Beeper Android Updates & Release Notes

New Features

LINE Support

One of the most popular networks in Asia comes to Beeper!

→ Chat Accounts → Add Account → LINE

Raise-to-listen support

Unheard on-screen voice notes can now be played automatically when raising your device to your ear

Bug Fixes & Optimizations

Fixed an issue where…

• generated video thumbnails wouldn't render in the inbox
• the app would unnecessarily restart when connecting or disconnecting a hardware keyboard
• the app could crash during the reconnection process
• some messages' disappearing-message expiry state was missed until you reopened the chat
• Telegram and WhatsApp contact lists could fail to parse correctly
• nonstandard characters in filenames could cause attachment sends to fail
• auto-archived chats didn't refresh correctly after a reaction
• GIF-to-video conversions could show a green edge, and inline animations rendered less smoothly
• verification emojis could be invisible on certain older android versions
• connecting LinkedIn might just show you a white screen and nothing else
• your own messages could incorrectly show as matches in message search
• single-person chats were unintentionally using display rules for group chats
• rare crashes from a variety of edge cases
• improved memory usage and overall stability

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New Features

Sticker Packs

Beeper Android now supports importing sticker packs from remote networks

Settings -> Chat Accounts -> <Account> -> Manage image packs

Import packs already associated with the account, or via URL, e.g.

WhatsApp: https://wa.me/stickerpack/IntrovertLife

Telegram: https://t.me/addstickers/LovelyPeachy

You can now mark individual messages as unread to better manage your conversations

Email addresses in messages are now automatically tappable to start an email

Labs

When scrolling in a chat, tap the floating date header to easily navigate to any date's chats

Settings -> Labs -> Jump to Date

Bug Fixes & Optimizations

Improved the "Frequently Contacted" calculation for better relevancy

Previously: rank = sent_count

Now: rank = sent_count * 30d / (30d + time_since_last_sent)

Additionally, anyone not messaged in 6 months cannot be considered as "Frequently Contacted" at all

Fixed an issue where…

Slack login and Discord two-factor login could fail in the in-app browser

the Twitter login web view would appear squished

a noisy "unread messages since your last sync" notification would appear unnecessarily

copying a voice note transcription could fail

photos from the camera could appear with the wrong orientation

GIFs didn't always render correctly

playlist files (.m3u, etc) were mistakenly treated as audio

drafts could be lost due to a race condition

a "+" at the start of a line was incorrectly styled as a list marker in the composer

reactions weren't always de-duplicated correctly

one-minute reminders fired at the wrong time.

logins could fail due to races, premature re-login attempts, or expired recovery tokens

muted accounts would still surface room invites — account mute settings are now respected

cancelled and declined invites didn't render correctly

removal messages weren't shown when a group admin removed someone

conversations could occasionally display stale media previews

the composer could slip behind the status bar when enlarging the attachment picker

the chat options sheet could wobble between states if it got too tall

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Bug Fixes & Optimizations

• Notifications now fire in every case when you receive a new chat invite
• Fixed an issue where…
• custom emojis could render incorrectly
• sharing some content into Beeper through the system share sheet would fail
• outgoing media couldn't be forwarded or downloaded
• the app could crash when a network name was missing
• links with mixed casing (like HtTPs) couldn't be opened
• rapid double-taps on important buttons could trigger the action twice

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New Features

The Quick Switcher graduates from Labs – thanks to everyone who provided feedback!

Quickly jump from chat-to-chat without ever navigating back to your inbox

→ Preferences → Quick Conversation Switcher

Bug Fixes & Optimizations

Fixed an issue where…

• Chats could get in a weird state causing them to appear unread
• the app could crash when responding to a message request
• reactions sent from other clients couldn't be deleted
• changing the playback speed of voice notes could cause them to not play at all
• device verification could get stuck in some cases

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Bug Fixes & Optimizations

Fixed an issue where…

Messages sent via share to multiple chats only being delivered to one

Fixed a problem during login & device verification when we would present "Last seen: January 1, 1970" when no information was available

The CAPTCHA prompt could be too small to interact with on some devices for Facebook

Chat network connectivity status could appear stale or out of sync in the UI

The inbox content could get clipped behind the toolbar

Improved On-Device Telegram connection reliability after app restarts

Improved Facebook & Instagram on-device connection to fix connectivity issues

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Bug Fixes & Optimizations

Fixed an issue where…

• Navigation could be generally weird with bubbles open
• The app could get stuck on the splash screen after certain navigation actions
• The back button was missing in certain cases
• Forwarding a message to multiple chats could skip some of the selected chats
• Searching for rooms on tablet layout could fail to navigate correctly
• Sending media could occasionally be corrupted due to a transcoding race condition
• Attachments could become stale if the sending flow was interrupted and retried

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Bug Fixes & Optimizations

Fixed an issue where…

• the app would crash when launching on Android 8, 9, & 10
• the app could crash when opening a link with no browser installed
• the app could crash when logging out before verification was complete
• the app could crash when navigating to the sticker maker
• reaction sync could get stuck in an endless loop
• the scheduled send icon didn't clear from the inbox after deleting a scheduled message
• refreshing device media repeatedly could cause performance issues

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Bug Fixes & Optimizations

Fixed an issue where…

• Messages weren’t following LTR rules correctly (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew)
• Tab characters could be dropped or rendered incorrectly in messages
• The app could freeze (ANR) when scrolling through long message lists
• Text messages were cut off when opening the context menu
• Long-pressing a link would accidentally trigger while scrolling
• Long-pressing a message on a link didn't work correctly
• Navigating to older messages via search didn't work properly
• The message composer could be in a weird state with overlapping or missing text
• The Signal QR code sharing link could get pushed off-screen
• Media that hadn't finished sending could be lost from cache (and fail to send)
• Reply thread counts didn't display correctly on older Android devices
• The app could rarely get stuck during startup due to a sync issue

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New Features

With this release, we’ve completely overhauled our navigation and message rendering code to be smoother, more performant, and to lay the bedrock for future features. This also includes better support for screen transitions, predictive back, and formatted message support.

Improved Support for Incoming Calls

Tapping an incoming call message in a Chat will now send you directly to that app (if installed)

Media Management

Added ability to delete local media files

Note that local media won’t be able to be fetched again, but may be deleted explicitly to clear up space

The option also applies to periodic cleanup based on your configured maximum cache size

Hide Deleted Messages

Now you can optionally hide deleted messages, rather than seeing “Message Deleted” placeholders

→ Preferences → General → Show deleted messages

Telegram Topics

Added option to show Telegram topics as standalone spaces in the navigation drawer

→ Preferences → Inbox → Telegram Topics as separate spaces

Bug Fixes & Optimizations

Fixed an issue where…

a self-hosted Discord connection wouldn’t display properly

numbered lists could display improperly

media with no captions might render an empty caption bubble anyway

the video duration in the attachment picker was misaligned

HEIF images could fail to render on some devices

message search could be slow in a number of cases

you could be kicked from (or leave) a chat, and Beeper would give no indication that anything had happened

The post v4.39.0 appeared first on Beeper.

While getting back into the swing of things this year, the first release is primarily concerned with stability. On top of the listed fixes & corrections, we’ve also been hard at work improving our search & message sync speeds.

Bug Fixes & Optimizations

• Android Auto finally doesn’t incorrectly repeat outgoing messages as incoming ones
• Fixed a case where outgoing voice notes would be shown as “Played” when they were actually only “Seen”
• Updated the Twitter / X login method to address login failures
• Fixed an issue where reactions could be duplicated when trying to be removed
• Correctly render the “Mute” icon on pinned chats
• Fixed a case where randomly certain people in group chats wouldn’t be kickable
• Speed up Onboarding by automatically validating usernames while typing
• Fixed a case where notifications wouldn’t auto-dismiss when Stealth Mode was enabled
• Improve handling of media downloads and thumbnail UI
• Update the Low Priority logic so that Archiving a chat would not remove it from Low Priority
• Fixed a number of issues with contact lookup on remote networks to correctly filter and display for cloud / local / multiple accounts on the same network
• Fixed an issue where notifications could display with a default avatar rather than the contact’s actual avatar
• Fixed a case where Beeper could crash upon encountering redundant transcriptions in Message Search
• Fixed color contrast issues for editing & scheduled messages

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