White Noise v0.2.1 is out!
Notifications behave better, images are smoother, and the app gets out of your way a bit more.
SO. What’s new?
✨New Features
Notifications & navigation
- Deep linking for notifications: tapping a notification now takes you directly to the correct chat or invite screen
- Automatic notification clearing: notifications for messages and invites disappear when you open the related chat
- Unread counts: added unread message counts for both DMs and groups.
- Notification translations: added proper localization support in notifications.
🖼 Images & Media
- Automatic image downloads: images in messages now download automatically.
- Image zoom: added zoom functionality for images in messages.
- Media icons in previews: message previews in the chat list now show a media icon when images are present.
👣 User Experience
- Identicons: replaced single-letter avatars with unique identicons for better visual identification.
- Unsaved changes dialog: added protection against accidental back navigation on the edit profile screen.
🐛 Bug Fixes
Chat Experience
- Scroll behavior improvements: chat now jumps instantly to the bottom when opened, does not auto-scroll for incoming messages, and only scrolls when you send a message.
- Fixed disappearing messages: messages no longer temporarily disappear after being sent
- Better hit-box: the chat bubble hit-box now spans the entire width for easier interaction
- Scrollable group details: chat details during the creation flow are now properly scrollable
🔔 Notifications
- Missing notifications fix: fixed an issue where multiple messages arriving in the same polling window could miss notifications.
- Inactive account navigation: fixed notification navigation for inactive accounts.
💅 UI Polish
- Developer settings: fixed content going under the three-button bottom navigation on GrapheneOS and some Android devices.
- Keypackage buttons: fixed the loading state displaying incorrectly on keypackage operation buttons.
- Chat screen padding: reduced unnecessary bottom padding in the chat screen.
- Avatar colors: refactored avatar color handling for consistency.
💪 Performance Improvements
- Optimized group metadata: improved group metadata loading and caching.
Non-blocking user fetch: switched several areas to use non-blocking user fetch for better responsiveness.
- Smarter data loading: added digests and improvements to avoid reloading everything on every update.
- Notification efficiency: avoided fetching all groups unnecessarily for notification details.
- Background sync optimization: increased the foreground task repeat interval from 1 second to 60 seconds for better battery life.
🛠 Technical Improvements
- Better error messages: improved error messaging throughout the app.
- Updated Rust crate: updated the underlying Rust crate with various improvements.
- Added get_group method : new bridge method for better group data access.
This release sharpens notifications, makes images easier to work with, and cleans up a bunch of UI/UX issues reported by the community. The performance work under the hood should make White Noise feel smoother and more responsive in everyday use.
Thank you for the support 🖤
