irccloud / android

IRCCloud Android App

The official Android app for IRCCloud.com

Chat on IRC from anywhere, and never miss a message.

• All your chats and logs are stored in the cloud. Access them on the go
• Push notifications on highlights and PMs
• Fully syncs with IRCCloud.com on the web
• Works on phones and tablets

Join our #feedback channel on irc.irccloud.com for feedback and suggestions so we can improve the app. You can also email us on [email protected] or find us on Twitter @irccloud.

IRCCloud for Android is available on Google Play.

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Requirements

• Android Studio 4.1.x
• Gradle 4.1.x
• Android 11.0 SDK
• Latest versions of AndroidX and Google Play Services
• android-websockets library: https://github.com/irccloud/android-websockets
• An Android device running Android 5.1 or newer

Building

• Make sure you've installed the Android 11.0 SDK and upgraded to the latest version of Android Studio
• Make sure you've updated all support repository and Google Play Services repository packages in the Android SDK manager
• Check out android-websockets and the IRCCloud Android project from github
• Open Android studio and select the IRCCloud Android build.gradle file
• Click Run button for the 'irccloud-android' configuration to automatically deploy the apk to your device

The app can also be built using Gradle from the command-line using the build.gradle file located in the IRCCloud Android project by typing "./gradlew :assembleDebug"

You must uninstall the Play Store version of the app first before installing a debug version, as the signing keys will not match.

License

Copyright (C) 2021 IRCCloud, Ltd. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

android's Issues

Bring some of the iOS optimizations back to Android

Cache the formatted timestamps and event days, and only clear the formatted strings when the settings are updated

Reconnecting countdown timer shows the wrong value

The number of seconds until next retry is displayed incorrectly

SSL globe icon

Export all the strings so the app can be translated

Render color codes in the topic dialog

Render color codes in the topic dialog

Buffers with a page full of unimportant messages shouldn't be marked unread

If all the messages in the initial backlog for a buffer are unimportant, but the last seen eid is behind another page of backlog, don't mark the buffer as unread.

Handle accounts with no connections

Show a fullscreen connection dialog w/ logout button

Large images don't center correctly in image viewer

Connectivity listener doesn't reconnect when resuming the app from the background

Investigate TalkBack

Can we add screen reader support on Android too?

Queue outgoing messages

Queue outgoing messages while disconnected, send them when a connection is re-established, mark them failed after a minute

Shorter reconnect interval

Use the same retry interval as the web site and iPhone

nick change + part incorrectly shows as pop in

Indicate offline connections

Respect option for collapsing join parts

pref key is 'expandJoinPart'

Padlock icon incorrectly shows

need to check the parsed ops.add list for an object with a 'k' param

unable to connect to, or remove instances of freenode server

galaxy s fascinate stock ota 2.3.5

when adding freenode through the normal context menus, it seems to freeze at state of disconnected. tap to reconnect.

cannot delete through long press context either, have made multipLe attempts and it just keeps creating duplicate, un removable instances of the server.

unsure of steps to reproduce, I don't have any other devices.

perhaps related to SSL connection type this was only notable difference from expected behavior test paths

add /who response dialog

Render color codes in the whois dialog and away bar

Render color codes in the whois dialog and away bar

Current buffer doesn't always refresh after resuming the socket

Restore scroll position when switching channels

Backlog failure indicator + retry button

Parse networks.json file

Replace the hard-coded list of networks with this URL: http://irccloud.com/static/networks.json

Disconnect button doesn't cancel a retrying connection

Add timestamp to custom notification layout

Add timestamp to custom notification layout

Check ignore list for notifications and buffers list

Local notifications and the red highlight indicator don't currently check the ignore list

Improve grouping in PM windows

Should sort events by time, not by type, and support nipped out / popped in for channels

Image viewer needs to check if image is valid

Fall back to browser if invalid

Progress bar jumps a bit while loading

Hide the backlog loading spinner when there's no network connection

Optimization: cache the unread and highlight counts for buffers to speed up refreshing the buffers list

Fix collapsing of multiple mode changes

Currently just shows the last operation instead of all the new modes

F-Droid

Please can you add the Android client to F-Droid.

Thank you. :-)

Use usermode symbols from ISUPPORT when available

New failed message style

add /names response dialog

'Add Network' in buffers list

Per-buffer input area

Changing to another buffer should clear the text area, and switching back again should restore the previous in-progress message

Refactor MessageActivity/MessageViewFragment to store a Buffer object instead of individual values

Match the IOS app internally and tidy up some messy stuff

Investigate replacing ActionBarSherlock with the new official library

The latest version of the Android support library includes an official ActionBarSherlock replacement

IRCCloud gets disconnected --> New server that already exists with SSL --> Refusal --> Log out

09:52:06 <Mikaela> I have an issue with the Android client. When IRCCloud gets disconnected from any network (last night I got disconnected from two), the Android client wants to create a new network irc.irccloud.com/6667. I refuse, because I already have network irc.irccloud.com/+6697 and the Android clients logs me out and I am without IRC(Cloud) until I go to LastPass and
09:52:06 <Mikaela> get my password from there and it's not so easy wih phone.

Reset the fail counter when resuming the app

HTTP Proxy support

The websockets library currently opens a direct socket connection, change this to check the system's HTTP proxy settings and connect via the proxy if required by the user's APN

Inline image viewer

Port from the iOS app

Use DrawerLayout to manage the sidebars

• Remove the HorizontalScrollView and use DrawerLayout
• Lock the opposite drawer closed when opening a drawer
• Replace chevron icon with hamburger icon
• Make sure the user list is locked closed when backlog finishes in a console/conversation buffer

Join + quit isn't collapsing correctly

Should say popped in instead of 2 events

Self messages shouldn't trigger the bottom chatter bar

Self messages shouldn't trigger the bottom chatter bar

Clean up deleted BIDs on reconnect

same as the latest iOS app

Add scrollbar to Display Options dialog

Not all the options fit in landscape mode on smaller screens

Channel info dialog

Show topic and modes in a dialog, like the iOS app