BlueBubbles Android App v1.1.1

What's new?

• Bug Fix: Fixes grey screen when creating a new chat

Here is the changelog for v1.1.0, since no one actually will receive that version

• New Feature: Adds back button to image viewer
• New Feature: Adds contact addresses under their name in the message details page
• New Feature: Adds haptic feedback to camera preview
• New Feature: Ability to mark all chats as read via the 3 dot menu
• New Feature: Message details popup now fades in for a smoother animation
• New Feature: Attachment downloader now animates progress instead of "jumping" progress
• UX: Increases chat page size to 12 for material skin to avoid visual stutters during chat loading
• Bug Fix: Fixes issues syncing contacts during setup
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue where avatar colors were editable even when the option was disabled
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue where you wouldn't be able to delete a message if it wasn't sent
• Bug Fix: Fixes grey box issues in reactions popup
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue where your own reaction wouldn't show an avatar
• Bug Fix: Fixes grey box issues for incoming video attachments
• Bug Fix: Manual mark chat as read button now only shows when auto-mark chat as read is off
• Bug Fix: Fixes attachment details page not having bottom margin/spacing, thus interfering with the navigation bar
• Bug Fix: Fixes attachment downloading issues in the details page

BlueBubbles Android App v1.1.0

What's new?

• New Feature: Adds back button to image viewer
• New Feature: Adds contact addresses under their name in the message details page
• New Feature: Adds haptic feedback to camera preview
• New Feature: Ability to mark all chats as read via the 3 dot menu
• New Feature: Message details popup now fades in for a smoother animation
• New Feature: Attachment downloader now animates progress instead of "jumping" progress
• UX: Increases chat page size to 12 for material skin to avoid visual stutters during chat loading
• Bug Fix: Fixes issues syncing contacts during setup
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue where avatar colors were editable even when the option was disabled
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue where you wouldn't be able to delete a message if it wasn't sent
• Bug Fix: Fixes grey box issues in reactions popup
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue where your own reaction wouldn't show an avatar
• Bug Fix: Fixes grey box issues for incoming video attachments
• Bug Fix: Manual mark chat as read button now only shows when auto-mark chat as read is off
• Bug Fix: Fixes attachment details page not having bottom margin/spacing, thus interfering with the navigation bar
• Bug Fix: Fixes attachment downloading issues in the details page

BlueBubbles Android App v1.0.0

What's new?

This version encompasses all release candidates for the unreleased v0.1.16. I have rolled up and summarized all the changes since v0.1.15 below:

• Official v1.0.0 release!
• New Feature: Smart Replies
• New Feature: Material Theme
• New Feature: Hide Keyboard on Scroll
• New Feature: Open Keyboard on Scroll to Bottom
• New Feature: Swipe to Close Keyboard
• New Feature: Move chat creator button to header
• New Feature: Improved URL previews (faster & cached)
• New Feature: Re-download Attachment (long-press)
• New Feature: Ability to restart iMessage on your Mac
• New Feature: Private API Features are now toggle-able
• New Feature: Delivered Timestamps
• New Feature: Last message texts are now ellipsed
• New Feature: Existing chats now show before contact addresses in share screen
• New Feature: Double-tap to show message details
• New Feature: Chat message search
• New Feature: Redacted Mode
• New Feature: More granular timestamps
• New Feature: Attachment Preview Quality Slider
• New Feature: Colorblind Mode
• New Feature: Ability to restart the BlueBubbles Server, remotely
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue where the contact address would not auto-fill the fields when creating a new contact
• Bug Fix: Fixes placeholder text not updating
• Bug Fix: Fixes message subject color
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue with background refreshing happening too much (for contacts & chats)
• Bug Fix: Settings panel header doesn't change on theme change
• Bug Fix: Fixes issues around when read receipts are shown
• Bug Fix: Fixes issues around sharing (direct share & more)
• Bug Fix: Fixes issues around share screen performance
• Bug Fix: Fixes issues with sharing content from other keyboards (Samsung Keyboard, Bitmoji Keyboard, & more)
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue with parsing new Apple Maps locations
• Bug Fix: Improves reliability of QR Scanning
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue loading some emojis as big-emojis
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue with showing duplicate contacts for a chat
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue with message tails not being "fluid"
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue showing invalid attachments
• Bug Fix: Fixes some issues around international phone numbers
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue where a video could not be replayed until you re-entered the chat
• Bug Fix: Fixes issue where the camera preview would not be able to be flipped correctly
• Other: Optimizations to chat syncing
• Other: Optimizations to chat loading
• Other: Optimizations to contact loading
• Other: A ton more...

BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc8

What's New?

Note: We skipped a few release candidate versions because they were "unofficial" releases in the Discord

• Fixes issues with video replay when it reaches the end
• Fixes issue with large grey boxes in a chat (hopefully)
• Adds redaction capabilities to the message details popup
• Fixes issue showing invalid attachments (where the mime type doesn't match the format)
• Fixes issue with saving videos
• Fixes camera preview freeze when switching cameras
• Fixes message tail being 1px off
• Better Timestamps (now will show all days of the week) Thanks Joel!
• Possible fixes to notifications not showing (setImportant is now set to true)
• Fixes possible issue with stuttering/lag in the new chat creator
• Fixes duplicate attachment issue during direct share
• Fixes some issues around the last message in the chat list
• Fixes some issues around the QR Scanner

BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc4

The following changes are a continuation of changes for all release candidates

What's new?

• Updates some dependencies
  • This may fix some compatibility issues with newer versions of Android
  • This can also introduce some other issues, which is why I need testers :)
  • This may also fix the FIS_AUTH_ERROR you might get when trying to initially authenticate with FCM
• Fixes issue handling some location attachments
• Hopefully fixed issue with Audio Send popup appearing twice (I wasn't able to replicate this, so this is a maybe fix)
• Fixes the default audio message name so it doesn't conflict with Apple's default name
• Fixes connection indicator overlapping with manual mark as read button
• Better new chat searching
• Refactored/Recoded the initial sync code
• Fixes URL Previews (bug introduced in rc3)
• Prevents smart replies from showing when hide message content is enabled in Redacted Mode
• Fixes issue with double-tap to show message details (bug introduced in rc3)

BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc3

What's New?

• Support for other Image Keyboards (Samsung keyboard, Bitmoji, etc.)!
• Redacted mode - Ever want to take a screenshot while hiding PII? Well now you can. Thanks @jjoelj!
• Adds connection indicator into the chat view
• Disabled Samsung Theme
• Fixes issue with hyperlinks not opening to the correct URL when the URL contains a hash query
• Fixes location support for the most recent iOS versions (I'm 99% sure)
• Message Details Popup now does not show up when the message is not confirmed
• Fixes possible crash when you have no images in your image library
• Removes message tail in the message details popup. Thanks @jjoelj!
• Decreases size of the connection indicator
• Delivered Timestamps. Thanks @jjoelj!
• Huge improvement to chat list loading
• Huge improvement to contact <-> handle matching (especially for international numbers)
• Contacts can now only load every 5 minutes (minimum threshold; this prevents Android from yelling at you that BlueBubbles is accessing the contacts a lot)
• Fixes some issues with the QR scanner reading FCM data
• New chat creator is now a bit more reliable because it's better at finding existing chats now

Enjoy!

BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc2

Hey guys,

I'm sorry this is still in the release candidate stage. I've been super busy with real-world things. As well as with the weather getting nicer, I've been taking some time off from development. Especially important since my full-time job is a development job for the most part. This is only a very small incremental change since the release candidate #1 pre-release.

What's Changed?

• Fixes avatars on the Samsung theme
• Fixes GIF Insertion via GBoard
• Hopefully fixes any FCM authentication issues people have been facing (@csab, if you are reading this, test it out please)
• Fixes a small issue with Apple Maps (not sure if this fixes it for iOS 14 yet fully)
• Sync indicator is now an optional setting

BlueBubbles Android App - Release Candidate - v0.1.16 rc1

What's new?

To be honest, a ton. I probably will miss a few changes/fixes.

• Limits refreshing of contacts to once per minute (to prevent it from being kicked off multiple times)
• Merged the Nightly branch into the Beta branch
  • Material & Samsung theme
  • Private API features (behind a toggle in settings)
  • Toggles for almost all private API features
• Fixes send button & recording in Material Theme (Former Nightly Bug)
• Adds option to show a button to manually mark a chat as read (Private API - Nightly Server Required)
• Adds toggle for marking a chat as read when you enter it (Private API - Nightly Server Required)
• Fixes issue with loading previews for certain YouTube links
• Fixes issue with showing a massive grey box for previews that fit an edge case
• Adds top padding to the typing indicator (Private API - Nightly Server Required)
• Moves incremental sync indicator to be next to the connection indicator instead of on-top of it
• Adds Colorblind Mode, which right now simply changes the connection indicators to icons instead of dots
  • See known issues 1
• Improves Smart Reply System
  • Adds slider option to increase/decrease the messages sample size for the machine learning algorithm
• Fixes timestamp issues on Samsung/Material (Former Nightly Bug)
• Removes divider from the Samsung Theme (Former Nightly Bug)
• Fixes crash when opening share menu on Android 11
  • This was due to a dependency package not being updated for Android 11
• Fixes alignment of the star icon for pinned chats for the Material Theme (Former Nightly Bug)
• Adds option to open the keyboard when you swipe it up
• Adds option to close the keyboard when you swipe it down
• Adds option to open the keyboard when you click the Scroll to Bottom button
• Adds option to close the keyboard when you scroll up in the chat
• Fixes issue with selecting multiple chats (in Material Theme) when tapping the avatar (Former Nightly Bug)
• Adds UX option to move the floating chat creator button to the AppBar (navigation bar)
• Fixes issues with keyboard focus when creating a chat
• Fixes bug where the Subject color would be different from the text color
• Other bug fixes
• Other improvements
• Lots of code refactoring

Known Issues:

• After toggling Colorblind mode, you must restart the app for changes to take effect
  • I will fix this issue for the actual release
• The Samsung theme is incredibly laggy. If you have any feedback for it, don't mention the lag
• After customizing a contact's avatar, new incoming messages will remain using the old style
  • This is fixed by leaving and re-entering the chat
• The option in Server Management to restart iMessage does not work since the server hasn't been updated to handle it yet

BlueBubbles Android App v0.1.15

What's new?

• Adds Option: Send Delay
• Fixes to formatting international numbers
• Adds Option: Show Recipient/Group Name as Text Field Placeholder
• Adds Feature: Custom Avatar Colors
• Fixes issue with loading YouTube previews
• Adds Feature: Sync all messages since a point in time
• Fixes issue with empty chats when Contacts permission is disabled
• Adds Feature: Share Targets
• Fixes issue with preloading chats in the chat selector
• Fixes issue where previous messages will re-animate when sending a new message
• Fixes issue loading chat previews when in share screen
• Fixes issue where chat creator would create a chat if it already existed
• Tons of optimizations and small tweaks
• Tons of other small bug fixes and improvements

BlueBubbles Android App v0.1.15-rc1 (Testers Only)

What's new?

• Adds smart replies (this increases the APK by about 10-12mb)
• Fixes issue with attachments not clearing after sharing from another app
• Fixes issue with text not clearing after sharing from another app
• Adds preliminary searching capabilities
• Chat paging was increased from 10 -> 12 when dense mode is enabled
• Fixes issue with full-screen camera not working if you'd never received an image
• Improves URL preview widget
• Adds option to pre-cache preview images (aka, download them the first time so we can use them from the local filesystem next time).
  • This is enabled by default (UX Settings)
• URL Preview metadata is now cached in the database, so you should see a big improvement in load times
• Fixes issue with the status bar icon color on the main conversation list page (this only was an issue sometimes)
• Better support for Reddit short links in previews