- Fixes an administrator issue that prevents inspecting a person record for more than a few seconds
- Improves error messages during account creation
- Added a tasks button to the main menu
- Added birthday and wedding date to the person details page
- Support the church tab's Bible section
- Fixed several bugs
This update brings emoji reactions to messages and more improvements to posts.
- New: Emoji reactions to messages
- New: Show informative message when the church directory is empty
- New: Header 3 style in article posts
- New: Support for viewing file attachments on posts
- Improved: prayer, for sale, announcement, and article posts
- Fixed: Opening certain links would fail
- Fixed: Sending GIFs via keyboards in messages
- Improved the post header UI
- Added 'flag as inappropriate' to post replies
- Added a quick way to create a task for customizing the church tab
- Fixed a crash when tapping a mention in a conversation
- Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when navigating back
- Fixed push notification registrations sometimes being deleted
- Improved screenshot handling for in-app feedback
- Improved the post header UI
- Added 'flag as inappropriate' to post replies
- Added a quick way to create a task for customizing the church tab
- Fixed a crash when tapping a mention in a conversation
- Fixed push notification registrations sometimes being deleted
- Improved screenshot handling for in-app feedback
Fixes an issue opening the member directory from the church tab
- Use automatic sentence capitalization in interaction notes
- Fixed an issue that prevented creating article posts
- Fixed an issue that caused errors in the member directory
- Fixed an issue that prevented saving message edits
- Fixed a crash in the conversation list
We’ve made it easier to see the members of your church.
- Added church member directory
- Added support for quick group onboarding
- Added a shortcut to your church group in the activity feed
- Added support for uploading videos to posts
- Added link section to church tab
- Added message reply suggestions
- Improved church tab feature titles
- Disabled pull-to-refresh on certain screens
- Fixed keyboard not disappearing after creating a post
- Fixed for sale post location not working
- Handle image loading errors for pinned groups
- Fixed a crash when opening a message thread via links
- Fix crashes while loading images on an unstable network connection
- Fix a crash when updating icon colors in the church tab
This update allows churches to customize the app’s church tab.
- Added customizable church tab
- Added quick access to your profile via the main menu
- Added confirmation message when starting a video chat
- Added option to edit screenshot for app feedback
- Added option to preview an image before sending
- Improved loading of pinned groups
- Fixed a crash on app startup
- Fixed a crash when summoning the feedback screen via shake on some screens
This update adds support for video conferencing in messages and an easy way to provide feedback.
- Added Jitsi video calling support
- Added in-app feedback
- Default to the calendar upcoming view
- Improve message drafts by saving images and mentions
- Shake to give feedback
- Switch between conversations and threads more quickly
- Widen message bubbles to accommodate more text
- Show sending progress for the first message in a conversation
- Use the new post composer when sharing to a Faithlife post
- Fix a crash while uploading photos
- Fix crashes while updating how draft posts are stored
This update improves a number of features for creating posts and sending messages.
- Added a new post creator
- See images before sending a message
- Added option to retry sending a message
- Added support for mentioning @admins, @everyone, @moderators in messages
- Message drafts are now automatically saved
- Share message threads
- Added indicators for sending messages and failed messages
- Added permission indicators when starting a group conversation
This release fixes an issue that could prevent some screens from loading appropriately.
• Added deep link support for conversation thread URLs
• Added artwork for the sermons tab
• Added event location's address to calendar items when saving an event to your calendar, if provided
• Improved the reliability of push notification delivery
• Fixed several networking and UI related bugs
We’ve refreshed the groups and notification screens to be snappier and easier to use. We’ve also made a few adjustments to existing screens including:
- New icon arrangements better distinguish person, topic, & group conversations
- Easily determine if the person you’re chatting with is online
- Search for posts
- Save contacts directly to your phone
- Navigate to the Play Store review screen directly from the app
- Improved stability & several bugfixes
We’ve refreshed the groups and notification screens to be snappier and easier to use. We’ve also made a few adjustments to existing screens including:
- New icon arrangements better distinguish person, topic, & group conversations
- Easily determine if the person you’re chatting with is online
- Search for posts
- Save contacts directly to your phone
- Navigate to the Play Store review screen directly from the app
- Improved stability & several bugfixes
We’ve worked with our designers to improve several features that make for a more comfortable look & feel.
- Typing indicators in conversations
- Badges to the tab bar show if a tab has new content
- See presence info for conversation participants
- Mark all conversations as read
- Familiar swipe gestures to hide a conversation & mark as read
- Show message style notifications for 1:1 messages
- Better emoji support on older Android versions
- Improved security & stability
We’ve added conversation thread support to Faithlife messages. Conversation threads enable you to easily track threads of conversation in group or topic conversations.
• Tapping a message in a group or topic conversation shows only the messages in the related thread
• Drag and drop to rethread a message
• Replying to a message via a push notification replies in the related thread
• Improved the look & feel of messages
• Improved security & stability
• Fixed a bug that prevented going back
• Added the ability to set your church's website if your church group's administrators haven't set it in the group's contact information
• Added a button for Faithlife Giving in the app
• Fixed an issue where topic conversations could be shown without a title in the conversation list
• Fixed a crash that could happen while navigating around on older devices
• Fixed a crash related to a third party library
• Improved logging and some security infrastructure
We've fixed a handful of bugs in this release. Here are a few of them:
• Group list respects pinned groups
• Cancel push notification if opening notification from notification tab
• Fixed an issue where some photos wouldn't upload correctly
• Fixed an issue where images sent in the app might appear rotated on the web
• Avoid trying to start a conversation a user doesn't have permission to start
• Appropriately cancel long-running operations when navigating to a new screen
Fixed: A crash when loading an image message
New:
• Creating an account is considerably faster
Fixed:
• An issue that caused refreshing a screen to no longer work
• Better notification styling
• A crash that was caused by navigating to other apps from within the app (like uploading a photo to Faithlife)
We’ve rebuilt the Faithlife app from the ground up! Our aim is to make using the app a more smooth and enjoyable experience.
• Navigation, messages, and search have been rebuilt for a faster, more responsive experience.
• Added quick actions for notifications (reply inline, mark as read).
• Added image previews in notifications.
• Messages now support image keyboards (such as GBoard)
• Fixed some sign-in issues.
Note: you must sign in again after downloading this update.
New:We added some functionality to show more than one line of text in notifications.Fixed:We fixed some issues with opening notifications not navigating to the correct screen.
We fixed some issues with logging into the app after you've signed out.
We've made some small changes to ensure the app continues to run smoothly with some upcoming changes.
Fixed:- Issues with opening notifications- Issues signing in- Issues opening links in other apps
Faithlife has a new look and feel to match the website.We also made some other improvements including, but not limited to:- Added an Adaptive Icon- Added support for notification bundling (on Android Nougat or newer) and notification channels (on Android Oreo)- Addressed issues with push notifications- Prevented a crash on the login screen- Addressed some login issues
- Fixed prayer scheduled and notifications toggles not appearing set correctly- Fixed crash when sharing photos from Google Photos
