This commit improves / simplifies the media handling within the app.
Until now we always had to provide the type of the media file (item
media / source icon) when we wanted to display it. This is now not
necessary anymore. Instead we always display the image from it's
original path when the url starts with "http://" or "https://".
Additionally we also check the platform to proxy the image request on
the web. If the image doesn't start with "http://" or "https://" we
always try to display the image from the Supabase storage.
For this we also adjusted the corresponding Deno function, so that we
check if the image starts with "http://" or "https://" before we upload
it to the Supabase storage. If this is the case we upload the source
icon to the Supabase storage. If the upload fails, we will use the
original path of the icon.
Last but not least this commit also introduces our own
"CachedNetworkImage" widget, which wraps the original
"CachedNetworkImage" widget. Our own widget will ensure that we use the
correct url for the image request, so that we do not have to use this
function all over the app anymore. Later this widget can also be used to
introduce our own cache manager.
Add some stuff to make the development with Neovim easier:
- Add a "deno.json" file, which is required by the Deno language server,
when working in Neovim to detect the "import_map.json" file.
- Add a "run.sh" script to easily run the Flutter app from the command
line.
- Add the "run.sh" script and an example for Neovim to the contributing
guide.
In the modal bottom sheet where a user can select the video quality the
dividers between the different qualities were missing. This commit adds
the missing divider, so that the modal bottom sheet looks similar to the
other modal bottom sheets we are using (e.g. sign out, account
settings).
The size of the modal bottom sheet to display images had always a max
width of 640px on large screens. This wasn't intended an the modal
bottom sheet should fill the whole screen. This is now fixed, so that
when a user clicks on an image in the details view of an item, the whole
screen is used to display the image.
It is now pissible to play YouTube videos on the native desktop clients.
To achieve this we removed the "youtube_player_iframe" package which was
used before to play YouTube video, but which only supported web, iOS and
Android as target platforms.
On the web we are now using our own implementation to render an iframe
with for the YouTube video.
On all other platforms we are now using the "youtube_explode_dart"
package to fetch the video urls for a YouTube video and then we display
them within our own video player (the "ItemVideoPlayer" widget which was
added in #51). We also decided to switch the package for the iOS and
Android implementation which already worked before, because we are now
able to play YouTube videos in fullscreen and we only have to maintain
an exception for the web implementation.
The "ItemVideoPlayer" widget now also supports multiple qualities of an
video via the "qualities" paramter, which allows a user to switch
between the different video qualities which are available for a YouTube
video. Last but not least the widget now uses our primary color for the
seek bar.
If a notification was related to a pull request the link we added to the
item didn't work. This should now be fixed, so that when a user clicks
on the item he is redirected to the correct pull request which is
associated with the item.
This commit also removes an unnecessary "console.log" statement.
Until now a user was always signed out from all devices when he clicked
on the "Sign Out" button in the settings. Now we will display a actions
modal bottom sheet where a user can select if he wants to sign out from
the current device or from all devices.
For this we pass the [SignOutScope] to the "signOut" function of
Supabase. if the scope is "local" the user will be signed out from the
current device. If the scope is "global" the user will be signed out
from all devices.
This commit improves the handling of tabs in the samll deck layout. We
are now saving the selected tabs index in the newly added
"LayoutRepository" so that we can reuse the selected tab when a user
switches between the small and large layout. We can now also set the tab
which should be initially selected in the large layout when a user
selects a column in the navigation rail. Last but not least we can also
reset the initial tab index when a user selects a new deck in the
settings, so that we always display the first column instead of the
column with the same index as it was selected in the previous deck.
The items of an RSS feed are now rendered better, to achieve this we did
the following changes:
- Remove leading and trailing whitespaces from the item description
which should be rendered.
- Check if the media file of an item is an SVG image. If this is the
case we will not add it to the "media" field in the database, because
currently the CachedNetworkImage widget can not render SVGs. If we
want to render them, we run into serious performance issue so we skip
them completly.
- Always assume that the content of an RSS feed contains HTML and render
them as plain text in the preview and as markdown in the details.
Since we also render images from the description now, we check if the
"item.media" image should be rendered. If the description contains an
image we do not render our own image. If the description doesn't
contain a image we render it.
It is now possible to play videos from toots within FeedDeck. For that
we are using the "madia_kit" package, which is already used for the
Podcast player on Windows and Linux.
The videos from a toot are saved within the "options.videos" field of an
item next to the "options.media" field. In the "ItemDetailsMastodon"
widget we are then checking if this field is present and contains a list
of video urls. These urls can then be played via the "ItemVideos"
widget.
The cached items in the "ItemsRepositoryStore" are now cleared when a
user selects an active deck in the settings and when a user signes out
of the app.
This is done to force a reload of the items in a column, when a user
switches between decks. For me this works better because, when I switch
between decks I manually trigger a reload for all columns, which is now
not necessary anymore.
We always loaded 51 items per fetch instead of 50 items, because we used
a range of 0 to 50 which includes the item at position 0 and at position
50. This is now fixed by adjusting the range to 0 to 49, so that exactly
50 items are loaded per fetch request.
This commit also improves the number of loaded items shown in the column
header. If the status of the ItemsRepository is "loaded" we add a small
"+" symbol behind the number to indicat that there are more items, which
could be loaded. If the last page was already fetched (status ==
"loadedLast") then the "+" symbol isn't shown.
This commit fixes the status of an ItemsRepository when the repository
is initalized from the ItemsRepositoryStore instead of the "_getItems"
function.
After the repository was initialized from the ItemsRepositoryStore we
always set the status of the repository to "loaded", also when we had
less then 50 items. Because of that we also always displayed the "Load
More" button. This is now fixed by adding the status of the repository
to the ItemsRepositoryStore, so that the "Load More" button is only
shown when there are more items to load.
This commit fixes the border radius for the drawer used in the large
deck layout. Until now the drawer used the border radius on all edges.
This is now fixed to only use the border radius on the right side of the
drawer. This is more aligned how the border radius is used in the side
sheet for the item details, where we also only use it on the left side.
The status bar wasn't visible on iOS when the application was launched.
This is now fixed so that a user can still see the current time, battery
life, etc. when the application is running.
This commit also updates the Podfile for iOS and macOS, which was not
done within #42, so that some dependencies were missing.
Instead of using the "just_audio_windows" and "just_audio_mpv" packages
for Windows and Linux, we are now using "just_audio_media_kit", so that
the audio player is working reliable on these platforms.
Note: We have to adjust the Flatpak, to include the dependencies which
are required on Linux.
This commit adds links to the privacy policy and terms & conditions to
the distributed apps as it is required for the in-app purchase
submission in the Apple App Store.
This commit also updates the terms & conditions to include a specify
section when FeedDeck is used via the Apple App Store, Google Play Store
or the Windows Store.
This commit fixes two bugs within the Podcast player.
It could happen that the play time and remaining time was not shown
correctly in the player. This mainly occured in Safari and is now fixed
by not using a regular expression to show the time, but instead we have
added a new "_printDuration" function which handles the formatting of
the durations.
Not only, but mainly on Safari it could also happen, that once a Podcast
was started and then paused, the loading spinner was displayed and a
user could not continue with the Podcast. This is now fixed, by removing
the spinner and only show the play, pause or replay button. As loading
indication we are now only using the seek bar.
Last but not least this commit also improves the readability of the
code, for parsing the icon of a Podcast feed.
This commit introduces a new "profile-v2" edge function and deprecates
the "profile-v1" edge function. We decided to provide a new edge
function for all profile related operation to improve the handling of
the different operation the edge function is responsible for.
The main differences to the "profile-v1" functions are:
- Pass the operation id within the request url instead of the body of
the request.
- Move the operations for accounts (e.g. GitHub) to seperate files, to
improve the readability of the function.
- Do not require the "sourceType" anymore, instead we are using the
operation id and request method to determine the operation which
should be executed
- The request body is now only used for the data of the corresponding
account and not for any other information like the operation id and
source information.
When we used the AppBar widget we did not specify the "centerTitle"
property, so that the title was aligned within the default of the
platform. This means on iOS and macOS the title was centered, but on
Android, Windows and Linux the title was aligned on the left side.
This wasn't intended and we want to have the same style on all
Platforms, so that the title is now centered on all Platforms like it
was already done on iOS and macOS.
As reported in #25 the list of sources in a column can not be scrolled
vertically when there are a lot of sources which can not all be
displayed within the existing space.
This problem only occures when a user has no touch device or trackpad,
e.g. on Linux, Windows or the Web.
To fix this we changed the scroll behaviour in the app to allow
scrolling via drag gestures. For the reported case this means the list
of sources can be dragged to the right or left side to view all the
other sources which are hidden.
We have to add in-app purchases for the iOS, macOS and Android store, so
that users can also get the premium features of the app without using
Stripe for payments.
The in-app purchases are only enabled when a user uses the app with the
default Supabase environment or with the Supabase environment provided
during build time. If a user uses his own Supabase instance, he will not
be able to upgrade to the premium tier via in-app purchases.
We are using RevenueCat for in-app purchases, which automatically sends
all the events for a user to the "revenuecat-webhooks-v1" edge function.
Depending on the received event we can then upgrade / downgrade the
users profile. To be able to use RevenueCat as an additional provider to
Stripe we also had to add a new "subscriptionProvider" provider column
to the "profiles" table, which stores the information via which provider
a user upgraded his account.
Instead of downloading the Flatpak files from GitHub in the
"app.feeddeck.feeddeck.yml" file, we are now adding the files to the
archive we create during the release process.
When a user scrolls through a list of items and loads more items via the
"Load More" button and then clicks on the mark all items as read button,
it could happen that the request fails, because Supabase can not handle
the update filter with a large list of item ids.
To avoid this error we are splitting the list of item ids provided in
the "updateReadStates" into chunks of 25 items for the in clause in the
update filter.
For the item ingestion logic we are now also looking at the published
date for all entries in a RSS feed. If the published date is older then
the last update date of a source the item will be skipped. This way we
should reduce the number of duplicated items, where an entry was updated
in the RSS feed, so that it had a new id and was written again to the
database and not only updated.
In the "isYoutubeUrl" function we are checking if the provided url is
related to YouTube. For that we checked if the url starts with
"https://www.youtube.com/" or "https://m.youtube.com/", but we also have
to check if the url starts with "https://youtube.com/" which is used
when a users shares a link to a channel via the YouTube app.
In this commit we add the missing "https://youtube.com/" option to the
"isYoutubeUrl" function.
It is now possible to use a custom Nitter instances. This means a user
must not rely on our Nitter instance and can instead use his own
instance. To use a custom Nitter instance a user must provide the full
RSS feed url for the instance.
If a RSS feed entry did not contain a "published" field, we skipped the
entry and didn't added it to the database. Now it is also possible to
use feeds without a "published" field. If a feed entry does not contain
the field it must contain a "updated" field, which we then use for the
"publishedAt" field in the database. If a feed entry doesn't contain one
of the two fields the entry is still skipped.
This commit improves the parsing of the RSS feeds for a podcast, because
some podcasts were not working as expected:
- The "https://gotime.fm/rss" podcast uses the "itunes:image" field for
the podcast icon instead of "image", so that we now looking at both
fields to add the podcast icon.
- The "https://itsallwidgets.com/podcast/feed" podcast didn't contain a
link in the entries, so that all entries were skipped. For that a
podcast must not contain a link anymore to be parsed, but most contain
a media file which can be played within the app.
This commit adds a "Get Started" guide for the mobile and desktop
version of FeedDeck. The guide describes the basic concepts and settings
of the app to make it easier to get started with the FeedDeck.
This is also used for the review process in the different app stores to
make it easier to get the app approved.
This commit adds two issue templates and a pull request template. A user
can now select between reporting a bug or requesting a new feature when
opening an issue. The pull request template provides some guidance on
naming the pull request and on the required description.
During the review of the submission of the iOS and macOS versions of
FeedDeck we encountered some problems, so that the app was rejected. For
that we had to make the following changes:
- Change the foreground and background color of the "Sign in with Apple"
button. This means we are now using black as foreground and white as
background color.
- Add the "Sign in with Apple" capability to the macOS version, to
handle the sign in within the app as it is done for the iOS version.
- Add description in the "CreateDeck" widget, because it was confusing
for the review and they were thinking that they had to provide their
name.
- Adjust "Release" section in contributing guide.
- Disable "X" datasource, since it is not working after the latest API
adjustments.
- Update "version" key and "msix_config.msix_version" key in
"pubspec.yaml" file.
- Change user in "AddSourceReddit" widget help text.
- Enable macOS App Sandbox.
- Adjust logo for Windows version.
