This is a preview beta, including some experimental changes not yet merged to the main branch.
Welcome to Zulip's next-gen mobile app! In this beta:
- Much faster and smoother: try opening a busy channel and scrolling back through history.
- Fresh new design, matching this year's updates to Zulip on the desktop and web.
- Full multi-account support.
Please let us know what you think — and especially any missing features that are critical to how you use the old Zulip mobile app.
- All the improvements from the previous beta 0.0.23, plus several small fixes to its new features.
- Translations have begun: first out of the gate are contributors translating many strings for Polish and Russian.
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Resolved in main: #348, #1035, #388, #945, #845
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Resolved in the experimental branch:
- #913 via PR #995
This is a preview beta, including some experimental changes not yet merged to the main branch.
- New navigation structure for the app. (#1035)
- Big emoji improvements: use any emoji for reactions; better emoji search results; ❤️ appears properly. (#388, #1068, #1113, #1104)
- Fixed channel-wildcard mentions for Zulip Server 10. (#1064)
- Mute, unmute, or follow topics. (#348)
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The Flutter commit ID is recorded in pubspec.yaml alongside the Flutter version number, to help reproduce the exact build. (#1118)
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Resolved in main: #1064, #1104, #1115, #1113, #1118, #1119, #1068
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Resolved in the experimental branch: #1035, #388, #913, #845, #945, #348 via PRs: #1076, #1103, #995, #1059, #1050, #1041
- (Android) Notifications now use Zulip's custom sound by default. (#340)
- New visual design for the compose box. (#915)
- Autocomplete for emoji (":smile:"). (#670)
- Support for logging out of an account. (#463)
- Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.
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The generated localization files are now tracked in version control instead of going in an ephemeral
flutter_genpackage, so switching branches should no longer cause analysis issues (which used to require runningflutter pub getor another command to resolve). (PR #1058) -
Resolved: #463, #340, #674, #915, PR #1058, #563, #1040, #1082, #669, #670, #360
- You can now vote in polls. (#166)
- Design improvements: new bottom sheet, new bot icon, adjusted dark-theme colors, others. (#90, #978, #955)
- Support Zulip's new "message links". (#1046)
- Fix bug affecting code blocks in YAML and some other languages. (#933)
- Communicate more when unable to connect to server. (#555)
- Show others when you're typing. (#666)
- Too many other improvements and fixes to list them all here.
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The new
tools/content/check-featuresscript fetches public Zulip messages from a server like chat.zulip.org, and identifies any features of Zulip message content that the app's parser calls unimplemented. (#190) -
Expanded developer documentation, including on setup and on implementing UI designs.
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Resolved: PR #972, PR #983, PR #955, #978, #90, #190, #555, #614, #933, #1026, #351, #166, #1046, #666, #1052, #1045, #941
- (Android) Notifications are removed when you read the message. (#341)
- Show polls and their results. (#165)
- (Android) Videos play in higher quality. (#951)
- The screen stays on when you're watching a video. (#763)
- Clearer emoji in dark theme; "Starred messages" feed; new "edited"/"moved" labels on messages. (#953, #251, #900)
- Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.
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In tests, "matchers" from Flutter upstream can now be conveniently used, via
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Resolved: #182, #251, #341, #905, #926, PR #919, #810, #232, PR #951, #763, #953, #165
- Introducing dark theme! The app now follows your system-wide dark/light setting. (#95)
- The app is snappier to re-connect to your Zulip server after being offline, and shows a loading indicator when doing so. (#554, #465)
- Handle messages being moved, muted, or unmuted while the app is open. (#150, #421)
- Autocomplete for topics; show "typing…" status; offer the "Mentions" message feed. (#310, #665, #250)
- Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.
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Many "stream" names in the codebase have been renamed to say "channel". (toward #631)
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Resolved: #803, #351, #613, #665, #250, #675, #858, #228, #712, #291, #150, #465, #554, #131, #421, #310, #879
- Attaching an image or video to a message works properly with the new Zulip Server 9.0. (#829)
- When opening an image in the lightbox with the new Zulip Server 9.0, the image is shown at full scale from the beginning. (#830)
- Autocomplete for @-mentions now prioritizes showing users recently active in the same conversation or channel. (#828)
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New supplemental setup instructions for doing development on a remote cloud server. (PR #802)
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Resolved: #829, PR #828, #830
- (Android) Much richer notifications: multiple messages per conversation, sender names and avatars, and more. (#128, #569, #571, #572)
- Full support for image thumbnails, a feature of the upcoming Zulip Server 9.0 which should greatly reduce Zulip's network consumption on messages with images. (#799)
- New "Copy link to message" option in message menu. (#673)
- The channels screen shows muted channels as muted. (#424)
- Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.
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New test suite
tools/check androidthat does the Android build and runs the Android linter. (#772, PR #797) -
The User-Agent header in HTTP requests to the server now includes the app version and the OS name and version. (#467)
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Resolved: PR #728, PR #727, #736, #569, #571, #572, #393, #749, #771, #120, #673, #732, PR #789, #772, PR #797, #743, #467, #424, #128, #616, #815, #799
- To simplify Zulip for new users, streams have been renamed to channels. (#630)
- When typing an @-mention, users you've DMed with recently are suggested first. (#693)
- Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.
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Our test suite now gets run as part of the Flutter project's own CI checks. (#239; PRs #696, #700)
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We've enabled Dart analyzer rules that should prevent most implicit use of
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Resolved: #690, PR #686, PR #689, PR #687, PR #701, PR #695, #239, #458, #697, #77, #676, PR #709, #719, #705, #455, #602, #630, PR #693, PR #730, #632, #684
- Videos in messages are now supported. (#356)
- The screen formerly known as "All messages" has a new, more accurate name: "Combined feed". (#634)
- (Android) Fixed bug when using third-party auth with Firefox as default browser. (#620)
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The tree includes configuration for Android Studio / IntelliJ, which should help exclude extraneous results from search. (PR #637)
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Starting with this release, we post releases on GitHub, as well as on Google Play and TestFlight. (#640)
Resolved: #548, #620, #538, #612, #356, #309, #634, PR #680, #640
- More Zulip message features: divider lines, and four-space-indented code blocks. (#353, #355)
- Mark bots with a bot icon, when they appear as message senders. (#156)
- Dropped support for Android versions older than Android 9 Pie, bumping minSdkVersion from 24 to 28. (400f1a5da, PR #621)
Resolved: #353, #552 (possibly earlier), #156, #355, #518, #612
- You can now log in with third-party auth methods! (#36)
- (iOS) For now you may have to uninstall the main Zulip app to do that, though.
- Autocomplete for mentions shows avatars, and hides deactivated users. (#227, #451)
- Too many other improvements to describe them all here. Those specifically requested by you, our beta users, include: #562 adjusting layout, #568 on sorting streams, and #573 on notification titles.
- We've started using Pigeon to generate our own thin bindings for
platform APIs, with our own plugin
zulip_pluginfor the app's ad hoc needs. (PR #592)
Resolved: #108, #280, #575, #391, #562, #227, PR #592, #451, #100, #357, #568, #573, #36, #609, #606
- The app should now (take 2) always get back to showing live data once your device is back on the Internet. (#556)
- Adjusted letter spacing to zero, particularly in messages. (#545)
- Fixed blurry avatars on the profile screen. (#301)
- Other fixes and improvements too as usual.
Resolved: #545, #550, #301, PR #553, #556
- The app should now always get back to showing live data once your device is back on the Internet. (#184)
- (Android) Notifications now work, after several fixes. If they don't for you, please report the issue. (#520, #342, #528)
- The app navigates straight to the inbox upon launch. (#516)
- Larger font size for reading Zulip messages. (#512)
- More Zulip message features: global times, spoiler blocks, and image thumbnails side by side. (#354, #358, #193)
- Other fixes and improvements too as usual.
- Upgrading dependencies is more automated. (#523)
- Content tests are easier to write, especially for widgets. (#511)
Resolved: #354, #507, #441, PR #511, #384, #193, #520, #516, PR #523, #184, PR #522, #342, #528, #358, #512, #513
- New layout for message list, to better use the width of the screen. (#446)
- Starring and unstarring messages. (#170)
- Auto-capitalization when typing a message. (#487)
- Headings like
# thisare now rendered in messages. (#192) - Bold code (like
this) is once again bold. (#498) - (Android) Unicode emoji now have a consistent appearance across all Android devices. (#438)
- Login notification emails are more informative, as we now send the server a more helpful user-agent string. (#406, #460)
Resolved: PR #446 (toward #157), #170, #487, PR #496 (toward #80), #192, #294, #438, #499, #498, #406, #460, PR #375, #497
- The message list shows date separators. (#173, #479)
- Messages with math in TeX now show the TeX source. (#359)
- Fixed issue where touching the bottom of the message list effectively touched the sticky header at the top instead. (#327)
- We now set up a fresh supply of new messages and other updated data from the server if our old supply expires. (#185)
- (Android) User-added certificate authorities are now trusted. (#461)
Resolved: #327, #185, #214, #475, #461, #443, #173, #359, #479
First beta release.