I love this app that is why i keep on suggesting features and thanx to developer for keep on allowing me to do so..

Feature

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

It is an enhancement compared to the existing feature.

Describe the solution you'd like

on soft click of back button it should bring back to previous used keyboard and on long press it should ask for keyboard in popup.

Describe alternatives you've considered

implementation of this feature will be really useful and time saving. Right now on clicking back it directly ask for keyboard which should be there on long press of back button and on soft click it should automatically change back to previously used keyboard.

Additional context

and please change back button icon to something nice like some good keyboard icon or something. And thank you for this app.

Bug

System info

• OS: Android 10
• Samsung A11

Describe the bug

Version 2022.01.28. I give the app the path to stickers and doesn't import all image. In some cases I even give the same path more than once and load it a different number or doesn't find anything. I've already tried with previous version 2022.01.03 in the same phone and load all the media. Of course, all compatible formats. All permission are given.

Feature

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

it is often confusing how to go back to your previous keyboard and going to the settings to change keyboard is a burden, so it make sense to have the button to switch back to keyboard enabled by default

Describe the solution you'd like

Users can switch back to their keyboard without any additional tweaks

Feature

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

It is not obvious to the user that they have to enable the EweSticker input method in the phone settings, the first time I tried I was confused about how do I use EweSticker, usually keyboards when you install them and open them for the first time, ask to enable the input method and open the correct settings directly.

Describe the solution you'd like

the app ask me to enable EweSticker input method and make it easy to do so opening the corresponding system settings

Additional context

maybe you can check the code of AnySoftKeyboard or OpenBoard to see how they do it.

Please add one feature in which it should show a larger preview of selected sticker before sending. With a button in bottom send. It will help stickers with text in it.

Feature

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I'm recommending EweSticker to users and several users have Android<8

Describe the solution you'd like

The app can be used at least in Android 5

Describe alternatives you've considered

Some user did a modification to the app with this apks that allow to quickly patch other apps in your phone, and some report to be able to use this mod in older Androids

Additional context

I am recommending this app to Delta Chat users, Delta Chat is a FLOSS messenger app and it has sticker support but still don't have a built-in sticker selector so EweSticker + DeltaChat is a nice symbiosis, issue is that Delta Chat supports up to Android 4.1, and EweSticker only up to Android 8, so a good part of the user base can't use EweSticker.

More info about Delta Chat: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android and https://delta.chat/

Is it possible to add search option like 'Gboard sticker search' which will search stickers locally? Finding stickers according to name would be awesome feature.

Thank you for this app, i really like this application. I like to request one feature which will improve its functionality.

Feature

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Describe the solution you'd like

I usually use vertical scroll. Please add swipe in folder which will change folder to next or previous like shown in pic.

Additional context

It will make keyboard litte easy to use.

Bug

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System info

• OS: Lineage OS 18.1, Android 11
• Version: 2021.10.21

Describe the bug

I added some png and jpg files to a folder and selected that folder in the app. When I open the keyboard, nothing appears.

Expected outcome

The images on the folder appears

Actual outcome

Nothing appears

Photos:

Bug: java.lang.IllegalStateException caused by ImageKeyboard:switchImageContainer:imageContainer.addView(imageContainerLayout)

System info

• OS: Android 11 (sdk 30)
• Version: 20210909

Describe the bug

Several users are suffering from a crash caused by java.lang.IllegalStateException on the line containing imageContainer.addView(imageContainerLayout)

Research on the matter suggests this is caused by imageContainerLayout having an existing parent. However, this is created with no parent per View.inflate(applicationContext, R.layout.image_container, null) this should not attach to root

I'm going to attempt to fix this by ensuring attachToRoot = false. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12567578/what-does-the-layoutinflater-attachtoroot-parameter-mean for more info

Expected outcome

Things don't break

Actual outcome

IllegalStateException: java.lang.IllegalStateException

java.lang.IllegalStateException: 
  at android.view.ViewGroup.addViewInner ([redacted])
  at android.view.ViewGroup.addView ([redacted])
  at android.view.ViewGroup.addView ([redacted])
  at android.view.ViewGroup.addView ([redacted])
  at com.fredhappyface.ewesticker.ImageKeyboard.switchImageContainer (ImageKeyboard.kt:288)
  at com.fredhappyface.ewesticker.ImageKeyboard.recreatePackContainer (ImageKeyboard.kt:355)
  at com.fredhappyface.ewesticker.ImageKeyboard.onCreateInputView (ImageKeyboard.kt:240)
  at android.inputmethodservice.InputMethodService.updateInputViewShown ([redacted])
  at android.inputmethodservice.InputMethodService.prepareWindow ([redacted])
  at android.inputmethodservice.InputMethodService.showWindow ([redacted])
  at android.inputmethodservice.InputMethodService$InputMethodImpl.showSoftInput ([redacted])
  at android.inputmethodservice.InputMethodService$InputMethodImpl.showSoftInputWithToken ([redacted])
  at android.inputmethodservice.IInputMethodWrapper.executeMessage ([redacted])
  at com.android.internal.os.HandlerCaller$MyHandler.handleMessage ([redacted])
  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage ([redacted])
  at android.os.Looper.loop ([redacted])
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main ([redacted])
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke ([redacted])
  at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run ([redacted])
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main ([redacted])

Thanks for this app i m loving this app

Feature

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Describe the solution you'd like

Please add support for mp4 format but in small sizes. Now a days most messanger apps (whatsapp, telegram.......) Use mp4 format instead of gif. Even if i paste gif in these apps it automatically converts in mp4 in local file.

If someone send me a gif and i liked that gif to be in my EweSticker keyboard than i have to convert it to gif first than use it.

Additional context

Please add this format but put a each file size limit so that it can be used properly. Again Thanks you for this app

Feature

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Want a way to share sticker packs and make them easy for others to install.

Describe the solution you'd like

Associate the app with application/x-tar and when triggered unpack the archive and install all stickers/packs inside into the current sticker directory.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• A custom URI scheme that could be linked from a webpage to trigger the download

Bug

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System info

• OS: Emulator, android 11
• Version: 2022.03.11

Describe the bug

When I add new pictures to the stickers folder they do not show up right away

Expected outcome

I should see them in the keyboard when I open it, the app should list the right count of stickers

Actual outcome

The new images don't show up until I change the sticker folder (I can set it to what it is already set to, but I still have to do it)

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Improving application stability (+ sticker copy speed)

Describe the solution you'd like

It's probably a good idea to exclude massive images as these would not constitute a sticker. This issue is to consider the max image size in bytes for a future version

For instance the largest photo taken on my camera is approximately 7MB - and certainly would make a terrible sticker

For existing applications the limits are as follows

|app|id|max size (KB)|source| |---|---|---|---| |WhatsApp|com.whatsapp|100|https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/how-to-create-stickers-for-whatsapp/?lang=en| |Telegram|org.telegram.messenger|512|https://core.telegram.org/import-stickers| |Signal|org.thoughtcrime.securesms|300|https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360031836512-Stickers|

Maximum sized gif in some tstickers (https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/TStickers) output was <2MB and the largest webp was approximately 1.6MB so going to propose 2MB (Already far larger than existing applications use by about 4x)

Also, if the user had 4096 stickers at this size (the current limit), then they could have 8GB in stickers

Describe alternatives you've considered

Could do nothing but this could cause ewesticker to consume too many resources and affect the application stability (e.g. when loading 128 massive image files into the keyboard)

Other options involve trying to get the sticker dimensions but I suspect this is going to be difficult with DocumentFile

Or sum the sticker sizes and abort at some max size e.g. 2GB (so a user can still use a handful of massive files if desired) perhaps even combining these ideas

Additional context

This is an issue rather than a discussion as I plan on working on this in the next development cycle (1-2 months) . Comments are welcome

02200004.zip I m using latest app from github.

Bug

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System info

• OS: Android 11
• Browser: chrome, 1dm+
• Version: latest from playstore

Describe the bug

When i try to use stickers which is webp format than it got uploaded like jpg without animation.

Expected outcome

It should animate as like opening it in any gallery viewer

Actual outcome

It didn't animate it just pasted as jpg or png sticker.

Issue

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There have been a few cases of people thinking it's reasonable to completely disregard issue templates over the past few days.

For context, I've spent around 40-80 hours on what is a free project whilst providing free software support. So please fill in the template properly for issues - given the time I spend on this, spending a few minutes jumping through hoops to help me help you is really the least you can do.

Going forwards, a blatant failure to follow this is going to result in an issue being closed.

Some parts of the template may be hard to fill out, in that case it is perfectly reasonable to leave some parts blank.

There's a bit more info below: https://github.com/FredHappyface/.github/blob/master/SUPPORT.md

Thanks 😄