Since April 28, 2017 social network "Vkontakte" has once again updated its functionality. The innovations touched the application "Vkontakte" on the OS "Android", directly affecting other mobile applications ("Kate Mobile"), as well as related to "VK" Internet resources ("APIdog"). The most sensitive result of the conducted innovations was the elimination of the "invisibility" mode from the mobile "VK" functionality, which directly affected many users. In this article I will tell you why in Kate Mobile does not work invisible and, and how can you compensate for lost as a result of the update function.
"Vkontakte" changes its policy regarding "invisible"
As you know, one of the secrets of the popularity of the mobile application "Kate Mobile" was the opportunity to be in Vkontakte in invisibility mode. This mode had many advantages, one of which was the ability to enjoy the functionality social network without having to be distracted by annoying messages from other users. Especially appreciated the "invisible" mode of the girl, avoiding communication with not always desired, and at the same time rather persistent, gentlemen.
The administration of VK deliberately went to liquidate the invisibility regime, explaining this by the social nature of the network. "Vkontakte" is created for communication, it is called to facilitate communication, "invisible persons" are included in the dissonance with the specified principles. Therefore, the administration decided to get rid of the incognito regime, forcing a multitude of hiding invisible people to "get out of the dusk".
Invisible people from "VK" will have to "get out of the dusk"
What to do if the offline mode of Kate Mobile stopped working
As expected, disabling the "invisibility" caused a storm of indignation among many users of "VK". Some threaten to stop using "Kate Mobile", others - they call to leave with Vkontakte, others - threaten the court, the fourth - ask to sign a petition to "Mail.Ru Group" and managing director "Vkontakte" Andrei Rogozov with a request to return the invisibility regime (petition has already gained the required 25 thousand votes).
Of course, time heals, and the storm of indignation will soon subside. Nevertheless, on May 4, the administration of Kate Mobile has already managed to release an update to its application, which gives users a somewhat truncated version of the "invisibility" mode.
Update "Kate Mobile" with a reduced version of the invisibility mode
Now, to ensure the functionality of the invisibility program will not update the "Messages" and "News", and you will lose invisibility in the event that you send a message to someone, or publish an entry on your page.
Conditions for staying in "invisibility mode" in "Kate Mobile"
In case you want to violate anything from the "taboos of the invisible", the application will notify you of this with the appropriate notification.
Notice of loss of invisibility in "Kate Mobile"
The invisibility mode is activated by the transition to your profile, by clicking on the button with the phone's image, and by selecting the option "If possible, be offline."
Select "If possible be offline" to activate the invisibility mode
Other alternatives that exist on the network either do not work, or are capable of infecting your computer with any of the malignant virus programs. But if you know alternative effective options, share them in the comments to this article.
Conclusion
Elimination of the "invisibility regime" in "Kate Mobile" was due to the policy of the social network "Vkontakte", aimed at increasing communication between its users. Judging by the feedback from the administration and the support service of the "VC", the administration of "VK" is not going to change its policy, because users can either adapt or change the social network. And what do you choose.
In contact with
Kate Mobile - probably the second most popular client for Vkontakte after the official application for Android OS.
I will make a reservation at once, initially I had a free version with advertising (not too intrusive). At some point I wanted to download the paid version, but I did not find it in the market, so I downloaded it installation file *. apk from the group in the contact. (You can always find the current version in the "Documents").
My phone: Samsung Galaxy S4 9505. The period of active testing of the program is about a year.
The first thing that catches your eye - design.
Unlike the official client, Katya there are themes. You can simply change the color of the cap, and you can put a transparent theme and see the background of the desktop (the second option is closer to me).
In general, the program has a fairly flexible system of various settings.
For example, it can store data from several accounts.Highly convenient function for those who have two or three pages. Change of active record occurs literally for a couple of clicks, without entering a login and password. (I do not know how many accounts a maximum).
The most wonderful and my favorite feature of Katya is the online settings.The program offers us "if possible be offline". And it really works! When I do not want to advertise my presence in the social network, I'm only sitting with Katya) I read the news, I correspond, I look through the pages of friends, listen to music, put the husky-and I'm supposedly "out of the access zone".
Perhaps the implementation of some actions and makes the program declassify the presence of the user, but so far I have not encountered this)))) (It was cleared up - online issues personal records on the wall, not reposts!)
Friends in shock, even screenshots of correspondence with me send))))
Same you can already read the message as unread.
For two absolutely polar categories of people - paranoid and amateurs letting hold the phone to the right and left, the security of the application is thought out - you can enter the password at the entrance to it.
I also found it useful confirmation function before closing the program. Often I miss the number of clicks of the "back" button when returning from anywhere and the application is minimized. Katya is now gone)
In a duet with the ADM application, music from the contact can be downloaded.
The program stores the cache of previously visited pages and even without an active Internet connection, you can view some of the information.
From the tape, you can easily unload news only friends, and in each dialogue there is a convenient item "materials from the conversation."
During the use of this program, my pages never broke.
I think to completely remove official customer from the phone. I recommend!
Today we are solving a rather narrow question, which we received from one of our readers.
The task is dedicated to the Android-program called Kate Mobile and it sounds like this: what to do if the program does not want to play music and gives out the message "Can not play this audio because of the copyright owner's demand"?
By the way, a fairly detailed review of this unofficial client for the social network Vkontakte we conducted on the page. And also this application perfectly copes with the task.
Now let's get back to work and try to solve a problem that does not allow listening to music in the Kate Mobile program for Android and tells us about any requirements of the copyright holder. The screen to present this nasty message is more clearly located at the beginning of the post.
Many users mobile version Kate Mobile has probably noticed that this warning appears in the application installed from Google Play. If you also installed it from the application store, then just delete it.
Remove Kate Mobile (version from Play Store)
You can remove the program very simply.
Just go to the "Settings" of your mobile device, then find the "Applications" button, and then tap on the "All" tab of the application.
Scroll down the list until you find the desired application "Kate Mobile for Android", which was installed from the application store.
Tap on it - the "About application" menu opens. I recommend that you do this in order:
- clear cache
- erase data
- remove
Now Google Play's version of the program is removed.
Further actions also will not cause the reader problems, everything is done quickly simply.
So, let's proceed to the next step.
Install the official version of the program from the developer's site
We move from your favorite browser to the official developer page. Here, actually, the address itself is http://katemobile.ru/. This page will load:
At the time of writing, the current and most recent version of Kate Mobile for Android is 18.1. Click on the "Download" button and wait. After downloading install and enjoy.
Thus, an error with the playback of music (audio) - "This audio can not be reproduced because of the copyright owner's request" at the Kate program Mobile will automatically disappear. You just need to switch from the version from Google Play to the version downloaded from the official site!
Tried personally - it helped.
Kate Mobile - this free program for Android, with which you can use the functionality of your VKontakte page without any problems. Anyone can ask why it's necessary to download this application if you can use the official one? The main feature of the application in question is the invisibility function. Many users dream to watch videos, pictures, correspond, but not be online, with Kate Mobile it became possible!
The invisible program has a simple and intuitive interface, its functionality is not inferior to its counterpart. You can also see your page and other people's profiles, view all open information, correspond, create group chats. All the functions listed do not make sense, they are the same as all used to use. And when you go to the Kate Mobile settings, you will find many new and interesting features that will help you to reconfigure the program for yourself.
How to turn on the invisible VKontakte on Android with Kate Mobile
To do this, you need to go to the settings of the application, they open them with the button in the upper right corner, and find the item called "Online". Click on it and choose what we need. It should be noted that if the user leaves any record on his wall, or the wall of other participants, then the statute of the ignorant disappears, this is all that should be known that would not "burn".
