Add support for PieFed.

Full changelog

• Add support for PieFed.
• Fix a bug where when you open a post, the spinner will appear to stutter for a moment.
• Fix a bug where pulling to refresh on the post screen will cause all comments to refresh even if they have not changed.
• Fix a bug where inline images will sometimes not load until the screen is refreshed.
• Fix a bug where "Prev" button doesn't load the page if pressed on page 2 when Infinity mode is off.

Update

Fix some bugs and re-releasing as v1.67.1

• Add some default PieFed instances to the login form auto-complete.
• Fix a bug where you can't log into PieFed with a password with more than 60 characters.

Update 2

Release should be fully rolled out now.

The community got the required number of votes to force me to add PieFed support which is what this release will be focused on.

This has the potential to be a huge change. At the time of writing, I'm still doing exploration work so I'm not sure how long it will take. It could take a couple of days or a couple of weeks depending on what I find.

In the meantime, I did fix some bugs.

Changelog so far

• Fix a bug where when you open a post, the spinner will appear to stutter for a moment.
• Fix a bug where pulling to refresh on the post screen will cause all comments to refresh even if they have not changed.
• Fix a bug where inline images will sometimes not load until the screen is refreshed.
• Fix a bug where "Prev" button doesn't load the page if pressed on page 2 when Infinity mode is off.
• Add support for PieFed.

Update

Wrapping up PieFed support. Current release ETA is tomorrow (July 15th, evening). The main known bug at the moment (that I will not address) is that certain fields on PieFed use HTML instead of Markdown. The fix isn't hard, it just requires the app to include some dependencies that will increase the app size. Once PieFed is more stable, I'll add support for HTML then but for the time being I will hold off on HTML support.

It's been a long time since Summit first supported creating post/comment in the app. Since then, Lemmy has added several new features to posts and comments. This update brings feature parity between Summit and Lemmy, adding support for things such as alt-text and custom thumbnails.

This update also continues to polish the user experience further. The aim is to make the app a treat to use.

This update adds another layer of caching for images. When navigating to a post with an image, the thumbnail will be used while the source image loads. This should result in a smoother, more magical experience.

I'm going to be generous and leave the PieFed post up for one more release but I will definitely reset it next release. If you want Summit to support PieFed please upvote this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31899935 .

Full changelog

• Add a "detailed view" to the mod logs. Tapping a mod log event in the event list will open up a detailed view, showing full details of the mod log event.
• Update add/edit post screen to support custom thumbnails, alt text and language.
• Update add/edit comment screen to support specifying a language.
• Improve performance on post feed and post screen.
• Improve post viewing experience by showing the thumbnail image if it's available while the full image loads.
• Slight optimization rendering the action buttons on posts in the post feed.
• Change icon & splash background based on system theme (eg. light background for light theme, dark background for dark theme).
• Changed person/community mention auto-complete to insert just the mention by default. Eg. previously tapping on the suggestion [email protected] would insert [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.world/u/idunnololz), after the change tapping it would insert @[email protected]. Add a long-press menu with the option to insert the full link.
• Fix a bug where punctuation is included in the url. Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/. is parsed as https://en.wikipedia.org/. instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/)
• Fix a bug where sometimes the inbox screen doesn't auto-refresh when you open it.
• Fix a bug where the cake icon will not correctly center in the line.

Update

Made some more improvements to how the app handles mentions. Hopefully this change will put a stop to all of the mention bugs. Doing a release as v1.66.1.

• Improve how mentions are handled. This indirectly fixes various mention bugs.
• Fix a crash when switching to an invalid instance on the guest account.

Update 2

Release v1.66.3 to fix a bug that prevents users from posting anything. (skipped v1.66.2 because I made a mistake).

Update 3

Found a few crashes introduced by this released. I did a quick fix for these and submitted it to the olaystore for release however the app was rejected due to some of the NSFW functionality. To resolve these issues I went along with how other apps typically handle these and require the user to sign in to see NSFW functions.

Apologies for anyone affected by these changes.

These changes are released as v1.66.5.

• Fix a crash when using custom actions in the post feed.
• Fix a rare crash that can occur when loading context in the inbox screens.
• Require user to be signed in to see NSFW features.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31900024

Welcome to v1.65.

This release brings some general polish to the app, rounding out some rough edges and aims to improve the overall user experience.

The major change included in this update is a fully fledged save/restore system for post feeds. This system works under the hood so you shouldn't notice any changes to the app. This system aims to make leaving and returning to the app a more predictable experience. You should no longer lose your place in the post feed.

If you preferred the old experience, this new save & restore system can be disabled in Settings > Post feed.

There are a lot of other minor improves too such as improved error handling and text editing. See the change log for more details.

Last but not least, I am going to start gauging interest for PieFed support starting from this release. If you want Summit to support PieFed please upvote this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31899935 .

Full changelog

• Save and restore post feeds on app recreation. This should make the app behave in a more predicable way. Eg. if you leave the app for extended period and come back, the app should now preserve exactly where you were before you left. No more losing your spot!
• Add setting to toggle save/restore post feeds on app recreation.
• Improve error messages.
• Manually add a workaround to get img.gvid.tv links to work in the app.
• Fix issue where some images won't load.
• Fix issue where user profile screen doesn't change when current account changed.
• Fix issue where "save post" button state doesn't reflect actual state of whether the post has been saved or not in certain cases. Eg. if the post is saved, the save post button should be filled.
• Fix navigation rail bugs when the navigation rail is on but large screen support is off.
• Fix a bug where comment timestamps do not update on refresh.
• Improve some of the text editor functions. Eg. better insert link logic, better quote, bullet list and numbered list logic.
• Fix a crash when downloading images.
• Fix crop tool's guidelines/overlay blending in with the image.
• Fix issue where text would wrap in the post/comment header when it's not supposed to.
• Fix video lock rotation button icon to show the lock icon when orientation is locked and not show the lock

Update 1

Some bug fixes to be tacked on:

• Fix a crash when downloading images.
• Fix crop tool's guidelines/overlay blending in with the image.
• Fix issue where text would wrap in the post/comment header when it's not supposed to.
• Fix video lock rotation button icon to show the lock icon when orientation is locked and not show the lock icon when orientation isn't locked.

Update 2

Rolling out the changes above as v1.65.1.

Will probably update create post/comment screens in this update.

Changes so far:

• Change icon & splash background based on system theme (eg. light background for light theme, dark background for dark theme).
• Fix a bug where punctuation is included in the url. Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/. is parsed as https://en.wikipedia.org/. instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/)
• Changed person/community mention auto-complete to insert just the mention by default. Eg. previously tapping on the suggestion [email protected] would insert [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.world/u/idunnololz), after the change tapping it would insert @[email protected]. Add a long-press menu with the option to insert the full link.
• Improve mod logs further. Add a "detailed view" to the mod logs. Tapping a mod log event in the event list will open up the a detailed view.
• Slight optimization when rendering the post feed.
• Update add/edit post screen to support custom thumbnails, alt text and language.
• Update add/edit comment screen to support specifying a language.
• Fix a bug where sometimes the inbox screen doesn't auto-refresh when you open it.
• Improve post viewing experience by showing the thumbnail image if it's available while the full image loads.
• Improve performance on post feed and post screen.
• Fix a bug where the cake icon will not correctly center in the line.

Update

This release is technically ready, but I am not happy with the performance of the app. From daily use, it appears that general app performance has been declining. I will issue a release once I deem performance to be acceptable.

Welcome to v1.65.

This release brings some general polish to the app, rounding out some rough edges and aims to improve the overall user experience.

The major change included in this update is a fully fledged save/restore system for post feeds. This system works under the hood so you shouldn't notice any changes to the app. This system aims to make leaving and returning to the app a more predictable experience. You should no longer lose your place in the post feed.

If you preferred the old experience, this new save & restore system can be disabled in Settings > Post feed.

There are a lot of other minor improves too such as improved error handling and text editing. See the change log for more details.

Last but not least, I am going to start gauging interest for PieFed support starting from this release. If you want Summit to support PieFed please upvote this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31899935 .

Full changelog

• Save and restore post feeds on app recreation. This should make the app behave in a more predicable way. Eg. if you leave the app for extended period and come back, the app should now preserve exactly where you were before you left. No more losing your spot!
• Add setting to toggle save/restore post feeds on app recreation.
• Improve error messages.
• Manually add a workaround to get img.gvid.tv links to work in the app.
• Fix issue where some images won't load.
• Fix issue where user profile screen doesn't change when current account changed.
• Fix issue where "save post" button state doesn't reflect actual state of whether the post has been saved or not in certain cases. Eg. if the post is saved, the save post button should be filled.
• Fix navigation rail bugs when the navigation rail is on but large screen support is off.
• Fix a bug where comment timestamps do not update on refresh.
• Improve some of the text editor functions. Eg. better insert link logic, better quote, bullet list and numbered list logic.
• Fix a crash when downloading images.
• Fix crop tool's guidelines/overlay blending in with the image.
• Fix issue where text would wrap in the post/comment header when it's not supposed to.
• Fix video lock rotation button icon to show the lock icon when orientation is locked and not show the lock

Update 1

Some bug fixes to be tacked on:

• Fix a crash when downloading images.
• Fix crop tool's guidelines/overlay blending in with the image.
• Fix issue where text would wrap in the post/comment header when it's not supposed to.
• Fix video lock rotation button icon to show the lock icon when orientation is locked and not show the lock icon when orientation isn't locked.

Update 2

Rolling out the changes above as v1.65.1.

Update 3

Release v1.65.2 to fix a crash in the profile screen when Android version less than 12.

Update - the 200 votes threshold has been met so I'm planning on adding support for PieFed in the next release.

tl;dr - Please only upvote this post if you want Summit to support PieFed.

I was supposed to start doing these starting from v1.64.0, but I forgot so apologizes.

I will start creating one of these posts per major release to gauge interest in PieFed. Y'all have until the next major release to vote. If any of these posts reach 200 upvotes before the poll for the next release I will make the next release focused on adding PieFed support.

Thank you.

The last few updates have all been focused on adding more and more features. To change things up a bit, this release will be focused on improving the quality of the app: fixing long-standing issues, addressing pain points, improving performance.

Changes so far

• Save and restore post feeds on app recreation. This should make the app behave in a more predicable way. Eg. if you leave the app for extended period and come back, the app should now preserve exactlyn where you were before you left. No more losing your spot!
• Add setting to toggle save/restore post feeds on app recreation.
• Fix issue where some images won't load.
• Fix issue where user profile screen doesn't change when current account changed.
• Fix issue where "save post" button state doesn't reflect actual state of whether the post has been saved or not in certain cases. Eg. if the post is saved, the save post button should be filled.
• Fix navigation rail bugs when the navigation rail is on but large screen support is off.
• Continue to improve error messages.
• Fix a bug where comment timestamps do not update on refresh.
• Manually add a workaround to get img.gvid.tv links to work in the app.
• Slightly improved text editor.

Update

Aiming for this to be a simple update. I am testing the changes. Should have a release by tomorrow.

Update 2

Final round of testing underway. Release imminent.