Android.EweSticker/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All major and minor version changes will be documented in this file. Details of patch-level version changes can be found in commit messages.

20250217

• Fix critical bug with the logger crashing the app

20250209

• Update dependency versions
• Add a shortcut to google keyboard (fixes #76)
• Add SVG image support
• Code quality improvements
• Use xLog (https://github.com/elvishew/xLog) to capture today's logs (to assist with debugging)
• Make PNG sticker fallback configurable and improve share sheet (fixes #80)
• Improve toast logging experience

20240825

• Add case insensitive sort
• Add app version in-app

20240322

• Add sticker search
• Add haptic feedback option
• Update translations from Weblate (thank you to the following!)
  • Indonesian
    • Reza Almanda rezaalmanda27@gmail.com
• Update screenshots and docs
• Update deps

20231008

• Update Fastlane Metadata
• Update to use API level 34
• Minor tweaks to readme
• Add translations from Weblate (thank you to the following!)
  • German
    • Ettore Atalan
  • French
    • J. Lavoie
• Add Android 13 Icon
• Code clean up and ktlint check and formatting
• Fix Bug: Keyboard has a transparent background
• Fix Bug where the keyboard forgets last 'Recent' last selected

20230828

• Update app description
• Add German (de) translations with help from google translate and friends. Contributions to enhance this are very welcome!

20230825

• Update launcher icon, version, screenshots

20230824

• Add Feature: switch between folders by swiping (closes issue #33)
• Add Progress bar for sticker import (closes issue #51)

20230823

• Update dependencies
• Performance improvements for sticker import (3-4x faster)
• Performance improvements for sticker keyboard (recyclerview)
• Add example-files
• Add restore prior keyboard on minimize (closes issue #49)
• Add send stickers with system sharesheets (closes issue #48)
• Add reload stickers from directory (closes issue #46)

20220311 - 2022/03/11

• New Feature: Improve error messages for the user per https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/39
• New Feature: Add Help to provide guidance for error messages
• New Feature: Add Gradle tasks
  • ktlintCheck (gradlew ktlintCheck): run ktlint over the codebase
  • genDocs (gradlew genDocs): generate the api reference using dokka
• New Feature: Update navbar theme (dark/light rather than the app accent colour)
• Bugfix: Refactor in response to bug found when investigating https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/37
• Bugfix: Back button now enabled in fresh install per https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/38
• Update: dependencies
• Update: tutorial, and tutorial location to Tutorials

20220128 - 2022/01/28

• Highlight the selected tab. https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/29
• Add support for video formats https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/34
  • "video/3gpp", "video/mp4", "video/x-matroska", "video/webm"
• Reformat
• Update dependencies
• Limit sticker pack size to resolve java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: at androidx.gridlayout.widget.GridLayout

20220103 - 2022/01/03

• Add 'Enable Keyboard' section with 'Launch Settings' button. https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/31
• Show back button in navbar by default. https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/32

20211118 - 2021/11/18

• Attempt to resolve issue reported where the app crashed when importing stickers (suspected cause of a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError)
• Improve sticker layout https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/24
• Improve large sticker preview https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/25
• Recent tab can now be saved as last used https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/30

20211114 - 2021/11/14

• Reopen last used pack https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/14
• Variable number of columns in vertical scroll https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/16
• Nested directory structures now supported https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/17 For example:

  /root
  	/sticker-pack-name-1
  						/sticker-1
  						/sticker-2
  	/sticker-pack-name-2
  						/sticker-pack-name-3
  											/sticker-1
  											/sticker-2
  						/sticker-1
  						/sticker-2
  	/sticker-1
  	/sticker-2
  

• Recent stickers are in the expected order https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/18
• Back button now switches to the previously used keyboard (api>=28) https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/23
• Localisations for Sticker Path: Not Set, Sticker Date: Never
• Code clean up + documentation improvements
• The new target SDK version is 31 (Android 12) - previously 30 (Android 11)
• The new minimum SDK version is 26 (Android 8 Oreo) - previously 28 (Android 9 Pie)

20211029 - 2021/10/29

• Add support for vertical scroll https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/8
• Long press on a sticker to show a preview https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/10
• Add Spanish translation https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/pull/13
• Use coil https://coil-kt.github.io/coil/ for supported image types to improve performance
• Use JavaVersion.VERSION_11 in place of JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
• Use GridLayout in place of linear views
• Refactor and code clean up (reduced ImageKeyboard.kt by about 17% sloc, reduced MainActivity.kt by about 18% sloc)
• Update UI (now more material you inspired)
• Update screenshots
• Update tutorial
• Update fonts (using fira sans ttf)

20211011 - 2021/10/11

• attempt to fix https://github.com/FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker/issues/7 by using layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.image_container, imageContainer, false) in place of View.inflate(applicationContext, R.layout.image_container, null)
• additional logging to predict java.lang.IllegalStateException (no prevention) in the hope that this provides additional context to make fixing easier if imageContainer.addView(imageContainerLayout) raises in the future
• Performance improvements to cache miss in switchImageContainer (call createImageContainer(stickers) once)
• update screenshots with new phone frame
• fix sticker shadows on light mode
• tidy up files committed to git

20210909 - 2021/09/09

• update ui
  • use MaterialCardView and Snack-bar in settings (MainActivity)
  • improvements to the keyboard layout
  • theme improvements
• general code improvements
• stability improvements

20210810 - 2021/08/10

• Code optimisations
  • Code clean-up
  • Removed APNG animation due to memory leak
  • Linting fixes
• Added caching functionality
  • to improve performance of fallback stickers
  • to enable addition of recent list
  • to improve switching packs performance
• Updated gradle and dependencies
• Add recent icon

20210723 - 2021/07/23

• Added link to online tutorial (on GitHub)
• Ignore the compat sticker when creating groups
• SVG back arrow
• Add headings to UI
• Removed unnecessary permissions

20210612 - 2021/06/12

• Changes from upstream:
  • Merged ui-update, feature_distributed_apks, fallback. Providing a fresher ui and the ability to send a fallback sticker for unsupported formats.
  • Converted to Kotlin
  • Provided fastlane metadata for fdroid
  • Provided tutorial (TUTORIAL.md)
  • Cleaned up assets and codebase
  • Changed package name to com.fredhappyface.ewesticker
  • Changed app icon

app logo - 2021/06/11

• Change package name
• Create app logo
• Compile APKs

first release - 2021/06/11

• Add to gh
• todo...
  • compile apks
  • create changelog
  • screenshots
  • app logo
  • stick on fdroid + google play