New users cannot be found

[joelrorseth]

After downloading the app, any users that have joined after that point in time cannot be found in the search. In general, the search function seems to not be working, and is checking a cached copy of the database instead of the live one.

[joelrorseth]

This issue stemmed from keepSynced() not being properly set to true on the database references used in DatabaseController. Firebase Persistence, when turned on, requires database references to set keepSynced() to true in order to guarantee that such a reference will forcibly avoid referring to the persisted / cached / offline database copy. It will otherwise pull from this persisted copy, apparently even when an internet connection is in fact present.

Please see this commit for the fix.

This issue appears to have been resolved after testing for v1.0.1, will close for now.