When comments are very long, it can push the text box for replies towards the bottom of the screen. If the keyboard is pulled up to add to the text box, it will cover the box and make it so the response cannot be seen unless the keyboard is dismissed.

Possible solution: minimize the original comment on tap, or allow scrolling until the reply text box is at the top of the screen

When possible, please could you add some gesture navigation.

Mainly the ability to back out of a post via swiping left to right anywhere on the screen.

Bonus would the ability to override the 'press back to exit app' and instead let it open the navigation drawer.

Thanks for all your work on the app.

The app cannot handle the length of my username, resulting in it being cut off and the button to switch accounts, add an account, and sign out being hidden.

Edit: Also, the swipe action for downvote seems to upvote instead.

Edit 2: Correction, the swipe action seems to depend on how quickly I do it. If I do the gesture quickly it upvotes no matter what.

Edit 3: Seems to be fixed as of 1.0.44.

With Material You color theming, the text tends to be pretty tough to read.

Hi, Today's update brings an improved community list in the drawer, block list management for users and communities, ability to hide read posts, and various minor improvements/fixes. You can also now view the about page for Communities as well including subscriber count, active users, and number of posts.

Thank you as always for your continued support and encouragement! The feedback has been very helpful in improving Connect. I hope we can make this the best way to browse Lemmy.

Still on the hunt for a new app icon, if you know a designer please let me know!

Changelog:

• Inbox now refreshes after marking all read

• Made the drawer lists more compact

• Added option to Hide read posts

• Show post titles when viewing a user's comments in user view

• Disabled loading more comments when scrolled to the bottom of posts as it looks like comment pagination isn't working properly on 0.18 and resulted in duplicate comments.

• Added indicator that a post has been read, the text will turn grey.

• Added pin icon to featured posts

• Added About Community view to see the details of a community

• Added instance names in drawer and community search suggestions

• Added share links to communities, comments and posts

• long pressing a post thumbnail will open the url in an external browser

• Added white background to web views to make text more readable

• Added block list management for users and communities

• Fixed a create post error on some communities (JSON relative path error)

• I'm now precaching some API calls so it should load things even faster

• Added de-duplication on post list API calls to remove some duplicates that were showing up due to the pagination implementation

• Fixed a bug where viewing a comment thread would show all comments

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Sorry if this has already been posted but a quick glance and i didnt see it. For the gif I was scrolling through fast to see it occur but it has happened enough with organic usage I felt I needed to post. I checked two post from the video and its not reposted content. Upvoting one upvoted both, both have identical comments.

Right now, I have the general text size set to medium. This works great for titles and posts, but the comments are really tiny. It would be nice to separately set text sizes for different types of texts so that comments are easier to read.

(Unsure if this is a bug, user error, or feature request—let me know if I tagged incorrectly.)

Hi, been reading feedback and implementing the ones that I think would be good to add. This release brings a favourites bar to the drawer, the ability to set a default page, More text size options, and an overhauled settings page.

Still on the hunt for a new app icon, if you know a designer please let me know!

Next things I want to tackle are improving the markdown editor and adding in user/community/instance block lists.

Finally thank you for your continued support! The feedback has been very helpful in improving Connect.

Changelog:

• Added option for enabling notifications across all signed in accounts
• Added Text overrides for comments and post titles
• Added option for disabling swipe and markdown editor
• Added favourites to sidebar. These are account specific and different accounts can have different favourites.
• Added option to set default page
• Added an option to hide the bottom bar on posts for smaller cards
• Added animations when expanding a comment thread
• Added option to reverse the comment interactions (tap and long press)
• Added password reveal button on sign in
• Added some spacing between posts to visually break them up
• Removed domain name text on list views thumbnails
• Added a search option scoped to the current community you are in
• Added option for high refresh displays
• Changed FAB icon in post details to a reply icon
• Changed collapsing comments so the comment body also collapses
• Fixed a bug with the comment body not showing when editting
• Fixed a crash on foldable devices
• Fixed a bug where your own comments would appear to have more points than they really had

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

When a user views a post and its comments, then the search button can have the option to search comments inside that post.

I'm getting "Error: domain is blocked" when trying to post. Some of my posts still go through, but some do not.

Everytime I open the app it takes me to /All where as I would like to set the default view to /Subscribed

It would be awesome to have a way to view the details of a community and all of the associated user details such as how many subscribers total, per hour, and etc. The same should be available to view for an instance as well.

I can't seem to find a way to do that yet.

Currently there are 2 search options - search locally or search in all. It would be nice to have a third option to search in a specific community. This would be similar to how we can search inside a specific subreddit. Thanks!

one of the main reasons I used third party apps on reddit is the ease of blocking subs I didn't want to see. As it stands, blocking instances on connect is clunky and a pain in the ass.

I downloaded the app (Version 1.0.38), but unfortunately it immediately crashes when launching.

I'm using a Surface Duo 2 running Android 12. I saw a 1 star review in the Google Play Store saying they used a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 and had the same issue.

So I'm thinking it might have to do with foldable phones or at least non-standard screen aspect ratios or resolutions.

Hi, This update happened faster than I was planning since a lot of these features came together quickly. Large features added yesterday are 2FA support, a markdown editor, and swipe actions on posts and comments. I also reworked some of the API functions so I can immediately update the state with what I think it will be instead of waiting on an api response to update the view. So things should feel overall snappier now.

On another note, thank you everyone for all of the support! We're at 2.1k active users now and quickly growing. I hope we can make this the best native application for browsing Lemmy and your feedback really helps!

Also, I'm looking for a new app icon. Hopefully something a bit sleeker. If you have design skills please get in touch!

Changelog:

• Feature: added Image uploads

• Feature: added markdown editor for new posts and comments

• Added rounded corners to top of images in full width view

• Added 2FA support

• NSFW thumbnails now always show when inside the person view

• Made clicking into comment from inbox faster

• Added delete post button

• Added community selector when making new post (fixes a "community not found" error)

• Added NSFW toggle for new posts

• now show instance name in subscription list

• Added swipe actions (upvote, save, downvote on posts and upvote,save, reply on comments).

• Added a donation link in settings

• Overhauled the post create/edit screen

• Speed up various API actions

Links:

• Google play
• you can support me here

-kuroneko

Thank you for your effort this looks to be a very nice app. I am hoping I can get this issue resolved.

Sorry if this is not the proper place for a bug report.

I am on an Android 11 phone (Moto G Power). I am unable to login because the button is off the screen. Rotating the phone disables the ability to scroll down.

I tried changing the font size and this did not decrease the size of the login buttons either.

Hi, I released 1.0.35 this morning to add in some of the feature requests I got yesterday. I hope you enjoy the update! The next update will probably be a couple days as I want to add image uploads and markdown editing but they're both larger features with some corner cases to consider. Independent text size controls is also a much requested feature that's been on my radar.

Features:

• Added AMOLED theme
• Added Notifications (polls every 60 seconds in the background if enabled)
• Added view all messages in inbox
• Added button to view all comments when viewing a single thread
• Removed log out from the top right three dot menu as it was too close to Refresh
• OP user is now highlighted in post comments
• Subscribed communities are now sorted alphabetically
• Fullwidth images are now taller than before and crop in less
• When searching the community suggestions will now include the instance name

Bugfixes:

• Clicking into the comments from the profile will now have the topbar title of the community name and not the post title
• Fixed an issue with account switching between two users with the same name
• Fixed a flash when scrolling through posts with thumbnails
• Fixed a flash when re-opening the sub drawer
• Fixed a bug with unsaving a comment not refreshing
• Fixed an issue with guest login not being responsive. Now shows loading icon while working.

Links:

• Google play

Thank you for all your feedback and support! -kuroneko

Hi, kurononeko

I installed this app as it supports older android versions but I couldn't sign in or see any posts in the app. Every time I try to sign in it gives me this error message: Error: HandshakeException: Handshake error in client (OS Error: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED: certificate has expired(handshake.cc:393))

I tested with a newer phone and it works well so I guess it has to do with the older android version. I hope this can be fixed.

Hi dev, nice work so far. Good job.

Can you implement a setting where we can collapse a comment with a click? The content should also be collapsed.

Hi, I've been working through adding some more of the feedback I've received and wanted to post an update. We've also passed 1K+ downloads, which is pretty great for only being a couple days old. Biggest changes are added Share and download options to image views, Edit support for comments and posts, markdown previews when creating/editting, and a new list view with the thumbnail on the right.

For users with multiple accounts on different instances that share a username things should now work correctly as well!

Changes:

Features

• Download images from web view directly
• Share support (direct share and url share)
• Markdown preview for creating/editting posts and comments
• User switch dropdown background should now more closely match theme
• Added edit functionality for posts and comments
• Added delete comment button
• Added Larger text display option
• Added reverse list view (thumbnail on right side)
• Added post replies to inbox
• Made the touch targets on the sidebar community lists larger
• Added display name functionality
• Clicking a comment in the profile will now display only that comment chain + scroll to it
• Added a domain display for posts with links

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where account switching wouldn't work when the username was the same
• Fixed some API issues when the instance is running 0.18

Upcoming: The three biggest things on my list are still a more full featured markdown editor, image uploads, and user/community level blocks. Still waiting on Apkmirror to post the apk as well, might need to look into alternatives.

Links: Google play

Thank you for all your feedback and support! -kuroneko

Hey dev!

First off i want to say I love your app. Its my favorite android one so far, its beautiful. I wanted to get that out because im about to slightly complain but its okay because im part of your low percentage user base.

I have the galaxy tab s6 lite and I have a keyboard and trackpad with it. When I use the trackpad to try to scroll it is very very slow. Would taker over a minute to scroll past one picture.

Im a software dev so I understand the process and you got more important things to work on but I just wanted to give you an FYI on it! Love you work (:

Hi all. With all the feedback yesterday I wanted to make a release sooner rather than later to address some of the feedback I've received in order to make Connect even better! Some features I had hoped to get in (Markdown editor, image uploads) but will need some more time. Those will come in an upcoming release. I've also uploaded the APK to Apkmirror but it hasn't yet been reviewed, I'll post a link once that's ready.

Features:

• Feature: added setting for text sizes
• Feature: added setting for default comment sorting
• Feature: added the Inbox (thanks @troyunrau@lemmy.ca)
• Feature: Added open in web button at the community level
• Feature: added open in web action item for profiles and post views
• Feature: added unread comment counts to post cards
• Feature: markdown images now expand on click
• Feature: added a refresh button to the community pages when there's a server issue
• Feature: fullwidth view now scales images to fit instead of displaying cropped

Fixes:

• Bugfix: lemmy.ml posts should now work (they were on a different API version)
• Bugfix: The profile link now works correctly if there are multiple accounts with your same username
• Bugfix: Fixed the list view text being at 80% width
• Bugfix: subscription list is no longer limited to 10 items
• Bugfix resolved an issue where sometimes comments would be duplicated

Misc improvements

• Misc: made comments and sidebar lists more compact

What is upcoming in the next release:

• Markdown editor
• Image uploads
• Download button when viewing images
• Edit button for your comments/posts
• Block functionality for specific users/communities

Links: Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect Apkmirror: TBD

Thank you for all your feedback and support! -kuroneko

I really like how this app looks, much more than jerboa, and it has some settings I really like. The issue is that some of these settings just don't seem to work at all. I generally use mobile apps in card view, but it seems that the card view just doesn't work for me, and is the same as full width. Along with this, blur/hide/show settings for NSFW also just don't do anything, with it being seemingly stuck on "hide". Hopefully these things can be easily fixed and are just with the setting activation.

Until this is fixed, I'll stick with jerboa, but once this is changed, I'm probably going to switch over to connect.

Hi, thanks for making more options for reading the fediverse! Have you considered making this open source or available via fdroid?