element-x-android/CHANGES.md

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.

Changes in Element X v0.3.2 (2023-11-22)

Features ✨

• Add ongoing call indicator to rooms lists items. (#1158)
• Add support for typing mentions in the message composer. (#1453)
• Add intentional mentions to messages. This needs to be enabled in developer options since it's disabled by default. (#1591)
• Update voice message recording behaviour. Instead of holding the record button, users can now tap the record button to start recording and tap again to stop recording. (#1784)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Always ensure media temp dir exists (#1790)

Other changes

• Update icons and move away from PreferenceText components. (#1718)
• Add item "This is the beginning of..." at the beginning of the timeline. (#1801)
• LockScreen : rework LoggedInFlowNode and back management when locked. (#1806)
• Suppress usage of removeTimeline method. (#1824)
• Remove Element Call feature flag, it's now always enabled.
• Reverted the EC base URL to https://call.element.io.
• Moved the option to override this URL to developer settings from advanced settings.

Changes in Element X v0.3.1 (2023-11-09)

Features ✨

• Chat backup is still under a feature flag, but when enabled, user can enter their recovery key (it's also possible to input a passphrase) to unlock the encrypted room history. (#1770)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Improve confusing text in the 'ready to start verification' screen. (#879)
• Message composer wasn't resized when selecting a several lines message to reply to, then a single line one. (#1560)

Other changes

• PIN: Set lock grace period to 0. (#1732)

Changes in Element X v0.3.0 (2023-10-31)

Features ✨

• Element Call: change the 'join call' button in a chat room when there's an active call. (#1158)
• Mentions: add mentions suggestion view in RTE (#1452)
• Record and send voice messages (#1596)
• Enable voice messages for all users (#1669)
• Receive and play a voice message (#2084)
• Enable Element Call integration in rooms by default, fix several issues when creating or joining calls.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Group fallback notification to avoid having plenty of them displayed. (#994)
• Hide keyboard when exiting the chat room screen. (#1375)
• Always register the pusher when application starts (#1481)
• Ensure screen does not turn off when playing a video (#1519)
• Fix issue where text is cleared when cancelling a reply (#1617)

Other changes

• Remove usage of blocking methods. (#1563)

Changes in Element X v0.2.4 (2023-10-12)

Features ✨

• [Rich text editor] Add full screen mode (#1447)
• Improve rendering of m.emote. (#1497)
• Improve deleted session behavior. (#1520)

Bugfixes 🐛

• WebP images can't be sent as media. (#1483)
• Fix back button not working in bottom sheets. (#1517)
• Render body of unknown msgtype in the timeline and in the room list (#1539)

Other changes

• Room : makes subscribeToSync/unsubscribeFromSync suspendable. (#1457)
• Add some Konsist tests. (#1526)

Changes in Element X v0.2.3 (2023-09-27)

Features ✨

• Handle installation of Apks from the media viewer. (#1432)
• Integrate SDK 0.1.58 (#1437)

Other changes

• Element call: add custom parameters to Element Call urls. (#1434)

Changes in Element X v0.2.2 (2023-09-21)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Add animation when rendering the timeline to avoid glitches. (#1323)
• Fix crash when trying to take a photo or record a video. (#1395)

Changes in Element X v0.2.1 (2023-09-20)

Features ✨

• Bump Rust SDK to v0.1.56
• [Rich text editor] Add link support to rich text editor (#1309)
• Let the SDK figure the best scheme given an homeserver URL (thus allowing HTTP homeservers) (#1382)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix ANR on RoomList when notification settings change. (#1370)

Other changes

• Element Call: support scheme io.element.call (#1377)
• [DI] Rework how dagger components are created and provided. (#1378)
• Remove usage of async-uniffi as it leads to a deadlocks and memory leaks. (#1381)

Changes in Element X v0.2.0 (2023-09-18)

Features ✨

• Bump Rust SDK to v0.1.54
• Add a "Mute" shortcut icon and a "Notifications" section in the room details screen (#506)
• Add a notification permission screen to the initial flow. (#897)
• Integrate Element Call into EX by embedding a call in a WebView. (#1300)
• Implement Bloom effect modifier. (#1217)
• Set color on display name and default avatar in the timeline. (#1224)
• Display a thread decorator in timeline so we know when a message is coming from a thread. (#1236)
• [Rich text editor] Integrate rich text editor library. Note that markdown is now not supported and further formatting support will be introduced through the rich text editor. (#1172)
• [Rich text editor] Add formatting menu (accessible via the '+' button) (#1261)
• [Rich text editor] Add feature flag for rich text editor. Markdown support can now be enabled by disabling the rich text editor. (#1289)
• [Rich text editor] Update design (#1332)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Make links in room topic clickable (#612)
• Reply action: harmonize conditions in bottom sheet and swipe to reply. (#1173)
• Fix system bar color after login on light theme. (#1222)
• Fix long click on simple formatted messages (#1232)
• Enable polls in release build. (#1241)
• Fix top padding in room list when app is opened in offline mode. (#1297)
• [Rich text editor] Fix 'text formatting' option only partially visible (#1335)
• [Rich text editor] Ensure keyboard opens for reply and text formatting modes (#1337)
• [Rich text editor] Fix placeholder spilling onto multiple lines (#1347)

Other changes

• Add a sub-screen "Notifications" in the existing application Settings (#510)
• Exclude some groups related to analytics to be included. (#1191)
• Use the new SyncIndicator API. (#1244)
• Improve RoomSummary mapping by using RoomInfo. (#1251)
• Ensure Posthog data are sent to "https://posthog.element.io" (#1269)
• New app icon, with monochrome support. (#1363)

Changes in Element X v0.1.6 (2023-09-04)

Features ✨

• Enable the Polls feature. Allows to create, view, vote and end polls. (#1196)
• Create poll. (#1143)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Ensure notification for Event from encrypted room get decrypted content. (#1178)
• Make sure Snackbars are only displayed once. (#928)
• Fix the orientation of sent images. (#1135)
• Bug reporter crashes when 'send logs' is disabled. (#1168)
• Add missing link to the terms on the analytics setting screen. (#1177)
• Re-enable SyncService.withEncryptionSync to improve decryption of notifications. (#1198)
• Crash with aspectRatio modifier when Float.NaN was used as input. (#1995)

Other changes

• Remove unnecessary year in copyright mention. (#1187)

Changes in Element X v0.1.5 (2023-08-28)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix crash when opening any room. (#1160)

Changes in Element X v0.1.4 (2023-08-28)

Features ✨

• Allow cancelling media upload (#769)
• Enable OIDC support. (#1127)
• Add a "Setting up account" screen, displayed the first time the user logs in to the app (per account). (#1149)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Videos sent from the app were cropped in some cases. (#862)
• Timeline: sender names are now displayed in one single line. (#1033)
• Fix TextButtons being displayed in black. (#1077)
• Linkify links in HTML contents. (#1079)
• Fix bug reporter failing after not finding some log files. (#1082)
• Fix rendering of inline elements in list items. (#1090)
• Fix crash RuntimeException "No matching key found for the ciphertext in the stream" (#1101)
• Make links in messages clickable again. (#1111)
• When event has no id, just cancel parsing the latest room message for a room. (#1125)
• Only display verification prompt after initial sync is done. (#1131)

In development 🚧

• [Poll] Add feature flag in developer options (#1064)
• [Polls] Improve UI and render ended state (#1113)

Other changes

• Compound: add ListItem and ListSectionHeader components. (#990)
• Migrate object to data object in sealed interface / class #1135 (#1135)

Changes in Element X v0.1.2 (2023-08-16)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Filter push notifications using push rules. (#640)
• Use for instead of forEach in DefaultDiffCacheInvalidator to improve performance. (#1035)

In development 🚧

• [Poll] Render start event in the timeline (#1031)

Other changes

• Add Button component based on Compound designs (#1021)
• Compound: implement dialogs. (#1043)
• Compound: customise IconButton component. (#1049)
• Compound: implement DropdownMenu customisations. (#1050)
• Compound: implement Snackbar component. (#1054)

Changes in Element X v0.1.0 (2023-07-19)

First release of Element X 🚀!