BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc8

What's New?

Note: We skipped a few release candidate versions because they were "unofficial" releases in the Discord

• Fixes issues with video replay when it reaches the end
• Fixes issue with large grey boxes in a chat (hopefully)
• Adds redaction capabilities to the message details popup
• Fixes issue showing invalid attachments (where the mime type doesn't match the format)
• Fixes issue with saving videos
• Fixes camera preview freeze when switching cameras
• Fixes message tail being 1px off
• Better Timestamps (now will show all days of the week) Thanks Joel!
• Possible fixes to notifications not showing (setImportant is now set to true)
• Fixes possible issue with stuttering/lag in the new chat creator
• Fixes duplicate attachment issue during direct share
• Fixes some issues around the last message in the chat list
• Fixes some issues around the QR Scanner

BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc4

The following changes are a continuation of changes for all release candidates

What's new?

• Updates some dependencies
  • This may fix some compatibility issues with newer versions of Android
  • This can also introduce some other issues, which is why I need testers :)
  • This may also fix the FIS_AUTH_ERROR you might get when trying to initially authenticate with FCM
• Fixes issue handling some location attachments
• Hopefully fixed issue with Audio Send popup appearing twice (I wasn't able to replicate this, so this is a maybe fix)
• Fixes the default audio message name so it doesn't conflict with Apple's default name
• Fixes connection indicator overlapping with manual mark as read button
• Better new chat searching
• Refactored/Recoded the initial sync code
• Fixes URL Previews (bug introduced in rc3)
• Prevents smart replies from showing when hide message content is enabled in Redacted Mode
• Fixes issue with double-tap to show message details (bug introduced in rc3)

BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc3

What's New?

• Support for other Image Keyboards (Samsung keyboard, Bitmoji, etc.)!
• Redacted mode - Ever want to take a screenshot while hiding PII? Well now you can. Thanks @jjoelj!
• Adds connection indicator into the chat view
• Disabled Samsung Theme
• Fixes issue with hyperlinks not opening to the correct URL when the URL contains a hash query
• Fixes location support for the most recent iOS versions (I'm 99% sure)
• Message Details Popup now does not show up when the message is not confirmed
• Fixes possible crash when you have no images in your image library
• Removes message tail in the message details popup. Thanks @jjoelj!
• Decreases size of the connection indicator
• Delivered Timestamps. Thanks @jjoelj!
• Huge improvement to chat list loading
• Huge improvement to contact <-> handle matching (especially for international numbers)
• Contacts can now only load every 5 minutes (minimum threshold; this prevents Android from yelling at you that BlueBubbles is accessing the contacts a lot)
• Fixes some issues with the QR scanner reading FCM data
• New chat creator is now a bit more reliable because it's better at finding existing chats now

Enjoy!

BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc2

Hey guys,

I'm sorry this is still in the release candidate stage. I've been super busy with real-world things. As well as with the weather getting nicer, I've been taking some time off from development. Especially important since my full-time job is a development job for the most part. This is only a very small incremental change since the release candidate #1 pre-release.

What's Changed?

• Fixes avatars on the Samsung theme
• Fixes GIF Insertion via GBoard
• Hopefully fixes any FCM authentication issues people have been facing (@csab, if you are reading this, test it out please)
• Fixes a small issue with Apple Maps (not sure if this fixes it for iOS 14 yet fully)
• Sync indicator is now an optional setting

BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc1

What's new?

To be honest, a ton. I probably will miss a few changes/fixes.

• Limits refreshing of contacts to once per minute (to prevent it from being kicked off multiple times)
• Merged the Nightly branch into the Beta branch
  • Material & Samsung theme
  • Private API features (behind a toggle in settings)
  • Toggles for almost all private API features
• Fixes send button & recording in Material Theme (Former Nightly Bug)
• Adds option to show a button to manually mark a chat as read (Private API - Nightly Server Required)
• Adds toggle for marking a chat as read when you enter it (Private API - Nightly Server Required)
• Fixes issue with loading previews for certain YouTube links
• Fixes issue with showing a massive grey box for previews that fit an edge case
• Adds top padding to the typing indicator (Private API - Nightly Server Required)
• Moves incremental sync indicator to be next to the connection indicator instead of on-top of it
• Adds Colorblind Mode, which right now simply changes the connection indicators to icons instead of dots
  • See known issues 1
• Improves Smart Reply System
  • Adds slider option to increase/decrease the messages sample size for the machine learning algorithm
• Fixes timestamp issues on Samsung/Material (Former Nightly Bug)
• Removes divider from the Samsung Theme (Former Nightly Bug)
• Fixes crash when opening share menu on Android 11
  • This was due to a dependency package not being updated for Android 11
• Fixes alignment of the star icon for pinned chats for the Material Theme (Former Nightly Bug)
• Adds option to open the keyboard when you swipe it up
• Adds option to close the keyboard when you swipe it down
• Adds option to open the keyboard when you click the Scroll to Bottom button
• Adds option to close the keyboard when you scroll up in the chat
• Fixes issue with selecting multiple chats (in Material Theme) when tapping the avatar (Former Nightly Bug)
• Adds UX option to move the floating chat creator button to the AppBar (navigation bar)
• Fixes issues with keyboard focus when creating a chat
• Fixes bug where the Subject color would be different from the text color
• Other bug fixes
• Other improvements
• Lots of code refactoring

Known Issues:

• After toggling Colorblind mode, you must restart the app for changes to take effect
  • I will fix this issue for the actual release
• The Samsung theme is incredibly laggy. If you have any feedback for it, don't mention the lag
• After customizing a contact's avatar, new incoming messages will remain using the old style
  • This is fixed by leaving and re-entering the chat
• The option in Server Management to restart iMessage does not work since the server hasn't been updated to handle it yet

BlueBubbles Android App v0.1.15

What's new?

• Adds Option: Send Delay
• Fixes to formatting international numbers
• Adds Option: Show Recipient/Group Name as Text Field Placeholder
• Adds Feature: Custom Avatar Colors
• Fixes issue with loading YouTube previews
• Adds Feature: Sync all messages since a point in time
• Fixes issue with empty chats when Contacts permission is disabled
• Adds Feature: Share Targets
• Fixes issue with preloading chats in the chat selector
• Fixes issue where previous messages will re-animate when sending a new message
• Fixes issue loading chat previews when in share screen
• Fixes issue where chat creator would create a chat if it already existed
• Tons of optimizations and small tweaks
• Tons of other small bug fixes and improvements

BlueBubbles Android App v0.1.15-rc1 (Testers Only)

What's new?

• Adds smart replies (this increases the APK by about 10-12mb)
• Fixes issue with attachments not clearing after sharing from another app
• Fixes issue with text not clearing after sharing from another app
• Adds preliminary searching capabilities
• Chat paging was increased from 10 -> 12 when dense mode is enabled
• Fixes issue with full-screen camera not working if you'd never received an image
• Improves URL preview widget
• Adds option to pre-cache preview images (aka, download them the first time so we can use them from the local filesystem next time).
  • This is enabled by default (UX Settings)
• URL Preview metadata is now cached in the database, so you should see a big improvement in load times
• Fixes issue with the status bar icon color on the main conversation list page (this only was an issue sometimes)
• Better support for Reddit short links in previews

BlueBubbles Android App v0.1.14

What's new?

• Performance improvements when
  • Loading older messages
  • Scrolling up in the conversation list
  • Sending messages
  • Loading URL previews
  • Downloading attachments
  • Opening share panel
• Adds ability to pick image from gallery when tapping "Pick File"
• Adds tap to restart server
• Fixes contact card widget
• Fixes attachment downloader when chat is open
• Fixes crash when passwords containing "%" and "&" were used on the server
• Fixes attachment fullscreen viewer showing wrong image
• Adds better support for group events
  • You should now see "<Person 1> added <Person 2>" instead of "<Person 1> added someone to the conversation"
• Fixes image loading page
• Limits scroll speed multiplier to 1
• Adds ability to clear a chat's transcript
• Fixes audio message issues
• Fixes avatars for addresses that don't have handles
• Adds better subject support
• Better .caf support
• Fixes issue where cameras would stay open after share menu closes
• Device name is now set based on device (can be seen in server)
• Makes navigation bar color match the current background color
• Socket Error notification changes
  • Adds socket error notification channel so that you can choose to disable the notification
  • Adds ability to click the notification to take you directly to the server management page of the app to restart the server
• Fixes issues with settings panel not properly reflecting the current settings
• Fixes issue where removing an attachment would not fully remove it, thus re-entering the chat would cause the attachment to reappear
• Added ability to take a picture in fullscreen
• Back button in share menu now closes the share menu
• Fixes issue with chats not pre-loading in the chat creator/share menu
• Adds additional setup information to the setup workflow
• Fixes sharing location
• Location widget is now clickable
• Fixes empty map issue
• Added proper error message for ROWID error
• Fixes issues with backing out of full screen camera
• Fixes issue to infinite loading image after cancelling a camera shot
• Adds ability to take video
• Adds dense tile option (Settings > Theme & Style)

What happened to v0.1.13?

Well, nothing happened. It's the same as 0.1.14, I just had to bump the version because I screwed up with the Google Play Store listing

Public Beta v0.1.12

What's new?

• Fixes crashing when opening share menu
• Fixes occasional crash when picking a file from share menu
• Fixes GIF insertion grey box preview
• Fixes replying to notification creating a vibration and sound
• Adds configurable scroll velocity slider
• Adds Server Management settings to facilitate debugging and overall sever control
  • Test Latency
  • Restart Server
  • Fetch Server Logs
• Fixes colorful chat algorithm
• Renames Colorful Chat option to Colorful Avatars
• Adds Colorful Bubbles option to style received messages
• Fixes issue with Amazon link previews
• Link preview's descriptions are now limited to 4 lines
• Initial sync slider now allows less than 25 messages
• Fixes some issues with false server disconnects
• Adds ellipses to last message previews for conversations
• Fixes background color of the Scroll to bottom button
• Fixes issue with invisible back button on the Archives Messages page, when light mode is enabled
• Fixes issue with loading recent conversations to share menu
• Reorganizes the Settings page
• Smooths keyboard focus animation

Public Beta v0.1.11

Lots of changes and bug fixes