ElJay
Current version: 0.9.9.7
For support, please email us at android@dytara.com, or visit ElJay's LiveJournal Community!
About ElJay
ElJay is a LiveJournal client for Android, perhaps even the first, allowing you to post entries to the LiveJournal online journal service. To create an account, visit www.livejournal.com.
Download
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is LiveJournal / How do I log in?
LiveJournal is an online blogging service, available at http://www.livejournal.com. To be able to log in to the service, you must create an account at their site. They have many different packages available, starting at free, and the maximum amount is still really inexpensive.
I don't use LiveJournal, but the blog site uses the same code as LJ. Can I use ElJay?
You certainly can, as of 0.9.9.4. ElJay now supports any blogging service that uses the same URL structure or codebase as LiveJournal, using the open sourced code. When you launch ElJay, click Menu, and then Settings. Once you scroll to the bottom, you'll find a server setting. Select that, and enter the domain name of your blogging service, like www.deadjournal.com. Hit OK, and log in with your username and password, and you're ready to go!
ElJay crashes at startup, or 'quits unexpectedly'. What do I do?
This shouldn't happen anymore, but we can try a few things from here. First, make sure you are running the latest revision of ElJay (0.9.9.7), from Android Market. If you are, attempt to uninstall ElJay by going to your program list, selecting 'Settings', then 'Applications', 'Manage Applications', select ElJay, and hit the Uninstall button. Once the application has been uninstalled successfully, go back to Android Market and attempt installation again.
Why doesn't ElJay let me edit my last post, edit any post, read my friends page, send pictures, etc?
Little by little, I'm adding features to the client. This will come as things stabilize!
Version History
0.9.9.7, 2009-11-21 at 4:30pm CST- Bug Fixes:
- Fix random crashers in posting and login
- Remove 'Add' menu, as it's no longer required
- May fix some 'Unknown error' issues on login
- What's New:
- Minor visual changes
- Bug Fixes:
- Regress SDK to 1.5 to avoid force close on startup
- What's New:
- Now includes a reporter to send crash reports to our servers. This contains no personal information, not even your IP address, but if you disagree, please uninstall the application.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed issue where some could not log in despite careful entering of their password
- Now supports full Unicode, so non-latin languages like Russian are now fully supported
- No longer attempts login if no network connection is available
- Fixes a minor issue where some userpics would not actually be communicated to the server
- What's New:
- Save multiple drafts and call them back to post at any time, including userpics, filters, and privacy
- No longer toggle on/off post options, they're now located in an Options tab
- Switched to the more modern LJ API
- Caches userpics, no more waiting around for images to load every time
- Now retrieves updated moods from the server
- Select any of your defined friend filters
- Post to any of the journals or communities attached to your account
- Supports posting to any site that uses the LiveJournal codebase, including DeadJournal
- Formatting buttons now properly set the insertion point
- Reorganized settings section, now offer greater control over location
- Partial Russian translation
- Now supports new small and large screened devices
- More posting fixes.
- Fixed crasher when a login fails, and you attempt to log in immediately after.
- Fixed crasher/loop when orientation is switched during login process.
- Fixed endless loop of logging in during some types of network outages.
- Now saves a draft of a post when you click post, in case of unforeseen network or application errors.
- Adds a basic formatting toolbar to quickly add bold, italic, underline, user, and cut tags.
- Deactivate post and userpic buttons until successful login.
- Added progress and updates on auto-login process.
- Improved reliability of location grabbing.
- Fixed a bug regarding error handling, so login now reports the real reason for failure, instead of the generic network/server error all the time.
- Fixed a bug where auto-login would hang on the logging in dialog without completing login.
- Fixed a bug where a successful post would still cause a dialog to hang around.
- Speed increases for each function shift -- switching modes is now faster for login, userpic selection, preferences, and even rotation.
- Reworked networking, again, resulting in faster login, posting, and a 20% memory reduction. This should also help take care of issues some people were having with logging in.
- Reworked userpic browser. You can now see the titles of your userpics if the pic doesn't load properly, and the window loads in realtime instead of a long delay.
- Autologin now skips the login screen, allowing you to immediately start writing your entry.
- Automatic save as draft functionality for unexpected quits, phone restarts, and task switching.