1M users

According to Play Store, the Click to chat app is now used by more than 1 Million active users!

That's incredible, thanks!

F-droid availability

Several of my apps are now available on F-droid! Links below:

• Average data usage widget --> Available now!
  
• Url checker --> Available now! 
  
• Simple Clipboard Editor --> Available now! 
• Custom Riddle Generator --> Available now!
• Adnihilation --> Available now!
• isUserAMonkey & isUserAGoat [curiosity] --> Available now!

New versions of Url Checker (V 2.0) and Simple Clipboard Editor (V 1.2)

Url Checker:

V 2.0
- Style update
- Updated Clear Url database

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Simple Clipboard Editor:

V 1.2
- Style update

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After discovering the borderless buttons I just needed to apply them to other apps. 

Funny thing, in the Url Checker app the main 'open' button was hard to miss, so it is NOT borderless. I think the contrast feel nice.

New version of Click To Chat (V 4.0.1)

V 4.0.1
- New Hindi translation. Many thanks to RaviDhoriya!
- Indonesian translation is now available on the donation version too. Thanks to artmann (Dwi Legowo) & Steven Felix for the permission
- Updated other translations
- Fix changelog notification after fresh install
- Fixed some very rare crashes

Edit: I added a new Hindi translation, hopefully this release won't be delayed much more...

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Just a minor translation update with a few fixes. 

And the Indonesian translation is now also available in the donation version!

[I also fixed the Patreon page...which was unavailable since who-knows-when]

New version of Click To Chat (V 4.0)

V 4.0
- Several style changes
- New dedicated clear button (pressing back is still supported)
- New setting to disable leading zeros removal
- New Arabic translation. Many thanks to Faisal Aloufi!
- New update notice is shown as message instead of popup
- Fixed issue with zeros after area codes
- Convert entered Arabic numbers
- Removed support to Android 4.0.4 or older (same as WhatsApp)
- Several internal fixes and cleanups

Edit: new beta with updated Russian translation

Edit 2: another beta with missing Arabic translations (oops)

Edit 3: hopefully the last beta with Arabic fixes and translated countries

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This was going to be a translation update with some small fixes, but then WhatsApp decide to increase the minsdk, that allowed me to change quite a few style things, and I also added a couple new features...in the end the changes are so notable that I decided to increase the version to 4.0!

The updates are:

• Fix for an issue with removed zeros after area code where it shouldn't, which was reported a while back and implemented a few weeks ago. The issue is that the international format requires number without leading zero neither after the country code nor the number. So if you enter 0440123456 (country code 44) WhatsApp is expecting 44123456. My app removes automatically these extra zeros, it always did, simply by removing leading zeros in both input textboxes. With merge mode however it can't. But with the inclusion of the country selector and automatica country display a few versions ago, I simply needed to use that information to separate them. The issue is that some entries in the selector are country prefix + area codes, and zeros should NOT be removed after the second ones. That's what was fixed. In any case, to be futureproof, the automatic leading zero removal can now be disabled!
  
  
• Next minor and also requested change was to add a dedicated clear button. In previous versions if you wanted to quickly clear the inputs (without manually removing them) you could simply press back. Pressing back will clear the inputs if they are not empty, or exit the app if they are already. This feature is still present, but now there is a dedicated button to trigger the clearing (which does nothing if already cleared)
  
  
• Next change was something I made due to an internal change, which I think it's a better idea. On a past version I added a dedicated changelog window to see changes without need to open the play store (where past ones are removed anyway) because I know that most people have automatic updates so apps are the ones that should notify the user. I also implemented it so that it would show a popup to notify you. I don't know if this is useful or not (a disadvantage of not having any telemetry whatsoever) but I do know that often people cancel opups without even reading (because if you open the app to use it you can't be bothered to check that thing that it's preventing you to do what you want). For this reason I decided to move the 'new update' notice to the bottom messages box (where the errors are displayed, and where recently I moved the 'check prefix' toast too). This way you can see there is a new update, but you can still use the app normally. The message will stay there until you check the changes or dismiss it.
  
  
• This update also includes a recent new translation made by Faisal Aloufi (thanks!) to Arabic language. By complete chance this update also includes a change that allows arabic digits to be replaced by the standard ones, so that they can be pasted, or even typed. And I say by complete chance because this new addition was made before Faisal contacted me to provide the translation!
  
  
• And last, but definitely not least (it is the biggest change and the reason of the 4.0 version) is the style changes. It all started with Android Studio 'suggesting' to use borderless buttons, which make the app look 'modern', more or less. They are available since android 3 I think, and I was still supporting android 2.3 so I couldn't use them. However I didn't notice that WhatsApp had officially remove support to that version a few months back, and I forgot! (oops) But this month they again removed support until Android 4.0.4, and now I did too. This allowed me to use quite a few new style features, so I set all buttons as borderless, replaced checkboxes with switches, then I noticed I was missing the accent color, a few colored lines to keep everything sorted... I even replaced all custom icons by built in ones, so hopefully all buttons should be displayed equally (I had a few reports of strange layouts under some roms). And even better, this allowed me to reduce the app size a few kb! (yes, a style update that reduces the size, it's not very common...). Hopefully the new style isn't too different and people like it. Again, without any telemetry, I only have the Play Store comments, this blog and the email to hear from you, so if you want to say anything I will appreciate it!

 

This was a nice update, let's hope users like it :)

 

Edit: So far nobody is complaining, and a few liked it, so ... 'I see this as an absolute win' :D

New app: Simple Clipboard Editor

View, edit or delete the phone clipboard's text with a simple and fast editor.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.clipboardeditor

GitHub: https://github.com/TrianguloY/SimpleClipboardEditor

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Another utility, hope it helps someone.

This app displays the current content of your phone's clipboard.
When that content is text, you can edit, replace, delete or perform any other text modification, live.
Additionally, you can also share the content directly and create a notification with it for later use.

Note: Due to Goggle's restrictions the app can't interact with the clipboard while it's closed. It will be automatically updated as soon as you reopen it though. The app doesn't contains any history functionality (not yet at least).


Made by TrianguloY. Extremely small, efficient, without any permissions, free and without ads.

New version of Url Checker (V 1.1)

V 1.1
- New module 'Clear Url': Uses the Clear Url dictionary to clear urls from referral and other useless url parameters.
- New module 'History': Revert changes from any module.
- Replaced module 'Redirect' with 'Status': Fetch the status code of the page, still allows for redirection.
- Improved 'Pattern' module: Press 'Fix' to convert http to https
- New module 'Debug': For developers (display the intent uri and ctabs messages)
- UI cleanup.

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Bigger update than expected, and I wanted to add even more things, but for now I think this is enough.

There are a bunch of new modules, and small updates to existing ones. The changelog already gives enough info, but for those who want a detailed description:

- A new module based on Clear Url rules that detects referral and useless parameters from the url to 'clear' it. I wanted to make it so that you could update it from the internet, but that will need to be for a future version. As of now the app contains and uses a copy of the rules from 25 dec 2020 (latest ones as of now).

- A new module to view and revert any change from other modules, or edits from the user (typical undo/redo feature, and also a list). This was needed because now there are a bunch of modules that edit the url, so it makes sense to be able to revert changes from any of them.

- Replaced redirect module with status module. This is basically an upgrade, but the features change drastically. Previously, pressing the button fetched the url to retrieve the status code, and if it was a redirection applied it automatically. Now, after pressing the button, displays the status code to the user, so you can see if the server is unresponsive for example, and if it was a redirection it now shows a button to apply it. This module also lost the ability to revert the redirection change (because that's what the history module is now for).

- When the pattern module detects an http link, it now shows a button to automatically convert it to https, for convenience. On non-ascii chars it also shows them.

- And last, a debug module that displays the intent uri, and optionally info about the ctabs (custom tabs) service. This is intended for developers, and in fact it is what I actively used when developing the custom tabs feature, but available for anyone now (disabled by default).

Hope you find them as useful as I do.

App of the day: Click to Chat developer interview

Recently I was contacted by the editor of  "App of the day", a section of the online blog "DownloadAstro". I usually ignore any form of sponsor pages, that's the reason my apps are not advertised almost anywhere (not by myself at least) although I don't mind reviews and other aggregation sites, as long as they link back.

This site is also like an aggregator, a place where apps are recommended, but in this case each app comes with a short interview from the developer. I found it very interesting, and accepted it. They only ask for a link in return, nothing else, which I find perfectly acceptable, and so here it is (and this is probably one of the very few external links I'll ever publish here). There you will find the interview with my replies.

Check the page with the interview in App Of The Day

New version of Click to chat (V 3.3)

V 3.3
- New Malayalam translation. Many thanks to Thenur Mahesh Kannan!
- Share link includes 'https://'
- Remove leading zeros in merge mode too

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This is an update for a new translation to Malayalam, but I also included two minor reported improvements.

The stable version will probably take longer to be available.

New version of Click to chat (V 3.2)

V 3.2
- New openable mode: predefined
- Show 'check prefix' message as inline
- Translation updates

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This started as V 3.1.3, but in a second beta was able to include a new openable mode (predefined) that hopefully helps some users to ensure the app works for the official WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business. I increased the versioning to V3.2 for this reason.

New version of Click to chat (V 3.1.2)

V 3.1.2
- Improved paste with merge inputs
- Translation updates

[New beta: improved paste with merge inputs] 

[New beta/stable: missing a single translation]

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Should have publish this more than a month ago. Hopefully next versions won't be so late.

New version of Click to chat (V 3.1.1) + new addon version (V 1.3)

V 3.1.1
- Fixed crash on startup

Addon:
- Fixed an incompatibility with the Click to chat Donation version.

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Just a quick crashfix for a relatively common crash with the new prefix indicator.

Also, I just discovered why people were having issues while using the addon in the donation version. If you experienced such problems please update the addon to version 1.3.

New version of click to chat (V 3.1)

V 3.1
- Moved buttons to the top of the input textboxes
- The prefix selector now shows the matching country
- Translation updates

[Edit: a new version was released to update a missing translation]

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This update brings a feature (dynamic country indicator) that I wanted to make since I added the prefix selector in one of the first versions. Until now I wasn't sure how to implement it, and although I'm not sure that the way I finally did it is the best, it should work nonetheless (yay!). 

I hope that being able to check the country will help for those users that forget about it, or have it wrong, and it should also allow me in the future to implement better prefix detectors. But that's for another occasion.

Due to the need to have a bigger prefix button (to display the whole country) I decided to finally move all the buttons above the input textboxes. This also means more space for the numbers, which is something some users have requested.

By the way, does someone know why my Average data usage widget app suddenly have a 2000% more installs in the recent weeks??? According to the Play Store practically all of them are from India, so I suspect someone made a review or something (if so: thanks!!), but I wasn't able to find anything. If you know something about this please tell me as I'm genuinely interested!

New version of Click to Chat (V 3.0)

V 3.0
- New openable mode selector: includes the previous alternate mode, the experimental jid mode and a new sms mode
- Updated list of country codes
- Internal tweaks and fixes (including autoopen checkbox not displaying correctly)

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Finally! A new version! but keep in mind it will probably stay as beta for a week or so.

Originally it was going to have only the updated list of country codes (lots of missing ones, and also internally they are saved in a slightly improved format now) but I managed to add the selectable opened mode too.

Previously there was a checkbox for an alternate mode, and also an experimental mode that I made to try to allow the Samsung dual messenger. Now you can choose between them in an easier way (careful with the experimental mode), but then I also added a new sms mode, which may or may not work with other social apps (including signal, which is a highly requested petition but I don't think they allow it), you can try it now yourself. This is a pretty big change, so I decided to set the version to 3.0.

Oh, and I also enabled the beta for the donation app too, it is the same as the non-donation, as it is explained in the description, but now you can also help me testing these new versions that way if you want.

New app: isUserAMonkey & isUserAGoat [curiosity]

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.isUserAMonkey

Github: https://github.com/TrianguloY/isUserAMonkey

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New app!

This is just a small interactive curiosity. Did you know that in the Android SDK there is a function called 'isUserAMonkey' and another called 'isUserAGoat'?

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActivityManager.html#isUserAMonkey()
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/UserManager.html#isUserAGoat()

With this app you can test them and learn a bit about their purpose.

The more you know.

[The monkey emoji in the icon was extracted from the Noto Emoji font (https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/).]