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[Widget] Blue bars and doesn't take me directly to edit, always new note #2748
Description
This issue respects the following points:
- I have read the FAQ
- I have searched for existing issues
- The issue affects the Notes Android app, neither the Notes server app nor the Nextcloud Android app.
Describe the bug
When I have the widget on the home screen it now shows large blue bars over weird sections of the text as if it is a rendering issue. This only started happening in the last half week or so.
Additionally when I click/tap on any of the notes in the list it now just takes me to creating a new note, instead of editing/viewing the one I clicked/tapped on.
Expected behavior
I expect the blue bars to not block the text so I can actually read the name of the note, and when I click/tap on notes I want to edit/view that note, instead of creating yet another new note.
Notes Android version
4.4.1
Notes server version
4.12.2
Nextcloud Android version
3.32.2
Nextcloud version
29.0.8
Device
Samsung XCover6 Pro
Android Version
15
App Store
- Google Play Store
- F-Droid
- Huawei App Gallery
Stacktrace
No response
Reacted by GUSC68, Adam, Florence Birée, Juan Torres, PeterBeu, Levrden, Phaet, Michał Walczak, eve-nisse and Tobias Reiher
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BloodyIron commentedon Jul 25, 2025
This is a cropped version of what it looks like (the blue bars).
KlausHuber commentedon Jul 26, 2025
I don't have the rendering problems, but I can confirm the issue that tapping on a note widget on my home screen leads to a new note instead of editing/viewing the one I tapped on.
This behavior was there on my Pixel 8a with Android 15 and is still there with Android 16.
The problem exists since roughly 1 week. Removing and recreating the widget does not help.
af7567 commentedon Jul 28, 2025
On Notes v4.4.0 from f-droid I also have the new note instead of widget note editing issue. It was ok in v4.3.1
g-work commentedon Jul 30, 2025
I also have both problems (new note and blue bars). Also the heading of the widget and the +-symbol to add new notes are missing.
Android 15, Notes 4.4.2 (Google Play), Nextcloud App 3.32.2 (Google Play)
Phaet commentedon Jul 31, 2025
Same here (Samsung Galaxy S24). The widget is now close to useless. 😠
BloodyIron commentedon Aug 1, 2025
Ahh yes the + symbol is missing for me too!
I also get all the undesired effects on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 tablet, so not isolated to my phone.
BloodyIron commentedon Aug 1, 2025
Is there any way we can roll back to earlier versions? I don't know if Google Play offers that as an option.
zaldih commentedon Aug 4, 2025
Hi!
I've been having the same problem for a few days now. I've attached a screenshot of the problem.
I also swear there's no bar at the top for quickly creating notes.
Gorendal commentedon Aug 7, 2025
I got the same issue with the blue bars in a notes list widget (Android 12, Samsung S10e). But tapping on a specific note opens exactly this note (expected behavior) , not a new one like reported by others.
However:
Wasn't there the name (category) of a note-list at the top of a list in a List Widget displayed before ? This category is missing now in my list-widgets. There are now only the names of the different notes displayed without the category at the top.
Levrden commentedon Aug 11, 2025
I have the obtainium/github version
Pixel8 graphene os android 16
No blue line, but issue that it opens a new note instead of editing the one I click one
Issue on the two widget types, list and single note
I noticed that when I change the name of the note, it works just once
BloodyIron commentedon Aug 13, 2025
So considering this is very obviously a regression... can we get this fixed please? It's been 3 weeks and the notes app which I paid for by the way is somewhat useless now. :/ and I don't seem to have the option to roll back to a previous version.
Phaet commentedon Aug 28, 2025
The mistery of the blue bars: When setting the Android display to light the categories are displayed as a tag with blue font and frame on light background. Switching the Android display to dark, only blue bars a shown. Probably the font should be white in this case, but isn't.
Unfortunately the widget does not adhere to the dark/light settings of the notes app.
g-work commentedon Aug 28, 2025
That makes sense, thanks a lot! But opening a note out of the list still creates a new one instead of opening the selectet note.
BloodyIron commentedon Aug 29, 2025
It's been more than a month and we haven't had any dev chime in. I paid for this app! We really need this regression reversed... COME ON.
af7567 commentedon Aug 29, 2025
With the single note widget I fixed this by adding
templateIntent.putExtra(BaseNoteFragment.PARAM_NOTE_ID, data.noteId)on the line after:notes-android/app/src/main/java/it/niedermann/owncloud/notes/widget/singlenote/SingleNoteWidget.kt
Line 63 in 316e67e
However I can't see why the Kotlin version doesn't work the same as the Java version did. It must be something to do with the setData call since I can't see another way that the note id would have been sent from the Java widget.
BloodyIron commentedon Oct 9, 2025
So it's now OCTOBER and this was reported in JULY and this hasn't been fixed. COME ON. This was obviously a regression, which should mean correcting this shouldn't take this long, and I don't even think the developers are taking this seriously.
BloodyIron commentedon Jan 12, 2026
Okay it's now JANUARY 2026, and as far as I can tell this is just being ignored. Can we please get insights as to what is actually going on here? I really don't think the concerns raised are unreasonable at all.
Gorendal commentedon Feb 19, 2026
Great! Now finally the blue bars in the notes list widget have been replaced by the categories.
Thanks a lot!
Only one small additional request:
Would it be possible to only show the category in the list widget once the width covers at least 3 blocks? Otherwise the category overlaps the name of the note too much (see sample picture!)
BloodyIron commentedon Oct 27, 2026
Tapping on notes on the widget still 100% of the time takes me to creating a new note... I am doubtful core usability bugs like this will be fixed ever. I haven't had the blue bars in a long while, but the creating a new node instead of editing an existing one has been broken this whole time. 1.5 years now and I'm sure it's really not a complex thing to fix.
magikmw commentedon Oct 27, 2026
I'm pretty sure this wont get fixed.
I've been keeping "rewrite nc notes and deck for android" in my backlog for half a year now.
nkming2 commentedon Oct 28, 2026
#3312 should fix this
g-work commentedon Oct 28, 2026
I'm on version 35.0.0 (Playstore) and tapping on a note title still opens a new empty note.
magikmw commentedon Oct 28, 2026
Linked PR was only merged yesterday, this needs a new release. 35 is from Sept 16th.