The previous code had a number of problems, including:
- Calls to the filters API were scattered through UI and viewmodel code.
- Repeated places where the differences between the v1 and v2 Mastodon
filters API had to be handled.
- UI and viewmodel code using the network filter classes, which tied
them to the API implementation.
- Error handling was inconsistent.
Fix this.
## FiltersRepository
- All filter management now goes through `FiltersRepository`.
- `FiltersRepository` exposes the current set of filters as a
`StateFlow`, and automatically updates it when the current server
changes or any changes to filters are made. This makes
`FilterChangeEvent` obsolete.
- Other operations on filters are exposed through `FiltersRepository` as
functions for viewmodels to call.
- Within the bulk of the app a new `Filter` class is used to represent a
filter; handling the differences between the v1 and v2 APIs is
encapsulated in `FiltersRepository`.
- Represent errors when handling filters as subclasses of `PachliError`,
and use `Result<V, E>` throughout, including using `ApiResult` for all
filter API results.
- Provide different types to distinguish between new-and-unsaved
filters, new-and-unsaved keywords, and in-progress edits to filters.
## Editing filters
- Accept an optional complete filter, or filter ID, as parameters in the
intent that launches `EditFilterActivity`. Pass those to the viewmodel
using assisted injection so the viewmodel has the info immediately.
- In the viewmodel use a new `FilterViewData` type to model the data
used to display and edit the filter.
- Start using the UiSuccess/UiError model. Refrain from cutting over to
full the action implementation as that would be a much larger change.
- Use `FiltersRepository` instead of making any API calls directly.
## Listing filters
- Use `FiltersRepository` instead of making any API calls directly.
## EventHub
- Remove `FilterChangedEvent`. Update everywhere that used it to use the
flow from `FiltersRepository`.
Previous code blindly inserted commas and semi-colons as separators
between the components of a content description. If some of those
components were null you could have a content description that looked
like "... , , , ..." or similar, and the repeated reading of "comma" by
screen readers was jarring and reduced accessibility.
Fix this by inserting punctuation only where necessary, building up the
string piece by piece instead of using a string resource with hardcoded
punctuation.
Fixes#791.
When autocompleting hashtags while composing a status the previous code
showed the hashtags in the same order they're returned by the server,
with no additional information.
This doesn't allow the user to make an informed choice about which
hashtag might be better to use. For example, trying to choose between
"#nivenly" and "#NivenlyFoundation".
To fix that, include the hashtag's usage when receiving data from the
server. Sum that, and show it to the user in the hashtag list. Sort the
hashtags by popularity, most popular first.
Mastodon now supports additional (optional) author information to show
as a byline on preview cards.
Use this (if included), to show the author's avatar, name, and link to
their profile. If tapped a click on a new `Target.BYLINE` target is
registered allowing fragments/activities to launch
`ViewProfileActivity`.
Include this as an action in `ListStatusAccessibilityDelegate`, and
provide `TrendingLinksAccessibilityDelegate` to provide accessibility
actions when viewing trending links.
Previous code assumed server responses would always be JSON, and had no
special handling for mis-configured servers that sometimes return HTML;
for example, if the server has a bug, or there's a reverse proxy in
front of the server issuing DoS-prevention challenges.
This could cause errors to show with no useful debugging information.
Update `ApiResult` to check the content-type in the response and return
one of two new errors if the content-type is missing or wrong. Also
include the HTTP code in `ApiResponse` for use elsewhere.
Update `ThrowableExtensions` to pull the `error` and optional
`description` out of the error body.
Update `PachliError` so `formatArgs` can be an array of arbitrary types,
not just strings.
Update `MediaUploader`; expose the different errors as new
`MediaUploaderError` types instead of `Exception` subclasses, and return
`Result<V, E>` where appropriate.
Update `ComposeViewModel` to use the new `MediaUploaderError` types and
create new `PickMediaError` to report issues there, replacing
`VideoOrImageException`.
Update `ComposeActivity` to use the new error types and show errors
until the user dismisses them, so they're better able to see and report
problems.
Fixes#704.
The user has to specify the language they're posting in, and sometimes
they might get it wrong (e.g., replying to a post that also had the
language set incorrectly, forgetfulness, etc).
This has accessiblity issues (only following statuses in a given
language fails, translation can fail, etc).
Prevent this by trying to detect the language the status is written in
when the user tries to post it. If the detected language and the set
language do not match, and the detection is 60+% confident, warn the
user the status language might be incorrect, and offer to correct it
before posting.
How this works differs by device and API level.
- API 23 - 28, fdroid and github build flavours
- Not supported. A no-op language detector is used.
- API 29 and above, fdroid and github build flavours
- Uses Android TextClassifier to detect the likely language
- AP 23 and above, google build flavour
- Uses ML Kit language identification
To do this:
- Add `LanguageIdentifier`, with methods to do the identification, and
`LanguageIdentifier.Factory` to create the identifiers.
- Inject the factory in `ComposeActivity`
- Detect the language when the user posts, showing a dialog if there's a
sufficiently large discrepancy.
The ML Kit dependencies (language models) will be installed by the Play
libraries, so there's some machinery to check that they're installed,
and kick off the installation if not. If they can't be installed then
the language check is bypassed.
Update the privacy policy, as the ML Kit libraries may send some data to
Google.
This reverts commit 3870267701.
With this commit Pachli Current crash reports in Google Play showed
instances of:
```
Exception java.lang.RuntimeException:
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication (ActivityThread.java:7716)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleBindApplication
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage (ActivityThread.java:2478)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage (Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce (Looper.java:230)
at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:319)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main (ActivityThread.java:8919)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run (RuntimeInit.java:578)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main (ZygoteInit.java:1103)
Caused by java.lang.IllegalStateException: WorkManager is not initialized properly. You have explicitly disabled WorkManagerInitializer in your manifest, have not manually called WorkManager#initialize at this point, and your Application does not implement Configuration.Provider.
at androidx.work.impl.WorkManagerImpl.getInstance (WorkManagerImpl.java:170)
at androidx.work.WorkManager.getInstance (WorkManager.java:184)
at app.pachli.PachliApplication.onCreate (PachliApplication.kt:96)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate (Instrumentation.java:1316)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication (ActivityThread.java:7711)
```
on Samsung devices at API 34.
By my understanding this is a "can't happen" issue, the `WorkManager` is
supposed to be initialised by the androidx.startup content provider
before `PachliApplication` starts.
But it clearly does, so revert this change to be safe.
Implementing predictive back support inadvertently broke the code
ensuring activities are restarted when the font size or family changes.
So the user could change the font in Preferences, see the change be
immediately reflected in the preferences screen, then go back to the
previous activity and the change wouldn't be reflected.
Fix this by restoring some of the previous code.
Previous code set the initial status text, and then set up the callbacks
which meant that the status' length was initially 0, even when editing a
status.
This meant that, e.g., editing a status to change its language would
erroneously report the status body was empty. It also meant that editing
a status and changing just the language would not prompt to save or
discard the changes if moving back.
Fix this.
First, only set the status content after the callbacks that compute the
status length.
Second, provide a function that sets the status' language, and update
the close confirmation state when the language changes. Modify isDirty()
to compare the original and current language when determining if the
status is dirty.
Fixes#701
Previous code did not provide whitespace between different media labels
when media is not loaded.
In addition, the icon for the media was centre-aligned vertically with
the text, making it difficult to scan and determine when one media label
ends and another one starts.
Fix this by adding an 8dp margin between the media labels, and using a
TextView subclass that vertically aligns the media icon with the first
line of text.
Set the compound drawables with relative alignment, so they behave
appropriately in RTL layouts.
Fixes#751.
The user might have set a profile header image that is close to the
colour of the text in the account header in the left navigation menu.
This can make the text difficult or impossible to see.
Work around this by drawing a partially transparent scrim behind the
text so it's always displayed over a background that makes the text
legible.
Fixes#298
Previous code created one shortcut per account, which could exceed the
maximum number of shortcuts allowed, causing a crash.
Fix this by creating no more than the max number of shortcuts while
ensuring that the active account is always included.
Fixes#752
`ImageDownsizer.downsizeImage()`:
- Remove the return value, it was ignored
- Throw `FileNotFoundException` when `openInputStream` returns null
`ImageDownsizer.getImageOrientation()`:
- Throw `FileNotFoundException` when `openInputStream` returns null
`MediaUploader.prepareMedia()`:
- Copy URI contents using Okio buffers / source / sink
`UriExtensions`:
- Rename from `IOUtils`
- Implement `Uri.copyToFile()` using Okio buffers / source / sink
- Replace `ProgressRequestBody()` with `Uri.asRequestBody()` using Okio
buffers / source / sink
`DraftHelper.copyToFolder()`
- Use Okio buffers / source / sink
`CompositeWithOpaqueBackground`
- Use constants `SIZE_BYTES` and `CHARSET` instead of magic values
- Use `Objects.hash` when hashing multiple objects
Based on work by Christophe Beyls in
- https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/4366
- https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/4372
Previous code depended on, but did not initialise, the androidx
splashscreen library.
Fix that, using the library on API < 31, or the platform implementation
otherwise.
`SplashActivity` is no longer needed, launching goes straight in to
`MainActivity`.
Version 1.2.0-alpha01 is needed to fix some theme corruption bugs in
earlier versions of the library.
Previous layout set `navigationContentDescription` to
`action_open_drawer`, which is not correct for that part of the UI.
Remove it, and the default "Navigate up" is used.
Move initialisation of WorkManager and Timber in to new `Initializer`
classes, managed by `androidx.startup`.
There's a false-positive `BadConfigurationProvider` lint message because
the `Configuration.Provider` is in the content provider and not the
application class.
New lint checks mean:
- Some trivial uses of String.format() are replaced with templates
- Use a string resource for the scheduled date and time
Some reported SetTextI18n warnings have been ignored, as they relate to
e.g., clearing a view's text by setting it to "".
Implement suggestions as a new `feature:suggestions` module, with
associated activity, fragment, etc.
Suggested accounts are shown with their normal information, as well as
information about the number of follows / followers, and a guide to
posting frequency, so the user can make a more informed decision about
whether to follow or not.
In the previous code `PachliError` could correctly chain errors and
generate error messages, `ApiError` didn't, which is why there was the
temporary `ApiError.fmt()` extension function.
Rewrite `ApiError` to implement `PachliError` so it gets these benefits
and to reduce the number of different error-handling mechanisms in the
code.
Main changes:
- `PachliError` is now an interface so it can be extended by other
error interfaces.
- All the `ApiError` subclasses implement `PachliError`, and can
specify the error string and interpolated variables at the point of
declaration.
- Update `ListsRepository` and `ServerRepository` to return
`PachliError` subclasses.
The crash was caused by an uncaught exception when calling
`MastodonApi#domainBlocks`.
Update the `BackgroundMessageView` for the error message so it fills the
screen like on other pages.
Fixes#696
Previous code was inconsistent about using getServerErrorMessage() and
whether or not the case where getServerErrorMessage() returns null was
handled.
Switch to using getErrorString() which does handle the null case and
always returns a usable string.
Some string resources are rendered temporarily unused by this change.
They will be used again soon, so configure lint to ignore them at the
moment.
Previous code always included the transitionKind enum as an extra, and
could cause a crash if the activity launched by the intent was not a
Pachli activity.
Fixes#700.
The F-Droid API can return a `suggestedVersionCode` that F-Droid has not
successfully built (e.g., there was a network issue preventing F-Droid
from fetching the source code at the time of the last build).
This meant users were being prompted to update when there was not a
built package to update to.
Fix this by verifying that `suggestedVersionCode` appears in the list of
packages. If it doesn't then fall back to the highest version code in
the list of packages.
Fixes#684
Previous code didn't get the viewmodel to check if the content had
changed, so `onBackPressedCallback` wasn't enabled, and the user could
edit the bio and press "back" without being prompted to save their
changes.
Edited polls only include the list of options with titles; no other
metadata (poll ID, single/multiple choice, vote counts, etc). Since the
data shape didn't match Moshi wasn't decoding the data.
Provide dedicated data classes to model the response, and add a fourth
poll display option to represent viewing an edit history snapshot.
Replace `ContextCompat.getDrawable()`, as the app-compat version has
platform fixes and backports.
appcompat-lint warns about bare `context.getDrawable()`, but does not
cover `ContextCompat` (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/337905331)
`ListStatusAccessiblityDelegate` was ignoring notifications because it
was checking the status against the concrete `StatusViewData` and not
the interface `IStatusViewData`.
Fix that and now notifications have accessibility actions.
`ConversationsFragment` didn't set the accessibility delegate, so no
actions appeared. Fix that so they do.
Crash was occuring because the instance info hadn't been fetched, trying
to take the last item of an empty list.
To fix:
- Expose the instance info as a state flow, with a default. New instance
info is fetched whenever the active account changes.
- Do the same for the emojis supported by the server.
- Update call sites as appropriate.
- Mark `InstanceInfoRepository` as `@Singleton` so it isn't repeatedly
created causing fresh content fetches.
The tests needed updating to get this to work.
- Extract the network fake modules in to a network-test module so
multiple other modules can use them.
- Rewrite `InstanceInfoRepositoryTest` to use Hilt and use Turbine to
test the new flows.
Checking this showed cosmetic bugs in the About layout when instance
info is missing, clean those up.
The change in 5959d23d resulted in a stuck margin when scrolling up in
the account view.
Fix the `SwipeRefreshLayout` offset in a different way that doesn't have
that problem; move the spinner's start position to the top of the screen
(instead of the negative offset it normally has) and keep the same
relative offset from the end position.
Have it scale in on the drag to complete the effect.
Previous code used a single animation type (slide) when transitioning,
the transition was quite slow, and didn't behave appropriately if the
device was set to a RTL writing system.
In addition, handling the back affordance didn't work well with the new
"Predictive Back" feature in Android 14
(https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation/custom-back/predictive-back-gesture).
Fix this.
## Transitions
To update the transitions the `startActivityWithSlideInAnimation()`
implementation (and associated `finishWithoutSlideOutAnimation()`) have
been replaced.
There are three transitions; `default`, `slide`, and `explode`,
represented as an enum passed to the activity intent.
The `default` transition is the activity transition from Android 14,
from the Android open source project
(https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/android-14.0.0_r18:frameworks/base/core/res/res/anim/;bpv=1).
This is used for most transitions.
The `slide` transition is the pre-existing slide transition, with a
shorter transition time so it feels more responsive, and an RTL
implementation. This is used when there is a strong spatial component to
the navigation, for example, when going from:
- a status to its thread
- a preference menu item to its subscreen
- a filter in a list to the "edit filter" screen
- viewing your profile to editing your profile
The `explode` transition is used when the state of the app changes
significantly, such as when switching accounts.
Activities are now started with `startActivityWithTransition()` which
sets the intent and prepares the transition. `BaseActivity` checks the
intent for the transition type and makes further changes to the
transition as necessary.
## Predictive back
"Predictive back" needs to know what the back button would do before the
user interacts with it with an `onBackPressedCallback` that is either
enabled or disabled. This required refactoring some code (particularly
in `ComposeActivity`) to gather data ahead of time and enable/disable
the callback appropriately.
## Fixed bugs
- Back button wasn't stepping back through the tabs in AccountActivity
- Modifying a filter and pressing back without saving wasn't prompting
the user to save the changes
- Writing a content warning and then hiding it would still count the
text of the content warning toward's the post's length
## Other cleanups
- Use `ViewCompat.setTransitionName()` instead of setting the
`transitionName` property
- Delete the unused `fade_in` and `fade_out` animations.
- Use androidx-activity 1.9.0 to get the latest predictive back support
library code
- Show validation errors when creating / editing filters
AccountActivity is full screen, so the swipe spinner was appearing very
close to the top system bar. Adjust the spinner's top margin to avoid
the system bar, and have it scale in/out so it doesn't appear to slide
out from an invisible barrier.
Previous code didn't trigger the transition from `ViewMediaActivity`
when playing a video until the video had loaded. If the connection was
slow or had other issues this resulted in the video "sticking" in the
timeline until it loaded.
Change this, and trigger the transition immediately.
Fixes#598
While looking at this:
- Save the play/pause state of the video during a swipe, pause the
video, and restore the state when the swipe is cancelled.
- Transition the entire video view, to improve the animated transition
back to the activity.
- Remove the custom progress spinner, use the one provided by the
player.
- Display the player controller via the layout XML instead of code
The previous code didn't set a limit for the number of posts, links, and
hashtags to fetch on the trending pages, so used the conservative
defaults.
Increase these to the API maximums to show the user more information.
The PageCache implementation wasn't properly dealing with timelines that
could return statuses in non-chronological order.
For example, if you bookmark a recent status, then go back in the
timeline and bookmark an older status; the bookmarks timeline is ordered
by the time of the bookmark event, not the creation time of the status
that was bookmarked.
If a sufficiently old status was bookmarked so it straddled a page
boundary you could have a situation where the range of status IDs in two
different cached pages overlapped.
E.g., this log extract:
```
0: k: 110912736679636090, prev: 3521487, next: 3057175, size: 40, range: 112219564107059218..110912736679636090
1: k: 111651744569170291, prev: 3049659, next: 2710596, size: 40, range: 111926741634665808..111651744569170291
```
The range of IDs in page 0 overlaps with the range of IDs in page 1.
The previous `PageCache` assumed this couldn't happen, and broke in
various interesting ways when it did.
E.g., you can't find the page that contains a given status by looking
for the largest key less than the needle's status id. Given the pages
above looking for ID 112219564107059218 (first status in page 0) would
suggest page 1 as having the greatest key less than that ID. This
manifested as the correct page briefly appearing in the UI (page 0),
then being completely replaced with page 1.
Rewrite PageCache to fix this. The previous implementation used a single
`TreeMap` assuming items were always sorted by ID. The new code keeps an
unordered map from status IDs to the page that contains that status, and
a separate `LinkedList` that contains the pages in order they're
provided by the API. This decouples the ordering of pages in the cache
with the overall ordering of items within the pages.
https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/pull/589 changed the initial
setting of the action bar title to use `binding.mainToolbar.title`
instead of `supportActionBar?.title`.
Not sure why, but this doesn't work on first use, and was showing
"Pachli Current" until the user changes tabs. Swap one usage back to
`supportActionBar?.title` to fix this, and update the other to do the
same thing to keep the code consistent.
Use `unicodeWrap` when inserting placeholders in error messages so they
set the correct text direction.
Update some strings with formatting directives to (a) include `_fmt`
in the name, and (b) use `%1$s` instead of `%s`.
The compose button isn't initially working on `MainActivity`. It is only
properly setup after changing tabs.
Fix by calling `MainActivity.refreshComposeButtonState(TabViewData)` on
creation.
Previously, modifying any tabs meant opening the left-side nav, opening
Account preferences > Tabs, and then adding / removing tabs. This is
time consuming, and difficult for new users to discover.
In addition, it was possible to remove the Home tab, and there was a
hardcoded minimum of at least two tabs.
Fix this.
When viewing a timeline that is not already in a tab an "Add to tab"
menu item is enabled, which appends the timeline to the list of existing
tabs.
When viewing a timeline in a tab (that is not the Home timeline) a
"Remove tab" menu item is enabled, which removes the tab from the list
of existing tabs.
If the user removes the active tab (either with this menu item, or
through preferences) the tab to the left of the active tab becomes the
new active tab.
A new "Manage tabs" menu item is also provided, as a shortcut to the
existing Account preferences > Tabs screen.
When managing tabs the Home timeline can not be removed; the button to
remove it is removed, and swiping is disabled on that list item. The
restriction of "at least two tabs" has also been removed.
`NotificationsActivity` has been removed, as `TimelineActivity` can
display `NotificationsFragment`.
To make the three "Trending" types (hashtags, links, and posts) more
visually distinct add two new icons for links (ic_newspaper) and posts
(ic_whatshot).
Fixes#572, #584, #585, #569
Mastodon API uses an "empty" `expires_in` value for a filter to mean
"Does not expire" (i.e., indefinite).
This was modelled as a null. Which doesn't work, because Retrofit does
not send name/value pairs in encoded forms if the value is null.
Fix this by making the API type a `String?`, and explicitly using the
empty string when indefinite expiry is used. This has to be converted
back to an Int? in a few places.
See
https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/issues/1216#issuecomment-2030222940
Previous code was inconsistent about how and when the FAB was hidden if
the user had set the relevant preference.
- Sometimes the FAB has hidden by setting the visibility to false, which
removed it with no animation.
- Sometimes the value of the preference was checked once, when the
fragment or activity was created.
- Some timelines didn't show the FAB (Hashtags, Favourites, Bookmarks,
TrendingLinks, TrendingStatuses).
- Logic for figuring out which `ComposeActivity` intent to use was
scattered across different files.
Improve this by:
- Expose changes to the `FAB_HIDE` preference in the relevant viewmodels
as a flow the UI component can collect.
- Centralise the show/hide logic in a new `ActionButtonScrollListener`
class, and always using `show()`/`hide()` to animate the transition.
- Centralise the logic for creating the `ComposeActivity` intent in
`TabViewData`.
`TabData` recorded the type of the timeline the user had added to a tab.
`TimelineKind` is another type that records general information about
configured timelines, with identical properties.
There's no need for both, so remove `TabData` and use `TimelineKind` in
its place.
`TimelineKind` is itself mis-named; it's not just the timeline's kind
but also holds data necessary to display that timeline (e.g., the list
ID if it's a `.UserList`, or the hashtags if it's a `.Hashtags`) so
rename to `Timeline` to better reflect its usage. Move it to a new
`core.model` module.
Workaround a Glide bug where the error() handler is not always called,
in this case when the URL does not resolve to an image; for example, a
misconfigured server that redirects requests for the image to an HTML
page.
Catch the exception and use the default avatar image in these cases.
Previous code would handle some expected exceptions (IO, HTTP) when
fetching a timeline, and show them to the user. Any other exception
would crash.
Now, surface all exceptions. Treat IO and HTTP exceptions as retryable
and show the "Retry" option, all others are considered non-retryable.
Provide a specific error string for exceptions caused by bad JSON.
Previous code used custom regular expressions to extract URLs, hashtags,
and mentions from text while the user was writing a post. These were
inconsistent with the ones that Mastodon uses so the derived character
count could be wrong.
As well as being visually incorrect this could prevent the user from
posting a status that was within the length limit, or allow them to
attempt to post a status that was over the length limit (which would
then fail).
Fix this by dropping the homegrown regular expressions and using the
same text parsing library that Mastodon users; twitter-text. This has
been converted to Kotlin and the functionality related to Twitter
specific features has been removed.
The hashtag handling has been adjusted, as Mastodon is more permissive
about the positions where hashtags can appear than Twitter is, in
particular, a hashtag does not need to be preceded with whitespace if
the tag appears after some scripts, such as Hirigana.
The previous bottomsheets did set a minimum height for the menu items,
so they were less than the recommended 48dp minimum. Fix that to improve
the overall accessibility.
Always highlight the "visibilty" icon, to make it clear that it's
something that is set (even if to the default).
Show the visibility icon on the "Toot" button as an additional reminder
to the user.
Other changes:
- Use the "filled" style for all icons (the visibility icons had the
"outlined" style)
- Use the `makeIcon` helper function.
- Use the `Status.Visibility` extension functions to determine the icon
for each visibility type, reducing code duplication.
Show a labelled checkbox to the bottom-right of polls that the user has
not voted in and that have votes. If checked the current vote tally (as
percentages) will be shown, along with a bar showing the relative value
of each option.
Previous code expected callers to typically provide the drawable and the
error message string resource, resulting in duplicate code at many
callsites.
Replace with three canned messages for empty containers, generic errors,
and network errors respectively. The images for these are fixed, the
caller may choose a different string resource for the error if there is
a more specific option.
Update and simplify the call sites.
Move `ListsActivity`, along with fragments and viewmodels, to a new
`feature:lists` module.
Previous code used the `item_follow_request` layout, which was not
ideal, so update it to use a dedicated layout, `item_account_in_list`.
The UI uses strings and views originally defined in the main app, so
move them elsewhere so they can be re-used.
- `BackgroundMessageView` moves to `core.ui`.
- `Lazy` moves to `core.common`.
- `ThrowableExtensions` split; the extensions specific to throwables
from network activity move to `core.network`, others move to `core.ui`.
- `BindingHolder` moves to `core.ui`
- Shared drawables and strings move to `core.ui`.
For reasons not fully understood the root of a fragment's view might not
have relevant view from the activity set as its parent. This causes
`Snackbar.make()` to throw an exception, and crash.
See https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/228215869.
For now, "fix" this by swallowing the exception. Not showing the error
is better than crashing.
The replies policy controls whether replies from members of the list
also appear in the list.
Display the replies policy as three radio buttons when a list is created
or updated, and send the chosen replies policy via the API.
Default value if not specified is always "list", for consistency with
the Mastodon API defaults.
While I'm here:
- Ensure the list dialog layout is inflated using the dialog's themed
context
- Use a `TextInputLayout` wrapper around the list name in the list
dialog for better UX
- Simplify the dialog layout, use LinearLayout, and standard padding and
margins
Modify `ListsViewModel` to keep track of the number of active network
operations and export as a flow. Collect this in `ListsActivity` and
show a `LinearProgressIndicator` while it is non-zero.
Previous code would prune any cached media every time `MainActivity` was
created, causing extra IO just as the user is trying to use the app.
Re-implement as a WorkManager worker so it can run when the device is
idle, without interfering with the responsiveness of the device.
Previous code used a normal ProgressBar and a coroutine to delay
hiding/showing the bar for a snappier UI perception.
This is built-in functionality in LinearProgressIndicator, so switch to
that.
While I'm here, implement the "Select list" dialog's layout as a layout
resource.
If the user has tabs containing one or more lists, and any of those
lists are renamed or deleted then the change should be reflected in the
tabs.
To do that:
`MainActivity`:
- Re-create tabs whenever lists are loaded and there's a list in a tab
- Compare lists-in-tabs by the ID of the list when restoring the user's
tab, so that a list rename doesn't lose their position.
`NetworkListsRepository`:
- Update the user's tab preferences whenever lists are loaded, removing
tabs that contain lists that have been deleted, and updating the
list's title for lists that have been renamed.
Fixes#192
Previously to view a list the user either had to add it to a tab, or tap
through "Lists" in the navigation menu to their list of lists, and then
tap the list they want.
Fix that, and show all their lists in a dedicated section in the menu,
with a new "Manage lists" entry that's functionality identical to the
old "Lists" entry (i.e., it shows their lists and allows them to create,
delete, and edit list settings).
To do that:
- Implement a proper `ListsRepository` as the single source of truth for
list implementation throughout the app. Expose the current list of lists
as a flow, with methods to perform operations on the lists.
- Collect the `ListsRepository` flow in `MainActivity` and use that to
populate the menu and update it whenever the user's lists change.
- Rewrite the activities and fragments that manipulate lists to use
`ListRepository`.
- Always show error snackbars when list operations fail. In particular,
the HTTP code and error are always shown.
- Delete the custom `Either` implementation, it's no longer used.
- Add types for modelling API responses and errors, `ApiResponse` and
`ApiError` respectively. The response includes the headers as well as
the body, so it can replace the use of `NetworkResult` and `Response`.
The actual result of the operation is expected to be carried in a
`com.github.michaelbull.result.Result` type. Implement a Retrofit call
adapter for these types.
Unit tests for these borrow heavily from
https://github.com/connyduck/networkresult-calladapter
Additional user-visible changes:
- Add an accessible "Refresh" menu item to `ListsActivity`.
- Adding a list to a tab has a dialog with a "Manage lists" option.
Previously that would close the dialog when clicked, so the user had to
re-open it on returning from list management. Now the dialog stays open.
- The soft keyboard automatically opens when creating or editing a list.
Previous code showed a small icon for account media that the user has
hidden.
Now determine the correct size / aspect ratio for the media and use that
to compute the placeholder (either a blurhash, or the link colour for
consistency with the view on a timeline).
Fixes#513
Previous code showed the toolbar and caption when displaying the image,
and the user has to tap the screen to dismiss it.
New code is consistent with the video viewer; the toolbar and caption
is displayed for two seconds, and then auto-hides.
- Tapping after the hide displays the toolbar and caption, which will
not auto-hide and requires a second tap to dismiss.
- Tapping the caption before it's hidden cancels the auto-hide
Fixes#505
The account logout process could fail due to API exceptions; network
errors for example, or if the user had already revoked the app's token
for that account. This would prevent the rest of the logout process
(cleaning database, etc) from completing.
Fix this by ignoring network errors during the logout process, and
always cleaning up account content in the database.
Fix a related issue where a deleted account might be recreated in a
partial state if the account's visible position was saved after it was
deleted. The recreated account couldn't do anything as it had no tokens,
but is very confusing.
Previously the only way to access notifications was to dedicate a tab to
them. Now notifications are available from the left-side navigation menu
so they're always accessible.
Add them to the top of the list, and swap the order of bookmarks and
favourites, assuming that users are more likely to want to see their
bookmarks than their favourites.
Move "Edit profile" to the bottom with the other settings options,
assuming that editing their profile does not happen very often, so
should not be at the top of the list.
Previously a regular function that created and subscribed to an rxJava
callable, now it's a suspending function that enforces Dispatchers.IO as
the context, launched in its own coroutine.
Previously a regular function launched with an rxJava scheduler, now
it's a suspending function that enforces Dispatchers.IO as the context,
launched in its own coroutine.
Highlights:
- Implement fragment transitions for video to improve the UX, video
won't start playing until the transition completes
- Remove rxJava
- Move duplicate code in to base classes
Details:
`MediaActionsListener`:
- Move to `ViewMediaFragment` as it's used by both subclasses
- Remove need for separate `VideoActionsListener`
- Rename methods to better reflect their purpose and improve readability
`ViewMediaFragment`:
- Move duplicated code from `ViewImageFragment` and `ViewVideoFragment`
- Rewrite code that handles fragment transitions to use a
`CompleteableDeferred` instead of `BehaviorSubject` (removes rxJava).
- Rename methods and properties to better reflect their purpose and
improve readability
- Add extra comments
`ViewImageFragment`:
- Rewrite code that handles fragment transitions to use a
`CompleteableDeferred` instead of `BehaviorSubject` (removes rxJava).
`ViewVideoFragment`:
- Implement fragment transitions for video to improve the UX, video
won't start playing until the transition completes
- Manage toolbar visibility with a coroutine instead of a handler
- Add extra comments
`ViewMediaActivity`:
- Rename properties to better reflect their purpose and improve
readability
- Add extra comments
`ImagePagerAdapter`:
- Rename properties to better reflect their purpose and improve
readability
- Add extra comments
New lint rules highlighted a potential crash; the use of named match
groups (used here when extracting server versions) requires API >= 26 or
throws an exception.
Use the group numbers instead of names when extracting the value, but
keep the group names in the regular expressions for readability.
The previous code would share media by either:
a. If it was an image, downloading the image using Glide in to a bitmap,
then recompressing as a PNG, saving, and sharing the resulting file.
b. Otherwise, create a temporary file, enqueue a DownloadManager request
to download the media in to the file, and immediately start sharing,
hoping that the download had completed in time.
Both approaches have problems:
In the "image" case the image was being downloaded (or retrieved from
the Glide cache), decompressed to a bitmap, then recompressed as a PNG.
This uses more memory, and doesn't share the original contents of the
file. E.g., if the original file was a JPEG that's lost (and the PNG
might well be larger than the source image).
In the second case the DownloadManager download is not guaranteed to
have completed (or even started) before the user chooses the share
destination. The destination could receive a partial or even empty file.
Fix both of those cases by always fully downloading the file before
sending the share intent. This guarantees the file is available to
share, and in its original format. Since this uses the same OkHttpClient
as the rest of the app the content is highly likely to be in the OkHttp
cache, so there will no extra network traffic because of this.
The previous code used synchronous (i.e., non-suspending) functions to
call the /api/v2/search and /api/v2/accounts/search endpoints.
This is not necessary as the search was always performed in a separate
thread.
Remove, and replace their usage with the equivalent functions that
suspend.
Once desugaring is enabled it needs to be enabled for up/down the
dependency chain, so enable it in the shared configuration defined by
the build convention code.
Highlighted a failing test that wasn't being run, so fix that too.
A filter's context (previously referred to as its `kind`) controls where
the filter is applied.
This was implemented as an enum with a specific property to control how
it would serialise when @FormUrlEncoded, and with a @Json annotation for
Moshi.
In addition, the model objects kept the filter context in its string
form throughout Pachli, requiring periodic conversion to/from the enum
type, making the code more complicated.
Fix this, by:
1. Converting the incoming JSON value to the enum type immediately, so
the rest of the code uses the enum constants exclusively.
2. Implement a Retrofit converter that serialises the enum value when
@FormUrlEncoded to the same string used in JSON serialisation
Many servers that claim to be Mastodon-API compatible are not, as
evidenced by the content they include in the responses to
`/api/v1/instance` and `/api/v2/instance` requests.
Work around the worst of the breakage by providing defaults or marking
some fields as nullable (with a default null).
Bugs have been reported against the relevant projects.
The `highlighted` property on a role may be absent. If it is this breaks
account parsing, including accounts in an /api/v2/instance response.
This, in turn, breaks determining server capabilities, including whether
or not translation is supported.
Set the default to `true`, which matches observed Mastodon behaviour.
A user is reporting that a refresh is happening in the middle of loading
content, borne out by the existing logs.
Those logs don't say what has triggered the refresh attempt, so add
additional logging whenever a refresh can occur to record what triggered
it.
Previously media on the "Media" tab was displayed scaled and cropped to
a square aspect ratio, effectively forcing the user to tap every image
to see it.
Now, display the images scaled but not cropped, layed out with
`StaggeredGridLayoutManager`. This shows each image in full (still
scaled) providing a better experience when scrolling down.
Scrolling up can occasionally introduce gaps in the grid as images are
re-placed as viewholders are reused. When this happens images animate to
a better position when scrolling stops.
Previous code injected `ApplicationContext`, which is not themed, and
caused a crash if the "update" dialog was shown.
Fix by passing the necesssary context in explicitly when the check is
performed.
Previous code expected all incoming enums values to map directly to
Kotlin enum constants.
This is a problem for servers with additional features -- e.g.,
"reaction" as a notification type.
Fix this with a new Moshi adapter that will set the incoming value to a
given constant if it's not recognised.
Apply this to the enum constants in core.network to ensure they are
handled.
Clean up enum handling in Converters.kt, ComposeViewModel.kt, and
Status.kt by using the existing `.ordinal` property and some extension
functions for idiomatic code.
Fixes#461
Previous code showed a generic placeholder for audio media on the
account's "Media" tab.
Fix this so the preview image is shown (if it's available).
- Move the "is this attachment previewable?" code to `Attachment` so it
can be reused here.
- Restructure the logic in `AccountMediaGridAdapter` to use the new
`isPreviewable()` method when deciding whether to show a preview.
- Attachments have dedicated placeholder drawables, use those when the
preview is not available.
Add an additional preference entry that triggers an update when tapped.
It also displays the earliest time of the next automatic update check as
the preference summary.
Move the code that performs the update check (and the logic for whether
to perform the check) out of `MainActivity` and in to `UpdateCheck` so
it's available from `PreferencesFragment`.
If the user increases the font size the labels for post statistics
(number of replies, etc) can crash in to each other.
To give more space for the text:
- Shrink the label font size
- Move the labels slightly left / tighter to the icon
- Allow the "bookmark" icon to move next to the "more" icon. There's
still 48dp of space for them, and this gives a little more space to the
other icons that have labels
Friendica can return a null `voted_on` property, in violation of the API
spec.
Introduce a `BooleanIfNull` annotation that will convert the `null` to
`false` if encountered.
While I'm here update the other adapters as classes on their relevant
annotations instead of standalone classes to keep the code consistent.
Fixes#455
Some users report that Pachli is not retrieving/displaying notifications
in a timely fashion.
To assist in diagnosing these errors, provide an additional set of tabs
on the "About" screen that contain information about how Pachli is
fetching notifications, and if not, why not.
Allow the user to save notification related logs and other details to a
file that can be attached to an e-mail or bug report.
Recording data:
- Provide a `NotificationConfig` singleton with properties to record
different aspects of the notification configuration. Update these
properties as different notification actions occur.
- Store logs in a `LogEntryEntity` table. Log events of interest with a
new `Timber` `LogEntryTree` that is planted in all cases.
- Add `PruneLogEntryEntityWorker` to trim saved logs to the last 48
hours.
Display:
- Add a `NotificationFragment` to `AboutActivity`. It hosts two other
fragments in tabs to show details from `NotificationConfig` and the
relevant logs, as well as controls for interacting with them.
Bug fixes:
- Filter out notifications with a null tag when processing active
notifications, prevents an NPE crash
Other changes:
- Log more details when errors occur so the bug reports are more helpful
The previous code was using a bold version of the default font for
inserted text. So if the user had set a custom font it was being
ignored.
Fix this by creating a bold version of the user's typeface.
Fixes#435
The `x` and `y` properties in `Attachment.Focus` may be null (not
documented as such, but observed in the wild).
Provide a `DefaultIfNull` adapter that can be applied to these to
replace null values with a sensible default.
Content that doesn't start with a block element generates a parse error.
This isn't normally seen from Mastodon servers but is seen from content
from other servers (e.g,. Akkoma), which can generate:
```
<a href="..."> some text
```
instead of:
```
<p><a href="..."> some text</p>
```
Work around this by ensuring that content-to-be-diffed is wrapped in a
`div`.
The previous code didn't clear the task stack or recreate `MainActivity`
when the active user was changed.
So if the user was logged in with account A and used "Compose" from a
notification sent to account B, the active account was switched to B but
the UI chrome wasn't. After exiting `ComposeActivity` they would be
looking at the timeline for account B but with a toolbar that showed
account A.
Fix this by clearing the task stack and explicitly recreating
`MainActivity` when forwarding intents to `ComposeActivity`.
Shortcuts were being updated using `MainActivity.this` as the `Context`
and leaking in `ShortcutManagerCompat`. Use the application context to
fix this.
When the `Notification.Type` enum was moved to a separate module it
resulted in exceptions trying to deserialize the enum:
```
java.lang.RuntimeException: Parcelable encountered ClassNotFoundException reading a Serializable object (name = app.pachli.core.network.model.Notification$Type)
```
This happened in debug builds without Proguard, so not a minification or
renaming issue.
Fix this by providing `putEnum`/`getEnum` extension functions on
`Bundle` that store the enum's ordinal value and restore it from that.
UnifiedPush broadcasts are used to trigger fetching new notifications.
Previously this was a normal one-time work request. Mark it as expedited
to increase the likelihood it will run soon.
- Use format strings so any overhead of building the string is only
incurred if the message is actually logged
- Pass throwables as the first parameter so they are logged with the
stacktrace
Moshi is faster to decode JSON at runtime, is actively maintained, has a
smaller memory and method footprint, and a slightly smaller APK size.
Moshi also correctly creates default constructor arguments instead of
leaving them null, which was a source of `NullPointerExceptions` when
using Gson.
The conversion broadly consisted of:
- Adding `@JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)` to data classes that
marshall to/from JSON.
- Replacing `@SerializedName(value = ...)` with `@Json(name = ...)`.
- Replacing Gson instances with Moshi in Retrofit, Hilt, and tests.
- Using Moshi adapters to marshall to/from JSON instead of Gson `toJson`
/ `fromJson`.
- Deleting `Rfc3339DateJsonAdapter` and related code, and using the
equivalent adapter bundled with Moshi.
- Rewriting `GuardedBooleanAdapter` as a more generic `GuardedAdapter`.
- Deleting unused ProGuard rules; Moshi generates adapters using code
generation, not runtime reflection.
The conversion surfaced some bugs which have been fixed.
- Not all audio attachments have attachment size metadata. Don't show
the attachment preview if the metadata is missing.
- Some `throwable` were not being logged correctly.
- The wrong type was being used when parsing the response when sending a
scheduled status.
- Exceptions other than `HttpException` or `IoException` would also
cause a status to be resent. If there's a JSON error parsing a response
the status would be repeatedly sent.
- In tests strings containing error responses were not valid JSON.
- Workaround Mastodon a bug and ensure `filter.keywords` is populated,
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29142
Previously, `AboutActivity` had buttons and links to show the privacy
policy and licenses of dependencies.
Change this to a selection of fragments in tabs, one tab each for:
- General "About" information
- Licenses
- Privacy Policy
The information shown hasn't changed, but this lays the groundwork for
including additional tabs in the future for information like server
rules, detected capabilities, or troubleshooting information.
Release builds normally strip out all logging to reduce the number of
disk writes and reduce UI jank.
These logs would still be useful in user error reports from orange
builds. To preseve them:
- Implement a simple `RingBuffer`.
- Create `TreeRing`, a `Timber` `Tree` logger that logs to a
`RingBuffer` instance in orange release builds.
- Create `TreeRingCollector`, called when ACRA reports are generated,
which includes the contents of the ring buffer in the report.
- Enable desugaring to allow the use of java.time libraries on older
Android versions.
- Disable ProGuard obfuscation of class names as the obfuscation adds
additional de-obfuscation steps when handling error reports from users.
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