Hello! I haven't posted in a while so I wanted to give a quick update on what is going on with the app.
The next feature I'm working on is quite large. Its offline support which aims to make the app usable offline... to a degree. This feature is going to be made up of several different parts including features to download certain content in advance and have the app respond to network changes.
In addition to this feature I am also working on some physical projects since it is summer where I am. I had a lot of yard work planned for this year so I'm also spending a lot of my free time with that. Due to this and the size of the next update, the next update will likely take a little longer.
Changes so far:
This is a relatively small release. This release adds posts prefetching. This should make loading more posts in the post feed feel faster. This is a crucial change needed to implement offline mode.
This release also adds community icons in both the post feed and the post screen.
Both of these changes are configurable so you can disable one or both if it's not to your liking.
Full changelog
Update
Made a couple versioning mistakes so this will be released as v1.37.2 instead.
Update
I submitted the release but changes are in review still. It's been in review for over 5 hours so it feels like it's going to take a while before it's released to the play store.
Please upvote my comment below if you want community icons to be on by default. Down vote it if you prefer having them off by default.
Here are some screen shots of what the icons would look like for some layouts:
The next big feature on the menu is "Offline mode". This feature is difficult to tackle so I'm going to be implementing some other features that should make it easier.
The first is pre-fetching. Prefetching can also improve the base user experience so I will be looking at possible things that can be pre-fetched.
Changes so far:
Update
I'm changing the default on community icons to "on" since a good portion of you want it on by default. This will be configurable on a per-layout basis so you can always turn it off.
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