Android: can't view premium screen

problem
1

When I use the kebab/meatball menu at the bottom right, and choose the “Premium subscription…” option, the app becomes a completely blank screen. Pressing back takes me back to the main view. Waiting several minutes doesn’t change anything.

app version: 12.1.1
android version: 12 (SP2A.220505.008.2023020600)
device: Google Pixel 3a (sargo)
sqlite version: 3.32.2
username: ednos
server: default
speed: 0 feeds in conn:0 read:0 parse:0 store:0
pending actions: pre:0 post:0
premium: unknowm
prefetch: yes
notifications: yes
keepread: yes
thumbs: yes

2

The subscription screen was refactored since your app version.
The latest version should be out soon. cc @samuelclay

3

@andrei Apart from the premium archive subscription, is the latest Android app in sictiru branch ready to release?

4

@samuelclay Ready for release but I’d put out a beta release for a few days and then promoting it to production just because many changes went in since the last release.

5

There’s been a beta v13.0.0b4 since February and no commits since, so I’m going to release that to Production now.

6

@samuelclay No commits since February? Did you pull the latest from the sictiru branch?

7

I just installed the 13.0.0 update, and the same problem occurs.

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I couldn’t reproduce the issue on 13.0.0 from Play Store. @ednos Could you take a video of the issue?
@samuelclay Actually I forgot to push the sictiru branch in the parent repo since Feb. The latest changes are now available there as well.

9

Just published v13.1.0 with all of those changes. This should also put us back into compliance with the min SDK version. Should be approved within a day or two.

10

Sorry, I missed the notification for your reply. Thank you for spending some time on this. I am now on 13.0.0 and see the same issue; however, I am using the package from F-Droid. Upon further investigation, it appears the F-Droid packagers are removing subscription- and billing-related components:

F-Droid build removes Play Services, BillingClient, Play InApp-Review.

Near the bottom, the list of commands used to strip these components from the most recent version are visible:

  - versionName: 13.0.0
    versionCode: 212
    commit: cc748198db2b65f6fd47aa59e641963b3bec3f06
    subdir: clients/android/NewsBlur/app
    gradle:
      - yes
    rm:
      - clients/android/NewsBlur/app/src/main/java/com/newsblur/service/SubscriptionSyncService.kt
      - clients/android/NewsBlur/app/src/main/java/com/newsblur/subscription
    prebuild:
      - pushd ../../../..
      - mv clients/android/NewsBlur ..
      - rm -r ./*
      - mkdir -p clients/android
      - mv ../NewsBlur clients/android
      - popd
      - sed -i -e '/com.google.android.play/d' -e '/billingclient/d' build.gradle
      - sed -i -z -E -e 's/<service[^>]+SubscriptionSyncService[^>]+\/>//' src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
      - cd src/main/java/com/newsblur
      - sed -i -e '/play.core/d' -e '/void checkInAppReview/,/^    }/d' -e '/checkInAppReview/d'
        -e '/reviewInfo != null/,/^        }$/c super.onBackPressed();' -e '/Review/d'
        activity/FeedItemsList.java
      - sed -i -e '/SubscriptionSyncService/d' activity/InitActivity.kt activity/LoginProgress.kt
        util/PrefsUtils.java
      - echo 'package com.newsblur.activity;class SubscriptionActivity:NbActivity()
        {}' > activity/SubscriptionActivity.kt

I suspect that this is a limitation of the F-Droid build that I will need to accept if I continue using it.