• Save time when the app was first installed
• Save the first installed version
• Save auto reply stats with these three fields "date", "auto_reply_num", "service"

This helps in a few ways.

• Will help that with database migrations
• We can show a counter to the user showing how many messages have been auto replied
• We can detect if the app has been sufficiently used and can ask user to give a review or to try out advanced hidden features.

I'll have to go through play store guidelines once again but if we are accessing private user data, play store requires us to show privacy policy in the app itself. I think accessing notifications constitute private/sensitive user data.

WhatsApp creates notification for older unread messages after some time if the user dismissed those without reading. The app should avoid replying to those messages if there is a way to check for original message time

Imagine if both users are using our app for auto reply and if one of them texts the other, that would create an infinite loop of auto replies.

Limit the time between each auto reply for the same person by at least a few seconds will solve this issue. 30 seconds to be safe?

Website is a bit behind

Save the following in shared prefs:

• app first installed time
• app first installed version
• app last used version

Why:

• We will need this information to decide what new options/features to set or reset to not break old behavior
• Database or shared preferences migration

This was addressed in #22 to some extent but the right way would be to store time when the app is enabled and then avoid replying to notifications older than that.

We fixed #22 by avoiding replying to notifications older than 1 min but that logic can be flawed.

Related #22

https://github.com/adeekshith/watomatic/pull/78/files

We should be careful with these things from next time.
My bad. I should have checked.

Also check if anything else is missing.

Can create standard androidx settings activity which I believe comes with shared prefs manager by default (Correct if I am wrong). ON/OFF switch in MainActivity can also use the settings activity data manager to set/get app enabled setting.

Need a small share button with icon and text at the bottom of the screen to make it easy for users to share the app.

Add a feature to allow users to set reply frequency. For example if the user sets frequency to 1 day, then it auto replies to same person only once every day.

We should perhaps remove the time picker and replace it with a number picker to pick number of days instead of min and hours.

It works fine later but when the app is first installed, and notifications permissions are assigned, the auto reply switch gets enabled but group chat switch remains OFF

Hi, Small request for developers! Enable beta tester on play store. It's better if we can easily update the beta app from play store. Thank you. 💚

How to reproduce,
turn the group chat setting on -> close and reopen the app and you'll see the group chat setting is Off

Yes, Auto-Reply doesn't work when you receive more than 1 message at a time. And if the messages are same, then it doesn't reply either.

Steps to re-produce:

• Send a text(something like this - "blahh") twice on WhatsApp to the one device that you've Watomatic installed.
• You can now see that, only message will be sent not 2. When the frequency is un-restricted.

We now have more than one languages in our app but no language selection button. This needs to be implemented

Changes introduced in #24 need these changes:

• Rename logs package and Logs classes to WhatsappAutoReplyLogs
• Same as above... rename db name
• Rename CustomDialog class to NotificationPermissionRequestDialog
• Also there is a new warning in the build logs which might need a look:
  Schema export directory is not provided to the annotation processor so we cannot export the schema. You can either provide room.schemaLocation annotation processor argument OR set exportSchema to false. at this line public abstract class ReplyLogsDatabase extends RoomDatabase { ...

Feel free to find better naming convention than what I came up with but the point is to use specific and meaningful names to avoid confusion.

I could make it work well on emulator but having problems on my own device.
Will try debugging it.

We are not saving package name while saving send reply logs. This will create bugs if auto reply is enabled for multiple apps

What if try to add below written content as an option.?
=> Refer this link for Signal APIs. And this link for some idea.
What I wanted to say is that, there exist some people in the world whom you cannot convince or change their mind at any cost and keep texting you on WhatsApp no matter what! What I wanted to do is that, for a time being, make a bot, that grabs the message from WhatsApp i.e received at the moment, and forward that to a group that you create for receiving WhatsApp messages on Signal. And as said before, this requires Signal API and WhatsApp notification access and WhatsApp installed on device as of now. That's it.
But what I want is to make something that doesn't require any device to be active, instead, what I want is, something, like, a server, that forwards the message using APIs of both the Apps. For example, we can use js for that. And use a google sheet as a free source to for every individual for receiving and forwarding messages. Just like we use jupyter notebook on the internet.
I can explain my idea further for better understanding, but as of now, I think that's enough!

@pixincreate requests for comment on above topic. This was originally posted by @pixincreate in issue #106 but I moved it here.

• r/watomatic: https://www.reddit.com/r/watomatic
• Share icon: https://git.io/watomatic

r/watomatic in the center and share icon without text to the right

Instead of showing blank or (Custom Reply), set a default message like this: "This user is not available on this app anymore."

Do not save it to database but just make it return the default message if database/sharedPrefs returns null.

Notification listener checks for "REPLY" button text and matches only in English. If users set any other language on WhatsApp, it may fail.

### Implement Play store in app review

Come up with a logic to determine user has sufficiently used the app and then ask for review using in-app review: https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-review/
Suggestions for triggering:
- 5 days of usage
- 10 auto reply messages sent

Add tagline in smaller font "to help you leave WhatsApp" below this heading in main activity "Auto reply for WhatsApp"

We intended to enable only WhatsApp for users upgrading the app (to preserve behavior) but enable all supported apps (WhatsApp and FB messenger) for new installs.

But it is only enabling WhatsApp even for new installs.
Tested by clearing app data and opening the app.

If auto reply to each text is too annoying, users can enable this setting so it only auto replies once per 5min/hour/day/3days/week/until disabled.

Includes issue #77

If the required permission does not exist, show a dialog explaining why we need and how to enable it. Navigate to the settings activity only after user responds to the dialog.

This would also cover almost all the information that we need for PlayStore

• Input cannot exceed max string length
• Input cannot be empty

We need to start and stop the service as and when user wants using toggle switch

Can have a small "About" text button on the main screen clicking on which opens a new activity.

AboutActivity should contain the following:

• App name and version
• Privacy policy (link)
• Website and Source code (link)
• Contributors (link https://github.com/adeekshith/<wareply/watomatic>/graphs/contributors)
• Link to @adeekshith twitter handle at the bottom (link https://twitter.com/adeekshith)

Long press on app icon should show shortcut to turn on/off the app

Add error stroke color or error labels to indicate something is wrong with the user selection.
Few examples of such errors:

• Main auto reply OFF
• None of the Apps (WhatsApp/FB) are selected

Move "SAVE" button in the CustomReplyEditorActivity to action bar (top right).

Hi,

As a User I would like to have the option to toggle whether watomatic notifies me that it has just auto-replied as the original notification has been read and is no longer available.

Possible options:

• Off/Notify always/daily digest (specify days maybe)

Regards,
Ralf