any proprietary APIs from Apple/Google for that (that would be impossible to setup for every instance).
Push over websocket is not really doable. Keeping a websocket connection the background at all times would noticably affect the battery. I’m not sure if android/ios even allows for that
Android allows it, but you need to keep a (low priority) notification all the time. Battery usage for this is really negligeble in my experience (I used to work as Android programmer).
Oh cool, I will have a look at it then. Thanks
Does Gotify not work as a system wide notification thingy? We really need a libre alternative for this. uwu
What’s the benefit of using Google push or whatever it’s called? Why don’t just either maintain a Websocket connection with low priority as you’re saying, or pull periodically? Anyway, IMO Lemmy doesn’t need true realtime push.
It costs less battery if only a single server connection needs to be kept open for notifications (which is handled by a Google/Apple system app). If every app does that on their own, it will be less efficient, but like I said the difference is very small.
Thanks a lot!
I just checked and the “inbox” shows you notifications. o.O
My #1 in the wishlist is translations, then maybe notifications from the inbox.
I already started working on both translations and websocket connections for notifications
Wondering if lemmy-js-client could be reused? I believe there has been some sort of JS<->Dart interoperability.
Our dart client already supports all of the endpoints
JS<->Dart interoperability
There is but it is rather unidirectional (Dart->JS), and quite awkward and not very type safe
Well, anyway the idea makes sense as seems Lemmy evolves rapidly so reusing its official libraries reduces the work. Though by quick googling I’ve found Dart-JS interop only for the web platform. Haven’t searched for third-party transpilers but anyway I consider transpiling rather unstable unless it’s something official from the maintainers, which is not. So maybe creating an own Dart client library is way more controllable and reliable approach.
Aah got it.
Let me know if there’s any additional translation strings you need me to add to
lemmy-translations.
Looks like great work. Can’t wait for the iOS version!
Nice work. Can’t wait to try it.
You don’t have to wait, as far as I know downloading it from github should not conflict with the f-droid/play store version
As always, an amazing job!
saving posts and comments is definitely a big addition. Great work and congrats to all the devs making this possible
I have a problem with this. When I download any of the three android APKs from github and try to install it tells me “App not installed”. Is there a way to fix this or is it possible I’m downloading it incorrectly?
Did you perhaps build lemmur from source in the past?
Nope, never have. I got lemmur from Fdroid.
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Or installed from F-Droid.
appreciate a lot :love:
@shilangyu@lemmy.ml I’m really enjoying this app, but I think the color scheme for block quotes is hard to read. On my screen it’s white text on a light blue background and the values look very close.
Thank you for making this and putting it on fdroid!
hey, we know about this issue, you can track it here https://github.com/krawieck/lemmur/issues/155. I’ll check if it’s a quick fix, if not then it might be pushed to later because it’s pretty low on our priority list
No worries, thank you!
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where to find saved posts ? any help pls ?
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