Mastodos

A fork of the official Mastodon Android app adding important features that are missing in the official app and possibly won’t ever be implemented, such as the federated timeline, unlisted posting, bookmarks and an image description viewer.

Changes

Features

• Add “Unlisted” as a post visibility option (Pull request)
• Add “Federation” tab and change Discover tab order (Closes issue)
• Add image description button and viewer (Pull request)
• Implement pinning posts and displaying pinned posts (Pull request)
• Implement a bookmark button and list (Closes issue)
• Add “Check for update” button in addition to integrated update checker
• Add “Mark media as sensitive” option
• Add settings to hide replies and reposts from the timeline (Pull request)
• Follow and unfollow hashtags (Closes issue)

Behavior

• Make back button return to the home tab before exiting the app (Closes issue)
• Always preserve content warnings when replying (Closes issue)
• Display full image when adding image description (Pull request)
• Implement deleting and re-drafting (Closes issue)
• Set spoiler height independently to content height (Closes issue)

Installation

To install this app on your Android device, download the latest release from GitHub and open it. You might have to accept installing APK files from your browser when trying to install it. You can also take a look at all releases on the Releases page.

Mastodos makes use of Mastodon for Android’s automatic update checker. Mastodos will check for new updates available on GitHub and offer to download and install them. You can also manually press “Check for updates” at the bottom of the settings page!

Branding

• App name “Mastodos”
• Pink primary color
• Custom icon: Modulate upstream icon using ImageMagick

  mogrify -modulate 90,100,140 mastodon/src/main/res/mipmap-*/ic_launcher*.png
  

Building

As this app is using Java 17 features, you need JDK 17 or newer to build it. Other than that, everything is pretty standard. You can either import the project into Android Studio and build it from there, or run the following command in the project directory:

./gradlew assembleRelease

License

This project is released under the GPL-3 License.