[Alpha] Greenline - A qml Whatsapp client for Ubuntu Touch
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a porblem we have currently with App-armour profiles, is that it won't let you communicate with the keyring in DBus via the api libsecret
is there a good reason for that ? is the API open to exploitation by a malicious client or is there some mechanism to prevent that ?
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Thank's I will test the app in details, this week when I have time.
This week, I will also make a youtube video on my canal to present Whatsnew, I will mention your work as one of the (upcoming) alternative for Whatsapp.
Thank you!
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New alpha with more quality of life features:
https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/tags
- Integration with lock screen with number of messages read [needs qa]
- Full background sync, faster startup times
- Tapping on a notification opens the chat of that notification
- Support for messages that are only links
- Call notifications
- Only notify the last message of a chat room
- Clear notification for the chat room once chat is opened
- Notification badge support (unread count in the side bar)
- Messages from groups should notify the group name in the title, not the person name [needs qa]
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So I've tested the app! I think it is great!
There are great features that whatsnew does not have and probably will not have anytime soon: notifications when the app is closed, the possibility to consult messages online, the app is way more fluid and has a "native app" feeling that whatsnew does not have (Although some conversations take time to load in greenline), and it starts up incredibly fast.
There are also features that are lacking in comparaison to whatsnew (like calls, sending and reading audio messages, editing messages, deleting messages, transferring messages, archived conversations, polls, and I guess a lot of advanced features that whatsapp web has )
I think the two are complementary. Also I think it's always good to have two alternatives, because both of them can break at any moment when Whatsapp make changes, so it's good to have two of them.
I hope to see it soon in the openstore, I will mention your app in my upcoming video!
Thank you very much for your work!
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Ps: An imporant feature for me would be to be able to enable/disable notifications globally. Because right now if I don't want to get Whatsapp notification, it is a problem if I have greeline installed.
Ps2 : I see that Whatsapp recognizes greeline as an Android client, not a Whatsapp web client.
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@pparent Thanks for the feedback, 100% agree with you. I think Whatsnew will always be ahead in terms of features, the goal of this project is to have a more "native" chat experience, specially while we don't have Mir 2 in stable branch.
There's still a ton of work to be done, as you noticed. Need to support all message types, improve the performance and usability of the pages and decide on which features from whatsapp web implement here. My goal is to have the essentials to have a good chat experience in UT, this will stay in alpha for a while
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@sahirul the ability to login with phone number is added in the latest alpha
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@brenno.almeida “I will try it. Thank you for making it happen.”
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New alpha with features:
https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases
- Pair Whatsapp with phone number + code
- Settings page now correctly uninstall the daemon from the device
- Block all notifications globally, regardless of Whatsapp configuration
- Text input now correctly renders more than 2 lines
- Show "typing" indicators in the chat page header
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More features:
https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases
- Now you can reply to messages
- Text input box now renders correctly
- Contact messages now renders correctly, and you can send contact messages
- Chat page should load faster now
- Chat list page now updates when you receive a message and app is opened in background
- User metrics should work now
- Really big text messages should render now, and be collapsed
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Updated release:
https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases
- Now bringing the app to the foreground while a chat is open should update the chat
- "view once" messages are now rendered and notified (not possible to see the content, Whatsapp limitation)
- Mentions should render correctly now
- Some scroll fixes when you open the chat page or click on the button to scroll to bottom
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@brenno.almeida I really enjoy this app. Thank you very much!
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@mihael Thanks! Any issues let me know, we're approaching a beta release
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New release: message prior this release can look strange because of a refactor I did, to avoid problems disconnect your whatsapp account in settings and reconnect after installing this update
https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases
- Draft support: typing in a chat will save your message next time you get back to that chat
- Complete rework of how this app handles notifications, which should enable new features for specific message types in the future
- Fix a bug that made the user avatar go away when downloading media in a group chat
- Mentions should be rendered correctly now, including notifications
- Simplified the unread count bubble (although its a big buggy now)
- Centralized name resolution, now the app is consistent when showing names across replies, chat lists, headers, etc
- Fixed a bug if you start a chat, the chat will have your name
- Full support for edited messages: now the new text is shown with an edited badge, and you can edit your own messages aswell
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I’d actually prefer to do without META products. But that’s hardly possible. My music mates, tennis pals and other friends only use WhatsApp.
For my UT as a day-to-day device, there wasn’t really anything useful like a quick-check app to see what’s going on with certain WhatsApp users (groups) who organise all their appointments and updates in groups.
WhatsNew never really worked for me. Too slow, too cluttered.This morning I installed Grennlines. It’s a really good project and a perfect solution to my unwelcome WhatsApp dependency. Many thanks for the solution.
For me, the current state of development is already perfect. It starts up very quickly and has everything I need. Let me buy you a bottle of wine! -
"Hi Brenno, I'm using Greenline on a Pixel 3a (Ubuntu Touch RC). I noticed that the greenline-daemon stays active and consumes significant resources even when notifications are disabled in the app settings. On older devices, this leads to OOM (Out of Memory) crashes and system reboots.
Feature Request: Could you add a 'Kill Daemon on Exit' toggle for users who don't need background notifications? If notifications are off, the daemon shouldn't stay resident in memory after closing the UI." -
PS:
Now I use a skript (systemctl --user stop greenline.service) and use it with a Desktop link. This works perfectly for my WhatsApp usage. This way, I can stop all WhatsApp data usage completely if I don’t need Greenline for a few days. -
@Linus67
Could you tell me how to add the script shortcut in Lomiri?
Greenline is great (to keep my wife happy – she uses WhatsApp and sees it as the most obvious way to communicate) -
nano ~/.local/share/applications/gkill.desktop
ini
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Stop Greenline
Exec=/home/phablet/stop_greenline.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/phablet/Pictures/greenline_stop.png -
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