Feature Request: Message formatting (Markdown, or otherwise)

[NiNiyas]

The ability to format messages. Like bold, italics and so on. Here for example is the discord formatting guide.

[binwiederhier]

Bravo for being the first 🥇 to actually open a ticket for this. About 50 people have asked, but nobody created a ticket. ;-)

[MichelMichels]

Does this mean ntfy does not atm support any formatting in the body?

[binwiederhier]

Correct

[MichelMichels]

What would be the realistic steps to implement such an idea? I don't have any experience with Go, but am proficient in C#. I could try to set something up to help with the development of this feature.

[binwiederhier]

This would be 90% Android, 10% server; probably just pulling in a markdown library in Android, and then somehow carrying the "content-type" through the message to the client; could potentially even use the "encoding" field for that.

[binwiederhier]

I'm working on this now. I will be using the markwon library even though it has not been updated in 2 years 😬

Design proposal

Right now, I'm thinking:

• Add a content_type field to the message, which is text/plain by default, and can now also be text/markdown.
• The content type can be passed via the Content-Type: text/markdown header, or via X-Markdown: yes or Markdown: yes or md: yes
• The Android app by default will allow parsing markdown, but will have an option to disable embedding of external images:
  • [ ] Allow embedding markdown images
  • [x] Do not allow embedding markdown images

Thoughts? @wunter8 maybe. 😬

[wunter8]

Looks good to me!

I am surprised this is being added to Android before the web app, but it'll be very nice to have!