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[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Hey all. I'm probably going to archive this thread just because I'm no longer able to keep up with all forms of communication. I've removed slack and emails as well, so the main source of communication will be through GitHub issues, where everything will remain public and searchable:

GitHub - AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook: An extensive and functional third party app for Facebook

An extensive and functional third party app for Facebook - AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook

github.com

with that said, Frost will still be in development (or more maintenance, given how often things break).

Messenger is broken for those in EU, and is my top priority now (https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook/issues/1732)

I'm not sure what is up with themes not sticking, but I've had those issues (temporarily). If I can fix it I will look into resolving.

It's been a good run (over 3 years on XDA for this thread!), and I'll see some of you again on GitHub :)
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
xda made a double post
[Android Apps and Games] [•G-SpotteR•™]:
Theres no download link of the apk in github
[Android Apps and Games] O_DoC:
Hello,

"yup", same as previous post -> just source code available for last v3.0.0 GitHub release.

@asdfasdfvful :

Did something change for v3.0.0 ?

Or it's just a unsuspected delay --- Maybe will be push in couple of weeks in f-droid ?

Or Do we need to look how to compil it by ourselves or will you be able to share a signed apk ? (like past releases)

Thanks again for all your work here.

And see you in GH
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Releases should all have signed apks. If they aren't there within an hour, create an issue as I missed it. I did say I'd lock this post, but as far as I'm aware, XDA either moved the option or I can't do it (I can only edit the title). If a mod sees this, feel free to lock, and for now I'll update the first post
[Android Apps and Games] engloa:
Thread closed at OP request
[Android Apps and Games] chacho_2me:
Hahaha.that really worked. I thought it was the MORE OPTIONS

thank you for your awesome app

Happy PRO Customer here
[Android Apps and Games] rajone9:
is there a way to check all notifications like read? thanks
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Unfortunately not yet. The feature is only available on desktop, so there isn't really an elegant way to do it other than load the whole desktop site in the background and simulate clicks. I will be looking for better solutions, and the feature will make its way here eventually, even if it's by the method I mentioned.
[Android Apps and Games] marek-x:
It looks very nice and fast. I've just paid for the pro version, hope it helps.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Awesome!

And just as an update to everyone in this thread, I'm in the middle of final exams, so I've been quite a bit busy.

However, one feature that I'm working on is the long awaited tab customization.

Users will be able to specify what tabs they wish to show in the main view, much like how you can arrange quick setting tiles.

This also seems to be a feature no other third party app has (as far as I'm aware), so it will be a nice addition.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Test build here!

As per usual, any build from the github repo will install as a separate app, so no need to uninstall the current one.

This is if you wish to test something before it goes to beta.

Notable features:

* Tab customization (as mentioned above). Go to settings > appearances > main activity tabs and customize what appears in your main view!

* Video player will now close itself if url cannot be loaded. If you have urls that don't load properly, please email me and send me the url so I can figure out what's going on!

* Some minor theme updates

* Deleting posts will work

Once this is tested and good for a few days, it will make it's way into beta.
[Android Apps and Games] kd567b:
Please make a tab option to add favourite friend groups and pages
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Is that different from the tab option for pages? I'm not sure if such a link actually exists in facebook or if they just bundle it together in some other page for desktop.
[Android Apps and Games] kd567b:
Like their is in a wrapper I forget the name having pinned option where you can save your favouritr pages/groups
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
If you mean having a sidebar where you can book mark contents, that isn't a priority for me now but I may consider it in the future
[Android Apps and Games] i_m_sanket:
Please make a tab for friends
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
What do you mean by friends? Friends online? Friend requests? I believe there are tabs available for both of those already
[Android Apps and Games] djumie:
Maybe you could make a telegram channel to announce alpha builds and changelogs like Substratum and Lawnchair channels?

Your app is awesome and deserves all the help you can get to maintain stable and also grow.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
I'm not sure how active I would be if I use telegram though. Right now all my projects are slack based, and I may be more open to that, but emails and posts sometimes make it easier to track issues. It's true that there isn't really a way of getting updates outside of the play store, but you can always have an rss feed for the github releases. I still have yet to make my project compatible with f-droid your those who are interested.

And as an update since I haven't posted in a while:

Frost has finally received its first set of native views. There's actually a lot more work into it than one might expect, because we have to deal with the http requests directly. Unfortunately, this means that things can break any time Facebook updates their pages, but it definitely looks pretty nice. With custom requests, I can also support things like marking notifications as read when you click on it, which was a pretty big request.
[Android Apps and Games] djumie:
You don't need to be active. Just need a bot linked to your github. The channel would be only for releases and changelogs. Discussion would still be here.

Like this: t.me/substratumci
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
If all you want are notifications for releases, you may look at this:

https://github.com/allanwang/frost-for-facebook/tags.atom

However, I push those when I feel like it (they aren't automatic) and some releases are alpha builds.

My workflow is:

* Code and debug

* Verify with the test release builds

* Create release and push to alpha

* Test myself from the play store then push to beta

* Push to production
[Android Apps and Games] kam333:
Bug & request

Tried all the FB wrappers before settling with Frost, so far haven't regretted my choice. Only 2 small issues have come up.

1. I have set the text size to 120% but this causes lower case letters with a hook/tail (qypgy) to get cut off in the timeline, (see image attached).

2. I find the image viewer unintuitive. The rest of the app flows until you want to view an image full screen, you have to remember not to click the post but to long click the image in your timeline. Can you add an option to use the full screen image viewer within the post and not just the timeline?

Thanks

And Happy New Year
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
The text size issue isn't something I can fix unfortunately. All I do is call on the webview to change the base text size, but that doesn't affect any layouts in Facebook's website.

As for image viewer, I agree. Im starting to make a lot more components native, so once I can parse comments or easily fetch a link to it, I will make the image viewer a default. You should be able to use it for any Facebook page containing an image. Again, thats something I will be improving upon.
[Android Apps and Games] kam333:
OK, understood.

Keep up the great work.

All the best.

Kam
[Android Apps and Games] ale5000:
[MENTION=5230774]asdfasdfvful[/MENTION]

Hi,

can you please add this app to the F-Droid app store?
[Android Apps and Games] ejlv:
when uploading pics. there is no option to select many then open. do you really have to open 1 by 1. nice work mate. thanks for sharing
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
If you look at the mobile website, it behaves the same way. I believe I tried before and there's no way to send it multiple images at a time. Additionally, I think their limit was something like 3 or 6 images for mobile.

One thing I may consider is to try to emulate adding x images at a time by sending the requests separately
[Android Apps and Games] suatsari:
Thanks for the application, I use it fondly...So I translated it into Turkish...If you add Turkish language, I can send it to you.

Thanks for everything, best regards...
[Android Apps and Games] Eggstones:
Anyone else having problems with notifications and messages on v 1.7.7?
[Android Apps and Games] joeyweis32@gmail.com:
FACEBOOK JAIL FOR 30DAYS[ EVERY TIME I GET MYSELF BACK ON AND WITH NO QUOTED EXPLAINED ANSWER TO WHY=jerryn70;74128992]After 24hrs of use i have few suggestions & bugs report.

1, Loading speed of feed need to be increased .

2, Add option to bookmark pages .

3, In glass theme i cannot see which one is unread message.

4, Add option to copy a particular word . See screenshot.

I'm using version 1.5.5 thats the latest version on my playstore . And there is few apk versions are missing in github releases page , plz update them also.[/QUOTE]

How do u break outta Facebook jail???

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How do u break outta Facebook jail???[/QUOTE]

Need up outta jail
[Android Apps and Games] Nicole:
Hello Dev!

Really like your app, coming from Simple, did not appreciate that, so I found Frost ヅ

I have a problem with rearrange the main activity tabs, I've tried different devices and different OS, but how I try to rearrange - save, they won't save that way when I return to the main page...

Help...

Best, Nicole from Sweden ヅ

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[Android Apps and Games] Nicole:
And when I tries to share something, a link, from my RSS-reader it looks like this... [emoji53]

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[Android Apps and Games] reaperofwaywardsouls:
When I do this, an enlarged version of the thumbnail in the newsfeed appears, instead of the full image in full screen. If the full image is present in the newsfeed, then the full image is presented in full screen.

Also, clicking on the view full image link when viewing a photo works about 25% of the time (usually only with smaller images).
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Thanks. I see that the translations are done in crowdin. When I have time I will review and merge them

Can you describe the issue? The notifications themselves shouldn't be any different. I did change the notification page in the main activity to use native views, but if you had notifications before, it should still work. For messages, I had reports from some users that it seems to "delete" messages from time to time momentarily. I haven't been able to replicate it, and I also haven't touched messages in general. If you have more info, you can send me an email.

Github releases are not missing any versions. If you are looking at it through the app, some of them only show you releases where I added a description. Most of them are just tagged. Version 1.5.5 is also quite outdated, so I'm not sure what is going on there.

How do u break outta Facebook jail???

---------- Post added at 12:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:36 AM ----------

How do u break outta Facebook jail???[/QUOTE]

Need up outta jail[/QUOTE]

Maybe send me an email? I don't know what could be wrong there.

That is expected and that is my own message. As of now, I don't think it's possible to share a link the way you would with the preview. I guess I could just make it paste the link as text only if that works with their sharer.

When you have the image view, is it not full screen? If not send me an email. I also changed the way pressing view full image works in 1.7.7. Before it was through facebook and their image wouldn't work well with the app browser.
[Android Apps and Games] Nicole:
The preview of links, from my RSS-reader, works fine in Simple, Friendly and Folio... So it can be done ヅ

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[Android Apps and Games] reaperofwaywardsouls:
Pictures from the newsfeed do display in full screen when long pressed, however pictures from an album do not.

When you long press a picture from an album, the thumbnail gets enlarged, not the image itself.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
It looks like notifications were indeed an issue in 1.7.7. I accidentally reversed a boolean, so instead of filtering out the keywords, it only passed notifications if it had the keywords. As for the rest of the posts above, I will be looking into them.
[Android Apps and Games] Augustin79:
On the latest two updates I can't get anything to show up if I go to "Menu" and choose something from there (i.e "Groups", "Pages", "Most recent", etc.)

Everything from that screen just gives me a blank page.

[IMG="Frost"]https://imgur.com/a/WBkIs[/IMG]
[Android Apps and Games] ReOmbra:
After the last two updates doesn't open anymore the Image zoom . Give the present message. Impossible correctly load URL .

Android 7.1.1 moto z play
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Is this with long press or single press? Can you send me a screenshot of whatever you are seeing? If the view still opens but you see the fab with an error icon, press it to send me the error
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
If you refresh the opened panel, does it load? Does the menu itself look fine before pressing any links? That's a bit weird that that is happening, but I will add some logging for it in the future. Stay tuned
[Android Apps and Games] ReOmbra:
When I select visualize to full screen compare this error

If I select yes. Say me a message: cannot resolve email activity

Refresh doesn't work

Thank for you assistance
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Do you have an email client installed?
[Android Apps and Games] ReOmbra:
Yep gmail
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Calling all testers! I spent quite a few hours today in fixing some issues, so please have a look at this build:

https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook-APK-Builder/releases/tag/v1793

If you've had any issues before at all, see any new issues here, or have any general feedback, please let me know.

My most important fixes for now are for images and videos. Hopefully it works for you all if it didn't before.

There are still some cases where loading overlays results in a blank page needing a refresh, but I will be looking into that.

I've also sped up the load time by displaying the page sooner. Hopefully you guys don't see any blinking from the theme applying after the transition. If that's an issue please let me know as well.

As per usual, no need to uninstall the play store version. This is a test build with a different package name, and is independent from the main one
[Android Apps and Games] Yong Kumar:
nice

thanks！
[Android Apps and Games] ReOmbra:
Here the error:

Write here.

OS Version: 3.18.31-perf-gdc74c68 (15)

OS SDK: 25

Device (Manufacturer): addison (motorola)

Model (Product): XT1635-02 (addison)

Package Installer: com.google.android.packageinstaller

Screen Dimensions: 1080 x 1798

App: com.pitchedapps.frost.test

App Version Name: 1.7.7.14-7a8c4dd-test

App Version Code: 1070700

Url: https://m.facebook.com/photo/view_f...:top_level_post_id.1520884441364037&__tn__=,g

Message: Image format not supported

Prev version: -1

Random Frost ID: 1516269086008-1635049252-FP
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Is it the same issue for all images? I'll add another logo for the original url later just to make sure that it is formatted correctly.
[Android Apps and Games] ReOmbra:
Nope all images . But many of these ( instagram pic too)
[Android Apps and Games] Lycidias:
In the last few Updates i have this problem too. I normally can scroll through my feed but when i click on images, links, comments, sites etc i get a blank Page.

I have a zte axon 7 with project New World oreo aosp rom
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Does the overlay make any attempt to load anything? Ie do you see the progress bar or the swipe refresh icon? What happens when you pull down and attempt to refresh it?
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Please try this build:

https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook-APK-Builder/releases/tag/v1800

I've redone how I try to load images, so it should only attempt to once it's quite certain that the link really is an image. I no longer do redirects and I try to hook onto it in the future. If it works for you, please also let me know if "view full image" does still load in the image viewer.

This should also fix the blank overlay activities. If it doesn't, let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] Augustin79:
This fixes the issue for me! "View full image" also works ?
[Android Apps and Games] ReOmbra:
Now work very well . Thank you so much

I'll wait the update in the play store version

regards
[Android Apps and Games] Lycidias:
Fixed images and blank overlays!

Thank you Very much.

Tried many Facebook wrappers but frost is the Best for me.
[Android Apps and Games] Andandy:
Thanks for nice app

Can't load videos in last build

Any help
[Android Apps and Games] Eggstones:
My problems with invited is gone. Thanks for the sterling work.
[Android Apps and Games] Mjamocha:
Nice

thanks, awesome app.
[Android Apps and Games] ArtSwitcher:
Hi,

More or less done with the Swedish translation now. Cant really find a suitable translation for the last remaining 2%.

This app is truly amazing and deserves so much more attention!

Hope this helps some!
[Android Apps and Games] FloatingPoint:
There were some awesome improvements recently regarding speed and stability, thanks for the good work! I'd have one suggestion: currently, the text input doesn't support gifs. Would come in handy when chatting.
[Android Apps and Games] shorza:
I am new to this app and I have to say that I love it.

I know it has been mentioned before but is there anyway that I can make videos full screen?
[Android Apps and Games] cag7:
Is there a way to disable sync in app settings I'm missing?
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Thanks! I'll take a look at message on crowdin if there are any issues

Does the mobile site support it? If it doesn't, odds are it won't be something I can add.

Right now, clicking videos will make it as full screen as it can be, while maintaining the same aspect ratio. If you see the small image on the side, you can tap it to expand.

Sync as in notifications? You can do that in the notification settings.
[Android Apps and Games] Marvellover:
Cool.I like Foss app.
[Android Apps and Games] FloatingPoint:
No, it doesn't. That's a shame.
[Android Apps and Games] kos25k:
hello.is it possible a version with showing just friends photos?like instagram.FB must have changed the algorithm and I see full of crap things,ads etc.Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] shorza:
I am still having trouble making videos full screen.

See the attached picture, tapping the playing video does nothing.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
I will consider this, though I'm not sure how good it will be

Did it work for you before? Did you disable pip videos on settings?
[Android Apps and Games] shorza:
It had never worked for me.

The video opens in a new window when I enable pip. I will allow me too make it go full screen. I will use this as a workaround, thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
It opens a new window with the option to download the video right? That's normal. The video will be displayed as big as it can and you can double click it to scale it down and use it as pip
[Android Apps and Games] shorza:
My apologies, I didn't realise that was normal. Thanks for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] chivu246:
instagram log in is working? after I log in it's just showing a loading circle.
[Android Apps and Games] Omel:
Hi

Is it possible to get messenger real-time notifications

and not every 15min
[Android Apps and Games] kos25k:
thanks dude,I will help for this as much I can.I am really fed up with FB last years.I am on point to don't use it cause of this.90% of feeds I see are:Ads,suggested worldwide pages,comments from my friends to pages and fake contests,shared contests,tags to pages that my friends tag other friends not familiar to me,posts all the time of pages I liked..etc.And my friends photos and checkins take place only 10% of feeds.I don't even see them.Many times also I see the same crapy feeds even when I enter on FB the next day!I don't know what happened.Maybe cause I have unfollowed some friends (just 50 out of 1400)?And FB algorithm changed to the fact that it thinks that I like to see more pages feed etc?I don't know..
[Android Apps and Games] haroonbro:
I guess so.

Yeah. It is better. :)?
[Android Apps and Games] :
I don't see anything in the Messenger tab. Only the option to enable or disable Messenger, but this does not change anything.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Screenshot? If this is private you can send me an email and provide further details there.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Actually, I have several chats. They also appear in other Facebook Apps
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Can you go to touch.facebook.com on your browser then press messages to see if it works well there? And are your other pages themed properly?
[Android Apps and Games] :
When I go to touch.facebook.com and since the messages click on, I will be redirected to the playstore to Facebook Messenger
[Android Apps and Games] atomicknight:
Great app! Really love the look and fluidity of the design.

A few thoughts about the notifications (I'd be happy to create GitHub issues/pull requests - just wanted to get your thoughts first):

It'd be nice to have separate notification channels for message notifications versus general notifications, as that then allows you to assign different behaviors based on the type of notification. For example, I would like to assign a high priority (i.e. with peek/heads-up) to message notifications because that's a more real-time communication method, but treating general notifications the same way would cause notification overload.

It was a bit surprising to have an overlay appear (rather than just launching the app) when following a notification from the status bar. I was expecting to be able to navigate the app after following the notification (as with other apps like Gmail), but the overlay doesn't allow that (i.e. can't navigate between views).

Would you ever consider an opt-in option to poll for notifications more frequently, especially for messages? I know that you chose to use JobScheduler to optimize battery usage, but a latency of up to 15 minutes for messages makes those notifications much less useful than they otherwise would be. Anecdotally, my experiences with another wrapper app configured to poll much more aggressively (once every minute) suggest that the battery drain is very minimal, but there are obviously many confounding factors. It'd be great to have an option (appropriately labeled with a warning about battery usage) to be able to bias the trade-off based on each individual's preferences/needs.

Thanks for making this great app and for taking the time to read this!
[Android Apps and Games] whatsisnametake2:
in posts with multiple photos, how do I download a photo? in posts with a single photo I can click on full size then download. can't find the option to do that when there's multiple photos. what am I missing?
[Android Apps and Games] Zero Computing:
Couldn't seem to X out of the People You May Know. I am using a Galaxy S6 edge+ on 7.1 using latest Play build. Can't seem to think of any other useful info. Also, can we expect reactions support, is this on the dreadful to do list? Really like the app so far, and for what it is, it is great.

Edit- sometimes I CAN X out.... Maybe an alignment issue in the way the page is rendered? It's like the button isn't big enough or the click able area doesn't match up with the X.

Nevermind about the reactions. I discovered them.