Changes so far:

• Fix more issues with cards with clipped shadows.
• Fix a bug where the home item in the side panel displays the wrong home feed.
• Fix a bug where an instance mismatch message is shown even if there is no mismatch.
• Fix a bug where the left pane sometimes interferes with the options bar in the post feed header if the options bar can be scrolled.
• Rename the mod action "Feature comment" to "Mark important"
• Fix a bug where opening a link if the app is not open will not open the link correctly.
• Minor improvements to server error messages.
• Fix a bug where tapping on the comments count on the "You" screen does not show the comments for the current account.
• Fix a bug where tapping the current selected item in the navigation bar will break navigation, causing some subtle bugs.
• Fix a bug where the lock icon for locked posts is clipped.

Welcome to the v1.57.0 release. This release is focused on addressing the rest of the user requests.

There's a lot in this release so read through the changelog to see everything that has been added. Some highlights include adding auto-loading posts when "swipe between posts" is enabled, a new setting that allows you to change the app locale from within the app on any version of Android and some changes to make it easier to identify if an user is new to Lemmy.

This release also marks the start of some major changes to the app that I've been considering almost a full year ago.

One of Summit's strength is the insane number of customizations available to a user. However this also poses a downside as new users may not want to spend hours checking and tweaking every setting. While Summit tries to make sure the default settings are pretty good, it's obvious that the out-of-the-box settings are not for everyone.

The ideal middle ground is to offer a list of sane defaults, not just one. That way new users can setup the app to their liking while taking only seconds. This is what the next big feature will be aiming to solve.

I'll provide more details regarding what these specific changes are over the next few releases. As always if you have any questions or suggestions please let me know in the comments.

Full changelog

• Add a setting to choose the direction of swipe gestures. By default this is left-to-right.
• Add a setting to change the default volume of the inline video player
• Add an option to share a community/instance in the community/instance screen.
• Add a setting to choose default app to open URLs with. By default Summit will open URLs within the app however setting a default browser will override this behavior.
• Add a setting to change the locale of the app.
• Add a setting to control whether community suggestions are shown in the community selector bottom sheet.
• Add a setting to enable/disable full bleed images in the full post view.
• Add an option to the "Take screenshot" screen to share the screenshot instead of saving it.
• Change the formatter for post titles. If a post's title starts with the character '#', it will be escaped. This fixes some edge cases where a post starts with a "hashtag". Eg. "#summitforlemmy is an ok app for lemmy".
• Fix a bug on the create post screen. If the webpage (based on the URL field) of a post does not have a valid title, the title will not be suggested.
• Update the design of the user info screen.
• Fix a bug where the settings page will not respect the app language if one is selected.
• Change the app behavior when handling posts with invalid thumnails. In rare cases the thumnail url and the url of the post are the same but the thumbnail url does not link to an image. Previously this would cause the app to not show the image or the link. This release changes the behavior so that the link will be shown in this case.
• Automatically load more posts when the end of the post feed is reached when "swipe between posts" is enabled.
• Change the default of the setting "Show new user tag" to true. New users (accounts that are less than 30 days of age) will display a yellow tag next to their account name.
• Fix a bug where sharing an image would not show a preview of the image being shared.

Update

Noticed some bugs in the app. One major bug is the inability to change the app base theme. Will push a fix out as v1.57.1.

• Fix a bug where the base theme setting is ignored.
• Fix a bug where some shadows are being clipped.
• Adjust default screenshot width from 500 -> 360 since 500 seemed too wide which produced smaller text when fit on screen.

Update 2

Found a crash so will update the release and release as v1.57.2.

• Fix a crash in rare cases when viewing the default apps settings screen.

Update 3

Rollout complete.

This release is just a long list of incremental changes to the app. You can view the full list of changes below.

Full changelog

• Add setting to enable swipe between posts. Experimental. Low effort implementation. Please let me know if you find any bugs.
• Add "show full context" option when replying to a post.
• Add setting to choose a quick action when the FAB in the post screen is long pressed.
• Add setting to disable shake to send feedback.
• Add setting to disable labels in the navigation bar.
• Add setting to tag accounts that are less than 30 days old.
• Update color picker. New color picker has new styles and a history tab, allowing you to pick a color that was picked before.
• Change the behavior of the button bar below the header of the post feed. If the button bar cannot be fully displayed on screen, it will be scrollable and will take precedence over the left panel open. If the button bar can be fully displayed then the left panel will take precedence.
• Change link preview dialog to detect Lemmy links. If the previewed link is detected to be a Lemmy instance, a button will appear to top the link within Summit.
• Update translations.
• Fix a bug where certain videos links will not load as videos.
• Fix a bug where tag text color cannot be changed.
• Fix a bug where text in the community header/comment header may be cut off.
• Fix a bug in the "add or edit user tag" dialog where changing different fields will wipe the tag name field.
• Fix a memory leak issue.
• Fix a bug where GIFs sometimes freeze.

Update

Some minor changes before the full release:

• Fix NSFW mode not respected when swipe between posts is on.
• Update translations.

Update 2

Discovered a crash. Releasing a fix as v1.56.2:

• Fix a crash when loading posts.
• Add setting to tag accounts that are less than 30 days old.

Update 3

Rollout complete.

Update 4

I released v1.56.3 for GitHub only. This is to address an issue where users reported that they were unable to get the update from Obtainium. v1.56.3 is equivalent to the v1.56.2 release. It is different in name only.

This release updates the haptic feedback in the app, adding more haptic feedback to actions and adjusting some of the haptics that already exist. It also adds a new settings screen specifically for adjusting haptic feedback.

Full changelog

• Added a new settings page dedicated to haptic feedback.
• Added haptics to more actions.
• Adjusted strength of haptic feedback to be inline with Android's guidelines.
• Added a new experimental feature that automatically marks duplicate posts as read. A duplicate post is a post that has been posted to another instance that is essentially the same as a post that has been read. This feature is off by default.
• Fixed a bug where links cannot be opened if the preview link setting is set to "Preview all".
• Fixed a bug where thumbnails sometimes won't load.
• Fixed a bug where the last swipe action on a post is accidentally replayed.

Update

Noticed that not all thumbnail links were fixed. Pushing another release (v1.52.1) to fix even more thumbnails.

Update 2

Pulling in some new translations. Releasing as v1.52.2.

Update 3

Special note for one bug I finally tracked down. There was a period of time where the oddest things would happen when I was in a post where I thought I was losing my mind. I would upvote a comment, return to the post and see that the comment was not upvoted. Or I would post a comment and then after, the comment dialog would popup multiple times. This was extremely confusing as none of the logs indicated anything had even gone wrong. The "ghost votes" would appear in the logs as though I had went back to the comment and removed my vote manually.

After a lot of manual testing, I was finally able to track this issue down and it has to do with how swipe actions work.

When a swipe action is initiated, the app remembers the last swipe action. When you swipe and then let go the app triggers the last swipe action saved. This allows you to drag the swipe action slider as far as you want and as long as you are in the correct region when you let go, the right action will be taken.

The issue is when the action is triggered, it does not clear the last saved action.

This normally wouldn't cause any issues except if you are also using gesture navigation.

A gesture navigation gesture is just a regular swipe except the starting point is near an edge of the screen.

For a back gesture, the user first has to touch the edge of the screen and then swipe inwards. During the first part of the gesture, Android doesn't actually know yet if the action is going to be a back gesture. So at that stage Android will let the app handle the gesture. Only once the finger slides far enough does Android realize it's a back gesture and take ownership of the gesture. At this point Android will cancel the swipe gesture on the app's end so it can handle the gesture gracefully.

When Android tells Summit to cancel the swipe action, Summit was incorrectly assuming it was a valid swipe action because the last swipe action was set. Summit would then trigger that action. The fix is simple. The last swipe action just needs to be cleared whenever a swipe action is triggered.

I will be doing a release since the release contains a lot of QoL improvements so it makes sense to push this out sooner rather than later.

Full changelog

• Updated the behavior of the "go to" context button in the message inbox screen. Tapping the button to go to a comment will now load the post with just the comment chain by default, with the comment highlighted.
• Fixed a bug where tapping the add link button on the community editor will not actually insert a link.
• Changed the behavior of updating a community. The community info screen will auto-refresh if the community is updated.
• Fixed a bug where the colors used for the image viewer were wrong in light theme.

Changes so far:

• Updated the behavior of the "go to" context button in the message inbox screen. Tapping the button to go to a comment will now load the post with just the comment chain by default, with the comment highlighted.
• Fixed a bug where tapping the add link button on the community editor will not actually insert a link.
• Changed the behavior of updating a community. The community info screen will auto-refresh if the community is updated.
• Fixed a bug where the colors used for the image viewer were wrong in light theme.
• Fixed card shadows in some places.

Update

Just realized I mistakenly titled this post "release" when it's WIP. Updated the title.

Will be tracking the roadmap by year going forwards.

Planned changes

• Offline mode (view posts, comment, vote all offline with an offline engine that tracks everything and performs the actions once network is established).
• Setup wizard.
• Extremely out of date version check? (Eg. if the app version you are using is over x versions out of date)
• Export tables as part of export settings. Currently there is a limitation for the import/export settings feature. It only supports settings which are represented as key-value pairs. However some settings are represented as lists and these are stored in tables in a db. This change will require the app to know how to import/export a table as well as possible showing this option to the user.
• Revisit the "more options" menus. Some of them are getting too long.
• Revisit how settings (specifically Settings search) is implemented

Specific user requests

• Instead of showing a circle when votes are hidden, show nothing instead.
• Make the "actions bar" in the post list configurable.
• Take screenshot from post feed.
• Suggest/show previously created tags in tagging dialog.
• More video player settings: hide ui elements when play selected, tap anywhere to play/pause video.
• 3rd option instead of always hiding or always showing avatars: show avatar if set.
• Adjust spacing between posts in posts feed.
• Add setting to make it so that tapping the thumbnail image in list layouts will open the link instead of loading the post below it.
• Add “I’m feeling lucky” button. Not sure where to add this. Maybe on the "Search" screen somewhere.
• Filter posts based on domain of URL.
• Reselect "Search" in bottom bar to focus on search bar.
• Setting to inline images only in DMs.
• Allow users to choose to check unread counts for more than just the current account. Also surface the unread counts for other users somehow.
• Support viewing crossposts of a post.
• Add setting to change the gravity of navigation rail buttons. Eg. top, center or bottom.
• Add some font size choices between normal and small.
• update community info screen UI
• surface the create community button in more places (reddit app surfaces this option in the side panel)
• improve the create community screen
• improve how deleted posts are handled - https://lemmy.world/post/27293304
• Add a section to the side panel for moderated communities.
• Add option to navigate by side bar (like the OG apps from material 1)
• Improve moderation tools - https://lemmy.world/post/27333742
• Add thumbnail url field to post screen
• Allow choosing a language for posts/comment
• Add screen to view all uploaded content
• Add option to loop videos
• Add option to unblur NSFW images when in NSFW communities
• Add setting to show bottom bar on post screen
• Add custom layout setting fkr inbox screen. Specifically to support a "full" layout.
• Add some way to indicate a community is one you are subscribed to everywhere in the app. Eg. When searching for a community in the community selector, in the suggestions window when drafting a post/comment or in the seaech community screen in multicommunity or filter by community in search.
• https://lemmy.world/post/27467193

Stretch features (nice to have but I need to do more research)

• Possible integration with mastodon/? (needs research)
• Support Mbin? Piefed?
• Sync between devices?
• Turn chat in Summit into a "first class" feature.

Completed

• Add haptic feedback to some actions such as voting and posting/commenting
• Do not retry on send comment/post errors. Offer a way to retry sending a comment/post.
• Add a setting to disable/enable parsing 4 numbers separated by dots as ip addresses. This is currently always enabled in the app.
• Full content layout but with cards.
• Add an optional "header" design to the community feed. Make the header configurable.
• Add a setting to change the behavior of long pressing ... button in the post screen.
• Feature to allow user to swipe to go to next post.
• Add setting to enable/disable text in bottom nav.
• Support opening instance links in-app. Eg. https://ttrpg.network/
• Add setting to show a label for accounts that are new.
• Allow gestures to work in both directions.
• Make defaults for videos configurable. Eg. Default volume in the post feed.
• Share button in the community info screen.
• Add setting to choose default browser.
• Add something in the settings that instructs the user on how to change the app language.
• Add setting to disable suggestions in the community selector sheet.
• Load more posts when reach end of posts when swiping between posts.
• Add setting to not use full bleed images in full post views.
• Add share option to screenshot screen.

Welcome to possibly the last major release of the year! As the end of the year approaches, I am planning on taking a short break from developing Summit in favor of going out more and also catching up on some video games.

This update refreshes the layouts of the various card layouts in the app. It aims to make distinguishing between different cards easier and also improving the general look of things.

This update also fixes various bugs as well.

As this update changes the UI of the app, I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the changes. Of course if you have feedback about the UI in any part of the app please feel free to post those too!

Full Changelog

• Updated designs for layouts Card, Card 2 and Card3.
• Fixed a bug where images within tables do not load.
• Fixed a bug where post data does not update after a comment is posted.
• Fixed a bug where post content will sometimes flicker even if nothing has changed.
• Fixed a bug where the shadows of the card layouts were cropped.
• Added a button to the image viewer. If the image being viewed has a higher quality alternative, a HD button will be visible allowing the user to view the alternative image.
• Added a setting for card layouts to control the amount of horizontal margin.
• Fixed a bug where images in a table will not cause the table to resize once loaded.
• Changed the behavior of the image viewer. If a higher resolution of an image is available when an image is previewed, the image viewer will automatically download and view the higher resolution image.
• Changed the behavior of the image viewer. When toggling between a preview and the HD image, the image viewer will remember and restore the zoom level and scroll position.

Very minor Try loading this table on the latest version of the app!

Card	Card 2	Card 3

Update

Minor change to improve QoL. This change will be released as v1.49.1.

• Added a button to the image viewer. If the image being viewed has a higher quality alternative, a HD button will be visible allowing the user to view the alternative image.

Update 2

Added a setting for card layouts to control the amount of horizontal margin. This change will go out in v1.49.2.

Update 3

More changes coming through. The following changes will be available on v1.49.3:

• Fixed a bug where images in a table will not cause the table to resize once loaded.
• Changed the behavior of the image viewer. If a higher resolution of an image is available when an image is previewed, the image viewer will automatically download and view the higher resolution image.
• Changed the behavior of the image viewer. When toggling between a preview and the HD image, the image viewer will remember and restore the zoom level and scroll position.

Update 4

Doing an emergency release as the preview release broken image viewing when viewing an image without an alternative source (eg. HD version). This will be released as v1.49.4.

Update 5

Got a bug report regarding error messages when loading certain images. Will push out a release to fix this (v1.49.5).

• Fixed a bug where sometimes an error message is shown when loading an image even though the image loads.

This release will be focused on implementing the proposal from https://lemmy.world/post/22119014.

Changes so far

• Added a new "You" screen. This will be the new default screen in the bottom nav bar.
• Added a upvoted/downvoted screens. These screens list all posts/comments you upvoted/downvoted.
• Added a drafts screen to make managing drafts easier.

This release implements the proposal discussed here: https://lemmy.world/post/21570953.

This release overhauls the search screen to show subscribed communities and community suggestions based on what is popular or trending at the moment.

Note: Suggestions shown in the search screen will be based on data gathered from Lemmy servers (more precisely they are based off of https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer). They are not from data generated from the client. The app does not track/send data to any servers aside from Lemmy & Firebase (for crash/app stability tracking, you can opt-out in settings).

The backend portion that will drive community suggestions feature is open source. You can view it here: https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy-server.

I will issue more details regarding how this will all be set up once I'm closer to a release.

Changes so far

• Complete search screen overhaul
• Fixed a bug where disabling Firebase Crashlytics would leave the rest of the Firebase library enabled which can include components such as a logger.
• Fixed a bug where the quote feature did not work as expected when text in the comment box is selected and the quote button is pressed.

This update adds full support for the Android feature Predictive Back. Unfortunately this feature is only supported on newer versions of Android (Android 14 and above) so if you are on an older version of Android you will not notice a difference.

Full changelog

• Fixed a bug where changing accounts will not scroll the account list to the top.
• Added full support for predictive back. Note that this fixes several bugs that are only seen on Android 14.
• Fixed a bug where posts/comments are saved as a draft even if they are posted/sent.
• Fixed a bug on some devices where can get stuck in the compose comment screen.

Update

I found some bugs in the release so I will be releasing a small bug fix update shortly. Changes:

• Fixed a bug where posts/comments are saved as a draft even if they are posted/sent.
• Fixed a bug on some devices where can get stuck in the compose comment screen.

Update 2

Fully rollout of the release is now complete.

If anyone is interested in helping with translations, please see the link below. If anyone has any questions feel free to post them here! Thank you in advance to all translators!

https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy/wiki/Translations