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Sorry, I thought I would be able to work on #Fedilab this week.
But behind the scenes, I made an important change to the Holos relay regarding activities, which kept me busy adapting the Holos app accordingly.
I could fit in some work on Fedle since it's lighter, but Fedilab needs proper focus time.
I'll get back to it soon. Thanks for your patience.
Our FAQ has replies to three most asked questions. #Fedilab
It is amazing how out of memory errors stopped showing up in crash reports with #Fedilab. #LeakCanary really helped (I regret having disabled it for so long)
https://square.github.io/leakcanary/
By default, #Fedilab supports pronouns. It will display them, next to screen names in timelines but also when replying to a person.
For that, Fedilab uses fields (from profiles) and accepts different keys depending on your language.#FedilabTips
PS: Don't hesitate to share with us new keys for pronouns in your language.
#Fedilab 3.38.1 has been published!
This release fixes several crashes and improves timeline caching.
Release notes: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/releases/tag/3.38.1
Mastodon nightly release has been published today. It's maybe time for us to release the #Fedilab version that fully supports quotes?
Options: (choose one)
Settings in #Fedilab have been reworked to improve the UX.
A search feature is now available to filter them. The settings are also organized into clearer categories, and the matching item is highlighted when you tap it.
To translators, this feature introduces many new keywords used for filtering. Thank you for your contribution.
With #HolosSocial, we introduced the same feature that is on #Fedilab to discover videos from the Fediverse thanks to #SepiaSearch (https://sepiasearch.org).
#PeerTube devs offered this option, which is really helpful for discovering new content on their platform.
We might introduce peer-to-peer streaming soon when watching PeerTube videos, with an option to disable this behavior.
Their API is used to display the content, then actions work through ActivityPub.
To #Fedilab beta testers, we're about to integrate the final changes. The beta APK will be available on our beta FDroid repo and the Google Play beta channel for testing. We'll compile the release APK once you give us the green light. Thanks for your patience!
Benutzt noch jemand Fedilab auf Android und stellt nach dem letzten Update auf Version 3.35.1 fest, dass das Aktualisieren der Timelines jetzt extrem lange dauert? 🤔
While this account is mainly dedicated to #Fedilab, we also build some other apps.
Currently, we are working on an app called #CastLab. We made great improvements on it. This app can be run on Android or iOS
The goal of this app is to easily cast media from your device to TV or devices supporting apps such Kodi.
CastLab will be published only on #FDroid and no Google services will be involved such a Chromecast support.
If you have a lot of filters, the last release of #Fedilab (3.35.1) might have slowed down the app when fetching messages (cache or not).
Filters are applied locally and we extended them to quoted messages.
We will work on a fix to improve this process.
Privacy settings in #Fedilab aren't only about redirecting URLs to privacy frontends. There's also an option to automatically strip tracking parameters (opt-in).
If you'd rather not enable it, you can just long press a link whenever you have a doubt and check if it tries to redirect.
Having the ability to fully customize theme colors with #Fedilab (and per account) is for you :
Options: (choose one)
Fedilab continues to surprise me with features that I missed. Open a profile and go to 'Media'. This gives you a great view of all the media on the account—only media, no text. One tap opens the media, as expected. What I didn't know is that tapping and holding brings you to the corresponding post. 
Since #NeoDB also has a "social" feature, it's awesome that we can login in #Fediverse apps. For users who prefer to use their NeoDB account beyond just a shelf/tracking/library can do so.
For example, this post was made via the #Fedilab #Android app.
Hey @apps
Is it possible to hide boosts and replies in the Fedilab app? If yes, how? If not, is this in the roadmap?
Thanks!
Maybe an old unknown feature of #Fedilab. In settings > Privacy you can enable an option to remove UTM parameters in URLs.
It will work for new messages but you can still clear the cache from the app.
More about UTM parameters in URLs:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTM_parameters
#Fedilab 3.39.0 is available.
What's new:
- Reorganized settings with categories and search
- Option to refresh all timelines at once on pull-to-refresh (default disabled)
- Support for custom poll durations based on instance
- Support for web+ap:// and web+activitypub:// protocols
- Quotes now open inside the app instead of the browser (remote)
It also brings several fixes, including a fix for #Pixelfed login failure.
Full release notes: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/releases/tag/3.39.0