According to the #GooglePlay statistics, these are the countries with more #ArcaneChat users 👇

1. #Russia
2. #Cuba
3. #UnitedStates / #USA
4. #Iran
5. #Germany
6. #India
7. #Brazil
8. #Canada
9. #France
10. #Indonesia

happy to see families of all over the world enjoying ArcaneChat 💜

#family #chat #privacy #security #encryption #sovereign #decentralization

#Catima 2.41.6 is out!

Catima is a simple app for store discount cards, event tickets and more.

This release fixes a regression introduced in 2.41.5 causing the manual barcode selection screen to only show empty squares and makes URLs in card IDs clickable in the "more info" pop up.

Coming soon to an app store near you!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.41.6 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Auto-detect URLs in card ID and make the clickable in card ID details pop-up Fix barcode selector activity showing white squares instead of barcodes

^GitHub

#Catima 2.41.5 is out!

Catima is a simple Android app to store event tickets/plane tickets/store discount codes and more in.

Version 2.41.5 is the last iteration of the barcode encoding feature. It removes automatic encoding in favour of deciding encoding once on adding a card (extracted from pkpass files, otherwise ISO-8859-1) and then sticking with that. It also fixes some other bugs.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Coming soon to an app store near you!

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.41.5 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Fix list widget sometimes opening wrong card Fix several bugs with shortcut handling Fix About activity not using pure black title bar in OLED mode Fully remove automatic barcode encoding detection...

^GitHub

#ArcaneChat is just a #DeltaChat client, my main user is... wait for it... ME! so it is basically Delta Chat with some tweaks to my taste, I shared it and it turns out some other people seem to like it, according to the #GooglePlay downloads it is mainly used in #Russia, #Cuba, #USA, #Iran, #Germany and #India

I don't actively try to convince people to use it, and in general it is better to push for DC that is multi-platform, then in #android some might prefer AC as their DC client

I decided to just quickly release 2.41.4 and disable the automatic barcode encoding detection for now. Breaking Deutschlandticket is definitely one of the worst things that could have happened and I don't want people to get stranded in Germany.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

I've asked @IzzyOnDroid and linsui (from @fdroidorg) to get this release out more quickly if possible: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

2.41.4 · CatimaLoyalty Android · Discussion #2942

Disable automatic barcode encoding detection for now (breaks too many cards) This discussion was created from the release 2.41.4.

^GitHub

Okay, *one* last release for Android 5 users.

#Catima 2.41.2 is out

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

The barcode encoding feature added in Catima 2.41.0 caused a very minor change in how barcodes where generated, which for some users led to failures to use their cards (github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…). This is now fixed by slightly changing how automatic mode works.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

QR code card working in 2.40.x is broken in 2.41.1

QR code card added to Catima prior to v2.41, referring to https://xtra.colruytgroup.be/xtra/qr/961198520459603760316514. Was working fine until v2.40.x (scanned OK at the cash desk) Using v2.41.1, ...

^{se-te (GitHub)}

#Catima 2.41.0 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This release adds support for UTF-8 barcodes (by default, the encoding will be extracted from the pkpass file or auto-detected if set otherwise).

It also contains some bugfixes and UI tweaks.

Due to Google dropping Android 5 compatibility in their libraries, this will be the last release available for Android 5.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.41.0 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Add support for UTF-8 barcodes Add duplicate option to main screen and reorder options slightly Fix column count setting not being applied to group card list Remove theme colour support Reduce max ...

^GitHub

#ArcaneChat 2.33.1 is on its way to #GooglePlay and #FDroid and should be available in the upcoming days, can't wait? for other download options check arcanechat.me/

Among the enhancements are:

More metadata protection: protect message recipients

More resilience: new experimental feature to use several addresses per profile (multi-relay)

ArcaneChat

Private chats for the family

^{arcanechat.me}

#Catima 2.40.0 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This adds a small feature #Stocard users have been repeatedly asking for over the years (though to this day I don't know for what use case): the ability to quickly copy the card ID to your clipboard.

It also contains the conversion of the MainActivity from Java to Kotlin, making almost all UI activities Kotlin now.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyonDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Rozmohl se nám takovej nešvar - #Android appky se bez ověření #GooglePlay ani nezapnou, takže když je sosnete pomocí #AuroraStore, máte pešek.

Pruďte je, pište na helpdesky .. nenechme si Android ukrást.

Díky.

#SomethingWentWrong

#Catima 2.39.2's release on #GooglePlay has been delayed due to the regular incompetent review program blocking the update due to "lack of provided login credentials for testing".

I've filed an appeal, stating that Catima is fully offline and has no accounts. We will see.

If you're a Google Play user, to be honest, please just use Catima from #IzzyOnDroid, #GitHub or #FDroid. The more people not on Google Play, the less power Google has on blocking updates :)

#Catima 2.39.2 is out!

Sorry end-users, this is a very boring release for you, not a single new feature or visible change.

However, it does modernize the codebase a bit: a lot of Java code was rewritten to Kotlin to more closely follow modern Android guidelines. Catima is now almost 20% Kotlin :)

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Coming soon to an app store near you!

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.39.2 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Preparations for future improvements (rewrote many classes to Kotlin)

^GitHub

#Catima 2.39.1 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This fixes a crash bug which was reported using the new #ACRA crash reporter functionality *less than 3 hours after the last version released*. If that's not an ACRA success story I don't know what is ;)

Coming soon to an app store near you!

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.39.1 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Fix possible crash that could occur for cards missing colour information in the database

^GitHub

#Catima 2.39.0 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This release targets Android 16 and fixes a crash. Sadly, Google removed support for controlling screen orientation, so this functionality had to be removed.

Catima now also includes ACRA in the FOSS release for crash reporting. If a crash occurs, a dialog will appear to ask you to report the crash. Reports are never sent automatically and you can always review it.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.39.0 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Target Android 16 Fix possible crash after removing image from card Remove "Screen orientation" feature (Google removed the ability for apps to control screen rotation when targeting Android 16) Ad...

^GitHub

#Catima 2.38.0 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This release adds support for .pkpasses, removes the Stocard importer (as Stocard no longer exists) and removes images from the widget below Android 12L.

Do note that the widget change is not what we want. If anyone understands this crash and has a fix, I'd love to hear it, so we can support images on all Android versions: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Widget crash issue

Thanks for the new widget! Great! But there is a problem: if the cards have no pictures, everything works. If you add a picture to at least one card, the application closes with an error and the wi...

^{TheLastProject (GitHub)}

If anyone is curious, my current Android setup is as follows:

I use #NeoStore or #Droidify (currently Neo Store, the new stats support is just too tempting) with the #IzzyOnDroid repo as primary app source, the #FDroid repo as secondary.

If I need something not on either of those, I will use #AuroraStore to access #GooglePlay.

Random APKs from GitHub or whatever only in very very specific cases. I will generally wait until the app drops on F-Droid or (preferably) IzzyOnDroid.

#Google: We need to limit #sideloading, #GooglePlay is so much safer!

Meanwhile in the real world:

theregister.com/2025/08/26/app…

Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads

: Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us

^{Iain Thomson (The Register)}

#Catima 2.37.0 is out!

This release features a redesigned logo, kindly contributed by il-Luca (github.com/il-Luca) and Aeven-Dev (github.com/aeven-dev).

The redesign was kept very close to the original design from TangentFoxy (github.com/TangentFoxy), to try to not affect people's ability to recognize the app in their app drawer.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #Fdroid #GooglePlay

#Catima 2.36.0 is out!

In this release we added a card list widget, one of the most requested features since the project was started!

We hope to extend the widget in the future to allow you to choose which cards you want to show and how you want them sorted.

Coming soon to an app store near you!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay #OpenSource #Android

Release 2.36.0 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Add a widget showing all non-archived cards Prevent the keyboard from overlapping the save button in edit and group screens

^GitHub

100K. One hundred thousand. That's a lot of #Catima users! And happy users, it seems, looking at that 4.5 star rating ❤️

Just, wow, I never expected my little hobby app to reach 100K active users, and that's just on #GooglePlay, still excluding other app stores like #IzzyOnDroid, #FDroid, direct downloads from #GitHub and sketchy app piracy sites (please don't use that last one, for your own safety 😅)!

Very cool :)

#Catima 2.35.1 is out! This is a very boring release, just containing some dependency and translation updates. It also adds 1 new community-contributed language: Persian.

If your favourite language is not (completely) supported, consider contributing on hosted.weblate.org/projects/ca… (no AI or "Google Translate" translations please, nobody is helped by low-quality translations filled with errors).

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Catima

Catima is being translated into 61 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.

^{Hosted Weblate}

#Catima 2.35.0 is out!

This release lets you further tweak the barcode size in the fullscreen view and slightly improves barcode finding reliability when scanning or loading a barcode from an image or PDF file. It also fixes a crash when trying to load a pkpass file without a barcode in it.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#Android #OpenSource #IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GooglePlay #GitHub

Release 2.35.0 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Add ability to choose barcode width in fullscreen view Remove confusing import from app function Various scanning fixes Fix crash when loading a pkpass file without barcode

^GitHub

#Catima 2.34.5 is out!

This is a maintenance release that targets Android 15 and fixes a crash.

The app will look slightly uglier on some devices, due to Google's changes in how drawing over the system and navigation bar works. Sadly, supporting proper edge-to-edge requires extensive rewrites (help very welcome!), so I opted to at least ensure we target Android 15 before any deadlines.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #Fdroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.5 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Target Android 15 Fix crash reading unsupported pkpass files Improve pkpass support

^GitHub

#catima 2.34.4 is out!

This reverts Catima to targetSdk 34 (Android 14) for now, to fix the UI regressions introduced in Catima 2.34.3.

It also includes the fixes in 2.34.3 and a new little feature to sort your cards by the "valid from" date, useful for things like train tickets.

Coming soon to an app store near you!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.4 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Ability to sort cards by start of validity Temporarily revert to targeting Android 14 to fix some UI issues

^GitHub

Hello folks I need your help, after a lot of efforts, I am on the final steps of making #ArcaneChat available in #GooglePlay

now they ask to create a "closed testing release" where only some invited testers via their google account email address can participate and install the app before they allow a public release

please write to me in private sending me your google account's email address (gmail I guess) to join as beta-tester, thanks a lot in advance! ♥️🙏

#DeltaChat #decentralization

Happy holidays to all who celebrate them!

I just released a minor Catima bugfix release: 2.34.2. This version fixes the archived/starred status being hard to see or even invisible when displayed on top of certain card images.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#Catima #GitHub #IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.2 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Improve archive/starred icon display

^GitHub

#Catima 2.34.1 is out!

This fixes a minor bug in Catima 2.34.0 where selecting an "invalid" pkpass file (corrupted/not actually pkpass) after choosing to open from Pkpass would cause the app to crash. Now, you just get a little message stating the file could not be read instead.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
catima.app

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.1 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Fix crash when opening invalid pkpass files

^GitHub

#Catima 2.34.0 is out!

This release adds support for #Passbook (#pkpass) files, commonly used for event tickets and more!

It also contains some other minor fixes and better handling of image thumbnails (especially transparent ones).

On the end-user side, this release probably doesn't look that different, but it contains some major code refactoring. It is also the first release with #Kotlin code in it.

catima.app/

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.0 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Add Passbook (.pkpass) support Fix import of transparent PDF files Improve display of transparent thumbnails

^GitHub

#Catima 2.32.1 is out!

This fixes a regression in 2.32.0 which could break text display in the add dialog in non-English languages which I sadly missed in review: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

It also contains some translation updates that were submitted between the last release and just now.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

#Android #IzzyOnDroid #GooglePlay #GitHub

Fix text wrapping on add dialog by TheLastProject · Pull Request #2142 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Before After

^GitHub

New #Catima milestone: 50K active users on #GooglePlay

:)

Another day, another malicious Open Source app clone on #GooglePlay

Of course, according to Google, this app does not violate the "impersonation" policy. Probably because they're making money off the malicious clone (given it contains ads) but not off the original app.

Legit: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Malicious: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

🥊 Showdown: Epic Games vs. Google 🥊

Epic Games won. 💪

This is a huge win for any Google competitor - so almost any tech company! 🍾

➡️ arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12…

Here's also some info on how the Google Search Monopoly harms competition - including some nice search alternatives: tuta.com/blog/google-search-mo…

Go private now! 😎

#TechNews #Tech #EpicGames #Epic #Google #GooglePlay #EpicVsGoogle #Fortnite

Our latest release is now available both on @fdroidorg and #GooglePlay!

Do you use AntennaPod while on the move? 🚴No more need for acrobatic (and in some places illegal) acts on the bike to skip those ads or go back to catch that comment. Or to take off your gloves to tap the screen while it's cold. 🥶

Version 3.2 now allows you to double/triple-press physical buttons to fast forward or rewind!

Get it here now:
f-droid.org/en/packages/de.dan…
play.google.com/store/apps/det…

AntennaPod | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player

^f-droid.org

Hey, can you give an overview of this library scanner of yours? Is it available anywhere? Looks really useful!

#android #apps #google #googleplay

We've been told Google Play transparently shows what data is collected etc, right? And whether an app has Ads? Well, dream on. I've just checked an app to see if it would fit my repo. Below is what Play (play.google.com/store/apps/det…) says about it (no "Ads" marker), then the results from my library scanner.

Careful what you believe and whom you trust.

#Android #apps #Google #GooglePlay

Minecraft clones stealthily load ads on millions of Android devices.

grahamcluley.com/minecraft-clo…

#cybersecurity #adware #minecraft #google #googleplay #android