Rocket.Chat Mobile App 4.11: New Features & Improvements

Rocket.Chat Mobile App 4.11 will be launched next week with many exciting new features, improvements, bug fixes, and user experience development efforts. Here is an overview of what you can expect :)

Rocket.Chat Mobile App 4.11

Release Date: October 5, 2020

Compatibility

iOS 11+
Android 5+
Rocket.Chat server 0.70.0+

Highlights

E2E Encryption

You can now create encrypted private groups and direct messages. You may also change existing private groups or DMs to encrypted. This is how an encrypted room looks like:

And this is the step-by -step process to create your own encrypted room:

Encrypt User Credentials and Preferences

All credentials and preferences are encrypted on your device

Show Server History

After logging out, the user can choose a history of recent servers/usernames from a list with recent servers. This is useful when the login expiration policy is set and users are frequently logged out.

New

New Toggle analytics events
Show server history
Logout from other logged in locations
Add to F-Droid
User notification preferences

Improvements

Add "Allow Save Media to Gallery" setting
Show errors on server enter
Disable HTTP for production on Android
Show "Chats in Progress" group
Verify Enterprise status on Omnichannel
Move directory to the header

Bug Fixes

Remove assets from share extension on iOS
Read receipt crashing in some cases
Local database searches using non-Latin characters
Logout from custom OAuth when using password
Apply theme on Directory description
Verify useRealName setting on files screen
Wrong date and time is shown in the file section
Logout from custom OAuth
REST for method calls not raising errors
Fix broken StatusView on tablet

Chore

Change database location to Experimental Apps
Simplify i18n files
Update run-ios and run-android scripts
Use Rocket.Chat JS SDK's official repo
App Group path as an iOS constant
Remove Google Services files from the repository

i18n

Update fr.js
Add missing Italian strings
Improve Chinese translation
Improve Simplified Chinese
Add Traditional Chinese

Sneak Peek: What To Expect Next?

New Threads: We've successfully redesigned Rocket. Chat's threads on the web client and we're going to implement the same into the mobile client on our next release, 4.12.0 ;)