Solved Couple of Android app/Chrome extension enhancement requests

First off, I want to say that I'm loving Join. I love to see a new app mature and this one is coming along very well with an extremely attentive and engaged developer.

Outside of hoping and waiting for MMS/group chat support in Join, I'd like to request a couple of small enhancements (and probably two big ones) to the Join Android app and Chrome extension:

1. In the Android app, could you make it so that the keyboard respects the Auto-capitalization setting? I believe this can be achieved by simply setting 'android:inputType="textCapSentences"' on your EditText.
2. Can hyperlinks sent and received over SMS, which are then viewable on the SMS screen in the Android app, also be made clickable from within the app? Right now I use Google On Tap to select the text and copy it.
3. In both the Android app and in the Chrome extension, on the SMS tab, would it be possible to show the number of characters remaining that can be typed to send an SMS message? For example, since each SMS is 160 characters, you would see something like "56 / 1" until you have reached 160 characters typed at which point it would start over from 160 but change to 2 to indicate that two messages will be sent. So if I have typed in 289 characters, it would show "31 / 2" to indicate that there are 31 characters that can still entered which will send two SMS. It could be an advanced setting to determine whether this is shown or not. Project Fi doesn't concatenate SMS on send and I would like to see how many I'm sending with long messages (or to be more brief to limit the number sent).
4. Finally, and this is probably the tougher ask, but in Android Nougat (using DP5 currently), if Join is one of the windows open in multi-windowed mode but NOT the active window, Join does not refresh automatically to show the new SMS unless you tap on the notification. For example, if I have Join open in a window (on the SMS screen), and I'm browsing Chrome in the other window, if Chrome is the active window and I've received a new SMS, Join does not automatically refresh to show the received SMS unless I manually switch to the Join window and refresh it or if I tap the notification out of the notification bar.

I appreciate you taking the time to read this and at the very least considering to make these enhancements!

 

Sorry for not being clear on #1. Yes, this is on the SMS screen. I've attached two screenshots showing what the SMS screen shows immediately after tapping to begin typing a new message and another showing after ending one sentence with a full stop and beginning the next. You'll notice the keyboard does not automatically capitalize the first word of the sentence and it also does not automatically capitalize the next word after a period.



That's fair enough on #3; I hadn't considered the use of special characters, emojis, etc. Also, good news about #4 and I appreciate you adding #2 to the to-do list!

Thank you again for the awesome service and for accepting feedback!

 

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