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!