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.
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.
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.
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.
The settings page now contains an info section, which is used to show
the current app version via the "package_info_plus" package, the link to
our website, the link to our GitHub repository and the link to our X
account.
Add continuous delivery workflows for the desktop apps. While we want to
provide the desktop versions of FeedDeck though the different app stores
we still want to build them via GitHub Actions, so users can also test
the desktop apps before an official release.
This is also useful to build the binaries we can then download and
upload to the official stores, since we currently only have a macOS
system to build the apps.
