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Sync for Lemmy Beta 96 release notes (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ljdawson@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
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New

  • Support for Lemmy 0.19
  • Lots and lots of refactoring cleaning up technical debt
  • Added "Account settings" to replace "Lemmy Settings"
    • This new section syncs up with your Lemmy account
    • A few things will need updating such as your nsfw setting and sort

Changes

  • Any action that fail now alerts the user via notification
  • Show / hide NSFW has been moved to Settings > Account settings (this now respects your account choice)
  • Sort has been moved to Settings > Account settings (this also now respects your account choice)
  • Removed "mark posts as read" and "remember across devices" as Lemmy does this automatically

Github issues closed

  • Tasker Integration: Action Configuration Broken & No Post Syncing #350
  • User domain not shown in posts for accounts with a custom name #118
  • Portrait 2 columns layout bug #11
  • Unsubscribe action fails silently #151
  • S4L doesn't expose Bot account preferences #173
  • Show NSFW content doesn't sync with Hide NSFW Posts #170
  • Show scores doesn't sync with account setting #171
  • Disabling "mark posts as read" does not work #356
  • Show Read Posts not synced with Hide Read #174
  • Default sort settings not shared with web app #163
  • Show Profile Pictures doesn't sync with Show Avatars #172
  • S4L doesn't pull/ignores web settings #70
  • Crash when Biometric account lock is enabled #110

Other fixes

  • Fixed a crash when searching within messages
  • Fixed a crash in the in-built webview
  • Fixed a crash when sharing posts
  • Added a fix for HTML chars in the summarizer

Updates

  • androidx.annotation:annotation > 1.7.0
  • com.android.tools.build:gradle > 8.2.0-beta04
  • com.google.gms:google-services > 4.4.0
  • androidx.core:core-ktx > 1.12.0
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[โ€“] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 38 points 2 years ago

Holy shit! Welcome back!

[โ€“] morrowind@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well that came out of left field

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 23 points 2 years ago

Lemmy 0.19 has a breaking change for it's API. Can tell with the tech debt LJ has been sitting on this for a while waiting for that to go. This is definitely one of the longer release cycles for Lemmy

[โ€“] dr_jekell@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had been expecting this.

Lemmy itself is still a work in progress and the new version apparently makes some major changes from the current version.

Sync is currently in a usable stable state so instead of squashing bugs in the current Sync version it was a better use of their dev time to work on a build for 0.19.

[โ€“] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Great! Now we wait for lemmy 0.19 to go stable!

[โ€“] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 13 points 2 years ago

Sort is broken now, trying to change it says "network error" and it defaults to "top 6 hours" which for many communities shows no posts.

Can't revert to previous version of Sync for some reason, it prompts me to update it and refuses to start if I don't.

The "Communities" button under the three dot menu still doesn't do anything.

[โ€“] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

App crashes on launch after update for me repeatedly after it scanned my fingerprint. After a successful scan it sat on the main page with no content loading, and no buttons working for a half second or so before the crash.

Couldn't get past it with a force close or a clear cache. I had to wipe the apps data which logged me out and reset my settings, and then I was able to log in again.

On a Samsing S22 Ultra running Android 13 OneUi 5.1

[โ€“] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Interesting, i am not having issues.

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: b0q    
Model: samsung SM-S908U    
Android: 13
[โ€“] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I can't used previous settings. App will crash if I restore from backup. The only way I can use the updated app is by login and use default settings. Dev, please look into this. I don't want to set the settings all over again.

Anyway, if you app crash, delete the data and cache, start over.

[โ€“] flappy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could be leftovers from anti-piracy measures of reddit sync. I remember it was quite difficult to restore settings through titanium backup.

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nah I ripped all that out

[โ€“] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Welcome back! Thank you for the update.

[โ€“] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Based

[โ€“] qlonik@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the update!

The app was crashing for me on startup like other people have described. I reset the data and as soon as I enabled "Hide username in account picker", it started crashing on startup again.

[โ€“] mp3@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Thank you for this <3

[โ€“] RobMyBot@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the update!

[โ€“] afk@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 years ago

Seems support for the 'scaled' sorting option is missing :(

[โ€“] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How can I get access to the beta?

[โ€“] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I was able to sign up for it in Google Play, then I was able to update to the Beta after being accepted by going to the app page in Google Play.

[โ€“] spiderman@ani.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there any way to hide the profile picture in the comments?

[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is a toggle for it in account settings, but it doesn't appear to stick. I toggled it off, but still saw profile pictures, and when revisiting the setting to copy the following link for you, I saw that it turned itself back on.

Settings shortcut: Account settings > Show avatars

[โ€“] spiderman@ani.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This setting is not getting saved properly. Even after saving it multiple time the settings just roll back to normal again.

[โ€“] DerpyPlayz18@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you! I love this app!

[โ€“] BoringHusband@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I have the version 23-11-29 22:27 and since it came there are NSFW posts in Everything. All the NSFW filters are on but the odd one appears as I scroll down, but blurred out thank goodness.

[โ€“] dditty@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks so much for all these important updates!

Basically the only feature I need now is the ability to upload images (but it also doesn't seem to work in Voyager or Boost, so not sure if that's something the Sync developer needs to fix or not)

[โ€“] mom@nom.mom 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

From the Lemm.ee sidebar of features:

  • Image uploads are disabled, please use external image hosting

So, there's yer problem...

Edit: autocorrect did a thing.
Edit 2: here's the why

[โ€“] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If your app crashed, read on. It's been pointed up that the bug is due to the 'hide username' option. I manage to get around it by restoring earlier backup to the earlier version. To those that need a temporary fix, before the dev patch the update, here you go.

First, you need to uninstall the updated version and install the earlier version by using old apk (apkmirror). Then, restore the old backup. After that, need to unhide the account username, and make a new backup. Then, update the app to a new version and sign in, and restore with the backup. The new app will be good to go with the old setting (except the hide username option).

[โ€“] moon@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 years ago

Seems to be working with Lemmy 0.19, except we can't select scaled sort. Although if I have my default set to scaled sort on my profile settings in browser, it kind if works on Sync and sorts correctly. Just the UI is missing for it.

[โ€“] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Settings shortcut: Account settings > Show read posts

This option doesn't work. How can I show read posts?

[โ€“] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had this problem, I also couldn't upvote after my instance upgraded to lemmy 0.19. Logging out and logging back in fixed all my issues.

[โ€“] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

For some reason I was logged out, but now after hiding read posts I still can't display then back.

[โ€“] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I might be doing something wrong, but since this update I can't filter NSFW posts. I put the filter on, but when I reopen the app, bam, titties. Now I love boobs, but I need to limit my exposure to them or I'll never get anything done. Is there an easy fix or is this a recognised problem with this, ahem, release?

[โ€“] LotrOrc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm having a weird issue now where I can't view any other instances other than my main one and it's kinda annoying. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[โ€“] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My subscribed feed on discuss.tchncs.de crashes the app. Except making this comment fixed the issue?

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: d2q    
Model: samsung SM-N975U    
Android: 12
[โ€“] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When it happens, I use my browser and the link handler to fix the issue. (It happened again)

[โ€“] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Upon futher testing disabling Hide username in account shortcut fixes the issue without having to recreate my profile.

Settings shortcut: Security > Hide username in account picker

[โ€“] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Weird thing is that although the app no longer crashes, the usernames don't appear.

[โ€“] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Much appreciated :)

[โ€“] CyberDine@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

This app refuses to run on my TI-86 from 2004. Devs please fix.