Android 0.2.3 SDK and Application released

SDK

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Improvements:

• Avoid refreshing the home page when it is not displayed.
• Display a piechart while uploading a media.
• Refresh the display when some messages are automatically resent (after retrieving a data network connection for example).
• Update the user rename message to be compliant with the web client.
• Use the local media files instead of downloading them when they are acknowledged (messages sending).
• Create a medias management class.
• Display the offline status in the members list.
• Avoid creating new homeActivity instance when joining a room from member details sheet.
• The public rooms list are now saved in the bundle state : it should avoid having a spinner when rotated the device.
• The animated GIFs are now supported.

Features:

• Add the rate limits error management. The server could request to delay the messages sending because they were too many messages sent in a short time (to avoid spam).
• Can take a photo to send it.
• A chat room page is automatically paginated to fill. It used to get only the ten latest messages : it displayed half filled page on tablet.
• Add the sending failure reason in the message details (long tap on a message, “Message details”).
• The user is not anymore notified it the push rules are not fulfilled.
• Add some room settings (Display all events, hide unsupported events, sort members by last seen time, display left members, display public rooms in the home page).
• Add various accessibility tweaks.

Bug fixes:

• The media downloads/uploads were sometimes stuck.
• The private room creation was broken.
• SYAND-33 : number of unread messages disappears when entering another room.
• The RoomActivity creation used to crash when it was cancelled because the Room id param was not provided.
• The client used to crash when the home server was invalid but started with http.
• The account creation used to fail if the home server had a trailing slash.
• SYAND-44 In progress text entry could be saved across crashes.
• SYAND-38 Inline image viewer in Android app.