There's a new release for this app. This release contains a big standardization / internal refactor. I highly recommend that you:

• Logout from the app in your main Whatsapp device
• In Greenline settings, reset the app
• Install the update
• Then login again

If you don't disconnect, there's a high chance that the app will crash in some places. As we approach to a beta release, I added more safeguards to catch bugs and make the app more robust, fixing some bugs on the way. Hopefully this will be the last time this will be needed, as from now on I'll adopt a data migration system for changes.

https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases

Changes:

• Allow sending documents
• Add option to catch and report crashes
• Add option to pause daemon when closing the app
• Render Whatsapp text messages with buttons
• Fix images rotating in chat page
• Restore old behavior for unread count bubble in app drawer
• Handle Group Information and other whatsmeow events
• Remove daemon configuration database, centralize all configuration in python
• Harden media download, prevent crashes when downloading unavailable media
• Reorganize code into modules, better separation of concerns
• Add tests for daemon <> python communication and python <> qml communication
• Document and test all python interfaces, with real, sanitized Whatsmeow data
• App now validates at build and at runtime all data structures, logs errors, and ensures consistency between app parts

Hi everyone! I've been working on a qml Whatsapp client for Ubuntu Touch for a few weeks, now I think its good enough for its alpha release.

The app is not complete, there's still a ton of work to do, and probably many bugs. If you want to test it out, feel free to install in your device, and get back here if you find any bug so I can look at it. The Whatsapp protocol is awful to work with, I'm posting this early to gather feedback about edge cases.

Consider this app as Alpha, don't use it expecting to be 100% functional or complete, but use it to give feedback and help with the development.

Also the app runs unconfined to setup a background daemon, more on the architecture bellow.

Releases here: https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases

Once its stable, I'll publish to the store. Now more details about it.

Architecture

This app is composed of 3 parts:

1. Golang Daemon

This daemon managed by Systemd connects to Whatsapp servers and runs continuously in the background, gathering events and pre processing them. Also:

• Manages your encryption keys
• Serialize whatsapp events, stores in a queue
• Expose a JSON RPC endpoint to read and send messages, among other operations
• Syncs users avatars, media, and other data
• Sends notifications

2. Python Backend

Event driven backend that pulls events from the daemon and acts on them, building a chat room and message database. It also sends events to the frontend, updating the message list in real time

3. QML

The frontend is entirely written in qml and communicates with python using pyotherside

In order to pull messages in the background, it needs to run unconfined.

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

This post is meant to have a more continuous discussion about PicPocket development.

Download it here: https://open-store.io/app/picpocket.brennoflavio

Yesterday we had a new release allowing zooming images with your fingers, please give it a try!

This app is mostly stable and no big changes are expected, but feel free to suggest unimplemented Immich features and bugs.

@ChromiumOS-Guy please keep the discussion on feedback and suggestions, avoiding giving orders or similar statements.

The way you put it is a bit rude for my taste. It does not sound intentional, but with a bit of out of context to me. Its not that the app is being developed without a data model in mind, more like new requirements (replies, edits, new message types, etc.) requires rethink on how things are done, which is pretty common on any medium o higher complexity project.

@mihael noted!

Btw there's a new release: https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases

If you didn't disconnected your Whatsapp account in the last update, please take time to do it. Takes a few minutes and will improve your experience with the app.

Changes:

• Now links inside text are clickable and will open the browser
• Mentions are also treated as links, clicking on them open the messages
• Text between stars are rendered as bold message, like in Whatsapp
• Now sending a message while offline does not crash the app anymore
• Daemon should be way faster to reconnect when going back from offline to online or switching networks
• Fix bug when clearing data app not deleting all files

@developerbayman your point just suggests that we need better confinement, not to remove it. For example, the alarm app could have apis to run confined

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]

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

@pparent Just watched the english version, great video, congrats on the release!

@Zer0 Nice iniciative, to me there is some nice ideas in your effort, will try in a spare phone in the near future. Its always good to have options, design choices should evolve and enable users to use their device as they wish.

I would suggest having your work as an unconfined click app, so you can reach more users. There are other launchers and apps that modify Lomiri so should be doable.

Thanks for your work

@arubislander @pparent app uses whatsmeow, a golang implementation of Whatsapp Web socket. So from Whatsapp perspective, its like you're using Whatsapp Web.

The risk of being banned using unofficial tools is never 0, but extremely low if you don't abuse the tool. Its the same risk of using the WhatsApp Matrix bridge for example, that uses the same library behind the scenes.

@pparent said:

@brenno.almeida

Ok so another confined app does not have permission to access your messages and data, via this Unix socket?

Confined apps cannot access files outside their specified directories (config, data, cache), so they cannot use the socket.

@developerbayman I think its possible to publish with a Google Drive link afaik, as long as the source is available should be fine

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

Download here:

https://open-store.io/app/futify.brennoflavio

Somewhere last year, Spotify changed some of its API deprecating some fields and redirects, breaking Futify. Around 3 months ago I submited some patches to keep the app alive, but it is not merged / released yet.

This fork applies those patches so people can continue using the app while upstream is not updated.

Contributions are welcome to make it build with noble framework, currently this app uses a umantained qml-go binding, that only allow building for focal. Luckly the focal build works on noble without issues.

Give it a try and leave feedback!

@projectmoon @amaurydbz found it. Spotify is not allowing using my keys to login into your account, which means that you'll need to login into Spotify Developers, generate a pair of keys and bring those to the app.

That's why it works for me, but not for you. It uses my keys.

As the app does not have a way to do that yet, I unpublished it. When I add a way to do it, I'll let you know and publish it back.

Thanks for the feedback!

Link for reference: https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-02-06-update-on-developer-access-and-platform-security

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

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

Nice script to stop the daemon, I added to the todo list to include before release