Mobile application developer.
No, don’t worry! That is just the profile image of the organization which merges the icons of the two Raccoon apps (Raccoon for Lemmy and Raccoon for Friendica).
I would never change the original icon designed by NicKoehler for anything in the world!
Yes, the main fork (which was up-to-date with the latest changes) was moved to an organization co-owned by the same 2 people and it is being maintained in continuity with the same goals and spirit.
Fix for the issue with quotes here.
As for the crashes, unfortunately, the app has no tracking library which is good for privacy but terrible for debugging because anonymous data would help a lot! Do you remember whether it happens after some specific pattern, eg. after you insert an image from the gallery or anything like that?
I confirm that there may be an issue with quotations spanning over multiple paragraphs.
I’ll have a look at it as soon as I have a little time. Thanks for reporting in the meantime.
I’m Italian and just seeing Prodi’s face (a picture of him 30 years ago btw) makes me sick. Don’t worry guys, he has been never accurate in anything and literally lied to the nation in multiple occasions, so rest assured his words will never become true.
Deep linking may have some issues, I should have to reinstall Lemmy Redirect and try more…
Not a big deal.
I have reasons to doubt it… 🤣 probably it’s just me, a couple of friends, some historical users who remained affectionate from the early days, no more.
Which is not bad for me, because it gives me more freedom and considerably less headaches, but it will make the project less attractive for external contributions.
Glad to see you still hanging around here 😉 And to see that this project still matters for someone!
Well… the next “milestone” is internal, we would like to have automated releases at least for the beta channel.
Italians are second only to Germans at mass deportations so he’s learning from some of the top performers out there. Good job!
Normally, in commercial services, push notifications require support from the backend. The mechanism works approximately like this: the mobile app registers to a third-party provider such as Firebase Cloud Messaging (on Android) and APNS (on Apple Push Notification System) and obtains a device token, it then makes a network call to the server to communicate their device token (and the user ID this is associated to) and then the server dispatches notifications using the user ID to determine the events of interest and the device token to have it delivered via Firebase or APNS depending on the platform. Lemmy instances, unfortunately, don’t do anything of that so client apps have to periodically poll for new events, which is terrible for both the battery and the network usage. Raccoon is no exception of this, if you look in the “Advanced Settings” screen under the “Experiments” section, there is an item named “Check for unread items in background”. This is an attempt to use Android’s WorkManager APIs to perform scheduled periodic operations such as checking for new mentions/replies/messages. Unfortunately, the scheduler does not seem so reliable so after some time the app is in the background the pending work can never get to be executed. It was an attempt and it should be refined.
If we manage to get in touch with IzzySoft we can, as soon as we have a release, distribute on the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repo as it was previously done. Then we can reach out to F-Droid maintainers too, to see whether we’re more lucky with the submission.
There are no plans to include any non-free libraries so the new app will be compliant with the guidelines as the previous one was. Unfortunately there were issues with Gradle builds due to some non-reproducibility issues (e.g. due to strings resources) which blocked the validation process.
Obtainium checks under the releases of the repo if there are any stable or pre-release ones, but there is currently no release in this repository.
We are planning to do the first release in the beginning of September, because we decided to properly setup the CI pipeline on GitHub, which had not been done by the previous maintainer due to time constraints (he probably preferred to focus on the development of new features/bug solving rather than on process optimization).
Raccoon is implemented using Jetpack Compose for the UI layer and the Material 3 libraries (some components like pull-to-refresh are in falback mode on Material 2, though) so it should respect the guidelines, e.g. for text fields, bottom navigation, navigation drawer, top application bar, etc.
Where there were blatant violations it has been reported and fixed in the past, e.g. here, here or here. However if you are referring to post layout, the choices are not configurable except for full-width images.
There was a graphic designer once who told spacings were “all wrong” but when asked for suggestions he disappeared. If we could isolate the most painful points and make targeted interventions, it would be super. The next months are going to be dedicated to stabilize and improve the app rather than adding new features.
Is this because you are trying to maximize the number of offended people?
Not sure, but you reminded me I never check mine. Are you sure the reservoir is not leaking?
It’s unlikely that any dev “kills” his work after being so committed to it and leaves users, whom he knew almost one by one, with a handful of dust.
Done, it should be solved in version 1.13.0-beta04!