A new look across the app and a set of everyday messaging features.
Interface
- Home screen with Chats, Contacts and Settings tabs, a large title,
search across chats and message text (diacritics-insensitive), filters
and pinned chats.
- Conversation view with a translucent header and composer, grouped
bubbles, author avatars and colours in groups, swipe to reply, an
"N new messages" marker, a jump-to-latest button and in-chat search.
- Contact and group profiles: verification, shared photos, groups in
common, disappearing messages, mute, block; members, admin badges,
adding people, rename and leave for groups.
- Full-screen photo viewer that pages through the whole conversation.
- A stable avatar colour per person and a clearly visible read state.
Messaging
- Polls in chats and groups, single or multiple choice, with votes that
can be changed or withdrawn; older clients see them as text.
- Drafts survive leaving a chat and show in the chat list.
- Forwarding of messages, photos, files and voice messages.
- Notes to self: a local-only, encrypted chat that never reaches the
relay.
- @mentions in groups that notify even when the group is muted.
- Typing indicators sent as ephemeral messages, opt-in and mutual like
read receipts.
- Delivery and read times per message and per group member.
- Profile photos, cropped, resized and stripped of metadata, delivered
encrypted to contacts.
- Voice message playback at 1.5x and 2x.
- Call buttons in 1:1 chats and call log entries.
Fixes
- Muted groups no longer notify: muting was checked against the
author's chat instead of the group.
- A blocked contact could unblock itself by changing its delivery
address.
- Read receipts no longer regress to delivered when a late delivery
receipt arrives.
- A message marked as failed corrects itself once it is delivered.
- Double ticks in groups now mean delivered to every member.
Registration failures from the distributor were swallowed, so push looked
enabled while nothing arrived. Without wake-ups Android suspends the app
and messages only show up once the user opens it — which looks like broken
delivery even though the relay has them queued.
The failure is now remembered and surfaced in Settings, and the chat list
carries a dismissible line explaining the state.
Settings crashed with a TypeError: the profile card passed a
SepotFingerprint object where the localized string formatter expects
a String (hidden behind a `dynamic` parameter). Also fixes RangeError
in avatar initials (empty names, double spaces) and switches initials
to grapheme clusters so emoji don't get split.
New photo preview screen: a captured or picked photo no longer sends
immediately — it opens in a preview with freehand drawing (7 colours,
undo), draggable text overlay, 90° rotation and a caption field.
Nothing leaves the device until Send is tapped.
Incoming-content hardening: decryption and content processing are now
separated in the delivery path. Once an envelope is decrypted the
ratchet has advanced, so redelivery can never help — permanently
malformed content (FormatException/TypeError) is acked and dropped
instead of poisoning the queue on every reconnect. Attachment metadata
now validates base64 of the crypto fields up front, and a corrupt
inline thumbnail no longer breaks bubble rendering.
PNG without real transparency (screenshots, edited photos) is now
re-encoded as JPEG — several times smaller on the wire.
Tests: 116 (new widget tests for Settings and the photo preview,
AttachmentMeta wire validation).
Julius Joska