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KBoard v2.0.0: Animated Stickers & GIFs Update 🚀

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@AshwinSoni-01 AshwinSoni-01 released this 17 May 16:56

Get ready to level up your chat game! KBoard 2.0.0 is our biggest update yet. We are bringing a completely overhauled media experience right to your keyboard, powered by a massive under-the-hood engineering upgrade.

✨ What's New:

The All-New Klipy Panel: We’ve integrated the Klipy API to bring you an endless, native library of high-quality GIFs and animated stickers, perfectly woven into your typing experience.

Beautiful New Layouts: Browsing media has never looked better. GIFs now flow in a gorgeous staggered "river view," while stickers are neatly organized in a clean, easy-to-tap 4-column grid.

Flawless WhatsApp Integration: No more annoying share sheets! No more flattened static images! When you tap an animated WebP sticker, it drops instantly and perfectly into your WhatsApp chats with full animation intact.

🛠️ Under the Hood (Developer Notes):

Custom WebP Pipeline: Built a robust animated sticker processing engine. KBoard now utilizes a custom libwebp decoding and encoding pipeline to intercept, process, and re-format raw Klipy API downloads on the fly, ensuring they meet WhatsApp's strict 500KB architectural constraints.

Direct Handoff Architecture: Engineered a precise insertion pipeline to completely bypass the Android ACTION_SEND Share Sheet fallback. By utilizing exact MIME type handling (image/webp.wasticker) alongside strictly validated commitContent URIs via a custom StickerProvider, animated media is handed securely and directly into the host app's editor bubble.

Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v2.0.0