LOAM 0.6.3

LOAM 0.6.3 adds new-message notifications and makes the Android host explain a failed start instead of closing. Full details are in the changelog.

Notifications for new messages

Settings has a Notifications section: a sound and/or a buzz for direct messages (the default), every message, or nothing, saved on each device. Browsers don't allow real notifications from a plain-HTTP local network, so in a browser these play only while LOAM is open.

On the Android host phone, the host's own new messages show as Android notifications while LOAM is in the background, one per conversation, following the same choice. The lock screen shows only "New message", a tap opens the conversation, and an Emergency reset clears them. They never leave the phone, and they use the notification permission LOAM already asks for.

When the host can't start

If another app on the phone is already using LOAM's network port (3000), the Android host now says so in the phone's language and offers Retry, instead of closing. LOAM also no longer treats an answer on that port as its own server, so another app can't get LOAM's window or its host token.

Smaller changes

• "Try another name" on the Welcome screen is a proper button.
• The host counts "Devices connected", since laptops and tablets join too.

Updating

0.6.3 installs over 0.6.1 and 0.6.2 as an update. If you still run 0.5.0 or 0.6.0 (com.loamnet.host), read the 0.6.1 notes first: the app's name changed there.

Verify the download

shasum -a 256 -c loam-host.apk.sha256
gh attestation verify loam-host.apk --repo MagicZebraLtd/loam

The APK is signed with the same key as earlier releases.