The monocles chat update 1.7.9.5 is available on the Playstore with a Easter special offer 🎉 .

There are several new fixes and features like:

* Initial GIFs picker
* Animated Avatars (up to 100kb and 480px)
* Initial status image preview
* Better image quoting
* Little battery usage reduction
* Updated translations
and much more

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.monocles.chat

A good weekend to everyone!

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Remember that #PlayStore wanted to update/replace a bunch of apps installed from other sources such as #FDroid recently? Well, turns out someone found what triggers it and how it can be avoided, see https://github.com/jamie-mh/AuthenticatorPro/issues/1054#issuecomment-1867484763 for details.

Basically, the reason there was that AABs (the #Android App Bundles uploaded to Play) had a higher versionCode than the APKs distributed by the other sources. Still does not explain why Google ignored the "installer" property, though.

App installed from FDroid wants to update in Play Store · Issue #1054 · jamie-mh/AuthenticatorPro

Describe the bug I have v 1.23.0 installed through FDroid (IzzyOnDroid) and since this morning Google Play Store is trying to auto-update the app but fails obviously. To Reproduce Install the app f...

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