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New Updates! February 2025

· 3 min read
Amani Albrecht

🛠️ App Improvements

  • 🔄🎭 Updated the group avatar change screen to match the user avatar flow by adding a back button, removing save/cancel buttons, and showing a save prompt when changes are made!
  • Tweaked the game details screen by simplifying the header, moving the large graphic into the scrollable body, and hiding buttons from the details body in realms.
  • Updated room tiles to display user names instead of group names for clearer identification.
  • Prepared various screens in the app for a big upcoming change—stay tuned! 😉✨
  • 🎉👥Added both the Chat and Games tabs to groups—just the beginning of big upgrades coming to groups!
  • Enhanced the Room calling UI by adding a "Calling" alert, opening the game chooser when creating a room and inviting, and updating icons to show whether it's a call or invite 📞🎮
  • Overhauled the Members Pane with a new "Add Member" button, better navigation, active room indicators, and updated sorting to prioritize online members!
  • Added a call-group member picker so you can easily select up to 5 people to join you in a room!
  • Improved the Game Details header and scroll behavior, plus removed the extra "Play" button for a cleaner look.

🪲Bug Fixes

  • 🎨📱 Fixed various header display issues, including transparency on the home screen, gaps on iOS daily rewards, corrected gem center colors, and removed the dark bar on the Add Groupmate screen!
  • Stopped the app from showing the add email banner for users who already have an email linked 📧🚫
  • Resolved a strange rendering issue when opening the member pane popup or other translucent overlays 🖼️✨
  • Refined the friends list bottom sheet to match the member pane popup and fixed a bug where friend-requested users showed as inactive until the request was accepted 🔧
  • Addressed an issue where the wrong group was invited to a room when hitting play from a DM’s games view, ensuring proper friend vs. group handling and forcing re-renders with updated navigation keys.
  • Corrected the online members count in group headers to include only online users, not "Away" users!
  • Refined the member pane styling in groups to prevent messages from scrolling behind it during group verification on iOS 📱
  • Adjusted push notification handling to prevent unnecessary app initialization when the app isn’t running 🔔
  • Upgraded react-native-callkeep to fix an iOS crash caused by joining flow from a realm!
  • Removed the flash of the "No Friends" screen on cold boot by displaying a loading state until friends are fully loaded ⏳
  • Upgraded app navigation to prevent white flashes when moving quickly and ensure notifications always take you to the right place 🚀
  • Prevented a few "Gremlins" login errors by ensuring the 'prepare for auth' process runs after exiting verification or removing local user accounts 👾🔑
  • Prevented a crash when receiving a background call due to "Cannot read property 'routes' of undefined" 📞🚫
  • 📏 Adjusted spacing on the group rooms screen to align properly with the new controls.
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