Hi, been reading feedback and implementing the ones that I think would be good to add. This release brings a favourites bar to the drawer, the ability to set a default page, More text size options, and an overhauled settings page.
Still on the hunt for a new app icon, if you know a designer please let me know!
Next things I want to tackle are improving the markdown editor and adding in user/community/instance block lists.
Finally thank you for your continued support! The feedback has been very helpful in improving Connect.
Changelog:
- Added option for enabling notifications across all signed in accounts
- Added Text overrides for comments and post titles
- Added option for disabling swipe and markdown editor
- Added favourites to sidebar. These are account specific and different accounts can have different favourites.
- Added option to set default page
- Added an option to hide the bottom bar on posts for smaller cards
- Added animations when expanding a comment thread
- Added option to reverse the comment interactions (tap and long press)
- Added password reveal button on sign in
- Added some spacing between posts to visually break them up
- Removed domain name text on list views thumbnails
- Added a search option scoped to the current community you are in
- Added option for high refresh displays
- Changed FAB icon in post details to a reply icon
- Changed collapsing comments so the comment body also collapses
- Fixed a bug with the comment body not showing when editting
- Fixed a crash on foldable devices
- Fixed a bug where your own comments would appear to have more points than they really had
Links:
-kuroneko
Hi
Are you considering an open source version available on F-Droid in the future?
Yeah possibly if there is enough interest. I’d just want to clean up the codebase first since the current pace of development makes things a bit messy.
That would be absolutely amazing! I look forward to an open source version, regardless of whether it is listed on F-Droid or not.
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Thank you for at least considering it. 👍
Open sourcing the codebase would most definitely increase the interest in the app, and as such also invite people to contribute to the project.
This is also probably one reason many will skip the app, because of not being open source.
Not saying it’s a bad thing, but just a thought. I like the app, started my Lemmy journey with it, but wanted to go for an open source instead. Keep up the good work! Following the development of this!
One thing that still really bothers me is a lack of instance identification. In the list of subscriptions, I’ve got 2 “gaming”, 2 “asklemmy”, 3 “technology”. Usernames and community names also seem to be missing instance addresses, which are important if for no other reason that different instances have different moderation rules.
Is this an oversight or does Connect just not want to embrace federation at all?
It’s coming! The app has only been released for about 5 days so please bear with me.
Oh man, this app is definetly my favorite rn, it sso good that when I go to desktop it feels so lacking and I’m trying find a desktop equivalent of connect
Glad to hear you’re enjoying it!
I’m happy the bug I reported got fixed, but I have a small request: can you add an icon to the pinned posts so we could distinguish them from regular posts?
Edit: typos
Thx dev in chief for all the efforts i will keep reporting bugs and other nice features.
This last release it’s very very usable Comrade Dev. 👍👍
There is any way to report bugs with a screenshot?
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Really impressed, especially for being developed so fast. Once the block lists are added I’ll probably start using it as my full time Lemmy app.
One suggestion I have would be to put the save settings button in a location that is accessible no matter where you scroll in the settings (title bar? FAB?). That would a) make it more convenient when the user is tweaking settings and going back and forth to the feed to see the effects and b) make it clear that the settings do not automatically apply when you change them.
I’ve tried all of the Android Lemmy apps and Connect is the best. I’m having an issue with scrolling the frontpage and possibly others. As I’m scrolling I keep passing the same posts like a loop. It usually sorts out after a bit but I don’t see any other mentions.
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Ahhh it doesn’t crash when I open it on my z-fold 4 now! Thanks! Will actually give it a try now that I can.
Any idea when I can get it from Play Store?
Nevermind I have it. Sorry.
I am really liking this app! I switched over from RIF is Fun over on Reddit, and after flipping a few settings, this works almost exactly the same as I had that one set up.
I have run into a couple of issues though. I was initially having some trouble signing in, it told me my username wasn’t found. When I tried logging in using my email address instead of username, it worked.
I was also writing a comment on a post, switched over to another app, then when I switched back to Connect, it took me back to the home screen, erasing the comment I had started writing. I can not seem to reproduce this again.
Can we have a more detailed search for communities? For example I would like to search for all communities with “android” in the name, with details on which instance it is hosted. It should show subscribers and post count so I can see which ones are active. It would be nice to quickly subscribe from the search.
Thanks. Enjoying connect so far!
I had to comment on this thread as trying to add a new post have me a JSON serializer error.
Impressive work! My favorite:
Added a search option scoped to the current community you are in
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Also, for some reason NSFW posts don’t show up on app.
And my subscription list is missing and only two things are shown
