1.0.10

• Fixed input area, emoji panel and reply section.
• Added accent color to mentions. Thank you nick-michael.
• Re-released version 1.0.10 because of a mistake.

1.0.9

• Reimplemented custom images properly this time around. Now you can set the background image to your own liking! 🎉
  • Bare in mind not to use very high resolution images, 720px wide images are enough for majority of users.
  • It's best to go to unsplash and find an image that you like, copy the image address and play around ...&auto=format&fit=crop&w=720 to see what works best for you.
• Fixed elements that broke since the last update.
• Tweaked a few things that looked out of place.

Update

• Added the ability to disable compact mode.
• Tweaked settings to show options properly.
• UI should be more polished than ever!

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Next release might contain a little bit of refactoring to make the code friendlier to maintain.

1 year anniversary update

• Added responsive design for resolutions smaller than 720px. Thanks to Luis for bringing it up and remind me! No need to disable fullscreen and background image in order to improve performance; it's already taken care of.
• Tweaked reply elements for text/image/link so everything should look properly now.
• Tweaked emojis once again, especially whenever you hover and select them. Brought back transitions as well.
• Fixed various hover effects showing up where they aren't supposed to.

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A year (and a week) ago I've made the style publicly available after it's been used and tested by my friend and I for quite a while. I ended up rewritting most of the old code to further improve upon it and that made it into the first public release. The style went through a number of different changes and I do hope everyone likes how it currently looks and the features that it offers. If you've got a suggestion to further improve it, do let me know.

There are two unescapable issues that's been made by WhatsApp developers:

1. Obfuscating code on every single release during last year and right now it's such a mess whenever I try to edit it. It used to be very different a year ago; they haven't had a single obfuscated line of CSS but, I suppose, time's changed. Now every single update has the potential to break something or even everything, and all you can do is wait for me to fix it.
2. Non-transparent background for emotes and that's a really poor decision on their end. There are 2418 emotes that need to be converted, or just the ones that majority of us use, but even then it'd be a terrible implementation. Here is the link so you can see them all. I brought this up because it's been reported by a number of people and there's not much I can do about it.

And finally, the style is close to 15k installs at the moment and it's truly fascinating! I'm very thankful for every single contribution that's been made over the past year; this style wouldn't be possible without your encouragement, comments, and the number of installs over at USo which served as a basic statistic. Big thank you to every single one of you for making this happen! ❤️

Minor update

• Tweaked pane headers so now they're shorter and match the UI a bit nicer.
• Fixed quite a few elements in emoji panel and in GIF search.
• Temporarily disabled emote transition because of the impact on overall performance, especially if you don't have hardware acceleration enabled. Every little bit counts.

Tweaks and fixes

• Added setting to change emoji opacity.
• Added a few missing styles.
• Fixed doodle background.
• Fixed search messages and entire emoji menu.
• Fixed tabs from other editor.
• Tweaked selected emoji animation.

Few tweaks

• Fully light colorschemes will work perfectly with the latest changes!
• Added core styles for status area, still WiP and any help is much appreciated.
• Fixed hiding message tails hiding sent messages, shootout to Adowrath on USO!
• A few small tweaks.

Quick patch

Fixed more obfuscated elements.

Feature update!

Tweaked many elements and added a number of old and some new features, such as:

• App background (custom image, no image, default image)
• Ability to disable chat doodles or message tails
• "Privacy mode" for contacts and images finally made a comeback
• Fullscreen app, because MildMethod is awesome!

Update

• Fixed input elements, archived chat image, notification icon, deleted message text and missing semicolons on the end, yes; I know I've been lazy.
• Added colored scrollbar for Chromium based browsers because people like their glowing scrollbars. Sorry *fox users.
• Rewrote code for emojis so now they should be rounder than ever! Also cuter. And also load faster!