A user report shows what appears to be spurious / unexpected calls to
refresh the cached timeline occuring while scrolling. Have confirmed
these calls aren't coming from any Pachli code, so adding additional
instrumentation that can be included in a custom APK to debug further.
Debugging sometimes requires shipping APKs that have additional
instrumentation to users.
It's bad practice to encourage users to install APKs that they have been
given by a stranger on the Internet.
This new workflow will build a properly signed APK from a PR when a
specific comment is added to the PR. After building a comment is added
with a link to the workflow run and the URL the user can use to download
the APK. This allows them to be sure that the APK contains only the code
in the PR.
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.
Some servers don't include a `urls` or `translation` block, which was
preventing parsing of the block, and falling back to the v1 instance
data.
Fix this by providing sensible defaults.
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
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