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v0.9.5-media — new full-screen media viewer + HQ photos

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@xAlisher xAlisher released this 07 Aug 16:26
· 9 commits to main since this release

Seamless update from 0.9.x — same signing key, F-Droid updates in place.

✨ Features

  • Brand-new full-screen media viewer (#479). Tap any photo, GIF, or video and it opens
    edge-to-edge (fixing the old "sits under the title bar" bug). Tap to toggle a bottom bar
    (sender + download / share / forward / close) and a top-right close. Pinch to zoom,
    swipe down to dismiss, and swipe left/right to page through every photo/GIF/video in the
    chat
    — one viewer for all media, video plays inline.
  • Share media out of the app. The viewer's share icon opens the Android share sheet for the
    photo/video.
  • HQ photos (#423). A small HQ toggle by the composer thumbnail (gray off / orange on) sends
    a photo in high quality via storage instead of the compressed inline version — and it's decided
    at Send, so toggling works before or after attaching. Disabled in storage-off groups.

🐛 Fixes

  • #422 — photo + camera are always available in a storage-off group (they never used storage;
    only GIF/video do).

🔁 Other

  • Adds react-native-gesture-handler + reanimated (New Architecture) as the media-viewer foundation.
  • Repo hygiene: issue/PR templates + rate-limited Dependabot (#456); metadata-privacy SoK research
    doc (#317).