Night Drop 0.1.24

Background delivery keeps going after you swipe the app away

With background delivery on, swiping Night Drop out of your recent apps used to stop it: nothing arrived until you opened the app again. Now it keeps receiving, and notifies you, until you choose to stop it.

Exit

⋮ › Exit disconnects from Tor cleanly and closes the app, without touching your identity or chats — the next launch opens them as usual. It is the deliberate way to go offline now that swiping no longer does it. Thanks to the reporter of #15 for the suggestion.

While the app is closed, messages sent to you wait on the relay for up to 24 hours. Open Night Drop within that time to receive them; after that they expire, and the sender sees them as not delivered. The Exit dialog says so.

Hiding the "Watching for messages" notification

Android requires a visible notification while an app works in the background, and does not let the app make it quieter than it already is. You can hide it yourself: turn off the Background delivery status notification category (on Samsung: App info › Notifications › Notification categories, or long-press the notification). Messages keep arriving and still notify — they use a separate category. The category was renamed so it can no longer be confused with the in-app Background delivery switch, which does stop delivery.

Known limit

After the phone restarts or the app is updated, background delivery resumes only once you open Night Drop. Making it start on its own needs a larger change and is not in this release.

Also

• Closing the app no longer drops a change that was still waiting to be saved (saves are grouped over a few seconds).

Verifying

Every binary is signed with the release key and listed in SHA256SUMS, itself signed. See SECURITY.md for the full verification steps; nightdrop-signing-key.asc is attached.