New

  • Added “overview” as a new default section for profiles
  • Added “saved” as a new section in profiles
  • Added “all” as a new section in search
  • Updated the look and feel of the login page
  • The status of your logged in session is now checked at startup and a relogin page is shown if needed
  • Added an option to hide all comments made by PipedLinkBot (Settings > Lemmy settings)

Ultra

  • [Ultra] Feature extension: Summarize third party articles #416

Changes

  • The sort icon in posts & comments now matches the current sort

Github issues closed

  • Blocked communities are not blocked #425
  • Tapping into a post, Sync stops displaying the instance of users #237
  • Search bar for instance list #430
  • Instance name missing when viewing comments #421
  • The article summarizer in Ultra does not show "Summary " when using “Slides” view type and “Show image previews” turned off #409
  • Add ability to swipe between instances and communities when using the instance or community browser #405
  • Anonymous profile pic not showing #347
  • Some favoriting improvements #400
  • Subscriptions are still shown when anonymous #348
  • Would be nice if the app had an indicator in the settings of which app icon is currently chosen #399
  • FAB shown in the Theme Management preview doesn’t match the square Material 3 design #395
  • Remove the controversial comment setting #397
  • Remove the “Show user flair” setting #396
  • Move some of the features listed within Settings->Experimental to their designated spots #394
  • When changing the launcher icon the app icons take a good bit to load #388
  • Profile button in List View just a TODO #354
  • “More actions” button crashes app in comments #210
  • Opening ‘More Actions’ when in a post crashes the app #351
  • Dark overlay doesn’t work #344
  • Disable infinite scroll #337
  • The “select source” bottom sheet should dismiss when clicking camera or gallery before it shows the new intent #379
  • Remove twitter previews in the settings #359
  • Card options (columns) missing in View Type Settings menu when view is set to Small Cards #355
  • Server Donations #212
  • Support for viewing instance page #207
  • ‘Legitimate Interest’ GDPR consent settings does not save #200
  • Very unhelpful bad login notification #197
  • Adding Instances (More than just the default instance) #190

Other fixes

  • Fixed an issue where requests weren’t cancelled when changing profile section
  • Pressing About at Root (Everything, Local, Subscribed) should fetch info from the sidebar #39
  • Fixed an issue preventing searches in communities
  • Thumbnails should load much faster now
  • Fixed a crash in the settings when leaving after changing night mode
  • Fixed an issue where the logged out session would not show a profile picture
  • Fixed an issue where communities were not filtered locally when viewing instances
  • Actor pictures now fade in
  • Fixed an issue loading timestamps

Updates

  • Gradle > 8.3
  • Now building with Java 17
  • Updated to Android Studio 2023.1.1 Beta 1
  • com.github.bumptech.glide:glide > 4.16.0
  • org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin > 1.9.10
  • com.android.tools.build:gradle > 8.2.0-beta01
  • org.mockito:mockito-core > 5.5.0
  • org.robolectric:robolectric > 4.10.3
  • com.google.firebase:firebase-bom > 32.2.3
  • com.google.auto.value:auto-value > 1.10.3
  • org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup:tagsoup > 1.2.1
  • org.slf4j:slf4j-api > 2.0.9
  • com.squareup.okhttp3:mockwebserver > 5.0.0-alpha.11
  • jp.wasabeef:glide-transformations > 4.3.0
  • org.jsoup:jsoup > 1.16.1
  • commons-io:commons-io > 2.13.0
  • org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 > 3.13.0

Removed

  • The old broken tasker integration
  • org.mp4parser:isoparser
  • org.mp4parser:muxer
  • com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-dash
  • com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-hls
  • com.github.tittojose:timerangepicker-library
  • In-app Imgur gallery handling

Notes

  • Increased the number of threads available to image management
  • Increased the number of threads available to web requests
  • Finally transitioned from Butterknife to ViewBinding
  • Removed the “legacy” dark mode time picker
  • Clicking on any item that requires login now opens the login page (instead of a toast)
  • Domains are now shown for non-Lemmy hosted images
  • Changed the styling of usernames + communities
  • Ljdawson (Sync dev)@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    49·
    8 months ago

    Lots of refactoring + fixes this release.

    I’ve been working hard on localising the app in Spanish + German but that just missed this release, hoping to get that in the next release for sure.

    Again beta 50 to 91 mainly due to lots and lots of internal releases!

    Cheers, Lj

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      Again beta 50 to 91 mainly due to lots and lots of internal releases!

      I thought I was going crazy, how could I miss so many versions lol.

      I have no update version yet showing in the PlayStore… so I guess it is a matter of time?

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Lemisset@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        Same here, I don’t have the update available yet. I just assume it’s still making its way through the tubes.

        • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          8 months ago

          Hopefully it won’t take long, this app keeps showing how premium the Lemmy experience can be on mobile 🤘🏻

    • NankeruAEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Sadly, the app crashes for me 1–2 seconds after opening it. I’m no longer able to use it. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3

  • M137@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    8 months ago

    You are awesome! It’s crazy to have such a great app for something like lemmy, really not something you expect or at all take for granted. It’s so cool that you managed to keep it so similar to the reddit version, it’s very nice to feel at home with it after using it for reddit for years.

  • charles@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    8 months ago

    Thanks for all your work LJ, it’s clear the value we get from having you be able to dedicate so much time to working on Sync. Love seeing so much improvement to an already great app.

    I’m especially happy for the PipedLinkBot feature and profile overview.

    Edit: now that the update has shown up on my end and I’ve tried the new features, I’d like to add that I slightly misunderstood what the PipedLinkBot would do, any chance we could have an option for those comments to be collapsed by default instead of hidden?

  • DTFpanda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    8 months ago

    Ugh, this update is so good. This app is so good. Even if Lemmy continues to lose users and content, I love opening this app because of how good it feels to navigate through it.

    • Ljdawson (Sync dev)@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      21·
      8 months ago

      (シ_ _)シ

      I’m going to keep building it with the faith that this is going somewhere. It’s been really fun working on this.

    • Oneobi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      It’s not the user loss that is the concern, it’s the actual contributors that matter the most. As long as they stick around, it’s all good.

      So don’t stop contributing folks!

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    I’ve noticed since updating this morning that clicking images (not sure what it’s officially called, the Image Preview? when you click an image post without loading the post comments) frequently loads a blank screen. Only clicking back and then on the image again gets it to load properly.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        Just downloaded the update and can confirm that fixed the issue. Your turn around time continues to amaze me. I work in a corporate environment where we have to write user stories, discuss them in backlog grooming, do sprint planning, develop, test, go through a Change Advisory Board approval, do release planning, then deployment.

        The fact that I can just comment in one of your threads about something weird I’m seeing and then you fix it in less than a day is nothing short of astonishing. You rock!

    • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Same here. I just click the image from my frontpage and it just loads to a black screen. If I hold down on the image it will pop up in the full screen preview though. I’m on small cards.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Do you mean peeking? When it only appears while you hold? Or just a tap on the thumbnail?

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        I didn’t even know peeking was a thing until you mentioned it. Oddly enough, that works fine. Tapping the thumbnail gets a blank screen. Holding gets it to load.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        Hope this helps.

        1. I’m browsing like this (Compact mode?):

        1. I click the thumbnail of the top image post. A blank screen loads but no image:

        1. I click on the screen, which takes me back to browsing. The post shows as read:

        1. I click the same thumbnail again and the image loads successfully:

        This happens with almost every image, but not all. Maybe 90%?

      • Aabbcc@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        I have the same issue, hard to take a picture of a blank screen so I’ll try and be specific with steps to reproduce

        I’m using small cards. Click on an image on the right side of a small card

        Expected result the image opens up, I can swipe to close it.

        Actual result screen is black sometimes with a loading icon. It stays this way indefinitely. Closing the image and clicking it again let’s it display as expected

          • Mom Nom Mom@nom.momEnglish
            4·
            8 months ago

            Seems to be resolved. I was definitely being patient for each pic, tested on several images/posts/instances with the same result each time, but now it works. Sorry for the false positive

            Device information

            Sync version: v23.09.13-09:43    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: false    
View type: Compact    
Push enabled: false    

Device: bluejay    
Model: Google Pixel 6a    
Android: 13

            When tapping to view an image, I get this:

            • Mom Nom Mom@nom.momEnglish
              3·
              8 months ago

              Well, I can’t even tell if there’s an image in my reply, but I tried to add a screenshot

              ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                • Mom Nom Mom@nom.momEnglish
                  3·
                  8 months ago

                  I see it now too. I don’t know what was happening, but the only thing I think has changed is that Sync has crashed on me a few times since, and maybe… Magic happened? I really don’t know.

          • Odo@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            8 months ago

            I am using Compact mode and experiencing the same thing in the latest update.

      • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        This scenario has happened to me, too, so many times and not just in this update.

        1. I get the black screen so I wait between 1 and 10 seconds for it to load.
        2. Give up and press back.
        3. Immediately tap the thumbnail again, and then the image instantly appears.

        I wait a random number of seconds each time, so it’d be a really funny coincidence if the image finished loading exactly when I give up every time.

        I do have slow cell service in certain locations, so sometimes the image is just slow to load, I’m sure. But the timing of the image finally appearing in step 3 above is too precise to be a coincidence the number of times it’s happened.

        Update 1

        Edit: since writing this comment, every image I’ve tapped gives the black loading screen and I haven’t waited even 1 second before tapping back and tapping the thumbnail again, and then the image immediately loads.

        Update 2

        I turned off image preloading, cleared cache, and did some testing. It’s a good time to test since I currently have poor cell service:

        I repeated the same basic steps: tapping a thumbnail, tapping Back as fast as I can, then tapping the thumbnail again. A couple times this immediately displayed the images, but other times I got the black screen again. I think it’s based on file size.

        I performed the above “Back and re-tap the thumbnail” loop up to 6 times, and when the image still didn’t load, I waited 20 seconds on the black screen to see if it would eventually load. It never did. But then I would perform one more quick Back and re-tap and it would load.

        This is what I think it happening: the image finishes loading eventually, but the loading screen never gets the “image downloaded” event and never updates to show the image. Then trying again loads it from cache.

        If pre-loading is on, and you have fast internet you might never see this behavior. Images will be cached as fast as you can scroll. Maybe you could test this by uploading a truly enormous image, clearing cache, and using only cell service in your basement or something.

        • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          That’s the exact behavior I get as well. As soon as I hit back the image flashes for a split second.

          • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            Oh, I’ve seen that behavior only one time the other day. Maybe the black overlay is taken away a split second before the image itself is. On my phone that usually doesn’t happen. Tapping the Android back button simply goes back to the list.

            I think you said you tap the screen itself to cancel. I’ll try that. Nope, wasn’t you. You said you use the back button as well.

          • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            Turns out it happens every time on the current version, but I was having the black screen problem on the last version, too.

  • NinjaFox@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    Hey, getting instant crashes after updating on my end. I sent in a feedback report, crashes while loading up.

  • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    Just noticed a glitch with spoilers I think

    If you use the spoiler tag on a comment and then click on the spoiler to un-hide it, clicking edit will remove the spoiler tag code for the stuff that was originally marked. The " >! ! < " disappears in the editing page is what I mean.

    But if you never un-hide it, you can click edit on your comment and it will show the ">! !< " still there.

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    Blocked communities are not blocked #425

    How does Sync have anything to do with Blocks? I read issue #425. The initial report says “Open the community. Click the block button. Community is now in the list of blocked communities.”

    That block button has always been a server-side block recorded on the instance itself, right? So I’m assuming the submitter means they checked the list of blocks on their instance’s website.

    And then you replied that you fixed it. How is this possible?

  • schnokobaer@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    Added “overview” as a new default section for profiles

    This is great and long awaited, however it also means months of muscle memory down the drain again 😂

  • baru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    If you’ve enabled the hide button in posts this version will load the post instead of hiding it.

    Device information

    Sync version: v23.09.13-09:43    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: false    
View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: HWVOG    
Model: HUAWEI VOG-L29    
Android: 10
  • Vent@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    My app crashes immediately upon opening, after the splash screen but before loading any posts. I’ve tried restarting my phone. Haven’t tried clearing the app’s cache because I don’t want to relogin and also I shouldn’t be on lemmy during work anyway lol.

    Running Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra with Android 13 and One UI 5.1. I have sync ultra.

    Edit: Clearing data worked until I restored my settings.

    • Vent@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      I tried clearing the cache and that didn’t work. Also it looks like I’m still logged in so I guess idk what the cache stores lol

      • Vent@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Clearing the app data didn’t work either. It allowed me to launch the app and browse anonymously. I was even able to log in and browse, but when I restored my settings from the cloud backup the app crashed and now it’s back to crashing upon open.

        Side note: the restore purchases button on the setup screen did not work, but the button in the “Get Ultra” page did.