By EZ in Releases — Apr 5, 2024

Amethyst v0.86.1: Draft Support

Amethyst is a free and open source Nostr client for Android.

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"This version adds support for draft notes autosaved on your relays, a new simplified UI choice on Settings, changes the Discover tab algorithm to show the latest of chats and communities and much more."

What's new

Features

Draft notes for feeds, replies, live streams, public chats, NIP-04 DMs, GiftWrap DMs, polls and classifieds by greenart7c3.
Adds autosave for Drafts by greenart7c3.
Adds edit draft in the dropdown menu and the long press popup by greenart7c3.
Adds a Draft feed screen for all posts.
Adds new algorithm to parse OpenGraph tags by jiftechnify.
Adds a Simplified UI setting to both feeds and chats.
Moves the username play button to the profile page.
Adds link to the version notes when clicking in the version in the drawer.
Brings new git Issues and Patches to the Notification.
Filters out too many reposts of the same note when on the main feed.
Updates the bootstrap relay list.
Adds missing classes to support WebServer connections in the Video Playback.
Slightly reduces line height for improved readability.
Reduces the space between chat bubbles.
Migrates shareable links from habla.news to njump.me.
Restructures the Discover Tab to show the Chats and Communities with the most recent new content.
Adds a bot field to the user info.
Adds k-tag to the Deletion events.
Adds button to load Zap Splits from the cited users in the text
Several accessibility improvements by ⚡ Dee Kay ⚡.

Bug Fixes

Fixes the post cut-off when the post has massive string chars without spaces or new lines
Fixes missing Fhir Classes on Release
Don't show the button to edit the post if the author of the original post is not the logged in user
Fixes crash parsing multiple results from Amber by greenart7c3.
Fixes the load of edits on a new edit proposal.
Fixes forking information kept from a previous post.
Fixes search on binary content.
Fixes space after clickable user display.
Centers Blank Note when post was hidden by the user.
Accepts JSON events with escaping errors.
Fixes the parsing of user metadata events several times due to large coroutine backlog.
Fixes Scheduled Tag in LiveStreams.
Fixes the isOnlineCheck for nostr nests.
Fixes sorting contract issues when follow status and user names are the same between keys.
Fixes tickmarks on dropdowns.
Checks if a Classified is wellformed before rendering.
Fixes size and alignment of the text when the live stream video is not present.
Fixes some imports for benchmarks.
Fixes infinite Quotation issue (3 quotes are allowed).
Fixes crashing with too many videos in quoted posts.
Fixes double Show More when the user has hidden a post and ALSO the user's followers have reported the post.
Only shows OTS to the respective Edit.
Fixes a bug with the latest version of jackson.
Avoids showing machine-code errors when paying for zaps on external wallets.
Fixes too strict timing constraints for new posts (accepts up to a minute in the future).
Fixes following of geotags.
Fixes lack of zap amount refresh after zapping a note.
Fixes videos not being able to seekTo the zero position.
Fixes layout issues of Blog Post summaries when images are not present.
Doesn't show edits of blog posts in the User's Profile.
Fixes Amber's deep sleep: Adds a lifeCycleOwner listener to register external signers on resume.
Fixes missing context in some replies to blog posts.
Adds a space after the Channel header in the reply rows.
Centralizes the counter after the list of participants in a live event.
Fixes double mention to Community headers when seeing a reply to a community post.
Fixes Chat preview images when no image has been set.
Fixes the display or Zap Events when All Follows is selected in Notifications.
Fixes the reply event finder for the reply row of text notes.
Makes hidden cards full width on the discovery feed.
Fixes the width of muted messages on chat feeds.
Fixes the feed updates after list selections on the Discovery pages.
Realigns the reaction icons and texts between main feed and video feed.
Fixes garbled URL preview for non-UTF-8 HTML by jiftechnify.
Adjusts icon sizes on the galleries.
Avoids publishing with two equal t hashtags when the user already writes them in lowercase.
Limits the size of image previews from opengraph from being too big.
Fixes NPE with the cached state.
Increases the push notification max delay to 15 minutes.
Fixes controller comparison for keep playing.
Fixes tag markers for replies in DMs.
Fixes layout of the reply row in chats.
Fixes lack of blurhash preview in some videos.
Fixes the lack of following mark on user pictures in chats.
Fixes the UI spacing for channels.
Fixes the use of filters that didn't discriminate the relay type setup.
Holds the state of Show More when switching edits and translations.
Renders DMs and live chats in the feed if they show up there.
Fixes contract violation when sorting users.

Updated translations

Spanish by ⚡₿it₿y₿it⚡
French by anthony
Dutch by Bardesss
Swahili by TURI$MO
Chinese by rasputin
Bengali by Cats
Hungarian by Zoltan
Czech, German, Swedish and Portuguese by ⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
Arabic by Cats
Thai by Vaz and kritta

Performance Improvements

Switches Robohash to Precompiled SVGs in order to reduce the memory burned of creating Strings with SVGs on the fly
Restructures Data Access filters and LocalCache to use a ConcurrentSkipList instead of ConcurrentHashMap
Only download video, image and audio files in NIP-94
Updated hashtag icons for performance
Avoids checks if a filter has changed before generating JSon strings
Cleans up User Metadata upon receipt instead of in every rendering
Simpler/Faster UserDisplay renderings
Reduces video cache from 10 to 4 videos
Removes coroutine use for Hashtags
Brings the ZapForwarding icon to Compose
Simplifies the algorithm to check if chatroom sender intersects with the follow list
Avoids serializing temporary fields on Quartz
Refactors views to the video and chat feeds
Restructures NoteCompose for performance
Restructures markAsRead to minimize threading cost
Adds a large benchmark test for duplicate events
Optimizing the performance of Highlight rendering
After memory cleanup, only trigger liveData when it actually changes
Minimizes memory use to calculate zaps
Avoids triggering an error when decoding invalid hexes
Reduces the amount of co-routines being launched in each LiveData update
Migrates channel list and channel notes to LargeCache
Removes the use of data classes to speed up comparisons
Improves Nostr filter to bring public chat messages and avoid public chat creation and metadata updates
Removes jsoup from dependencies
Removes the need to observe author changes to event after loaded
Turns hashtag icons into programmable vectors
Moves the Following Vector to a native composable
Removes unnecessary modifier layouts from the top bar
Uses the cached thread pool instead of the scheduled thread pool for translation services
Avoids launching coroutines that were just launched
Makes a cache for Media Items
Only changes the keep playing status if different
Reduces recompositions after video/image hash verification
Avoiding feed jitter when pressing the notification button twice

Code Quality Improvements

Breaks massive NoteCompose down into each event type
Removes the release drafter plugin on actions. Too buggy
Removes dependency of the Robohash from CryptoUtils
Improves Preview helper classes
Updates secp256k1KmpJniAndroid, compose, zoomable, media3, jackson and firebase libs
Updates AGP to 8.3.1
Deletes the old Settings local db
Refactors some of the old display name structure
Refactors Relay classes.
Isolates the LargeCache forEach method to allow quick time measurements on filters
Reorganizes classes in the commons lib
Fixes test cases for nip96 uploaders
Removes unused addMargin param
Refactoring caching systems for the Compose layer
Aligns the BOM between implementation and tests
Refactors the use of dividers out of components
Refactors composables to load events, check hidden and check report
Fix Kotlin encryptDecryptTest to decrypt with swapped private and public keys to follow NIP-44 documentation by tyiu
Finishes the migration of People List updates from LiveData to Flow
Migrates all Refreshable feeds to the Refreshable box component
Refactors cache methods in GiftWraps
Migrates Media3 Videos to the DefaultMediaSourceFactory