New
- Added “overview” as a new default section for profiles
- Added “saved” as a new section in profiles
- Added “all” as a new section in search
- Updated the look and feel of the login page
- The status of your logged in session is now checked at startup and a relogin page is shown if needed
- Added an option to hide all comments made by PipedLinkBot (Settings > Lemmy settings)
Ultra
- [Ultra] Feature extension: Summarize third party articles #416
Changes
- The sort icon in posts & comments now matches the current sort
Github issues closed
- Blocked communities are not blocked #425
- Tapping into a post, Sync stops displaying the instance of users #237
- Search bar for instance list #430
- Instance name missing when viewing comments #421
- The article summarizer in Ultra does not show "Summary " when using “Slides” view type and “Show image previews” turned off #409
- Add ability to swipe between instances and communities when using the instance or community browser #405
- Anonymous profile pic not showing #347
- Some favoriting improvements #400
- Subscriptions are still shown when anonymous #348
- Would be nice if the app had an indicator in the settings of which app icon is currently chosen #399
- FAB shown in the Theme Management preview doesn’t match the square Material 3 design #395
- Remove the controversial comment setting #397
- Remove the “Show user flair” setting #396
- Move some of the features listed within Settings->Experimental to their designated spots #394
- When changing the launcher icon the app icons take a good bit to load #388
- Profile button in List View just a TODO #354
- “More actions” button crashes app in comments #210
- Opening ‘More Actions’ when in a post crashes the app #351
- Dark overlay doesn’t work #344
- Disable infinite scroll #337
- The “select source” bottom sheet should dismiss when clicking camera or gallery before it shows the new intent #379
- Remove twitter previews in the settings #359
- Card options (columns) missing in View Type Settings menu when view is set to Small Cards #355
- Server Donations #212
- Support for viewing instance page #207
- ‘Legitimate Interest’ GDPR consent settings does not save #200
- Very unhelpful bad login notification #197
- Adding Instances (More than just the default instance) #190
Other fixes
- Fixed an issue where requests weren’t cancelled when changing profile section
- Pressing About at Root (Everything, Local, Subscribed) should fetch info from the sidebar #39
- Fixed an issue preventing searches in communities
- Thumbnails should load much faster now
- Fixed a crash in the settings when leaving after changing night mode
- Fixed an issue where the logged out session would not show a profile picture
- Fixed an issue where communities were not filtered locally when viewing instances
- Actor pictures now fade in
- Fixed an issue loading timestamps
Updates
- Gradle > 8.3
- Now building with Java 17
- Updated to Android Studio 2023.1.1 Beta 1
- com.github.bumptech.glide:glide > 4.16.0
- org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin > 1.9.10
- com.android.tools.build:gradle > 8.2.0-beta01
- org.mockito:mockito-core > 5.5.0
- org.robolectric:robolectric > 4.10.3
- com.google.firebase:firebase-bom > 32.2.3
- com.google.auto.value:auto-value > 1.10.3
- org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup:tagsoup > 1.2.1
- org.slf4j:slf4j-api > 2.0.9
- com.squareup.okhttp3:mockwebserver > 5.0.0-alpha.11
- jp.wasabeef:glide-transformations > 4.3.0
- org.jsoup:jsoup > 1.16.1
- commons-io:commons-io > 2.13.0
- org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 > 3.13.0
Removed
- The old broken tasker integration
- org.mp4parser:isoparser
- org.mp4parser:muxer
- com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-dash
- com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-hls
- com.github.tittojose:timerangepicker-library
- In-app Imgur gallery handling
Notes
- Increased the number of threads available to image management
- Increased the number of threads available to web requests
- Finally transitioned from Butterknife to ViewBinding
- Removed the “legacy” dark mode time picker
- Clicking on any item that requires login now opens the login page (instead of a toast)
- Domains are now shown for non-Lemmy hosted images
- Changed the styling of usernames + communities
Lots of refactoring + fixes this release.
I’ve been working hard on localising the app in Spanish + German but that just missed this release, hoping to get that in the next release for sure.
Again beta 50 to 91 mainly due to lots and lots of internal releases!
Cheers, Lj
Again beta 50 to 91 mainly due to lots and lots of internal releases!
I thought I was going crazy, how could I miss so many versions lol.
I have no update version yet showing in the PlayStore… so I guess it is a matter of time?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same here, I don’t have the update available yet. I just assume it’s still making its way through the tubes.
Sadly, the app crashes for me 1–2 seconds after opening it. I’m no longer able to use it. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3
You are awesome! It’s crazy to have such a great app for something like lemmy, really not something you expect or at all take for granted. It’s so cool that you managed to keep it so similar to the reddit version, it’s very nice to feel at home with it after using it for reddit for years.
Thanks for all your work LJ, it’s clear the value we get from having you be able to dedicate so much time to working on Sync. Love seeing so much improvement to an already great app.
I’m especially happy for the PipedLinkBot feature and profile overview.
Edit: now that the update has shown up on my end and I’ve tried the new features, I’d like to add that I slightly misunderstood what the PipedLinkBot would do, any chance we could have an option for those comments to be collapsed by default instead of hidden?
That issue hasn’t been fixed yet but it’s been logged so will be looked at:
Anyone else having issues with redgifs
I think I found the problem. If it’s a jpg on redgifs it doesn’t know what to do with it, it’s expecting a video.
