The marquee feature of this build is the new and improved Compose screen. It's been rewritten to use SwiftUI, is significantly more resilient to data loss, and now shows the toolbar when the main text field is not focused. It also turns out Apple is surprise-releasing iOS 14 very soon (or possibly already has, depending when you're reading this). For those who were not already on the beta train, iOS 14 brings a number of new features including a sidebar on iPadOS and lots and lots of context menus (a home screen widget is coming Soon™).
Known Issues:
- Pasting images to create attachments when composing a post is not currently supported due to an iOS bug (#109)
- Full-size previews do not display in context menus for attachments on the Compose screen due to an iOS issue (#110)
Features/Improvements:
- Rewrite Compose screen using SwiftUI
- Prevent draft posts being lost if the app crahes or is killed by the system while composing
- Show toolbar while post content is not being edited
- Save post visibility in drafts
- Move Draw Something action out of the context menu
- iOS 14: Use context menus for setting post visibility
- Show BlurHash previews for attachments on Mastodon
- Add Expand All Content Warnings preference (Preferences -> Behavior)
- Add Collapse Long Posts preference (Preferences -> Behavior)
- Improve image gallery opening animation
- Use fade in/out animations for opening/closing gallery and attachment picker when the Reduce Motion system setting is enabled
- iOS 14: Also requires the "Prefer Cross Fade" setting be enabled
- Slightly reduce default status font sizes
- Add "Direct Message" context menu action to Compose button on profile screen
- Allow viewing attachments and navigating through posts/accounts on instance public timelines
Bugfixes:
- Fix errors when uploading attachments not displaying
- Fix attachments not posting in the correct, user-specified order
- Fix accounts displaying with outdated information (avatars, display names, etc.)
- Fix Compose not showing button on profile screen
- Fix navigation title not being set on profile screen
- Fix follow notifications not showing names for users without display names set
- iPadOS 14: Fix crash when resizing app in split view mode
This is the first update since WWDC and the introduction of iOS 14. As such, most of the focus has been on fixing iOS 14-specific problems. However, there are still a couple new features, both for those on the iOS 14 beta and those not.
Features/Improvements:
- Add toggle between Posts, Posts and Replies, and Media on user profiles
- Remove 'Show Replies in Profiles' preference
- Limit link preview animation to only link text
- Add additional context menu actions for statuses, accounts, and hashtags
- Add semi-translucent background to image descriptions, so they're legible against light images
- iPadOS 14: Add sidebar
- When using multitasking on iPad and switching in and out of "compact" mode, the active tab as well as the navigation history for all tabs will be transferred between the sidebar and tab bar modes.
- iOS 14: Use context menus on status/account '...' buttons
- iOS 14: Replace 'More' status swipe action with 'Share'
Bugfixes:
- Fix crash when attempting to change post visibility on iPad
- Fix attachment view corners not being rounded
- Fix crash when viewing instance public timelines
- Fix Preferences button not appearing on My Profile tab
- Fix tapping current tab bar item not scrolling to top
- Fix crash showing audio attachments on Mastodon
- Fix timeline refreshing forever
- Set app category (fixes usage not being categorized correctly under Screen Time)
- iOS 14: Fix crash when searching for instances
- iOS 14: Fix crash when displaying accounts with no pinned posts
- iOS 14: Fix crash when displaying search results
This is the pre-WWDC update with lots of bugfixes and some small features. There will likely be another build this week to fix any pressing issues that arise from iOS 14.
- Disable reblog button for direct/followers-only posts
- On Pleroma, the reblog button is still enabled for your own followers-only posts to match Pleroma's "Boost to original audience" feature.
- Add preference to always display status visibilities below account avatars
- Add preference to show reply indicators for statuses in timelines
- Show share/dismiss controls and image description for gifv attachments
- 'Share' is currently disabled for gifv attachments, it will be enabled in a future build
- Add crash report helper
- If the app detects that it crashed the last time it was running, it will allow you to review the crash report and email it to me
- Add Recognize Text context menu option for images on the Compose screen
- This uses iOS' builtin Vision framework to perform on-device OCR and generate an image description from the recognized text
- Tweak attachment previews to always have a 16:9 aspect ratio
Bugfixes:
- Fix account/status More actions not working
- Improve share sheet loading speed
- Fix crash when loading bookmarks
- Prompt for Photos access before showing photo picker. Prevents empty sheet displaying.
- Fix profile fields not displaying and improve layout
- Fix profile header image not displaying the first time an account is loaded
- Don't show Follow action for your own account
- Fix attachments on the Compose screen being cut-off above the home indicator on iPhone X-style devices
- Fix audio being played by other apps pausing when displaying a gifv attachment on Mastodon
## 2020.1 (5)
The main focus of this update has been switching to using CoreData internally to cache/synchronize the most up-to-date versions of all statuses. Currently, this does not provide any new functionality, however, it lays the groundwork for several significant features coming in the future, including multiple window support on iPadOS and state restoration/persistence between launches.
Even though there aren't a huge number of new features in this build, a great deal has changed under the hood. As such, this build may suffer somewhat in the stability department. Please bear with me and report any issues you encounter; you can send me a message on the fediverse, email me at me@shadowfacts.net, or file an issue on the project issue tracker at https://git.shadowfacts.net/shadowfacts/Tusker/issues. Thank you!
Features:
- iPadOS: Add pointer interactions to status action buttons and profile header button
