Background uploading for Community users, Bug fixes

• Enables Community users to upload in the background and auto-upload photos and videos
• Updates help views
• Fixes a compatibility issue with Piwigo 12
• Fixes root album not refreshed after album deletion
• Fixes community.images.uploadCompleted not called when Core Data requests are faults

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Bug fixes

This version downloads the favorites in the background after login in.

• Corrects the "random" sorting option.
• Fixes a bug preventing the access to the albums/images when the download of favorites fails
• Fixes a bug leading to the deletions of upload requests when returning to the app.
• Fixes a crash occurring when editing photo properties
• Fixes a crash occurring when refreshing the Settings page is some circumstances
• Fixes a crash occurring when the retrieve of an object of the Photos Library fails
• Fixes the non-deletion of images in the "favorites" and "tags" smart albums

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Adds favorites management, Bug fixes

• Adds and removes a selection of photo/video from your favorites
• Fixes unmanaged normal user rights on iPad in landscape mode
• Fixes wrong determination of device orientation in some circumstances
• Fixes photo thumbnails not updated after having editing its filename or title
• Fixes position of favorite icon on iPad

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Improvements, Bug fixes

• Displays album thumbnails using saliency
• Will not try to auto-upload videos if the server doesn't accept them.
• Objective-C classes previewing images and videos are now converted to Swift.

• Fixes album cell swipe options not updated when auto-upload is disabled/enabled
• Fixes crash occurring when an alert is not presented by the main thread
• Fixes Core Data background task called from main thread
• Fixes a few crashes reported on the App Store
• Fixes background colour of navigation bar and toolbar in iOS 15

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UI & translations improvements, Bug fixes

• Uploads edited photos instead of original ones
• Improves the user interface of the album selector
• Improves translations (in particular Hungarian)

• Fixes Settings bundle in Hungarian
• Fixes album/image collection not showing "Loading…" at start
• Fixes app not pursuing uploads when the resources of a photo/video are missing

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Auto-upload photos and video, Bug fixes

• Auto-upload photos and video.
• Trigger auto-uploads e.g. with a personal automation at 23:00 daily (see help).
• Prioritises upload requests added manually when auto-uploads are in the queue.
• Improved photo and video downsizing options.
• Migration of the Core Data database at startup.
• Migration of the app settings database.
• New shared framework and container to prepare the arrival of extensions.

• Reduces memory footprint of upload manager and help presenter.
• Fixes bug preventing the creation of albums and the upload of photos when the selected root album is not the root of the gallery.
• Fixes bug leading to the collapse of the local album list when the iOS Photos app updates its database (# of albums > 23).
• Fixes bug preventing the move of albums in another branch of the parent folder.
• Fixes bug leading to the disappearance of the toolbar when deleting/moving photos in preview mode.
• Fixes wrong photo/video information shown in upload queue view

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Bug fixes & UI improvements

• Fixes the inability to present more than 256 tags
• Fixes the inability to present all searched images (was only presenting a first batch)
• Fixes crash and improves UI on iOS 9

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Bug fixes

• Fixes a crash occurring after uploads when the source album is emptied and the albums are displayed
• Fixes a crash occurring after uploads when the displayed source album is emptied
• Fixes progress windows not presented above all views
• Fixes pull-down refresh icon and text not always visible

Bug fixes

• Fixes wrong tag selection presented when editing photo properties for the first time.
• Fixes a crash occurring when trying to share a high-resolution photo whose URL was not provided by the server.
• Fixes Community users unable to upload photos to a Piwigo server in version 11.0 (patch using the old upload method until Piwigo 11 is fixed).
• Allows Community users with appropriate rights to create tags before uploading.
• Fixes crash occurring when selecting an album of the device amongst a collection of more than 23 albums when there are images in the clipboard.
• The user interface should not freeze anymore when creating a new tag while the app is uploading photos.
• Allows cancelling the share of many photos while the app prepares the files to share.
• Improves the behaviour of the progress bar of the upload queue button.
• The position of the Upload Queue button is now displayed at the right of the screen when the user has no admin rights.
• Hides the home indicator (horizontal bar at the bottom of the screen) when previewing images
• Fixes connection error wrongly reported when opening the app.
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Improved background uploading, Bug fixes

• Fixes the attribution of tags to a selection of photos
• Fixes prefix not added to filename when Done is not tapped
• Redesigned Appearance settings
• Improves background uploading reliability (avoids server overload)
• Minor bug fixes and improvements of the interface

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