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

Perrete

Hi, I find the app really useful, specially due to the daemon. I would really love video call functionallity. Is there any chance it will be added soonish?
It's really the only thing keeping me on Waydroid's Whatsapp app at the moment.
Thank you so much for working on this, keep it up!

brenno.almeida

@777x you mean that there's some delay between pressing the button and the message to appear in the list? What is your device?

@perrete not anytime soon, there's limitations on both Whatsapp and the projects this app depends on to make calls possible

brenno.almeida

New Release:

Download here: https://git.brennoflavio.com.br/brennoflavio/greenline/releases
Github mirror: https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases

You now can translate Greenline for your language, go to UBports translation project and feel free to contribute

https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/ubports/greenline/

Many thanks for UBports admins to make this happen.

Changelog:

Animated stickers now renders correctly
Fixed a bug where the name and photo in the notification was not shown correctly
Now you can start new chats. Either by inputting a phone number or importing a contact into the app
Translation support

Progress towards beta: https://git.brennoflavio.com.br/brennoflavio/greenline/milestone/1

brenno.almeida

Hi all. Announcing that this app is now in Beta. My goal is to release to the store by end of next week, fixing the maximum amount of bugs possible until there.

Please, help me catch remaining bugs and misbehavior by downloading and using the latest version bellow, reporting here anything you'll find. Once in the store, will be slow to fix bugs, so now its the time to get the app in a good shape.

Latest release: https://git.brennoflavio.com.br/brennoflavio/greenline/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc2
Translate this app: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/ubports/greenline/

Changelog:

Translations to many languages, thanks to the translators
Fix scrolling a chat up make it lose its position and glitch
Prepare pipeline for final release
Make chat list page refresh incremental, more performant, don't lose position when receiving messages
Many small performance enhancements across the board, app should feel faster
Avatars now use the lomiri shape, rendering with less resources
Fix a bug where receiving messages made the avatar to stop showing
Speed up first historical sync, up to 10x faster on my tests
Faster parsing of events, by decoupling chats from chat metadata like avatars and descriptions
Remove support to send mute status to whatsapp, too unreliable
Hide self chat
Improve chat rendering performance by caching rich texts, and not use rich render for simpler texts
Fix mentions not being clickable
Fix some texts bubbles not having the correct size
Better rich rendering of lists

Vlad Nirky

@brenno.almeida
Hello.
I give it a try.
I haven't been able to connect with QR Code (not shown in the app) (but well with phone number).
UT 24.04-2.x daily from 08/06/2026 as the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro has been excluded from updates.

brenno.almeida

@Vlad-Nirky Can you send logs using the LogViewer app (or equivalent) from the service greenline.service? Should tell why the daemon could not generate a new qr code for you.

Vlad Nirky

@brenno.almeida
Sure.
https://dpaste.com/8SCPTBYCB

mihael

This is working amazing and I have been using 1.00 (rc1) for a few days now. Thank you!

Just a quick question: why did you hide the self chat?

mihael

Also, when I click on a notification, it doesn't open that specific chat, it just opens the app.

brenno.almeida

@mihael Please test on rc2, there were many changes so its possible that your bug is fixed.

The reason to disable self chat is because is because there's a whole set of features (replies, sending messages, etc) that is not fully tested on the self chat case, so for now managing the self chat is a unsupported feature. Maybe in the future if there's enough demand for it I can evaluate enabling it again.