When I asked the admin of lemmy.zip about images no longer loading in the Boost app but everything loading when I switch to my account on a different instance, the admin speculated that it’s Lemmy.zip’s move to convert all images to Avif. The theory makes sense, considering the move is recent and Boost had no problem displaying images from the server earlier. As such, I’m requesting Avif support in the app!
It also makes sharing images using iOS’s share functions not work because apps like Messenger don’t support AVIF. I have to screenshot (I use voyager). If this gets implemented, applying a conversion to a supported format for most apps might be a welcome addition, unless Android has wide support for AVIF natively?
avif has been fully supported in iOS since version 16.4. So the failure is on the app developer for not including it. Often with closed projects like these it’s caused by multiple teams not communicating.
https://caniuse.com/?search=avif
Android is more tricky to define as the app developer is free to use any library they want. But officially it’s been supported since Android 14.
https://developer.android.com/media/platform/supported-formats