SchildiChat-android/CHANGES.md

Changes in Element 1.0.18 (2021-XX-XX)

Features ✨:

• VoIP : support for VoIP V1 protocol, transfer call and dial-pad

Improvements 🙌:

• VoIP : new tiles in timeline
• Improve room profile UX
• Upgrade Jitsi library from 2.9.3 to 3.1.0

Bugfix 🐛:

• VoIP : fix audio devices output
• Fix crash after initial sync on Dendrite
• Fix crash reported by PlayStore (#2707)

Translations 🗣:

SDK API changes ⚠️:

Build 🧱:

Test:

Other changes:

• Fix typos in CHANGES.md (#2811)

Changes in Element 1.0.17 (2021-02-09)

Improvements 🙌:

• Create a WidgetItemFactory and use it for better rendering of Jitsi widget change (video conference)
• Open image from URL Preview (#2705)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Bug in WidgetContent.computeURL() (#2767)
• Duplicate thumbs | Mobile reactions for 👍 and 👎 are not the same as web (#2776)
• Join room by alias other federation error (#2778)
• HTML unescaping for URL preview (#2766)
• URL preview on reply fallback (#2756)
• RTL: some arrows should be rotated in RTL (#2757)
• Properly delete objects from Realm DB (#2765)

Build 🧱:

• Upgrade build tools

Other changes:

• Change app name from "Element (Riot.im)" to "Element"

Changes in Element 1.0.16 (2021-02-04)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix crash on API < 30 and light theme (#2774)

Changes in Element 1.0.15 (2021-02-03)

Features ✨:

• Social Login support

Improvements 🙌:

• SSO support for cross signing (#1062)
• Deactivate account when logged in with SSO (#1264)
• SSO UIA doesn't work (#2754)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix clear cache issue: sometimes, after a clear cache, there is still a token, so the init sync service is not started.
• Sidebar too large in horizontal orientation or tablets (#475)
• UrlPreview should be updated when the url is edited and changed (#2678)
• When receiving a new pepper from identity server, use it on the next hash lookup (#2708)
• Crashes reported by PlayStore (new in 1.0.14) (#2707)
• Widgets: Support $matrix_widget_id parameter (#2748)
• Data for Worker overload (#2721)
• Fix multiple tasks
• Object deletion in database is not complete (#2759)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Increase targetSdkVersion to 30 (#2600)

Build 🧱:

• Compile with Android SDK 30 (Android 11)

Other changes:

• Update Dagger to 2.31 version so we can use the embedded AssistedInject feature

Changes in Element 1.0.14 (2021-01-15)

Features ✨:

• Enable url previews for notices (#2562)
• Edit room permissions (#2471)

Improvements 🙌:

• Add System theme option and set as default (#904, #2387)
• Store megolm outbound session to improve send time of first message after app launch.
• Warn user when they are leaving a not public room (#1460)
• Option to disable emoji keyboard (#2563)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Unspecced msgType field in m.sticker (#2580)
• Wait for all room members to be known before sending a message to a e2e room (#2518)
• Url previews sometimes attached to wrong message (#2561)
• Room Topic not displayed correctly after visiting a link (#2551)
• Hiding membership events works the exact opposite (#2603)
• Tapping drawer having more than 1 room in notifications gives "malformed link" error (#2605)
• Sent image not displayed when opened immediately after sending (#409)
• Initial sync is not retried correctly when there is some network error. (#2632)
• Fix switch theme issue, and white field issue (#2599, #2528)
• Fix request too large Uri error when joining a room

Translations 🗣:

• New language supported: Hebrew

Build 🧱:

• Remove dependency to org.greenrobot.eventbus library

Other changes:

• Migrate to ViewBindings (#1072)

Changes in Element 1.0.13 (2020-12-18)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix MSC2858 implementation details (#2540)

Changes in Element 1.0.12 (2020-12-15)

Features ✨:

• Add room aliases management, and room directory visibility management in a dedicated screen (#1579, #2428)
• Room setting: update join rules and guest access (#2442)
• Url preview (#481)
• Store encrypted file in cache and cleanup decrypted file at each app start (#2512)
• Emoji Keyboard (#2520)
• Social login (#2452)
• Support for chat effects in timeline (confetti, snow) (#2535)

Improvements 🙌:

• Add Setting Item to Change PIN (#2462)
• Improve room history visibility setting UX (#1579)
• Matrix.to deeplink custom scheme support
• Homeserver history (#1933)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix cancellation of sending event (#2438)
• Double bottomsheet effect after verify with passphrase
• EditText cursor jumps to the start while typing fast (#2469)
• UTD for events before invitation if member state events are hidden (#2486)
• No known servers error is given when joining rooms on new Gitter bridge (#2516)
• Show preview when sending attachment from the keyboard (#2440)
• Do not compress GIFs (#1616, #1254)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• StateService now exposes suspendable function instead of using MatrixCallback.
• RawCacheStrategy has been moved and renamed to CacheStrategy
• FileService: remove useless FileService.DownloadMode

Build 🧱:

• Upgrade some dependencies and Kotlin version
• Use fragment-ktx and preference-ktx dependencies (fix lint issue KtxExtensionAvailable)
• Upgrade Realm dependency to 10.1.2

Other changes:

• Remove "Status.im" theme #2424
• Log HTTP requests and responses in production (level BASIC, i.e. without any private data)

Changes in Element 1.0.11 (2020-11-27)

Features ✨:

• Create DMs with users by scanning their QR code (#2025)
• Add Invite friends quick invite actions (#2348)
• Add friend by scanning QR code, show your code to friends (#2025)

Improvements 🙌:

• New room creation tile with quick action (#2346)
• Open an existing DM instead of creating a new one (#2319)
• Use RoomMember instead of User in the context of a Room.
• Ask for explicit user consent to send their contact details to the identity server (#2375)
• Handle events of type "m.room.server_acl" (#890)
• Room creation form: add advanced section to disable federation (#1314)
• Move "Enable Encryption" from room setting screen to room profile screen (#2394)
• Home empty screens quick design update (#2347)
• Improve Invite user screen (seamless search for matrix ID)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix crash on AttachmentViewer (#2365)
• Exclude yourself when decorating rooms which are direct or don't have more than 2 users (#2370)
• F-Droid version: ensure timeout of sync request can be more than 60 seconds (#2169)
• Fix issue when restoring draft after sharing (#2287)
• Fix issue when updating the avatar of a room (new avatar vanishing)
• Discard change dialog displayed by mistake when avatar has been updated
• Try to fix cropped image in timeline (#2126)
• Registration: annoying error message scares every new user when they add an email (#2391)
• Fix jitsi integration for those with non-vanilla dialler frameworks
• Update profile has no effect if user is in zero rooms
• Fix issues with matrix.to deep linking (#2349)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• AccountService now exposes suspendable function instead of using MatrixCallback (#2354). Note: We will incrementally migrate all the SDK API in a near future (#2449)

Test:

• Add allScreensTest to cover all screens of the app

Other changes:

• Upgrade Realm dependency to 10.0.0

Changes in Element 1.0.10 (2020-11-04)

Improvements 🙌:

• Rework sending Event management (#154)
• New room creation screen: set topic and avatar in the room creation form (#2078)
• Toggle Low priority tag (#1490)
• Add option to send with enter (#1195)
• Use Hardware keyboard enter to send message (use shift-enter for new line) (#1881, #1440)
• Edit and remove icons are now visible on image attachment preview screen (#2294)
• Room profile: BigImageViewerActivity now only display the image. Use the room setting to change or delete the room Avatar
• Better visibility of text reactions in dark theme (#1118)
• Room member profile: Add action to create (or open) a DM (#2310)
• Prepare changelog for F-Droid (#2296)
• Add graphic resources for F-Droid (#812, #2220)
• Highlight text in the body of the displayed result (#2200)
• Considerably faster QR-code bitmap generation (#2331)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fixed ringtone handling (#2100 & #2246)
• Messages encrypted with no way to decrypt after SDK update from 0.18 to 1.0.0 (#2252)
• Incoming call continues to ring if call is answered on another device (#1921)
• Search Result | scroll jumps after pagination (#2238)
• Badly formatted mentions in body (#1506)
• KeysBackup: Avoid using !! (#2262)
• Two elements in the task switcher (#2299)

Changes in Element 1.0.9 (2020-10-16)

Features ✨:

• Search messages in a room - phase 1 (#2110)
• Hide encrypted history (before user is invited). Can be shown if wanted in developer settings
• Changed rainbow algorithm

Improvements 🙌:

• Wording differentiation for direct rooms (#2176)
• PIN code: request PIN code if phone has been locked
• Small optimisation of scrolling experience in timeline (#2114)
• Allow user to reset cross signing if he has no way to recover (#2052)
• Ability to share text
• Create home shortcut for any room (#1525)
• Can't confirm email due to killing by Android (#2021)
• Add a menu item to open the setting in room list and in room (#2171)
• Add a menu item in the timeline as a shortcut to invite user (#2171)
• Drawer: move settings access and add sign out action (#2171)
• Filter room member (and banned users) by name (#2184)
• Implement "Jump to read receipt" and "Mention" actions on the room member profile screen
• Direct share (#2029)
• Add FAB to room members list (#2226)
• Add Sygnal API implementation to test is Push are correctly received
• Add PushGateway API implementation to test if Push are correctly received
• Cross signing: shouldn't offer to verify with other session when there is not. (#2227)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Improve support for image/audio/video/file selection with intent changes (#1376)
• Fix Splash layout on small screens
• Invalid popup when pressing back (#1635)
• Simplifies draft management and should fix bunch of draft issues (#952, #683)
• Very long topic cannot be fully visible (#1957)
• Properly detect cross signing keys reset
• Don't set presence when handling a push notification or polling (#2156)
• Be robust against StrandHogg task injection
• Clear alerts if user sign out
• Fix rows are hidden in Textinput (#2234)
• Uploading a file to a room caused it to have a info.size of -1 (#2141)

Translations 🗣:

• Move store data to /fastlane/metadata/android (#812)
• Weblate is now hosted at https://translate.element.io

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Search messages in a room by using Session.searchService() or Room.search()

Build 🧱:

• Use Update Gradle Wrapper Action
• Updates Gradle Wrapper from 5.6.4 to 6.6.1. (#2193)
• Upgrade kotlin version from 1.3.72 to 1.4.10 and kotlin coroutines version from 1.3.8 to 1.3.9
• Upgrade build tools from 3.5.3 to 4.0.1, then to 4.1.0
• Upgrade com.google.gms:google-services from 4.3.2 to 4.3.4
• Upgrade Moshi to 1.11.0, Dagger to 2.29.1, Epoxy to 4.1.0

Other changes:

• Added registration/verification automated UI tests
• Create a script to help getting public information form any homeserver

Changes in Element 1.0.8 (2020-09-25)

Improvements 🙌:

• Add "show password" in import Megolm keys dialog
• Visually disable call buttons in menu and prohibit calling when permissions are insufficient (#2112)
• Better management of requested permissions (#2048)
• Add a setting to show timestamp for all messages (#2123)
• Use cache for user color
• Allow using an outdated homeserver, at user's risk (#1972)
• Restore small logo on login screens and fix scrolling issue on those screens
• PIN Code Improvements: Add more settings: biometrics, grace period, notification content (#1985)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Long message cannot be sent/takes infinite time & blocks other messages (#1397)
• Fix crash when wellknown are malformed, or redirect to some HTML content (reported by rageshakes)
• User Verification in DM not working
• Manual import of Megolm keys does back up the imported keys
• Auto scrolling to the latest message when sending (#2094)
• Fix incorrect permission check when creating widgets (#2137)
• Pin code: user has to enter pin code twice (#2005)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Rename tryThis to tryOrNull

Other changes:

• Add an advanced action to reset an account data entry

Changes in Element 1.0.7 (2020-09-17)

Improvements 🙌:

• Handle date formatting properly (show time am/pm if needed, display year when needed)
• Improve F-Droid Notification (#2055)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Clear the notification when the event is read elsewhere (#1822)
• Speakerphone is not used for ringback tone (#1644, #1645)
• Back camera preview is not mirrored anymore (#1776)
• Various report of people that cannot play video (#2107)
• Rooms incorrectly marked as unread (#588)
• Allow users to show/hide room member state events (#1231)
• Fix stuck on loader when launching home

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Create a new RawService to get plain data from the server.

Other changes:

• Performance: share Realm instance used on UI thread and improve SharedPreferences reading time.

Changes in Element 1.0.6 (2020-09-08)

Features ✨:

• List phone numbers and emails added to the Matrix account, and add emails and phone numbers to account (#44, #45)

Improvements 🙌:

• You can now join room through permalink and within room directory search
• Add long click gesture to copy userId, user display name, room name, room topic and room alias (#1774)
• Fix several issues when uploading big files (#1889)
• Do not propose to verify session if there is only one session and 4S is not configured (#1901)
• Call screen does not use proximity sensor (#1735)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Display name not shown under Settings/General (#1926)
• Editing message forgets line breaks and markdown (#1939)
• Words containing my name should not trigger notifications (#1781)
• Fix changing language issue
• Fix FontSize issue (#1483, #1787)
• Fix bad color for settings icon on Android < 24 (#1786)
• Change user or room avatar: when selecting Gallery, I'm not proposed to crop the selected image (#1590)
• Loudspeaker is always used (#1685)
• Fix uploads still don't work with room v6 (#1879)
• Can't handle ongoing call events in background (#1992)
• Handle room, user and group links by the Element app (#1795)
• Update associated site domain (#1833)
• Crash / Attachment viewer: Cannot draw a recycled Bitmap #2034
• Login with Matrix-Id | Autodiscovery fails if identity server is invalid and Homeserver ok (#2027)
• Support for image compression on Android 10
• Verification popup won't show
• Android 6: App crash when read Contact permission is granted (#2064)
• JSON for verification events leaks in to the room list (#1246)
• Replies to poll appears in timeline as unsupported events during sending (#1004)

Translations 🗣:

• The SDK is now using SAS string translations from Weblate Matrix-doc project (#1909)
• New translation to kabyle

Build 🧱:

• Some dependencies have been upgraded (coroutine, recyclerView, appCompat, core-ktx, firebase-messaging)
• Buildkite: New pipeline location: https://github.com/matrix-org/pipelines/blob/master/element-android/pipeline.yml New build location: https://buildkite.com/matrix-dot-org/element-android

Other changes:

• Use File extension functions to make code more concise (#1996)
• Create a script to import SAS strings (#1909)
• Support data-mx-[bg-]color attributes on <font> tags.

Changes in Element 1.0.5 (2020-08-21)

Features ✨:

• Protect access to the app by a pin code (#1700)
• Conference with Jitsi support (#43)

Improvements 🙌:

• Share button in rooms gives room ID link without via parameters (#1927)
• Give user the possibility to prevent accidental call (#1869)
• Display device information (name, id and key) in Cryptography setting screen (#1784)
• Ensure users do not accidentally ignore other users (#1890)
• Better handling DM creation when invitees cannot be inviting due to denied federation
• Support new config.json format and config.domain.json files (#1682)
• Increase Font size on Calling screen (#1643)
• Make the user's Avatar live in the general settings

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix incorrect date format for some Asian languages (#1928)
• Fix invisible toolbar (Status.im theme) (#1746)
• Fix relative date time formatting (#822)
• Fix crash reported by RageShake
• Fix refreshing of sessions list when another session is logged out
• Fix IllegalArgumentException: Receiver not registered: NetworkInfoReceiver (#1960)
• Failed to build unique file (#1954)
• Highlighted Event when opening a permalink from another room (#1033)
• A Kick appears has "someone has made no change" (#1959)
• Avoid NetworkOnMainThreadException when setting a user avatar
• Renew turnserver credentials when ttl runs out

Translations 🗣:

• Add PlayStore description resources in the Triple-T format, to let Weblate handle them

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Rename package im.vector.matrix.android to org.matrix.android.sdk
• Rename package im.vector.matrix.rx to org.matrix.android.sdk.rx

Build 🧱:

• Fix RtlHardcoded issues (use Start and End instead of Left and Right layout attributes)

Other changes:

• Use Context#getSystemService extension function provided by core-ktx (#1702)
• Hide Flair settings, this is not implemented yet.
• Rename package im.vector.riotx.attachmentviewer to im.vector.lib.attachmentviewer
• Rename package im.vector.riotx.multipicker to im.vector.lib.multipicker
• Rename package im.vector.riotx to im.vector.app
• Remove old code that was used on devices with api level <21
• Add Official Gradle Wrapper Validation Action

Changes in Element 1.0.4 (2020-08-03)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix Crash when opening invite to room user screen

Changes in Element 1.0.3 (2020-07-31)

Features ✨:

• Support server admin option to disable E2EE for DMs / private rooms [users can still enable] (#1794)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Crash reported on playstore for HomeActivity launch (151 reports)

Changes in Element 1.0.2 (2020-07-29)

Improvements 🙌:

• Added Session Database migration to avoid unneeded initial syncs

Changes in Element 1.0.1 (2020-07-28)

Improvements 🙌:

• Sending events is now retried only 3 times, so we avoid blocking the sending queue too long.
• Display warning when fail to send events in room list
• Improve UI of edit role action in member profile
• Moderation | New screen to display list of banned users in room settings, with unban action

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix theme issue on Room directory screen (#1613)
• Fix notification not dismissing when entering a room
• Fix uploads don't work with Room v6 (#1558)
• Fix Requesting avatar thumbnails in Element uses wrong http "user-agent" string (#1725)
• Fix 404 on EMS (#1761)
• Fix Infinite loop at startup when migrating account from Riot (#1699)
• Fix Element crashes in loop after initial sync (#1709)
• Remove inner mx-reply tags before replying
• Fix timeline items not loading when there are only filtered events
• Fix "Voice & Video" grayed out in Settings (#1733)
• Fix Allow VOIP call in all rooms with 2 participants (even if not DM)
• Migration from old client does not enable notifications (#1723)

Other changes:

• i18n deactivated account error

Changes in Element 1.0.0 (2020-07-15)

Features ✨:

• Re-branding: The app is now called Element. New name, new themes, new icons, etc. More details here: https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/ (#1691)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Video calls are shown as a voice ones in the timeline (#1676)
• Fix regression: not able to create a room without IS configured (#1679)

Changes in Riot.imX 0.91.5 (2020-07-11)

Features ✨:

• 3pid invite: it is now possible to invite people by email. An Identity Server has to be configured (#548)

Improvements 🙌:

• Cleaning chunks with lots of events as long as a threshold has been exceeded (35_000 events in DB) (#1634)
• Creating and listening to EventInsertEntity. (#1634)
• Handling (almost) properly the groups fetching (#1634)
• Improve fullscreen media display (#327)
• Setup server recovery banner (#1648)
• Set up SSSS from security settings (#1567)
• New lab setting to add 'unread notifications' tab to main screen
• Render third party invite event (#548)
• Display three pid invites in the room members list (#548)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Integration Manager: Wrong URL to review terms if URL in config contains path (#1606)
• Regression Composer does not grow, crops out text (#1650)
• Bug / Unwanted draft (#698)
• All users seems to be able to see the enable encryption option in room settings (#1341)
• Leave room only leaves the current version (#1656)
• Regression | Share action menu do not work (#1647)
• verification issues on transition (#1555)
• Fix issue when restoring keys backup using recovery key

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• CreateRoomParams has been updated

Build 🧱:

• Upgrade some dependencies
• Revert to build-tools 3.5.3

Other changes:

• Use Intent.ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT to save megolm key or recovery key in a txt file
• Use Context#withStyledAttributes extension function (#1546)

Changes in Riot.imX 0.91.4 (2020-07-06)

Features ✨:

• Re-activate Wellknown support with updated UI (#1614)

Improvements 🙌:

• Upload device keys only once to the homeserver and fix crash when no network (#1629)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix crash when coming from a notification (#1601)
• Fix Exception when importing keys (#1576)
• File isn't downloaded when another file with the same name already exists (#1578)
• saved images don't show up in gallery (#1324)
• Fix reply fallback leaking sender locale (#429)

Build 🧱:

• Fix lint false-positive about WorkManager (#1012)
• Upgrade build-tools from 3.5.3 to 3.6.3
• Upgrade gradle from 5.4.1 to 5.6.4

Changes in Riot.imX 0.91.3 (2020-07-01)

Notes:

• This version is the third beta version of RiotX codebase published as Riot-Android on the PlayStore.
• Changelog below includes changes of v0.91.0, v0.91.1, and v0.91.2, because the first beta versions have been tagged and published from the branch feature/migration_from_legacy.
• This version uses temporary name Riot.imX, to distinguish the app with RiotX app.

Features ✨:

• Call with WebRTC support (##611)
• Add capability to change the display name (#1529)

Improvements 🙌:

• "Add Matrix app" menu is now always visible (#1495)
• Handle /op, /deop, and /nick commands (#12)
• Prioritising Recovery key over Recovery passphrase (#1463)
• Room Settings: Name, Topic, Photo, Aliases, History Visibility (#1455)
• Update user avatar (#1054)
• Allow self-signed certificate (#1564)
• Improve file download and open in timeline
• Catchup tab is removed temporarily (#1565)
• Render room avatar change (#1319)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix dark theme issue on login screen (#1097)
• Incomplete predicate in RealmCryptoStore#getOutgoingRoomKeyRequest (#1519)
• User could not redact message that they have sent (#1543)
• Use vendor prefix for non merged MSC (#1537)
• Compress images before sending (#1333)
• Searching by displayname is case sensitive (#1468)
• Fix layout overlap issue (#1407)

Build 🧱:

• Enable code optimization (Proguard)
• SDK is now API level 21 minimum, and so RiotX (#405)

Other changes:

• Use SharedPreferences#edit extension function consistently (#1545)
• Use retrofit2.Call.awaitResponse extension provided by Retrofit 2. (#1526)
• Fix minor typo in contribution guide (#1512)
• Fix self-assignment of callback in DefaultRoomPushRuleService#setRoomNotificationState (#1520)
• Random housekeeping clean-ups indicated by Lint (#1520, #1541)
• Keys Backup API now use the unstable prefix (#1503)
• Remove deviceId from /keys/upload/{deviceId} as not spec-compliant (#1502)

Changes in RiotX 0.22.0 (2020-06-15)

Features ✨:

• Integration Manager and Widget support (#48)
• Send stickers (#51)

Improvements 🙌:

• New wording for notice when current user is the sender
• Hide "X made no changes" event by default in timeline (#1430)
• Hide left rooms in breadcrumbs (#766)
• Handle PowerLevel properly (#627)
• Correctly handle SSO login redirection
• SSO login is now performed in the default browser, or in Chrome Custom tab if available (#1400)
• Improve checking of homeserver version support (#1442)
• Add capability to add and remove a room from the favorites (#1217)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Switch theme is not fully taken into account without restarting the app
• Temporary fix to show error when user is creating an account on matrix.org with userId containing only digits (#1410)
• Reply composer overlay stays on screen too long after send (#1169)
• Fix navigation bar icon contrast on API in [21,27[ (#1342)
• Fix status bar icon contrast on API in [21,23[
• Wrong /query request (#1444)
• Make Credentials.homeServer optional because it is deprecated (#1443)
• Fix issue on dark themes, after alert popup dismiss

Other changes:

• Send plain text in the body of events containing formatted body, as per https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/latest#m-room-message-msgtypes
• Update link to Modular url from "https://modular.im/" to "https://modular.im/services/matrix-hosting-riot" and open it using ChromeCustomTab

Changes in RiotX 0.21.0 (2020-05-28)

Features ✨:

• Identity server support (#607)
• Switch language support (#41)
• Display list of attachments of a room (#860)

Improvements 🙌:

• Better connectivity lost indicator when airplane mode is on
• Add a setting to hide redacted events (#951)
• Render formatted_body for m.notice and m.emote (#1196)
• Change icon to magnifying-glass to filter room (#1384)

Bugfix 🐛:

• After jump to unread, newer messages are never loaded (#1008)
• Fix issues with FontScale switch (#69, #645)
• "Seen by" uses 12h time (#1378)
• Enable markdown (if active) when sending emote (#734)
• Screenshots for Rageshake now includes Dialogs such as BottomSheet (#1349)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• initialize with proxy configuration

Other changes:

• support new key agreement method for SAS (#1374)

Changes in RiotX 0.20.0 (2020-05-15)

Features ✨:

• Add Direct Shortcuts (#652)

Improvements 🙌:

• Invite member(s) to an existing room (#1276)
• Improve notification accessibility with ticker text (#1226)
• Support homeserver discovery from MXID (DISABLED: waiting for design) (#476)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix | Verify Manually by Text crashes if private SSK not known (#1337)
• Sometimes the same device appears twice in the list of devices of a user (#1329)
• Random Crashes while doing sth with cross signing keys (#1364)
• Crash | crash while restoring key backup (#1366)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• excludedUserIds parameter added to the UserService.getPagedUsersLive() function

Changes in RiotX 0.19.0 (2020-05-04)

Features ✨:

• Change password (#528)
• Cross-Signing | Support SSSS secret sharing (#944)
• Cross-Signing | Verify new session from existing session (#1134)
• Cross-Signing | Bootstraping cross signing with 4S from mobile (#985)
• Save media files to Gallery (#973)
• Account deactivation (with password only) (#35)

Improvements 🙌:

• Verification DM / Handle concurrent .start after .ready (#794)
• Reimplementation of multiple attachment picker
• Cross-Signing | Update Shield Logic for DM (#963)
• Cross-Signing | Complete security new session design update (#1135)
• Cross-Signing | Setup key backup as part of SSSS bootstrapping (#1201)
• Cross-Signing | Gossip key backup recovery key (#1200)
• Show room encryption status as a bubble tile (#1078)
• UX/UI | Add indicator to home tab on invite (#957)
• Cross-Signing | Restore history after recover from passphrase (#1214)
• Cross-Sign | QR code scan confirmation screens design update (#1187)
• Emoji Verification | It's not the same butterfly! (#1220)
• Cross-Signing | Composer decoration: shields (#1077)
• Cross-Signing | Migrate existing keybackup to cross signing with 4S from mobile (#1197)
• Show a warning dialog if the text of the clicked link does not match the link target (#922)
• Cross-Signing | Consider not using a spinner on the 'complete security' prompt (#1271)
• Restart broken Olm sessions (MSC1719)
• Cross-Signing | Hide Use recovery key when 4S is not setup (#1007)
• Cross-Signing | Trust account xSigning keys by entering Recovery Key (select file or copy) #1199
• E2E timeline decoration (#1279)
• Manage Session Settings / Cross Signing update (#1295)
• Cross-Signing | Review sessions toast update old vs new (#1293, #1306)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix summary notification staying after "mark as read"
• Missing avatar/displayname after verification request message (#841)
• Crypto | RiotX sometimes rotate the current device keys (#1170)
• RiotX can't restore cross signing keys saved by web in SSSS (#1174)
• Cross- Signing | After signin in new session, verification paper trail in DM is off (#1191)
• Failed to encrypt message in room (message stays in red), [thanks to pwr22] (#925)
• Cross-Signing | web <-> riotX After QR code scan, gossiping fails (#1210)
• Fix crash when trying to download file without internet connection (#1229)
• Local echo are not updated in timeline (for failed & encrypted states)
• Render image event even if thumbnail_info does not have mimetype defined (#1209)
• RiotX now uses as many threads as it needs to do work and send messages (#1221)
• Fix issue with media path (#1227)
• Add user to direct chat by user id (#1065)
• Use correct URL for SSO connection (#1178)
• Emoji completion 🎉 does not completes to 🎉 like on web (#1285)
• Fix bad Shield Logic for DM (#963)

Translations 🗣:

• Weblate now create PR directly to RiotX GitHub project

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Increase targetSdkVersion to 29

Build 🧱:

• Compile with Android SDK 29 (Android Q)

Other changes:

• Add a setting to prevent screenshots of the application, disabled by default (#1027)
• Increase File Logger capacities ( + use dev log preferences)

Changes in RiotX 0.18.1 (2020-03-17)

Improvements 🙌:

• Implementation of /join command

Bugfix 🐛:

• Message transitions in encrypted rooms are jarring #518
• Images that failed to send are waiting to be sent forever #1145
• Fix / Crashed when trying to send a gif from the Gboard #1136
• Fix / Cannot click on key backup banner when new keys are available

Changes in RiotX 0.18.0 (2020-03-11)

Improvements 🙌:

• Share image and other media from e2e rooms (#677)
• Add support for /plain command (#12)
• Detect spaces in password if user fail to login (#1038)
• FTUE: do not display a different color when encrypting message when not in developer mode.
• Open room member profile from avatar of the room member state event (#935)
• Restore the push rules configuration in the settings

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix crash on attachment preview screen (#1088)
• "Share" option is not appearing in encrypted rooms for images (#1031)
• Set "image/jpeg" as MIME type of images instead of "image/jpg" (#1075)
• Self verification via QR code is failing (#1130)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• PushRuleService.getPushRules() now returns a RuleSet. Use getAllRules() on this object to get all the rules.

Build 🧱:

• Upgrade ktlint to version 0.36.0
• Pipeline file for Buildkite is now hosted on another Github repository: https://github.com/matrix-org/pipelines/blob/master/riotx-android/pipeline.yml

Other changes:

• Restore availability to Chromebooks (#932)
• Add a documentation to run integration tests

Changes in RiotX 0.17.0 (2020-02-27)

Features ✨:

• Secured Shared Storage Support (#984, #936)
• It's now possible to select several rooms (with a possible mix of clear/encrypted rooms) when sharing elements to RiotX (#1010)
• Media preview: media are previewed before being sent to a room (#1010)
• Image edition: it's now possible to edit image before sending: crop, rotate, and delete actions are supported (#1010)
• Sending image: image are sent to rooms with a reduced size. It's still possible to send original image file (#1010)

Improvements 🙌:

• Migrate to binary QR code verification (#994)
• Share action is added to room profile and room member profile (#858)
• Display avatar in fullscreen (#861)
• Fix some performance issues with crypto

Bugfix 🐛:

• Account creation: wrongly hints that an email can be used to create an account (#941)
• Fix crash in the room directory, when public room has no name (#1023)
• Fix restoring keys backup with passphrase (#526)
• Fix rotation of full-size image (#647)
• Fix joining rooms from directory via federation isn't working. (#808)
• Leaving a room creates a stuck "leaving room" loading screen. (#1041)
• Fix some invitation handling issues (#1013)
• New direct chat: selecting a participant sometimes results in two breadcrumbs (#1022)
• New direct chat: selecting several participants was not adding the room to the direct chats list
• Room overview shows deleted messages as “Encrypted message” (#758)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Get crypto methods through Session.cryptoService()
• ProgressListener.onProgress() function will be invoked on the background thread instead of UI thread
• Improve CreateRoomParams API (#1070)

Changes in RiotX 0.16.0 (2020-02-14)

Features ✨:

• Polls and Bot Buttons (MSC 2192 matrix-org/matrix-doc#2192)

Improvements 🙌:

• Show confirmation dialog before deleting a message (#967, #1003)
• Open room member profile from reactions list and read receipts list (#875)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix crash by removing all notifications after clearing cache (#878)
• Fix issue with verification when other client declares it can only show QR code (#988)
• Fix too errors in the code (1941862499, a250a895fe)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Javadoc improved for PushersService
• PushersService.pushers() has been renamed to PushersService.getPushers()

Changes in RiotX 0.15.0 (2020-02-10)

Improvements 🙌:

• Improve navigation to the timeline (#789, #862)
• Improve network detection. It is now based on the sync request status (#873, #882)

Other changes:

• Support SSO login with Firefox account (#606)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Ask for permission before opening the camera (#934)
• Encrypt for invited users by default, if the room state allows it (#803)

Changes in RiotX 0.14.3 (2020-02-03)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix Exception in DeviceListManager

Changes in RiotX 0.14.2 (2020-02-02)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix RiotX not starting issue

Changes in RiotX 0.14.1 (2020-02-02)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Cross-signing: fix UX issue when closing the bottom sheet verification (#813)
• Room and room member profile: fix issues on dark and black themes

Changes in RiotX 0.14.0 (2020-02-01)

Features ✨:

• First implementation of Cross-signing
• Enable encryption in unencrypted rooms, from the room settings (#212)
• Negotiate E2E by default for DMs (#907)

Improvements 🙌:

• Sharing things to RiotX: sort list by recent room first (#771)
• Hide the algorithm when turning on e2e (#897)
• Sort room members by display names

Other changes:

• Add support for /rainbow and /rainbowme commands (#879)

Build 🧱:

• Ensure builds are reproducible (#842)
• F-Droid: fix the "-dev" issue in version name (#815)

Changes in RiotX 0.13.0 (2020-01-17)

Features ✨:

• Send and render typing events (#564)
• Create Room Profile screen (#54)
• Create Room Member Profile screen (#59)

Improvements 🙌:

• Render events m.room.encryption and m.room.guest_access in the timeline

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix broken background sync in F-Droid version
• Fix issue with downloaded file on encrypted rooms. The file was not properly decrypted

Build 🧱:

• Change the way versionCode is computed (#827)

Changes in RiotX 0.12.0 (2020-01-09)

Improvements 🙌:

• The initial sync is now handled by a foreground service
• Render aliases and canonical alias change in the timeline
• Introduce developer mode in the settings (#745, #796)
• Improve devices list screen
• Add settings for rageshake sensibility
• Fix autocompletion issues and add support for rooms, groups, and emoji (#780)
• Show skip to bottom FAB while scrolling down (#752)
• Enable encryption on a room, SDK part (#212)

Other changes:

• Change the way RiotX identifies a session to allow the SDK to support several sessions with the same user (#800)
• Exclude play-services-oss-licenses library from F-Droid build (#814)
• Email domain can be limited on some homeservers, i18n of the displayed error (#754)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix crash when opening room creation screen from the room filtering screen
• Fix avatar image disappearing (#777)
• Fix read marker banner when permalink
• Fix joining upgraded rooms (#697)
• Fix matrix.org room directory not being browsable (#807)
• Hide non working settings (#751)

Changes in RiotX 0.11.0 (2019-12-19)

Features ✨:

• Implement soft logout (#281)

Improvements 🙌:

• Handle navigation to room via room alias (#201)
• Open matrix.to link in RiotX (#57)
• Limit sticker size in the timeline

Other changes:

• Use same default room colors than Riot-Web

Bugfix 🐛:

• Scroll breadcrumbs to top when opened
• Render default room name when it starts with an emoji (#477)
• Do not display " (IRC)" in display names https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/issues/444
• Fix rendering issue with HTML formatted body
• Disable click on Stickers (#703)

Build 🧱:

• Include diff-match-patch sources as dependency

Changes in RiotX 0.10.0 (2019-12-10)

Features ✨:

• Breadcrumbs: switch from one room to another quickly (#571)

Improvements 🙌:

• Support entering a RiotWeb client URL instead of the homeserver URL during connection (#744)

Other changes:

• Add reason for all membership events (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2367)

Bugfix 🐛:

• When automardown is ON, pills are sent as MD in body (#739)
• "ban" event are not rendered correctly (#716)
• Fix crash when rotating screen in Room timeline

Changes in RiotX 0.9.1 (2019-12-05)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix an issue with DB transaction (#740)

Changes in RiotX 0.9.0 (2019-12-05)

Features ✨:

• Account creation. It's now possible to create account on any homeserver with RiotX (#34)
• Iteration of the login flow (#613)
• [SDK] MSC2241 / verification in DMs (#707)

Improvements 🙌:

• Send mention Pills from composer
• Links in message preview in the bottom sheet are now active.
• Rework the read marker to make it more usable

Other changes:

• Fix a small grammatical error when an empty room list is shown.

Bugfix 🐛:

• Do not show long click help if only invitation are displayed
• Fix emoji filtering not working
• Fix issue of closing Realm in another thread (#725)
• Attempt to properly cancel the crypto module when user signs out (#724)

Changes in RiotX 0.8.0 (2019-11-19)

Features ✨:

• Handle long click on room in the room list (#395)
• Ignore/UnIgnore users, and display list of ignored users (#542, #617)

Improvements 🙌:

• Search reaction by name or keyword in emoji picker
• Handle code tags (#567)
• Support spoiler messages
• Support m.sticker and m.room.join_rules events in timeline

Other changes:

• Markdown set to off by default (#412)
• Accessibility improvements to the attachment file type chooser

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix issues with some member events rendering (#498)
• Passphrase does not match (Export room keys) (#644)
• Ask for permission to write external storage when uri comes from the keyboard (#658)
• Fix issue with english US/GB translation (#671)

Changes in RiotX 0.7.0 (2019-10-24)

Features:

• Share elements from other app to RiotX (#58)
• Read marker (#84)
• Add ability to report content (#515)

Improvements:

• Persist active tab between sessions (#503)
• Do not upload file too big for the homeserver (#587)
• Attachments: start using system pickers (#52)
• Mark all messages as read (#396)

Other changes:

• Accessibility improvements to read receipts in the room timeline and reactions emoji chooser

Bugfix:

• Fix issue on upload error in loop (#587)
• Fix opening a permalink: the targeted event is displayed twice (#556)
• Fix opening a permalink paginates all the history up to the last event (#282)
• after login, the icon in the top left is a green 'A' for (all communities) rather than my avatar (#267)
• Picture uploads are unreliable, pictures are shown in wrong aspect ratio on desktop client (#517)
• Invitation notifications are not dismissed automatically if room is joined from another client (#347)
• Opening links from RiotX reuses browser tab (#599)

Changes in RiotX 0.6.1 (2019-09-24)

Bugfix:

• Fix crash: MergedHeaderItem was missing dimensionConverter

Changes in RiotX 0.6.0 (2019-09-24)

Features:

• Save draft of a message when exiting a room with non empty composer (#329)

Improvements:

• Add unread indent on room list (#485)
• Message Editing: Update notifications (#128)
• Remove any notification of a redacted event (#563)

Other changes:

• Fix a few accessibility issues

Bugfix:

• Fix characters erased from the Search field when the result are coming (#545)
• "No connection" banner was displayed by mistake
• Leaving community (from another client) has no effect on RiotX (#497)
• Push rules was not retrieved after a clear cache
• m.notice messages trigger push notifications (#238)
• Embiggen messages with multiple emojis also for edited messages (#458)

Build:

• Fix (again) issue with bad versionCode generated by Buildkite (#553)

Changes in RiotX 0.5.0 (2019-09-17)

Features:

• Implementation of login to homeserver with SSO (#557)
• Handle M_CONSENT_NOT_GIVEN error (#64)
• Auto configure homeserver and identity server URLs of LoginActivity with a magic link

Improvements:

• Reduce default release build log level, and lab option to enable more logs.
• Display a no network indicator when there is no network (#559)

Bugfix:

• Fix crash due to missing informationData (#535)
• Progress in initial sync dialog is decreasing for a step and should not (#532)
• Fix rendering issue of accepted third party invitation event
• All current notifications were dismissed by mistake when the app is launched from the launcher

Build:

• Fix issue with version name (#533)
• Fix issue with bad versionCode generated by Buildkite (#553)

Changes in RiotX 0.4.0 (2019-08-30)

Features:

• Display read receipts in timeline (#81)

Improvements:

• Reactions: Reinstate the ability to react with non-unicode keys (#307)

Bugfix:

• Fix text diff linebreak display (#441)
• Date change message repeats for each redaction until a normal message (#358)
• Slide-in reply icon is distorted (#423)
• Regression / e2e replies not encrypted
• Some video won't play
• Privacy: remove log of notifiable event (#519)
• Fix crash with EmojiCompat (#530)

Changes in RiotX 0.3.0 (2019-08-08)

Features:

• Create Direct Room flow
• Handle /markdown command

Improvements:

• UI for pending edits (#193)
• UX image preview screen transition (#393)
• Basic support for resending failed messages (retry/remove)
• Enable proper cancellation of suspending functions (including db transaction)
• Enhances network connectivity checks in SDK
• Add "View Edit History" item in the message bottom sheet (#401)
• Cancel sync request on pause and timeout to 0 after pause (#404)

Other changes:

• Show sync progress also in room detail screen (#403)

Bugfix:

• Edited message: link confusion when (edited) appears in body (#398)
• Close detail room screen when the room is left with another client (#256)
• Clear notification for a room left on another client
• Fix messages with empty in_reply_to not rendering (#447)
• Fix clear cache (#408) and Logout (#205)
• Fix (edited) link can be copied to clipboard (#402)
• KeyBackup / SSSS | Should get the key from SSSS instead of asking recovery Key (#1163)

Build:

• Split APK: generate one APK per arch, to reduce APK size of about 30%

Changes in RiotX 0.2.0 (2019-07-18)

Features:

• Message Editing: View edit history (#121)
• Rooms filtering (#304)
• Edit in encrypted room

Improvements:

• Handle click on redacted events: view source and create permalink
• Improve long tap menu: reply on top, more compact (#368)
• Quick reply in timeline with swipe gesture (#167)
• Improve edit of replies
• Improve performance on Room Members and Users management (#381)

Other changes:

• migrate from rxbinding 2 to rxbinding 3

Bugfix:

• Fix regression on permalink click
• Fix crash reported by the PlayStore (#341)
• Fix Chat composer separator color in dark/black theme
• Fix bad layout for room directory filter (#349)
• Fix Copying link from a message shouldn't open context menu (#364)

Changes in RiotX 0.1.0 (2019-07-11)

First release!

Mode details here: https://medium.com/@RiotChat/introducing-the-riotx-beta-for-android-b17952e8f771

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