• hold to collapse (or customizable comment hold action) would've been nice to have!

• some tabbed menus can't be swiped through.

• Post swipe gestures are quite unreliable and often get registered as scroll gestures.

• Chat/messages layout is really nice!

• I think actions like upvoting should have some sort of immediate feedback (click -> soft color -> wait for action to complete -> bright color)

• it supports ukrainian language, which is a nice bonus for me

I've not been publishing many posts here because I assume all people interested in the project are already getting the updates either via Google Play or GitHub/Obtainium, so I'm not going to focus much on the release cycle but will provide some announcements about how the project is going and what to expect from the future.

We are continuing gathering opinions and suggestions for improvements, the most "friendly" channel so far has been the email, in any case don't be afraid to speak up, even criticism is welcome so don't say "it's ok" if you think it isn't! Thank you as always rb_c for all your reports and pieces of advice.

The first user-contributed translation has been received and integrated for Spanish 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you again u/heyazorin@lemmy.ml for your work. This is a community project and we're all on it together, so it's really great news!

On the app side, I think I'll be working on some new features, like:

• adding/removing mods to a community
• showing the modlog
• show upvote percentage (% of upvotes over total rates)
• supporting GIF images.

I would also like to create a project website on GitHub pages, with tutorials, credits, etc.

Finally: when will the app be available for open tests on Google Play? I'm currently stuck due to the limit of 20 users for 14 days continuously, I have less than half of the user base required so far, so without new testers I won't be able to proceed. If you are getting the app via Obtainium or directly from GitHub, please consider switching to Google Play or otherwise we won't be able to reach the general public.

Thank you to everyone and always remember:

🦝 L. F. E. T. 🦝

A new version of the application has been released with a series of bug fixes, new localizations, UI improvements and some new features (e.g. banning users from your moderated communities).

The application is now officially availabile on Google Play for a closed group of testers. If you want to try it out, please send me an email with the account you use on Google Play to be added to the test program.

Your help is really needed because we need to have at least 20 testers continuously for 14 days to be able to promote the app to open testing or production.

The new RC is finally ready

It took a little longer than expected, but I believe it was worth it. This version has several new features and some enhancements and fixes from your feedback.

Moderation tools 🎉🎉🎉

The new version finally integrates the changes of #153 concerning the moderation tool.

If you are a moderator of some community and you open its detail screen, you'll be able to remove posts/comments (with a reason) and you'll find in the option menu an item to see the report list for posts/comments filtered by their resolved status, you'll also be able to mark reports as resolved/unresolved.

You can mark posts as featured to pin them to the top of the community and lock them to prevent further comments from being added, as well as mark comments as distinguished (and of course revert all these operations).

Enhancements

• in zombie mode, the screen is kept on while scrolling automatically
• in the inbox screen, you'll see only the "mark as read" option if the reply/mention is unread or "mark as unread" if it is read, the se applies to swipe actions
• full timestamp of post/comment creation in "See raw" dialog
• "Quote" action in first position in custom text toolbar in "See raw" dialog
• removed ellipsis from menu items, improved fonts and localizations

Fixes

• share URLs are now correct whatever the instance
• user detail and community detail screens do not lose header data when hitting back, plus some load and pagination fixes.

Happy testing! And don't forget 🦝 L. F. E. T. 🦝

The new release candidate has been released with new fonts, new localizations, new features (such as marking posts as read while scrolling or the possibility to reply with a quotation in the "See raw…" dialog) and several fixes for the 🐞🐞🐞 that you have reported via email or GitHub issues.

I'm working to set up a closed test channel on Google Play, so stay tuned to subscribe to the tester program. And always remember 🦝 L. F. E. T. 🦝

RC5 and RC6 weren't really the best so far, due to an aggressive refactoring that made some latent bugs more evident.

I got the idea for the refactoring by the "Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices" book by Alexey Soshin, and I am glad I took some time to improve the code base even if it cost a couple of unstable releases.

For the most curious, the PR introducing the bug was this one and the solution is here and here.

This new RC solves the issues with reloading and other minor bugs, plus adds some more localizations. If you want to submit a translation or review the existing ones, you're more than welcome.

🦝 L.F. & E.T. 🦝

A week later or so, here is the new release. Since the idea is to get ready for the Play Store, instead of adding more features I focused on polishing what exists and adding small improvements considering both your requests (e.g. showing number of subscribers for each item and sort in the "instance detail" screen) and my personal needs as a Lemmy user 🤣 (e.g. cross-posts).

I want to thank especially those who opened issues on GitHub to report bugs like #110 and #111 which were addressed as quickly as possible.

And thanks as always to rb_c for their precious help and suggestions.

For those of you wondering in which trashbin I was lost, I was trying to make the new RC more performant and usable.

At the same time I've implemented a couple of request from people who have reached out to me here, i.e. the possibility to lock the navigation bars and the lazy ("zombie") mode, as well as a new comment expansion policy.

Thanks, as always, to all the people who dedicated some of their time to test and give feedback. This project belongs to the community, your opinion matters and you can make the difference.

And always remember:

For anyone wanting to try it out, the new RC has been released today.

Since I've received a report about the new comment expand/collapse policy not being fully usable yet, I am going to change it before going stable.

And always remember

We're almost there! A new version has been released with a series of bug fixes, layout and UX improvements, dependency updates and a couple of new small features that you asked me to implement (e.g. seeing raw contents and the ability to select portions of it).

I want to express my gratitude to all the beta testers, and if there are no blocking bugs, next week the stable release could be ready for publishing. It anyone has last minute requests or wants to contribute (even by adding localizations or reviewing the existing ones), you're more than welcome.

In the meantime, I am working on the support for some mod tools, i.e. ban users, remove posts/comments, lock posts, distinguish comments, see reports and resolve them. But before anything else I'd like to stabilize what has already been done and release 1.0.0.

Greetings to you, trash pandas and fellow creatures of the night! Finally the first release candidate of the application is out. From now on I'll be working only on bug fixes and enhancements towards the first stable release.

Depending on your feedback and the amount of work required, the stable release can be on mid-November or early December.

Thank you to all those who showed interest in the project and contributed so far with requests, reports, suggestions and encouragement.

If anyone is willing to help with tests, bug reports, feature requests and general feedback, you're welcome as usual.

For next week's release, I'll be working on the migration to Lemmy 0.19 but if there is room for other forms of improvement, speak up! 🦝

I've released a new version with the fixes (and some features) of the feedback I have received.

See you next week 🦝🦝🦝

Just to make sure I do not annoy anyone with too many updates but at the same time every feedback contribution is valued and addressed in a timely manner, how often would you prefer new beta versions to be released?

So far I've gone with one every other day but that seems too much, maybe I should slow down a little bit and release just once (or twice) a week. What do you think? Please lemmy know in the comments.

OT: I'll be attending a conference this week so sorry if I can't answer quickly especially in the second half of the week.

Hello to all trash pandas and fellow creatures of the night! This post is intended to both welcome you to this community and inform you that a new beta version of the app has been released.

If anyone wants to help by trying it out, report bugs, propose changes/features or anything, you're welcome.

Stay hungry (for trash) and be creative!