Beeline 0.3.0

Making the pain worth it.

v0.3.0

बीलाइन एक एसएनएस (सोशल नेटवर्किंग सर्विस) ऐप है, जो मास्टोडन और मिसकी सेवाओं के साथ संगत है। यह ऐप हिंदी में आंशिक रूप से उपलब्ध है।

Beeline es una aplicación SNS (Servicio de Redes Sociales), compatible con los servicios Mastodon y Misskey. La aplicación está parcialmente disponible en español.

Beeline是一款社交网络服务（SNS）应用程序，与Mastodon和Misskey服务兼容。该应用程序部分提供中文版本。

A Beeline é um aplicativo SNS (Serviço de Redes Sociais), compatível com os serviços Mastodon e Misskey. O aplicativo está parcialmente disponível em português.

Beeline 係一個 SNS （社交網絡服務）應用程式，同 Mastodon 同 Misskey 服務兼容。呢個應用程式部分有中文版本。

يُعد Beeline تطبيقاً لشبكات التواصل الاجتماعي (SNS)، وهو متوافق مع خدمتي Mastodon وMisskey. يتوفر التطبيق باللغة العربية بشكل جزئي.

Changed since last minor release (0.2.16)

• Settings has been completely re-organized for ease of use.
• Favourite reaction (Misskey-family servers): choose the emoji that the heart button sends.
• The About page shows the product name, the version, the GPLv3 license, and the open-source components. It is read only.
• Disable blur effects turns off the blur behind floating controls and on the profile banner. It is on by default.
• Appearance offers twelve hand-picked accent palettes in two rows of six.
• Appearance has a Font list: Device default, Device serif, Device sans, OpenDyslexic, Inter, ZCOOL KuaiLe, Chocolate Classical Sans, Chiron Hei HK, Kiwi Maru, and Sarala.
• Device sans is a new font choice that uses the system sans-serif face. OpenDyslexic is bundled and renders in the app. It is under the SIL Open Font License.
• Six fonts are bundled with the app: Inter, ZCOOL KuaiLe, Chocolate Classical Sans, Chiron Hei HK, Kiwi Maru, and Sarala. All six are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• Each language has a default display font. Latin-script languages use Inter. Mainland Chinese uses ZCOOL KuaiLe. Taiwanese Mandarin uses Chocolate Classical Sans. Hong Kong Cantonese uses Chiron Hei HK. Japanese uses Kiwi Maru. Hindi uses Sarala.
• System default, generic Chinese, Korean, and Russian keep the system font as their default. A clean install in English renders and selects Inter.
• Changing the app language moves a font that is still the default to the new language's default. An explicit font choice never changes.
• A post uses one font for all of its text, chosen by the script of the post.
• Kana or Japan-only punctuation selects Japanese.
• Cantonese-only characters select Cantonese.
• Traditional or simplified forms select the Chinese variant.
• A post with no script evidence keeps the app font.
• When the app font is a bundled font for that script, the post uses it. For other app fonts, the post uses the system font with the locale of its script.
• Inter for Latin characters is a new switch, on by default. In Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, the Chinese variants, and Arabic, Inter draws Latin letters and digits, and the font in effect draws the other characters.
• Russian has no Inter for Latin switch, because Inter also covers Cyrillic.
• Arabic is an app language with a right-to-left layout. The layout follows the locale.
• Arabic has a Grammatical gender setting: Masculine (default), Feminine, and Neutral. The row appears only for Arabic.
• Changing the Arabic grammatical gender restarts the screen. Arabic uses the system font and allows Arabic-script hashtags.
• Hindi has 184 translated strings for the glossary terms, using the polite imperative.
• Notification activity labels and settings text are translated in every supported language.
• A reaction picker or emoji tile can show a pending state while the server confirms it.

Changed since last major release (v0.2.1)

0.2.16

• Hashtag groups: in the add hashtag dialog, select Create hashtag group and add tag fields.
• A hashtag group searches its tags together as one chip. Its name defaults to the first tag.
• Mastodon-compatible servers allow four tags in a group. Misskey-family servers allow 100.
• Groups are saved on this device. Long-press a group chip to remove it.
• Search has one field with suggestions, post search, lookups, and Trends.
• Search has Trending and News tabs.
• Photo Grid starts with your Search results as a chip that you can dismiss.
• Home shows a chip row with your lists, hashtags, and antennas.
• Mastodon-compatible servers follow the hashtags you follow.
• Mentions appear as inline bubbles with the account name and avatar.
• The attachment menu holds Photo, Poll, and Content warning.
• A new setting translates posts automatically. It is off by default.
• The composer uses floating bubbles over scrolling cards.
• A reply or quote uses the audience of the post it answers.
• A post you reveal stays revealed in the feed, post detail, media viewer, and Photo Grid.
• The navigation bar is transparent, and content draws under it.
• Floating controls share one shadow. The top blur band is stronger.
• On Android 12 and later, content under the controls blurs. Android 10 and 11 show a gradient.
• Photo Grid tiles show a loading indicator, or a failed state with a Retry button.
• Beeline retries a media request once after a timeout, a server error, or a rate limit.
• The hashtag field removes the # sign and stores tags without it.
• Photo Grid tiles no longer stay empty after rate-limit or server errors.
• Mentions show complete handles on both server families.
• A blank composer opens every time. Beeline never keeps an empty draft.

0.2.15

• Polls work on Misskey-family and Mastodon-compatible servers. Create a poll in the composer, vote in the feed, and see the
  results.
• You can edit your own posts on Mastodon and Sharkey servers.
• Quote posts interoperate with other servers.
• A post can be local-only or scheduled.
• A video without a server-sent poster image uses its first frame as the poster.

0.2.14

• Search and Photo Grid hashtag feeds include related hashtags written in other forms and languages.
• A new switch, Combine related hashtags, turns that behavior off. Results show which related hashtags they include, with a
  Show only button.
• The Hashtags tab lists trending hashtags from your server and suggests hashtags as you type.
• The Profiles tab lists popular accounts from your server.
• The composer suggests hashtags while you type one. The typed fragment is sent to your server for this.
• Videos play in the feed, in Photo Grid tiles, and in a new video viewer.
• Videos start muted and loop when short. A new switch, Autoplay videos, turns autoplay off. Autoplay never runs on a metered
  network.
• The composer attaches videos. Beeline converts them to WebM when the server and phone allow, and to H.264 MP4 otherwise.
• The video output is limited to 900p on the shorter edge. Small files are sent unchanged.
• Beeline bundles FFmpeg (LGPL) for WebM on arm64 phones. See tools/ffmpeg/NOTICE.
• The bundled hashtag catalog has not been reviewed. Treat this build as a test build.

0.2.13

• Fixed: Misskey sessions saved without the publish flag can publish again.

0.2.12

• The composer attaches images from the photo picker, with a thumbnail strip and a remove button on each image.
• Each image has a description dialog.
• A post can be only images. Each entry in a thread has its own images.
• The Upload compression setting Ask now asks once when you post. The answer applies to that post.
• On Mastodon-compatible servers, the photo button is off while you quote a post, because those servers reject a quote with
  images.

0.2.11

• A tap on the repost action opens a Repost and Quote choice. The tap never sends a repost by itself.
• The profile and contextual follow buttons ask for confirmation in a bubble before they follow or unfollow.
• Sharing a followers-only or direct post outside Beeline asks for confirmation first.
• A post action shows a Pending state until the server confirms it.
• Search shows one field. The field expands for typing and collapses to a bubble that keeps the query.
• The reaction picker has a compact pop-out and a full sheet. Both share recents and pinned emoji.
• Pinned emoji changes have a TalkBack and keyboard action.
• The profile header puts the Message and Follow actions beside the avatar.
• The display name is larger than the handle. A handle that must wrap splits at the domain.
• The profile biography uses smaller text.
• On wide compact screens, the profile banner fills the display width and extends under the status bar.
• The compact navigation group centers the caret, the pill, and the contextual action with equal gaps.
• Narrow compact screens of 372 dp or more show the contextual tab caret beside the navigation pill.
• On other compact screens, the tab caret scrolls with the category chips.
• Photo Grid tiles and the Photo Grid detail view follow content warnings. Tile shapes stay between 1:2 and 2:1.
• The media viewer backdrop fades as you drag. It fades out when no thumbnail is available.
• Fixed: compact screens no longer show two tab carets on Search, Notifications, Photo Grid, and Profile.
• Fixed: media viewer pages keep moving with the carousel while full images load.
• Fixed: covered sensitive media no longer appears in thumbnail-to-viewer transitions.

v0.2.2 to v0.2.10

These items come from commit subjects. No published notes exist for these releases.

• Navigation uses a floating layout that adapts to the screen. Compact-wide screens anchor navigation at the bottom with a contextual tab caret.
• Navigation remembers its position on the screen.
• The Display page has a layout direction toggle and a scroll fix.
• Chip rows extend to the display edge.
• Home, Search, Photo Grid, Notifications, Profile, and direct message screens keep their content clear of the navigation bar.
• Compact screens place the keyboard and its scroll clearance correctly.
• Profile statistics stack at narrow widths for large text.
• The welcome card scales with the system bars and body text.
• Home timeline tabs are full-height capsules.
• Photo Grid wide detail shows repost feedback and works with the reaction pickers.
• The Profile screen has a Featured tab and a Liked tab.
• Direct messages have a recipient finder.
• Direct message threads show a continuation footer with a retry.
• A direct message conversation has an explicit identity when it is provisional.
• Direct messages can be restored, and unfollowing asks for confirmation.
• A quote of a muted hashtag shows a warning until you reveal it.
• Hashtag bubbles adapt their size to the text.
• Mastodon block and mute relationships recover after a failure.
• Mastodon sign-in verifies its path and ignores a duplicate callback.
• Mastodon reactions are detected from the server information when the server does not report them directly.
• Home automatic paging has a bound.
• Emoji storage has a bound on how long old files are kept.
• Removing an account deletes its drafts.
• Notification activity labels are localized.
• The app applies the saved language with platform locale matching.
• Beeline uses the supplied app artwork for its icons.