V 3.1.1
- Fixed crash on startup
Addon:
- Fixed an incompatibility with the Click to chat Donation version.
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.
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]
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!
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.
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.isUserAMonkey
Github: https://github.com/TrianguloY/isUserAMonkey
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/).]
Oops, I forgot to notify about this update.
It's just a full update of an existing translation. Also contains a simplification in how the addon is detected, because a user reported they couldn't use it with the donation version, and even though the code is exactly the same for both apps I noticed I was manually checking instead of using an existing android function. Hopefully it doesn't break for existing users (I tested and couldn't find any issues, and so far no one reported anything so I think it is ok).
V 1.0
- Custom tabs implementation. Press the left button toggle to switch between opening as custom tab or not (Android 4.4+)
- Warning on http links
- Renamed Ascii checker module to Pattern checker
- Preserve original intent (keeps extras)
This is version 1.0, although the previous one was in stable already.
The big improvement is the support for Custom tabs, in which you can open a reduced browser version (if available) instead of the full app. Not only you can toggle it as desired, but the button will have the state of what the original app wanted (if you open a link from Discord for example the button will be enabled by default, although you can turn it off later).
This also required to implement a background empty service, so that other apps think this one can open custom tabs. Normally this allows to 'warm up' browsers, or even preload a url, so when it is loaded it takes less time. It also means that the browser will perform actions in the background without your consent, so this app also stops it. Did you know that while the Gmail app is active, the browser is always loaded in the background? You do now.
I also made it to keep the original intent, so that the extras (extra information) is preserved. Some apps use these extras to configure some properties of the landing app (for example with the custom tabs).
The other new feature is a warning on http links (to use https instead). I added it in the ascii module, because the feature is very similar: check for a specific pattern in the url and report a warning. For this reason I decided to rename the module to Pattern Checker, and probably other checks will be performed in the future.
Over the past few weeks I've been improving and adding some things here in this blog. Each of them is a minor script/change, so I didn't found necessary to create a post for that, but now that the number of changes is moderate I felt like writing about them.