LFGSS Mobile (Android app)

Awesome! I was only 50% confident it would work.

I don't fully understand the issue, but it's to do with a library I am using (flutter_local_notifications) and a mismatch of versions in some compatibility layer.

I found the solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74163927/flutter-chrash-in-android-12l-with-no-interface-method-addwindowlayoutinfoliste

Good old dependency hell.

Never goes away.

Thanks again.

flutter-chrash-in-android

Was this written by cihrs crsah?

Probably some poor developer slowly losing their mind trying to track down a bug 🙃

v1.0.23 - Mainly layout fixes

• Fix padding after YouTube videos (finally!)
  
• Fix horizontal attachment scroll glitch (I think)
  
• Fix layout of lists (too much padding again)
  
• Improve link preview feature
  

v1.0.24

• Reply chain view (try tapping the "... replied to XYZ" text)
  

That's an awesome new feature 👏👏👏

Superb

v1.0.25

• Fix Profile picture url handling. (Big thanks to @Velocio for this one)
  

The reply thread thing is sick

You know it's built-in to LFGSS.com right?

It's accessed by going to a post and clicking the #526 type number on the right side of the post.

And for it to work, people should click Reply to specific posts, rather than just use the reply box at the bottom of the page (which is a more general reply to the thread).

This is why, on LFGSS, when you start replying to a specific comment... I hide the reply box at the end, I want you to reply to comments so that this threaded view is built up and those other views work, and so that clients (of which the Android app is the only non-official one) can use alternative views.

This hybrid model allows for Reddit style threading as well as paginated flat replies... I personally saw that paginated flat replies is more egalitarian for communities, but realised that threading is still really valuable for working out the context of a reply.

I know, yeah. It's just not as good on a browser

v1.0.26 - might be a while before the next release so thought I might as well push this out instead of sitting on it

• Minor thread-view styling tweaks
  

Well, it's been quite a busy time for you and some awesome updates. This minor one seems cool as well, TA.

Thanks, I had a few days off work recently and instead of doing all the important chores that I've been putting off, I had fun working on the the app.

Feature request:

When a photo attached to a post has been opened, it would be great if you could swipe across to see the other attachments.

Possible?

Yes, definitely poss. That one annoys me too

Excellent!

It's the same with embedded pictures to be fair. They don't scroll once you click on one iirc.

Another request if I may: I usually scroll through the Today page rather than clicking into specific sub forums, sometimes I get quite far down the page. Would it be possible to have the today/following page navigation buttons auto take you to the top of the page if pressed again when you're already on that page? So when I'm all the way at the bottom of Today, I can press it again to go to the top?
Also you should consider something like https://buymeacoffee.com/ so we can say thanks for your work on this.

That sounds like a great idea - I'll add it in.

I've been working on caching recently. It's one of those high effort/low impact changes I've been putting off, but it'll simultaneously fix the blink and shuffle you see every time you navigate back from a thread to the following page (and some other pages), as well as the duplicates that sometimes appear.

Thanks for the offer of a coffee, I really appreciate it! Maybe I'll get around to setting something up :D

Incidentally I was back in the UK last month, and holy hell the Microcosm API is fast!

I'm usually in Australia, which slows things down a bit (still perfectly useable though), but being near the servers, everything loads so damn fast!

I've been working on caching recently

Exciting.

I have not mentioned it before as I knew it would be a big piece of work, but this is a slight (but constant) annoyance with the app.

Having said that, I wonder if this is one of those things that seems really hard to implement but upon looking there is a framework out there that will memoise everything for you, with little effort?

Fingers crossed....

I'm definitely over-complicating things, and there are simpler ways to get 90% of the way there. But where's the fun in that!

It's a bit tricky because you're requesting pages of a resource that is slowly but constantly mutating. So you can't cache the pages, but you can cache the items in the list and try to reverse-engineer the state of the list based on the info you get from each page request.

The following page, updates page, forums and sub-forums behave like this, but conversations and huddles are (mostly) append only, which makes things a lot simpler. Search result pages are different again.

Cool challenge. I'll be interested to hear more about your solution in due course!

v1.0.27 - cheeky mini-release

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