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[Android Apps and Games] MDV106:
Turning off Adaptive Battery in settings solved the notification issue for me. The setting kills apps and prevents them from doing background work like notification fetching...especially for apps you dont use that frequently.
[Android Apps and Games] Zeuszoos:
Adaptive Battery? Is that only in Oreo and up? I don't recall seeing that in Nougat.

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[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
Within Frost, when new likes or comments come, notifications appear. This is better than the previous build which you mentioned skipped saving the timestamp. :)

However, if I press back button to close Frost, even I have setup fetching notification every 15min, nothing comes. Only after I start Frost manually it fetches and shows new notifications. Like it has gone into deep sleep. I don't use any apps to clear recent apps or put apps info sleep though. Running official Pie on Samsung Note 8. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
The notifications start coming in after turning off optimising battery user for Frost. Will see how much difference battery will be used.
[Android Apps and Games] MDV106:
Its an android 9 feature.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
How fast is the drain? Frost does take more data to load than just using the mobile site, given that opening links in new pages involves fetching everything, and fetching notifications involves parsing the page. On the other hand, Frost filters out certain ad relates sites, so it should save data usage there. For background processes though, Frost uses very little and abides by new standards.

I personally have it on and would recommend you keep it like that. For those who use back press to exit the app, it seems to have the same effect as killing the app, just that it keeps the preview within the recent app list. Frost is supposed to have essentially no background usage since I pause webviews when you exit the app, meaning that it has no ability to load anything in the first place. Try just pressing home to exit the app, and keep your general battery optimizers on. This also varies per OS so find what works for you if that still kills the app.
[Android Apps and Games] vingia:
When phone is sleep it has not battery drain. When I open Frost battery drain about 1% every minute.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
What about if you run facebook on your mobile browser? Webview battery drain doesn't seem like something I can limit. The only consideration is maybe that you'll have slightly more usage if you go back and forth between the newsfeed and the message tab, since both probably periodically poll for changes. The notification and menu tabs are done by parsing so nothing by facebook runs in the background.
[Android Apps and Games] vingia:
I have unistalled Frost from f-droid and now I'm not able to reinstall it. Please, help me.
[Android Apps and Games] Tisckkytt:
Updated the link(s), it was a pain to decide where to upload.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
That currently seems intended. To support animations with a transparent background, I need to allow wallpapers to show. The animation also uses fade, and the white tint is due to your launcher background. I usually use the glass theme, and I guess I assumed that people tend to have a background color similar to their desired theme.

I'll see if I can address that in future builds.

What does it say? Note that you can only install one of the github releases or the fdroid releases, as they have the same package name but different signatures. If you have the github release variant installed, uninstall it first.
[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
Love the 2358 built!

Before 2358, if you search in a fb group, when you press back button after reading the searched item, it will go straight back to fb newsfeed. With 2358, the back button will bring you back to the seach result list, staying in the group, which is more appropriate in my opinion.
[Android Apps and Games] Pinage:
Anyone encountered such issue under groups page? I'm using the dark theme.
[Android Apps and Games] rwanek:
Can you share link to this version? Thx

Pixel 2 XL via Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Zeuszoos:
Hi,

I'm confused. Are these just builds that are being stated as being available? They're not full releases, right? Because I got mine from F-Droid a couple of months ago and I haven't see any updates for it at all there.

Thank You

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[Android Apps and Games] Bjarne73:
A couple of mounts? The latest om F-droid was uploaded april 17, just a month ago.

Version 2.2.4
[Android Apps and Games] Zeuszoos:
Maybe it was a month. I'm often wrong. :)

But regardless, my main point was that I have seen newer downloads available (but not in F-Droid) and so I was thinking maybe those are "Builds" that are done between "Releases" and not actual releases?

I just want to make sure. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that this is the app where the F-Droid version is a little different than the GitHub version (the app itself) and so you're not supposed to update one over the other (from the other source) and so if I wanted to have the newest, I'd need to uninstall the F-Droid version and then install from the other source (GitHub, I believe). But it may be a different app that I'm thinking of.

I just didn't want to switch, if it's just builds being tested and not an actual release. It's working fine for me and the next actual Release should have a couple of things I requested, so I can wait for an actual Release. Just making sure that I'm not missing out on an actual release, that's all.

TTYL

Posted from my way cool LG V20 (H910) Nougat 7.0
[Android Apps and Games] BillGoss:
2.2.4 is the latest production release

2358 is that latest test release
[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
Built 2358
[Android Apps and Games] Pilot1000:
Frost and the Accelerometer?

Hi [MENTION=5230774]asdfasdfvful[/MENTION]

Thank you for making Frost, it is a great app!

I have a question I hope you can help me with.

Any idea why it uses the Accelerometer for so long (and affecting battery utilization)?

See screenshot.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] BillGoss:
See his reply to a similar question here https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-frost-facebook-t3685896/post79355040
[Android Apps and Games] Indranil0:
theme not working on feed and masseges.

device: touchwiz ,lollipop , frost 2.2.4

if you need log let me know
[Android Apps and Games] Trina9:
App has started not loading. Uninstalled and reinstalled and doesn't help, just have a blank screen. Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus, Android 9.0.
[Android Apps and Games] Tisckkytt:
Can you please fix this theming issue? I've asked for it a while back. See how the emoji & camera icons are badly themed. I know it's negligible but if possible consider making it right, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] gameplaygoon:
How have I only just stumbled across this, does it still work?
[Android Apps and Games] oVeRdOsE.:
is this serious ?
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Does the ui (apart form colour) resemble the screenshots from github?

Sometimes facebook will load the basic website (perhaps due to data in certain locations), which isn't themed.

Facebook glitches sometimes. Give it time and it may work again. If things like this happened without an app update, it's usually not on my end.

Icons like these were never really themed since there's so many of them. The only icons I've supported are the main buttons (like, comment, share, and menu), though even those break pretty often. I'll see about those icons but no guarantees.

Maybe. It is predominantly a web wrapper after all.
[Android Apps and Games] Trina9:
Thanks for the reply. It does come and go but it's better than the official app, so I'll live with it.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Duplicated post of below; xda posted twice
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Test build v2379

(Previously v2374; video player was broken)

Several changes happened internally, so things may break. If this works for a few days I will release the update, since there are quite a few changes since 2.2.4
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Official build 2.3.0

Minor patches plus translation updates. If this build is good for the next 24h I will be releasing to F-Droid
[Android Apps and Games] Cryte-k:
thanks..
[Android Apps and Games] Soooperstar:
Running pretty smooth. Probably one of the best builds yet. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Aramarth:
Yep! Everything is running smoothly and without issues:)
[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
On build 2.30 (and previous official builds and test builds), there are these occasions:

1) pressing the back button doesn't close the app;

2) pressing the like button doesn't bring up the like options;

3) pressing the comment button on done posts only bring up the like list but not the comment section.

But these do not have a pattern. Not a complaint, just want the dev to know. I love the app and will keep using it for sure.

Thanks!

［On Samsung Note 8 all stock non-rooted Android 9.0］
[Android Apps and Games] access9:
I am experiencing the same issue with the back button.
[Android Apps and Games] shadowslifer:
I have a question about notifications. They are not push right? If I set it to 15 mins, and I receive a notification after 1 min, I should wait 14 mins for the notifications?

Also I can't find the friend request page, nor the notification. Just installed yesterday and I really like it! So fluid! Hope I can replace lite with this one, but I need a good response from the notifications. :/
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
See below

They are not push, so in your example, you'd have to wait the full 14 minutes. What exactly do you mean by can't find? From the tabs, notifications is third by default. Most main pages are found in the drawer, and friends is currently 6th. If it isn't loading, that's a different issue. Sometimes it's a problem with facebook, and other times it might be data related.

I'll have to take a look at this later, but if you long press the like button it should probably bring up the options. Scrolling isn't the best though
[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
O I meant long press... the word must have been eaten...

For 90% of the posts the like option row can be brought up by long pressing the like button, though there are 10% of the posts that I need to actually go into the post to bring the like row up. Doing so in the news feed for those posts would not work.

Thx for your attention!
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
I'll take a look, but unless you get a pop up instead, the feature is probably not overridden, meaning that touch.facebook.com might not support it. That would be weird to me though, so maybe something else is happening
[Android Apps and Games] wrkerr:
Love this app. Thank you!

Is F-Droid still on 2.2.4 because 2.3.0 is still being tested, or is F-Droid usually this slow to push a new version?
[Android Apps and Games] whatsisnametake2:
also experiencing the back button not exiting the app.
[Android Apps and Games] RohanRKO:
Damn boy, definitely the smoothest of them all. ?
[Android Apps and Games] D4ND310:
Appendix: Me, too.

Solution: Press previously advised Home button, until further notice...

Additionally: Kill App, check FB manually(Optional).

Continued: Messages view occasionally results in end of Messages thread being invisible(overlay not fully displaying full thread). Refreshing the page one, sometimes more, time/s will generally fix this glitch.

Concluded/Fin: Thank you, Mr. Wang.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
I saw this post but forgot to reply. You can find all my requests here. 2.3.0 hasn't been merged yet, and I'm not sure when it'll happen. Merging takes on click, but afterwards, scripts still need to build, sign, and publish the app.

I usually only ping people once so as not to be annoying. Generally an update will just happen overtime.

Yeah. In general, I recommend just exiting the app as it. It's supposed to use pretty much 0 resources in the background (unless you enable notifications) since I disable the webviews. And if you kill the app, notifications aren't guaranteed to come anyways.

I'm not sure if messages is something I can fix. Do you mean that a message is just gone altogether?
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
For those who have problems with the back press, what happens?

I just tried on my last installed test build, and release 2.3.0, and both seem to back press fine with or without the confirmation dialog.
[Android Apps and Games] D4ND310:
Hi. No the messages aren't gone, see the following attachment.

Left-hand side is usually what displays upon first visiting a message thread. The right-hand side is displayed correctly, after refreshing the page once, or more times.

It is the same regardless of the option to go to the bottom of the thread being selected.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] khw1959:
On my S9+ pressing the back button will cause nothing to occur. Home button will exit the app.
[Android Apps and Games] DiscoDaz82:
Does the pen/compose button have a function? It doesn't seem to do anything with the most current build.....at least for me anyway.

Installed on a galaxy s8
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
I will take a look if I can replicate the issue. Does the problem occur if you use your browser (touch.facebook.com)?

It's a bit weird that different behaviours are occurring with different devices. The code is pretty straightforward. Has the back button ever worked? For others, is it currently working with the new build?

It's supposed to select the compose box (where you write your status) and open a new page. The functionality is dependent on the website contents, so perhaps it differs in your location
[Android Apps and Games] FloatingPoint:
My back button works as expected, never had any problems with it. (Frost v2.3.0 on stock Android 8.1)
[Android Apps and Games] D4ND310:
Hi. No the issue doesn't happen when browse m.fb, or on touch.fb(same thing, anyway).

Threads are displayed correctly on each page load. I tested several times.
[Android Apps and Games] Tisckkytt:
No idea why Hide Post button isn't responding. :(
[Android Apps and Games] MirceaViP:
The F-Droid version is 2.2.4. The Github version is 2.3.0. Installing the F-Droid version and attempting to update it with the Github is not working (app not installed). Uninstalling F-Droid version (completely) and installing the .apk from Github is working. What gives?
[Android Apps and Games] BillGoss:
If you'd read the last couple of pages you would know.

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-frost-facebook-t3685896/post79778494
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Test build v2414

Added the ability to swipe vertically to dismiss the image viewer.

For my next update, I'll probably focus on getting hd images to work. It'll probably involve loading from the desktop website, so it will be slightly slower and will consume more data. I'll add the option to toggle it if it works, where hd will be enabled by default
[Android Apps and Games] khw1959:
The "back" button exiting the app has returned in this version.
[Android Apps and Games] lfom:
First, thank you a lot for your work on the app, it works really nice. A few suggestions (if you prefer that they are added to GitHub, just tell me) :

1. Add a "mark all read" button to notifications page, as well as a link to FB notifications configuration;

2. Remove the notification from Android notification's list once it is read in Frost;

3. Show the last page used (or main page if it is not possible to show the last one) when going back from a page opened using the notification (currently it always simply close the activity IIRIC);

4. Add all pics from a post when opening an image in full screen view, so you can swipe left/right to view all images.

I started to see asponsored posts occasionally in the feed again although I have the option to hide them enabled, not sure if something changed in FB's code.

Thanks again. Regards.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
That's weird because I didn't make any changes to the back button. Only difference is that this is a test build vs a release build, so maybe something is different there.

That's been requested for quite a while. The feature is only available for desktop so it'll take some time to add (if it even works)

That should be doable.

This to me is by design. At least for me, accessing the notification is usually just to read it and go back to what I was doing, so I add an overlay. You can access other notifications by clicking the icon at the top.

If people want it, I guess I can make the back button go to the main activity, but that won't be obvious to new users.

That would be ideal, but it isn't trivial. I know swipe has it but I haven't spent much time looking into how to get all the images.

Every time facebook's site changes, the theme/hiders need to change too. That's the nature of a web wrapper. If I can replicate stuff I will fix them myself, but otherwise it's pretty difficult to debug since content varies per location.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Theme isn't working for F-Droid version 2.3.0 due to workflow changes.

https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook/issues/1463

Stay on 2.2.4 for now. Github build works fine since I built it.
[Android Apps and Games] MirceaViP:
So - the app is very good. Very fast. BUT. Let's say I take a screenshot and want to share it. Facebook and Facebook Lite appear in the sharable menu. This app does not.
[Android Apps and Games] Pinage:
Anyone one knows how to share url of a post? Currently there is a copy button but it's a very long url
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
There isn't any robust way to share images with web wrappers. It would involve me emulating clicks to upload it, which will definitely break. Facebook's official apps have APIs so they are able to do such things.

If you opened the post in the overlay, there is a share button right next to the copy. I'll check to see if the url is formatted, but sometimes Facebook just has really long urls for authentication.

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v2.3.1 is out on Github

This release is faster mainly to attempt to fix the F-Droid version, but you get two nice features (image swiping + much better horizontal scrolling support). It isn't very tested though unfortunately but the changes aren't major.
[Android Apps and Games] Zeuszoos:
Hi,

LG V20 (H910A) Nougat 7.0

First, thanks for all your work on the app! But since this is a long post, I'll get right to the point. :)

I installed Frost v2.3.0 but am having issues with it, which are as follows:

1) Before, when I would tap a video, it would take up the screen and there would be a down-arrow to tap to download the video. That no longer happens. None of it. It doesn't show larger and there's no download button. It does play though.

2) When tapping the Back button while in a video (after it went bigger, almost full screen), it would go PIP and you could swipe it away, but of course, since it's not going almost full screen (StatusBar would still show, which was good) anymore, it's not doing that now.

3) When you would go into an article someone posted to read it, there used to be a "Copy" symbol at the top right and if you tapped it, it would Copy the URL for the article to your Clipboard. That symbol is no longer even there anymore.

4) When looking at the "Feed" (?), there is a symbol (FAB?) of a pencil, which let's you post. But when you go into a post (article, whatever), it's still there, but doesn't do anything, so I don't understand why it still shows (future use?).

5) I used to be able to long-tap on and copy any text, anywhere, that I wanted to, even comments on posts. I can no longer do that. At most, I can copy some text in some articles.

The above are features that I use extensively! And they were all in Frost v2.2.4 how well they worked, along with its smoothness, is why I switched to Frost and have loved it! But now, every single one of these features has been wiped out in the v2.3.0 update. Was this intentional?

I have uninstalled the update and have gone back to v2.2.4 and just FYI, I did check the settings just to make sure something didn't change, but they were all the same.

Thank You

Posted from my way cool LG V20 (H910) Nougat 7.0
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
All css and js files are gone in F-Droid version 2.3.0 because I don't add it to my repo and rely on the builder to generate it. I've fixed it for 2.3.1 which is pending now.

Things should go back to normal afterwards
[Android Apps and Games] Zeuszoos:
Hi,

Okay, thanks for the quick response!

Just two quick questions, please:

1) You mean the 2.3.1 that adds them in will be on F-Droid? Or on your GitHub page only?

2) I don't know what "normal" is, since 2.2.4 is the only version I've ever had. <lol> Do you mean that in the futute I should go to your GitHub page to have them already added in (that's what was "normal")?

Thank You Again
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
All releases exist on Github (by me immediately) and F-Droid (once it is approved and added).

v2.3.0 isn't typical behaviour since it was a change in the build process. Normal just means that the css and js files will be there so the features will work.

In short, use F-Droid if you want auto updates and apps built by F-Droid (guaranteed to match the relative sources). Use Github releases if you want immediate updates that I test. In the future I will try to add auto updates on Github as well.
[Android Apps and Games] Zeuszoos:
Thank You Very Much! :)

Posted from my way cool LG V20 (H910) Nougat 7.0
[Android Apps and Games] oVeRdOsE.:
Hi thank for this app, I've replace Metal for frost, since dark theme display is way better, new message are in light grey, which makes everything visible.

Since few hours, on today's date , july 3rd, image are white, and wont show. FB server issue? on 2.3.1.
[Android Apps and Games] khw1959:
FB has issues going on today. Along with Instagram.
[Android Apps and Games] wuub:
Yep, Facebook datacenters guys must under a bit busy now.

This is precisely why you should never put all your eggs in the same basket. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
New messages only? Just the bubble? You may have a new layout. If you know how, you can find the associated selector through inspect elements. Otherwise I may need the HTML source file.

Edit: if it's just image placeholders, then wait for Facebook to fix itself.
[Android Apps and Games] Naudiz:
Can anyone confirm that as of today Black theme (AMOLED) is broken?
[Android Apps and Games] BillGoss:
Nope - working fine here
[Android Apps and Games] Naudiz:
Hm, weird. For me it's mostly white now. I don't know if it's Facebook or if it happened after update through Fdroid, which happened also today for me.
[Android Apps and Games] MDV106:
New version AMOLED theme doesnt work. Timeline still remains white no matter what theme i choose
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook/issues/1473
[Android Apps and Games] Easkery:
I am not using the new version.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
FYI, starting a new full time job. I will still support Frost, but progress will stall as I may likely dedicate an hour or two a week. For reference, v2.3.0 and v2.3.1 was a result of around 15 hours of work. UI changes take much longer.
[Android Apps and Games] MeExilex3:
Thanks for the update & all the hard work you've put into this amazing app & will continue to do so when time, your schedule allows it.

Also Congratulations on the new job! May you & your loved ones continue to prosper take care, enjoy the change of scenery & make lots of new friends!

Peace :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] Cryte-k:
thanks for the update

follow and stop following does not work well
[Android Apps and Games] wuub:
Congratulations on your new job and thanks for your time.

We will be patient. You did a great job already mate.

Many thanks
[Android Apps and Games] ArtSwitcher:
That's awesome! Wishing you the best of luck! ?
[Android Apps and Games] baszu:
2.3.1 version cannot comment with picture

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Oops, it can comment but slow render the image. Need to wait for a while before can click post button