[Alpha] Greenline - A qml Whatsapp client for Ubuntu Touch

[brenno.almeida]

@sahirul the ability to login with phone number is added in the latest alpha

[sahirul]

@brenno.almeida “I will try it. Thank you for making it happen.”

[brenno.almeida]

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

[brenno.almeida]

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

[brenno.almeida]

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

[mihael]

@brenno.almeida I really enjoy this app. Thank you very much!

[brenno.almeida]

@mihael Thanks! Any issues let me know, we're approaching a beta release

[brenno.almeida]

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

[Linus67]

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!

[Linus67]

"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."