Day 10: Accessibility improvements

We made a number of changes in #Tusky 22.0 to improve accessibility

Some users reported that the design of the "Load more" break made it difficult to spot amongst other posts in a timeline.

@lakoja updated the design so that it is more visually distinctive in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3376.

The swipe-to-refresh gesture is not always accessible to assistive devices. I added an accessible "Refresh" menu entry as an alternative in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3121.

Add "Refresh" accessibility menu by nikclayton · Pull Request #3121 · tuskyapp/Tusky

Per https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/swiperefreshlayout/widget/SwipeRefreshLayout the layout does not provide accessibility events, and a menu item should be provided as an alternat...

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There are two bugs we know about that will be fixed in the 22.1 release, and are already fixed in #Tusky nightly.

1. The mechanism that's used to highlight changes does not work well if the changes run over more than one line. The change highlighting runs off the right margin.

2. Your server might know that a post has been edited, but it does not have a copy of the actual edits, so it doesn't return them. If this happens Tusky will crash. Sorry about that, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25398.

`api/v1/statuses/.../history` endpoint can return an empty array on an edited status · Issue #25398 · mastodon/mastodon

Steps to reproduce the problem 1 - search for status On a Mastodon server running 4.1.2 (I used tooot.im), search for the post with the URL https://spore.social/@tamarasiuda/110522895217050705. Not...

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Day 9: Account headers

In #Tusky 21 you could view an account and tap the avatar picture to view it full screen.

But you couldn't do that with the account's header image. Now you can.

KWierso (https://github.com/KWierso) noticed this and suggested it should be fixed, and @Tak made the change in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3274.

It was also possible for an account's header image to obscure the buttons at the top of the page. I fixed that in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3272.

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Day 8: See what's changed in edited posts

In #Tusky v22.0 you can now see what's changed when a post has been edited. Deleted text is shown with a red background and struck through, while new text is shown in bold with a green background.

This is a great example of the collaborative nature of open source. I did the initial work in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3314, using DiffX, a third-party library that computes text differences (https://github.com/pageseeder/diffx).

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Day 7: Additional filtering controls

Mastodon 4.x introduced new filter options.

New filters have names, so you can give a filter a name that does not include the text you are filtering.

Filters can also be configured to hide content or show a warning.

And a single filter can be used to filter out multiple different words, instead of needing one filter per word.

The new filter support in #Tusky supports all these options, thanks to @Tak in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3188

Support the mastodon 4 filter api by Tak · Pull Request #3188 · tuskyapp/Tusky

What's done: Use the filter metadata attached to statuses when available Support the warn filter action Updated filter editing UI Gracefully degrade to the old filter api Outstanding: The edit f...

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Day 6: Show media controls for audio files

This was a regression in #Tusky v21 -- if you were playing audio file attachments the controls (play, pause, etc) would disappear, and tapping on the screen would not bring them back.

That's obviously not great.

@vv noticed this and provided a very clear bug report. @EricFrohnhoefer did the work to fix this in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3286.

Fix media controller UI not showing during audio playback by efrohnhoefer · Pull Request #3286 · tuskyapp/Tusky

Partially related to 3170e1c Moved code to show UI to OnPreparedListener because internally VideoView calls MediaController#setEnabled() in onPrepared(). Calling MediaController#show() before Medi...

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I recently learned that it is super easy to run your own #UnifiedPush server if you already have a #NextCloud:
- Install the UnifiedPush Provider app in the NextCloud
- Install NextPush for Android https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.unifiedpush.distributor.nextpush/

Took me like 5 min and now my #Tusky push notifications go through my own server, how cool is that

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

UnifiedPush provider with Nextcloud

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Day 5: The Notifications Tab

The #Tusky notifications tab has got some new behaviour in v22.0.

Like yesterday there's quite a lot to cover here, so I've written about it over at https://write.as/nikclayton/tusky-v22-0-day-5-the-notifications-tab

Shorter updates to resume tomorrow...

Day 4: Android Notifications

#Tusky v22.0 changes how Android notifications are displayed.

There's quite a lot to cover, and rather than spam the feed with 20+ posts I've put the write-up at https://write.as/nikclayton/tusky-v22-0-day-4-android-notifications

My greatest thanks to the #Tusky developers who added these awesome usability improvements

LOAD MORE used to have a white background which was the same as toots. Which made it very easy to scroll past without noticing, resulting in timeline disorientation. The change to a grey background means I haven't missed a single one today. It's also subtle enough that it's not annoying 👍

Newly discovered bonus! Alt-text editing is now truly awesome in my opinion! 👍👍

#Tusky Rocks!

But here we are, a few months later, and #Tusky v22 supports this too. When you're editing one of your posts you can now tap any images you attached and edit the description and focus point.

@Tak did a lot of the initial work to support post editing in Tusky, and he's responsible for this new feature too, in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3215.

Add support for updating media description and focus point when editing statuses by Tak · Pull Request #3215 · tuskyapp/Tusky

Completes #3211 We could also add support for viewing them in the edit history view, but I think that will maybe not be super useful since that view is mainly for seeing the history of other people...

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Day 3: #Tusky v22 is smarter about the language defaults when you reply to a post.

The list of languages in the language menu is now sorted to prioritise:

- The language the post you're replying to was written in
- Your default posting language
- The languages you've configured in Tusky
- The languages you've configured in Android (Settings > System > Languages and Input)

@Tak did the work here, in https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/3293.

Improve language list prioritization by Tak · Pull Request #3293 · tuskyapp/Tusky

Ensures that all of (language of the post being replied to, default post language, configured app languages, configured system languages) are prioritized when constructing the language list for com...

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Day 2: Editing image description and focus point

#Tusky v21 introduced support for editing the text of your posts.

Unfortunately, Mastodon introduced support for editing image descriptions and focus points too late in the release process for Tusky 21 for it to be included in Tusky (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/20878).

Add support for editing media description and focus point of already-posted statuses by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #20878 · mastodon/mastodon

This adds a media_attributes parameter to PUT /api/v1/statuses/:id. media_attributes is an array, items of which have the following attributes: id: the identifier of the media attachment to be mod...

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#Tusky v22 has been released!

Changes in this release include:

✅ View trending hashtags from the side menu, or as a tab
✅ Edit image descriptions and focus points after posting
✅ Better ordering of languages when writing a post
✅ Mastodon v4 filters
✅ Show the differences between different versions of edited posts (try it with this one!)
✅ Accessibility improvements

Available in Google Play and F-Droid, the full release notes and other assets are at https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v22.0

Release Tusky 22.0 · tuskyapp/Tusky

New features and other improvements View trending hashtags, PR#3149 by @knossos View trending hashtags from the side menu, or by adding them to a new tab. Edit image description and focus point...

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#Tusky v22 beta 4 is released. Only one change, but if you've been using beta 3 with multiple accounts and have been inundated with repeat notifications that's been fixed.

One caveat; if you share access to an account with multiple people and you've all been using beta 3 you'll keep getting repeat notifications until everyone's upgraded past beta 3.

#Tusky 22.0 beta 3 is out.

- Fixed crash when viewing a thread
- Fixed crash processing Mastodon filters
- Links in bios of follow/follow request notifications are clickable
- Android notification for a Mastodon notification should only be shown once
- Android notifications are grouped by Mastodon notification type (follow, mention, boost, etc)
- Potential for missing notifications has been removed

Full details at https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v22.0-beta.3

Release Tusky 22.0 beta 3 · tuskyapp/Tusky

Significant bug fixes Fixed crash when viewing a thread, PR#3622 Fixed crash processing Mastodon filters, PR#3634 Links in bios of follow/follow request notifications are clickable, PR#3646 Androi...

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The first beta of #Tusky v22 is out, including:

- View trending hashtags
- Edit image descriptions and focus point
- "Refresh" menu for accessibility
- Support Mastodon v4 filters
- Show detailed differences when a post is edited
- Option to show post statistics in the timeline

Fixes including:

- Show player controls during audio playback
- Correct post length calculation
- Always publish image captions

Full details at https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md#v220-beta-1

Tusky/CHANGELOG.md at develop · tuskyapp/Tusky

An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon - Tusky/CHANGELOG.md at develop · tuskyapp/Tusky

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