Changelog

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New Features

General

• Everything...don't think people look at the old fallback depictions anyways...

New Features

General

• Everything

New Features

General

• New Splash Screen (only shows up when installing for the first time or reinstalling)
• Brand new section header design
• Improved SF symbols
• App-wide custom accent color
• App-wide blur effects
• New placeholder images
• Removed Splash Banners for Today, Packages, and Repos tab
• Improved easing and damping value for all animations

Sharing is caring

• PostBox can now open links to repos and packages using the prefix (postbox://[package|repo]/[id|url])

Stories

• Revamped the design of Stories
• Clicking on a story banner will allow you to view it fullscreen
• You can now save and share story banner images!
• Stories now renders properly (previously require scrolling for them to show up)
• Minor changes to redacted cards for loading
• Today View simply looks better
• Stories now receive a hovering task bar that is more accessible and gets out of the way when reading content
• Improved animations when reacting to Stories
• You can now read entire article for iDownloadBlog (images not supported)
• Relocated and revamped author information
• Relocated Tags to Navigation Bar
• Added design for author profile images (coming in Beta 8)

Today

• Renamed tab to "Today" (previously named "Home")
• Revamped view layout
• Added context menu when holding on a Story Card
• Added guides (coming soon) when tapping on "Contribute to PostBox"
• Revamped the design for Tags
• New scroll to refresh indicator

Packages

• Revamped the design of package depictions
• All new package card design
• Clicking on a story banner will allow you to view it fullscreen
• You can now save and share story banner images!
• Reviews will now show the average rating score
• Review Cards are fully expanded
• Top Curated packages is now displayed – go curate!
• Lists are redesigned
• Implemented context menus
• Package depictions now receive a hovering task bar that is more accessible and gets out of the way when reading content
• Categories now have their own sections in the main Packages tab
• New package icon display when they are not loaded or unavailable
• New icons for network error

Repos

• All new repo card design
• Export all repos (finally here I know)
• Revamped featured package cards when browsing repos
• Improved Sign-In button
• Implemented context menus
• Lists are redesigned
• Temporarily removed Piracy Story
• Added automatic loading when browsing "Find Repos"
• "Find Repos" now shows the total of repositories available for adding
• New icons for network error
• New scroll to refresh indicator

Settings

• Settings is now accessible in each tab
• New Settings symbol
• Reorganized settings options
• New accent color picker for iOS 14 and up users
• OLED and Reduce Motion modes (coming in Beta 8)
• You can now see a list of signed in repositories
• Pressing on the Donate options now directly opens our Ko-fi page
• Revamped the design of Credits
• Brought back disclaimer information on the bottom of Settings
• Added option to disable/enable reader view when redirecting to websites

Backend

• Launching is now more stable

Known Issues

• Filter View is unstable – will be back in next beta
• Stories and Depictions may have large bottom padding
• Curated packages loading times may be stalled by other heavy (looks terrible)

Front-End

• Improved appicon design
• Improved first launch Splash Screen
• Improved Splash Screen design
• Improved app accent color
• Improved text readability
• Improved header colors
• Improved design consistency of all images
• Improved SF Symbol choices
• Improved damping values for animations
• Improved Scroll View height logic
• Improved app action pop-up design
• Improved button colors
• Improved layout of Reddit Cards
• Fixed many typos in UI
• Fixed margin padding on all iOS Devices (now adaptive)
• Fixed action sheet and alert button colors
• Added close button to Splash Screen
• Added app version identifier in Settings
• Added image for external sources in Filter
• Added ability to collapse and expand options in Filter
• Added new Splash Screen for iPad (removed app functionality)
• Reduced image size
• Removed dedicated refresh button in Repos View
• Removed Experimental section in Settings
• Relocated Filter button to Navigation Bar
• Optimized UI logic

Back-End

• Improved quit logic on “Quit Postbox"
• Implemented Merge External Sources function
• Firestore-based backend/caching
• Package reviews
• Removed unused dependencies
• Allowing downloading purchased tweaks
• Other stability improvements

Front-End

• Improved header style for card sections
• Improved font sizes throughout interface
• Improved image sizing on all views
• Improved button contrast
• Improved depictions padding
• Improved iDownloadBlog card layout
• Improved button design for Packages and Repos Views
• Improved divider appearance
• Improved list view layout
• Improved app color scheme
• Improved image for Donate View
• Improved footer design for Story View
• Improved footer design for depictions
• Improved Settings tab layout
• Improved pull to refresh icons
• Implemented new tag design
• Implemented Tag View when tapping on tags
• Implemented blur on Banners
• Implemented new symbols throughout interface
• Implemented new tag design
• Added dynamic blur to all Splash Views
• Added 104 easter egg text options
• Added "Splice External Sources" option to Filter View (Deactivated)
• Tapping on card section headers now brings user to the subview
• Repositioned Navigation Bar items
• Single items in depiction screenshots are now centered
• Temporarily removed option to change app icon

Back-End

• Implemented ability to import repos from Cydia, Zebra, and Sileo
• Implemented package linking in Stories
• Fixed unresponsive buttons
• Fixed crashing when adding a repo
• Fixed video sizes in Screenshot View
• Fixed full screen screenshots not showing
• Fixed negative package prices
• First launching app now requires a restart
• Project clean up

Front-End

• Design revamp
• Combined FAQ in Settings
• Fixed button dragging on iOS 13
• Added ”Curated Package” button to package depiction
• Fixed Navigation Bar jitter on views less than device height for some views
• Implemented "See more Packages" option for curated packages
• Implemented Apollo redirect
• Updated Splash Screen design

Back-End

• Implemented interactive repo content in Stories
• Implemented new text layout logic
• Implemented app action pop-up settings
• Improved Story content layout logic
• Fixed Package view not updating after adding repo
• Fixed &nbsp was not rendered correctly
• Fixed links in stories are not restricted to http(s) protocols
• PackageView will now check for package existence instead of repo existence
• Project clean up

• Initial Release!