v1.3.0 Changelist - Githubissues

tneotia commented 3 years ago

Just an issue to track all the changes we've made since the last 1.3.0 beta

Changelist

The Big Stuff

Redesigned pinned chats for iOS theme
Huge settings UI overhaul
Android Auto support
Notification improvements
Performance and reliability improvements
Lots of small new features, UI, and UX improvements

The Nitty Gritty

New Features

Redesigned Pinned Chats
- iOS theme now has iOS 14 style "big pins"
- Overhauled the group avatar icons - they are now arranged in a circle with a customizable max count
- Group avatar icons now prefer to show avatars with pictures
New Options / Settings
- Added support for setting the mute/unmute default behavior for videos (media settings)
- Added support for 24hr time format (misc settings)
- Added support for double tapping a message to send a quick tapback (conversation settings, and Private API must be enabled)
- Added support for setting the default number to call
- Added support for locking the app via pin or biometrics (misc settings)
- Added support for showing contact avatars in direct chats (conversation settings)
- Added support for redacting big emojis (redacted mode settings)
- Added support for setting the swipe direction in the fullscreen attachment viewer (media settings)
- Added support for customizing swipe actions for the conversation tiles (chat list settings)
- Added "Restart Private API" button (requires server v0.1.20) (connection & server settings, and Private API must be enabled)
New Redacted Mode Features
- Added redacted mode support to the chat creator
- Added redacted mode to the server management details (connection URL & others)
New Media and Message-Related Features
- Added support for pull-to-refresh in the attachment picker menu to load new attachments
- Added the "info" and "redownload from server" options to the fullscreen video player
- Added an "open in browser" button in the message details popup for links
- Added the ability to share text via the message details popup
- Added the ability to choose multiple files in the share menu
- Added the ability to choose other apps to load files from via the share menu
New Notification-Related Features
- Added 30sec timeout and error notification when a message fails to send due to connection loss
- Notifications are now grouped under a single item
Other New Features
- Allow any type of URL in the manual configuration setup to support ngrok tcp connections
- Added support for Android Auto
- Adaptive Icon support
- Typing indicators can now show inside the chat list (requires Private API to be enabled)

Bug Fixes

System Interaction Bugs
- Fixed duplicate apps in app switcher
- Remove notification in the notification panel when marking a single chat or all chats as read
- Fixed muted chats still sending notifications in some cases
- Fixed issue where replying to a notification would crash the app on Android 8 and under
- Fixed sharing not working when the app is fully closed
- Fixed sharing to a direct chat would not work if the chat was currently open
- Fixed conversation shortcuts when long pressing the app icon not working correctly
- TIFF Images now get handled using the regular file opener widget
UI bugs
- Fixed ">" indicator not showing for long group names on the message header
- Fixed animation not working when receiving a chat
- Hide reaction details when in redacted mode
- Fixed text box placeholder label
- Fixed switching from Material theme to iOS theme would make the chat list disappear
- Fixed overlaps in the message details popup
- Fixed "unsupported" showing instead of the contact number in the chat creator
- Fixed license page theming in dark mode
- Fixed issue where some messages would show up as a link preview
UX bugs
- Fixed some bugs with the audio player
- Fixed some bugs with chats becoming randomly unpinned
- Fixed some bugs with the reset app workflow
- Fixed back button closing app instead of removing selections when in multi-select mode
- Fixed dupe messages when retrying to send a failed message
- Fixed "Restart iMessage" button not working
- Fixed issues with initializing the camera after taking a picture
- Fixed issue with syncing business chats (they are ignored now)

Improvements

UI Improvements
- Completely redesigned all settings screens
- Improved padding on setup page indicator
- Remove "Socket Disconnected" message when the app is in the background
- Improved unread message indicator in the message view
- Improved audio player design
- Use Android-style spinners everywhere when in Material theme
- Improved details popup layout
- Added loading indicator when getting chats on startup
- Added loading indicator to new chat creator when fetching existing chats
- Improved the image placeholder widgets
- Added new splash screens
UX Improvements
- Only show re-download from server if the message has successfully sent
- The details menu will close after copying message text
- Added haptic feedback when sending a reaction
- Improved share menu performance
- Variable animation speeds for progress circles
- Warning message now shows when trying to start a new chat when the server is running on Big Sur and up
- New snackbar style
- Improved the hitbox for the remove attachment button in the share preview
- Improved the animation when opening the share menu
- Added Battery Optimization page to the setup

Optimizations

Migrated the entire app to Nullsafety and Flutter 2.0 - what does this mean for you? Much better stability and lots of under-the-hood optimizations!
Migrated to new Socket IO plugin
Migrated to using the GetX package
Media & Message-Related Optimizations
- Improved smart reply functionality
- Improved handling of SSL errors for link previews
- Improved handling of .heic images
- Improved handling of saving media to the device
- Improved handling of compressing attachments for better performance
- Video thumbnails are now cached to the device
- Improved logic for getting image dimensions
System Interaction Optimizations
- Vastly improved notifications logic to make them more consistent and more reliable
- Prevent sharing items to the app when setup is incomplete
- Better support for sharing text & audio attachments
Other Optimizations
- Avatar quality is now determined by low-memory mode
- Improved contact matching for weirdly formatted phone numbers
- Improved under-the-hood logic for chats
- Improved under-the-hood logic for messages

zlshames commented 3 years ago

Thank you good sir. Will keep this open until 1.3.0 is finished and we have a full list.

Also, if you look in our assets folder, there is a changelog.md file that gets used by our App's about page. Maybe this is better suited as a PR with this in that file?