🎉 Yapper v1.3.0 — We’re Live

📝 Overview

This is it.

With v1.3.0, Yapper officially launches as a fully realized social platform — a high-fidelity X-inspired experience built with React Native and Expo, crafted end-to-end with performance, polish, and realism in mind.

What began as a clone is now a complete product: seamless onboarding, rich media timelines, expressive tweeting, and deeply interactive profiles — all working together as one cohesive app.

Yapper is no longer a demo.
It’s a platform.

✨ What’s New in v1.3.0

💬 Real-Time Messaging (DMs)

• Fully live, socket-powered private chats
• Text messages and voice notes
• Message interactions and threaded replies
• Instant delivery with no refresh
• UI and behavior closely matching X-style DMs

🔔 Stay in the Loop (Smart Notifications)

• Brand-new in-app notification system

• Notifications triggered by:

  • Likes, reposts, replies, quotes, and mentions

• Smart aggregation built in:

  • “Saleh and Mohamed liked your post”
  • “Saleh liked 4 of your posts”

• Push notifications for all social activity plus new messages

🔎 Discover & Explore

• New Search & Explore experience

• Category tabs:

  • For You, Trending, News, Sports, Entertainment

• Trends reflect real activity inside the app

• Automatic content classification by category

• Search across:

  • Posts, people, hashtags
  • A specific user’s posts

🧠 AI-Powered Tweet Summaries

• Long tweets? No problem.
• Tap the Grok icon to instantly summarize tweet content

🧵 Smarter Tweets & Threads

• Reply to tweets

• Threaded replies rendered inline in the timeline

  • Visual thread connector between replies and parent tweets

• Mention users inside tweets

• Bookmark tweets for later

• View counts now displayed on tweets

🚀 Yapper v1.1.0 — The Experience Gets Real (60% Complete)

📝 Overview

Yapper takes a massive leap forward in this release.
Phase 3 brings us closer than ever to delivering a fully immersive, lightning-fast, X-style social experience — rebuilt from the ground up with React Native and Expo.

✨ What’s New

🔐 A Complete, Modern Sign-Up Experience

Onboarding is now fully re-created to match the real X flow:

• Smooth capture of name, email, and birthdate
• Secure OTP email verification
• Profile photo setup
• Personalized “What should we call you?” screen
• Upcoming onboarding steps (languages, preferences, recommendations) already built into the flow

Users now join Yapper with the same polish and personality they’d expect from a world-class social platform.

📝 Tweeting Reinvented — Richer, Faster, More Fun

The tweets module gets the biggest upgrade yet:

• Full action support: like, repost, quote

• Beautiful new Create Tweet and Create Quote screens

• Deep media integration:

  • Photos, videos, uploads
  • Autoplay video with X-style mute toggle

• Repost bottom sheet with actions that feel native to X

• A pixel-perfect UI/UX pass to mirror the real app’s behavior

📰 A Smarter, Smoother Timeline

Your timeline now feels dynamic and responsive:

• For You and Following feeds
• Pull to refresh
• Pagination for buttery-smooth performance
• Fully redesigned tweet layouts matching X’s visual language

👤 Profiles That Feel Personal

The profile area gets a huge upgrade:

• Full-size viewing for profile photos and banners
• A complete Edit Profile experience — name, bio, location, website, DOB, images
• Updated follower/following counts with detailed lists
• Fully implemented follow, unfollow, mute, and block interactions
• New profile tab layout: Tweets, Replies, Photos, Videos, Likes

Yapper v1.0.0 – (20% Feature Completion)

📝 Overview

This release marks Phase 2 of our X mobile app clone, built using React Native and Expo.
It delivers the foundation of the core X experience — including authentication, navigation shell, tweet interactions, and user profile management — accounting for approximately 20% of the total planned features.

✨ New Features

1. Authentication Flow

• Email and password sign-in
• Sign in with Google
• Sign in with GitHub
• “Forgot Password” recovery flow

2. App Shell & Navigation

• Persistent AppBar across main screens
• Bottom Tab Bar for quick navigation
• Sidebar drawer with smooth slide-in animations (mirroring X’s behavior)

3. Tweets Module

• Display tweets with full details (content, username, avatar, likes, reposts, etc.)

• Support for different tweet types: normal, quote, and repost

• Interactive tweet actions: like and repost

• Dedicated Post Interactions screen:

  • Shows likes, reposts, and quotes
  • Likes visibility restricted to the tweet owner

4. Profile Module

• Full user profile view (name, photo, banner, bio, etc.)
• View followers and following lists
• Follow/Unfollow, Mute/Unmute, and Block/Unblock functionalities
• View other users’ profiles with proper privacy handling