Android client: general / beta discussion

[fox]

@rodneys_mission

But would a .flag file keep it from regenerating the resized image?

.flag works as a token to allow resize operation because there might not be a cookie when image is requested (by a webview or whatever), actual resized image shouldn’t be regenerated if it already exists.

e: maybe there should be a cap on resized images, something like 1024px looks right.

[fox]

Some plugins are getting renamed - #2 related to resize plugin

[fox]

New BETA: 1.273 (507)

this reworks app theme handling to use Theme.DayNight for faster theme switching and automatic night mode

[conrad784]

Installed this morning, works, as far as I can see, same like before.
What do you mean with “automatic”? I’ve got Android 9 on a Samsung phone, there I can activate “Night Mode” which has impact on the theme of the system apps. Are you able to implement this too, or is this API not available for every app?

[fox]

@conrad784

What do you mean with “automatic”?

it should change day/night based on time. unfortunately it’s deprecated - for whatever reason - but it seems to work for me.

@conrad784

Are you able to implement this too

i think so. there’s an option to follow device theme. i’ll make a note to add this. my phone doesn’t have device night mode so testing this would be your duty.

if apps like play store change to dark when you enable dark theme on your device then it’s likely to work. if not then it might only apply to built-in software.

[conrad784]

@fox

testing this would be your duty.

my pleasure

@fox

if apps like play store change to dark when you enable dark theme on your device then it’s likely to work.

yes, the play store follows this setting!

Its absolutely not needed, as I am currently just using always night mode of tt-rss, but would be nice to have this option.

[fox]

same as device night mode should be supported in 1.275, no idea if it works though.

[randompherret]

Can confirm with device works as intended

[fox]

at least on my phone it looks like “same as device” and “auto by time” does an exact same thing.

anyone else? i’ll remove the deprecated variant then because it seems unnecessary.

e: it works like this on an emulator too. this wasn’t obvious from the documentation though, i think. i’ll remove the 4th option in 1.276.

[conrad784]

“Same as device” works also for me as designed.

[fox]

in unrelated news i finally bothered to enable pre-launch automated testing on google play. one of the very few google-related things that are unironically helpful and good.

[zed]

Do shortcuts to specific categories not work anymore?

[fox]

i have it disabled for newer android versions:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            menu.findItem(R.id.create_shortcut).setVisible(false);
        }

this is the commit:

commit 527796ed9cdb63b715b0c8d833262fa5ea097b44
Author: Andrew Dolgov <noreply@fakecake.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 21 17:06:58 2018 +0300

    disable create shortcut context menu on oreo; not supported

and this is why: Mudanças de comportamento do Android 8.0  |  Desenvolvedores Android  |  Android Developers

looks like this got reworked by google (which is something they really like to do, my guess would be managers responsible for android trying to justify their miserable existence).

if someone wants to rewrite existing code to use this new shortcutmanager whatever, i’ll review the PR.

e: personally i seriously dislike this neverending cycle of rewriting stuff that works and enforcing newer target API levels (which always breaks things), which is why almost all my stuff is off various google storefronts. tt-rss is pretty much the only thing that’s left.

at least i managed to figure out how to self host chrome (and chromium-based microsoft edge) extensions. that particular store is basically ultracondensed cancer.

[fox]

NEW BETA UP 1.280 (514)

• this reworks API requests to use okhttp3 instead of httpurlconnection
• options to trust any SSL certificate have been removed

[fox]

new beta 1.282 (516)

• add an option to force phone layout on tablet devices

[fox]

new beta 1.296 (530)

• https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss-android/commit/a99d2aaabb53e7a6d921f4663a78f35edc4ee2f8

[dariottolo]

I hope this is not considered hijacking the thread, but I am runnging 1.296 (530) and I can not figure out how to see unread starred articles.
Tapping Special → Starred shows nothing, even with “only not read” disabled.
I went through the settings, but I can not find anything related. If I star an unread article, it is shown immediately. If I select a feed that I am sure contains an unread starred article from the its top category (not going through starred) nothing is shown.
Am I doing anything wrong? I hope it is not related to the Italian translation.
Thanks in advance

[fox]

@dariottolo

not considered hijacking the thread,

don’t worry about it.

@dariottolo

I can not figure out how to see unread starred articles.

that’s strange. i’m kinda busy with other stuff right now but i’ll make a note to take a look tomorrow.

[fox]

i might be missing something here but it seems to work for me:

(articles with bold title are unread)

e: also works with unread view mode.

[dariottolo]

My bad. I totally missed this menu, as on mobile I usually consult only unread articles.
I do not know why, but I was convinced that selecting the starred special category would have shown the starred articled, no matter the status (read/unread).
Thanks once more for looking into it and apologies for the trouble