Element X Android v0.4.0

Changes in Element X v0.4.0 (2023-12-22)

Features ✨

• Use the RTE library TextView to render text events in the timeline. Add support for mention pills - with no interaction yet. (#1433)
• Tapping on a user mention pill opens their profile. (#1448)
• Display different notifications for mentions. (#1451)
• Reply to a poll (#1848)
• Add plain text representation of messages (#1850)
• Allow polls to be edited when they have not been voted on (#1869)
• Scroll to end of timeline when sending a new message. (#1877)
• Confirm back navigation when editing a poll only if the poll was changed (#1886)
• Add option to delete a poll while editing the poll (#1895)
• Open room member avatar when you click on it inside the member details screen. (#1907)
• Poll history of a room is now accessible from the room details screen. (#2014)
• Always close the invite list screen when there is no more invite. (#2022)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix see room in the room list after leaving it. (#1006)
• Adjust mention pills font weight and horizontal padding (#1449)
• Font size in 'All Chats' header was changing mid-animation. (#1572)
• Accessibility: do not read initial used for avatar out loud. (#1864)
• Use the right avatar for DMs in DM rooms (#1912)
• Fix scaling of timeline images: don't crop, don't set min/max aspect ratio values. (#1940)
• Fix rendering of user name with vertical text by clipping the text. (#1950)
• Do not render roomId if the room has no canonical alias. (#1970)
• Fix avatar not displayed in notification when the app is not in background (#1991)
• Fix wording in room invite members view: Send -> Invite. (#2037)
• Timestamp positioning was broken, specially for edited messages. (#2060)
• Emojis in custom reaction bottom sheet are too tiny. (#2066)
• Set a default power level to join calls. Also, create new rooms taking this power level into account.

Other changes

• Add a warning for 'mentions and keywords only' notification option if your homeserver does not support it (#1749)
• Remove :libraries:theme module, extract theme and tokens to Compound Android. (#1833)
• Update poll icons from Compound (#1849)
• Add ability to see the room avatar in the media viewer. (#1918)
• RoomList: introduce incremental loading to improve performances. (#1920)
• Add toggle in the notification settings to disable notifications for room invites. (#1944)
• Update rendering of Emojis displayed during verification. (#1965)
• Hide sender info in direct rooms (#1979)
• Render images in Notification (#1991)
• Only process content.json from Localazy. (#2031)
• Always show user avatar in message action sheet (#2032)
• Hide room list dropdown menu. (#2062)
• Enable Chat backup, Mentions and Read Receipt in release. (#2087)
• Make most code used in Compose from :libraries:matrix and derived classes Immutable or Stable.

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What's Changed

• Reply to a poll by @julioromano in #1848
• Update poll icons from Compound by @julioromano in #1849
• Run Maestro flow only then Run-Maestro label is present in a PR by @jmartinesp in #1852
• Show poll question in timeline replies by @julioromano in #1857
• Content description: add for sending state and fix other issues. by @bmarty in #1845
• Run 'record screenshots' flow if label is present by @jmartinesp in #1860
• Add plain text representation of messages by @jmartinesp in #1850
• RoomList : rework a bit the api and make usage of entriesWithDynamicAdapter by @ganfra in #1865
• Add test for NotifiableEventResolver by @bmarty in #1871
• Add test for TimelineItemContentMessageFactory by @bmarty in #1875
• Update plugin dependencycheck to v9 by @renovate in #1858
• Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v0.1.70 by @renovate in #1861
• Remove lambda default value by @bmarty in #1862
• Add more unit tests by @bmarty in #1878
• Remove unused code to increase code coverage. by @bmarty in #1872
• More preview on TimelineItemEventRow by @bmarty in #1866
• Fix see room in room list after leaving by @ganfra in #1885
• Allow polls to be edited by @jonnyandrew in #1869
• Change wording for view source by @bmarty in #1887
• Update dependency app.cash.molecule:molecule-runtime to v1.3.1 by @renovate in #1889
• Update dependency org.jsoup:jsoup to v1.17.1 by @renovate in #1893
• Extract compound tokens and theming to compound-android library by @jmartinesp in #1888
• Update plugin dependencycheck to v9.0.1 by @renovate in #1890
• Update plugin detekt to v1.23.4 by @renovate in #1891
• Update gradle/gradle-build-action action to v2.10.0 by @renovate in #1894
• Test notification factory by @bmarty in #1899
• Merge TimelineItemEventRow's textForInReplyTo and attachmentThumbnailInfoForInReplyTo functions by @julioromano in #1859
• Kotlin duration and MimeTypes by @bmarty in #1903
• Sync Strings by @ElementBot in #1892
• Add special notifications for mentions by @jmartinesp in #1846
• Timeline : Scroll to end of timeline when sending a new message #1877 by @ganfra in #1879
• Add option to delete a poll while editing the poll by @jonnyandrew in #1895
• Update wysiwyg to v2.19.0 by @renovate in #1909
• Confirm back navigation when editing a poll only if the poll was changed by @jonnyandrew in #1886
• Fix issues around read receipt by @bmarty in #1910
• Open room member avatar in a media viewer by @jmartinesp in #1911
• Rename params in NodeFactories for clarity by @julioromano in #1916
• Upgrade to rust sdk 0.1.71 by @julioromano in #1905
• Use the right avatar for DMs in DM rooms by @jmartinesp in #1917
• Try to make all collections used in Compose code immutable by @jmartinesp in #1922
• Update wysiwyg to v2.20.0 by @renovate in #1921
• Update actions/setup-java action to v4 by @renovate in #1926
• Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v0.1.72 by @renovate in #1928
• Update dependency androidx.compose.material3:material3 to v1.2.0-alpha12 by @renovate in #1929
• Set a default power level to join calls in room by @jmartinesp in #1927
• Update dependency gradle to v8.5 by @renovate in #1924
• Remove warnings in the compose compiler reports configuration gradle code by @jmartinesp in #1932
• RoomList: introduce incremental loading to improve performances. by @ganfra in #1920
• Update dependency io.element.android:compound-android to v0.0.2 by @renovate in #1908
• Timeline fixes by @bmarty in #1934
• Test android local media actions and other classes by @bmarty in #1936
• Feature/fga/user detail direct chat by @ganfra in #1938
• Feature/bma/test android media pre processor by @bmarty in #1925
• Update dependency androidx.webkit:webkit to v1.9.0 by @renovate in #1930
• Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android to v7 by @renovate in #1935
• Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v0.1.73 by @renovate in #1942
• Update dependency com.squareup:kotlinpoet to v1.15.2 by @renovate in #1937
• Update plugin ktlint to v12 by @renovate in #1945
• Update dependency io.nlopez.compose.rules:detekt to v0.3.5 by @renovate in #1906
• Update plugin dependencycheck to v9.0.2 by @renovate in #1943
• More Konsist test for tests and cleanup tests by @bmarty in #1956
• Update sqldelight to v2.0.1 by @renovate in #1946
• Update dagger to v2.49 by @renovate in #1947
• Update plugin dependencyanalysis to v1.27.0 by @renovate in #1951
• Update dependency com.squareup:kotlinpoet to v1.15.3 by @renovate in #1954
• Sync Strings by @ElementBot in #1952
• Add setting to disable notification for invites by @bmarty in #1955
• Migrate to PostHog 3.0.0 by @bmarty in #1958
• Update dependency com.posthog:posthog-android to v3.0.0 by @renovate in #1962
• Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v0.1.75 by @renovate in #1960
• Key backup iteration by @bmarty in #1961
• Update actions/setup-python action to v5 by @renovate in #1964
• Update android.gradle.plugin to v8.2.0 by @renovate in #1939
• Clip usernames by @bmarty in #1959
• Update plugin dependencycheck to v9.0.3 by @renovate in #1963
• Ignore Launcher intent (was printing a warning). by @bmarty in #1968
• Update wysiwyg to v2.21.0 by @renovate in #1967
• Feature/bma/fix crash when openingroom by @bmarty in #1972
• Update dependency com.google.firebase:firebase-bom to v32.7.0 by @renovate in #1976
• Update plugin dependencycheck to v9.0.4 by @renovate in #1983
• Update danger/danger-js action to v11.3.1 by @renovate in #1974
• Resource cleanup by @bmarty in #1985
• Sync Strings by @ElementBot in #1989
• Update dependency net.java.dev.jna:jna to v5.14.0 by @renovate in #1986
• Feature/bma/rageshake trace config by @bmarty in #1969
• Hide sender info in direct rooms, and add a timeline preview for DM by @bmarty in #1981
• Render images in notification by @bmarty in #1992
• Update plugin ktlint to v12.0.3 by @renovate in #1993
• Fix emoji representation by @bmarty in #1965
• SAS emoji sync: fix issue on Emoji 30 (Smiley) by @bmarty in #1997
• Update actions/setup-python action to v5 by @renovate in #1995
• Update dependency com.vanniktech:blurhash to v0.2.0 by @renovate in #1994
• Fix notification avatar by @bmarty in #2001
• Update gradle/gradle-build-action action to v2.11.0 by @renovate in #2002
• Element hq by @bmarty in #2004
• Update plugin dependencyanalysis to v1.28.0 by @renovate in #2003
• Accessibility: do not read initial used for avatar out loud. (#1864) by @bmarty in #2005
• Filter out finished features from developer options screen. by @bmarty in #2007
• Consider that the state is Done when the state is Uploading with backedUpCount == totalCount by @bmarty in #2012
• Update plugin dependencycheck to v9.0.5 by @renovate in #2010
• Use RTE TextView for timeline text messages, add mention pills to messages by @jmartinesp in #1990
• Update dependency androidx.exifinterface:exifinterface to v1.3.7 by @renovate in #2019
• Update dependency androidx.annotation:annotation-jvm to v1.7.1 by @renovate in #2017
• Display edited indicator for polls in the timeline by @jonnyandrew in #1897
• Update lifecycle to v2.7.0-rc02 by @renovate in #2020
• Handle tapping on user mentions by @jmartinesp in #2021
• Update dependency androidx.compose.material3:material3 to v1.2.0-beta01 by @renovate in #2018
• Fix mentions font weight and horizontal padding by @jmartinesp in #2025
• Improve back-navigation for invitations by @ganfra in #2024
• Fix Maestro by @bmarty in #2029
• Feature/bma/open room avatar by @bmarty in #2027
• Update activity to v1.8.2 by @renovate in #2016
• ReadReceipt by @bmarty in #2015
• Add warning message to 'mentions and keywords only' notification option by @jmartinesp in #2028
• Only download content.json from Localazy. by @pixlwave in #2031
• Update wysiwyg to v2.22.0 by @renovate in #2030
• Update actions/upload-artifact action to v4 by @renovate in #2034
• Poll history UI by @julioromano in #1913
• Update dependency io.nlopez.compose.rules:detekt to v0.3.6 by @renovate in #2036
• Scroll to bottom if the new event is from me, even if sent from another session by @bmarty in #2035
• Fix scaling of timeline images by @jmartinesp in #1941
• Update dependency io.nlopez.compose.rules:detekt to v0.3.7 by @renovate in #2042
• Update plugin dependencycheck to v9.0.6 by @renovate in #2043
• Fix title of sign out screen regarding the different states by @bmarty in #2013
• Sync Strings by @ElementBot in #2048
• Update dependency io.nlopez.compose.rules:detekt to v0.3.8 by @renovate in #2046
• Fix invite wording by @bmarty in #2039
• Fix codecov badge link, broken due to organization renaming. by @bmarty in #2049
• fix linkify by @bmarty in #2040
• Message bottom sheet: always show user avatar by @bmarty in #2050
• Update plugin dependencycheck to v9.0.7 by @renovate in #2051
• Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android to v7.1.0 by @renovate in #2052
• Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v0.1.78 by @renovate in #2055
• Optional thumbnails by @bmarty in #2058
• Extract RoomList select to its own module by @bmarty in #1975
• Update dependency com.google.truth:truth to v1.2.0 by @renovate in #2068
• Hide room list menu by @bmarty in #2063
• Do not render roomId by @bmarty in #2061
• Update gradle/gradle-build-action action to v2.11.1 by @renovate in #2070
• Appyx Overlay by @ganfra in #2059
• Rework timestamp positioning by @jmartinesp in #2075
• Font size on 'All Chats' was changing mid animation by @jmartinesp in #2073
• Feature/bma/timestamp by @bmarty in #2077
• Attempt to fix test on CI. by @bmarty in #2071
• Reaction offset in dm by @bmarty in #2078
• Video call icon by @bmarty in #2067
• Emojis in custom reaction bottomsheet are too tiny by @jmartinesp in #2074
• Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v0.1.80 by @renovate in #2086
• Fix timeline back pagination loop in encrypted room. by @ganfra in #2041
• Room list badges by @bmarty in #2080
• Enable Chat backup, Mentions and Read Receipt in release. by @bmarty in #2087
• Revert "Room list badges" by @jmartinesp in #2095

Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.4.0