v0.8.0-beta

[ItsRiprod]

v0.8.0 RELEASE CHECKLIST

Heyo - it's that time of the week again. To those wondering what happened last week... and the week before...
shh
take your update and be happy

The TLDR is I recoded the DeskThing client and split the repository into 5 different ones! (this is a good thing I swear)
App development is significantly easier
There is now logging on the car thing to better diagnose issues
There is better logging on the deskthingserver
There are togglable settings
Automatic IP scanning
And so
so
much more

Alr
Have fun deskthinging (am I allowed to say that?)

➕ Additions

🟩 Completely Recoded the DeskThing Client

• 🟩 Reworked button mappings
• 🟩 Migrated existing apps to online
• 🟩 Reworked stores
• 🟩 Minimized websocket calls to remove clutter
• 🟩 General code cleaning
• 🟩 Reorganized designs
• 🟩 Design Template
• 🟩 Add SVG support
• 🟩 Add button support
• 🟩 Updated tray behavior
• 🟩 Macro Buttons
• 🟩 IP Scanning
• 🟩 Remote SVGs

🟩 Discord: Delayed again... (it's been a nightmare)

• 🟩View whos in call
• 🟩 Mute/Unmute
• 🟩 Deafen / Undeafen
• 🟩 See other participant's volumes
• 🟩 Leave call
• 🟩 Who is talking

🟩 Groundwork for server widgets
🟩 Groundwork for Client widgets
🟦 Emulate keypresses for automation (might be an app)
🟩 deskthing-app-server npm connector package

• 🟩 Standardize creation of settings
• 🟩 Create a class for communication (i.e. DeskThing.on('start' func)
• 🟩 Document all the functions for ease-of-use
• 🟩 Add the ability to register buttons
• 🟩 Add the ability to register actions
• 🟩 Add a way to have "Background Tasks" that get cleaned up when the app stops
• 🟩 Actually cleanup when an app is stopped
• 🟦 Add a class interface for being an audio source
• 🟦 Add a class interface for being a "Screensaver"

🟩 deskthing-client npm connector package

• 🟩 Translate data between DeskThingClient and app
• 🟩 expose endpoints to easily listen for specific functions (i.e. button presses)
• 🟩 Listen to and send buttons for event bubbling to be effective
• 🟩 Cleanup data to ensure performance
• 🟩 Handle data communication between the server and client and app

🟩 revisions to DeskThingServer

• 🟩 Adding functionality to communicate with NPM package
• 🟩 Ability for app-defined button maps
• 🟩 Ability for app-defined actions
• 🟩 Ability for app-defined icons
• 🟩 Ability for dynamic icon hooks
• 🟩 Default IP configuration
• 🟩 Dashboard
• 🟦 View showing connected clients (web or adb)

🟩 revisions to DeskThingClient

• 🟩 Standardizing the communication between iframe and webapp
• 🟩 Adding functionality to make on() hooks and ensuring data is cleaned
• 🟩 Adding functionality to store/send specific button or action data
• 🟦 Add the ability to make a "default view" that is selected on startup
• 🟩 Add the ability to have logs and logging

🟩 Create an NPM template so you can do npm init DeskThing@latest to start a new app

• 🟩 Walk through the creation of a new app manifest
• 🟩 Create a new app with all the needed tooling
• 🟩 Have project examples showing how to use the various functions

🟩 Migrate apps to use new tooling

• 🟩 Migrate MediaWIN to use the new data
• 🟩 Migrate Discord to use the new data
• 🟩 Migrate Utility to use the new data
• 🟩 Migrate Spotify to use the new data
• 🟦 Migrate Weather to use the new data

🟦 Automatically set the updated IP when the manifest is pulled/pushed
🟩 Tutorial walking through setup process
🟩 Alternative app download locations
🟩 Alternative client download locations
🟩 Image App

• 🟩 Display any image
• 🟩 Ability to prompt the user for a new image
• 🟩 Store old images

⚙️ Changes

• 🟩 Slightly modified Client UI Behavior
• 🟧 Button positions on Server moved to make more sense
• 🟩 All things spotify recoded to make more sense
• 🟩 Position of tabs re-organized ( I need feedback on this ngl )

🪲 Bugs

• 🟩 ADB push path ruined by spaces
• 🟩 Spotify will not shut up
• 🟩 Spotify edge case crashes when no context
• 🟦 You cannot cancel an app while it is downloading
• 🟦 Downloading an app will clear the old one before its confirmed
• 🟦 No confirmation button after clicking an app to download

🟥 Unfinished
🟧 Partially working
🟩 Added and Implemented
🟦 Deferred to v0.9.0

What's Changed

• Feature: Create new Workflow structure to build binaries for the DeskthingServer by @williamtcastro in Feature: Create new Workflow structure to build binaries for the DeskthingServer #25

New Contributors

• @williamtcastro made their first contribution in Feature: Create new Workflow structure to build binaries for the DeskthingServer #25

Full Changelog: v0.7.0-beta...v0.8.0-beta

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