24 October 2020

New version of Click to chat (V 2.13)

V 2.13
- New configurable changelog dialog
- Show message when sharing number

[Edit: a new beta was released with the Russian translation]



On this version a new dialog is added: a changelog window. You can open it manually by pressing the version number from the about menu (the (i) icon) but it will also be opened automatically when the app is updated. 

This can be configured, so you can disable it, or even set it to notify only on big changes (or even all minor changes). There are 4 different settings:

  • Never notify: The changelog window will never appear after a new version.
  • Notify on important features only: The changelog window will only appear after a mayor update (from 2.X to 3.X and so on). Standard features and fixes will be ignored.
  • Notify on new features only [default]: The changelog window will appear on new version with new features (from 2.13 to 2.14 and so on). Fixes and translations will be ignored.
  • Always notify: The changelog window will appear on every new update, including fixes and translations updates (from 2.13 to 2.13.1 and so on).

 

I also added (finally, better late than never) a warning when sharing a number, because you never should share a private number in a public place, and apparently people didn't know a few months ago.

09 October 2020

New version of Url checker (V 0.1)

V 0.1
- Long tap 'share' button to copy url to clipboard
- Share url as text to open on the app
- Several visual improvements and fixes



Some useful additions and visual fixes. I'll probably promote this version as stable soon.

04 October 2020

New version of Click to chat (V 2.12) + new donation version

V 2.12
- Removed non-google donation links to comply with new guidelines, replaced with new donation version.
- Minor tweaks with app colors



Recently the Play Store has been updated with new requirements about payments. Now you can't have a link to a non-google donation site (to be precise this requirement has always exists, but now it seems to be mandatory, instead of 'recommended'). For this reason I removed the Paypal, Patreon and Ko-fi links, which to be honest didn't were used (except Paypal, was used once). The links are still available on this blog, from the support button above (left if desktop).

I kept the buy me a coffee app, which is the only one that people have used, and still people uninstall it so soon that Play Store refunds it. If you are wondering how can I subsist by earning nothing the answer is simple: android is (currently) a free-time thing that I do because I really like it. 

I don't like ads, will never add them, and also I don't like when an app is limited and you need to pay for advanced or extended features. However, after checking other similar apps and projects, I found that a similar and good-for-me alternative is to have the same exact app but paid. This paid version is exactly the same one, except for the color, which is yellow instead of green. All the features are, and will be, on the free version. In fact the donation version has less features, because it doesn't includes the translations (only english and spanish) because they were made by users, so I don't want to use them on a paid app. But if you want to support me, now you can with a cosmetic purchase (which is common nowadays).


You can find all the exact information about the new donation version on the play store page:


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.openInWhatsapp.donation