Siilihai 2.3.3 released

2.3.3 is a minor maintenance release which brings some fixes related to forums with weird character encoding. Earlier it was impossible to subscribe forums with some bizarre Russian windows encoding but now it should work. Character encoding is now handled with QTextCodec which supports a large number of encodings.

If you are a forum owner, use UTF-8. Everything else is deprecated and just causes trouble.

This release is built for Ubuntu and Windows. Mac builder is still wanted.

Siilihai-mobile 2.1.0 released

What's new:

• Posting and replying in TapaTalk forums
• UI enhancements
• Bugfixes

Released already for Sailfish at Warehouse. Android release to follow soon. Also a new version of desktop client is expected soon..

Siilihai-mobile 2.0.8 released

The mobile version 2.0.8 has been released for Sailfish and Android. New features:

• Various ui improvements including search function for forums and groups.
• Loading screen for Android. For some reason the Android version loads really slowly compared to Sailfish version. This will be investigated and hopefully fixed.
• Library is now less strict for some error situations and doesn't assert on them. In other words, Siilihai doesn't appear to crash if server sends bogus data.

The Android version is now available at Google Play. It costs $2 to download. It was a difficult decision to decide between free and paid app, but i decided to release as paid app. The reasons are:

• I had to pay $25 for the Google Play developer account.
• I do not use a Android phone so Android version is just extra work for me.
• Profit :-) (I'm happy if I get the $25 back). 

Siilihai will continue to be open source, and the Android version will be available for free manual download. If you want to maintain a free version of Siilihai in any app store, you can do it.

Siilihai-mobile Sailfish in Warehouse repository

Jolla owners can now install Warehouse ("app store" for free apps) and install Siilihai from there. This allows updates to work.

 For detailed instructions see: http://www.jollatides.com/2014/01/08/tutorial-how-to-download-beta-apps-from-openrepos/


Siilihai-mobile is refused by Jolla's official Harbour store because it uses jpg and svg support. These are scheduled to be allowed in Harbour sometime in future.

Siilihai 2.3 released

Changes:

• Posting support! You can now create new threads and reply to messages. This applies only to TapaTalk forums for now.
• TapaTalk dates are now formatted more nicely.
• Various fixes & minor enhancements.

This release is available for Ubuntu Saucy and Windows. More versions to be built on demand.

Report any issues you might find!

Siilihai-mobile for Android released!

Finally the Android version of Siilihai-mobile 2.0 is available. It uses 100% same code as the Jolla Sailfish version.

It can also be considered beta quality. It has not been tested it on real hardware yet.



Download:

http://siilihai.com/media/android-builds/siilihai-mobile-latest.armeabi.apk


If you don't know how to install .apk file on your device, try these instructions.

In future it will probably be uploaded to some app stores (Google Play & Yandex for example) for easy installation.

Siilihai-mobile for Jolla Sailfish released! (Updated: 30.12.2013)

I'm proud to announce availability of Sailfish version of Siilihai-mobile. It is an almost complete rewrite of the old Siilihai-mobile for Nokia Harmattan and i call it "version 2.0".

The ui works, but still requires some tuning. Known issues:

• Password entries show password in plain text.

Consider this beta quality, and please report any issues you find.

On technical side, the new siilihai-mobile uses only standard QML elements - it does not use Sailfish or any other components that would break portability. Android version with 100% same source code to follow soon.

Download at:

http://siilihai.com/media/sailfish-builds/siilihai-mobile-latest.armv7hl.rpm

Installation (while waiting for Harbour store acceptation):

• Download the rpm
• Go to developer mode
• Open terminal
• devel-su (password is nemo)
• cd /home/nemo/Downloads
• pkcon install-local siilihai*.rpm

Latest update: 30.12.2013