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[2024.2]

This release adds support for version 2024.2 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Add "onLayout" handler for components.
  • Add 'allowForward' and 'allowBackwards' properties to the event context of ScrollView, Sequence and GridSequence.
  • Add 'screenLock' property to the video component
  • Add text metrics to text component’s "onTextLayout" handler.
  • Add -experimentalIsReactive and Reactive Conditional Inflation.
  • Add 'pointerEvents' to control pointer events consumption rules.
  • Add PackageManager API to handle imports.

Changed

  • Bug fixes
  • Performance improvements

[2024.1]

This release adds support for version 2024.1 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Added an “onChange” handler bound variables and moved all “bind” documentation to the Bounds Variables section
  • Added Visibility Change section discussing visibility change handlers. Added handleVisibilityChange component handler
  • Add the Map.keys() function to Map functions
  • Add pseudoLocalization to the document to enable localization-related testing of textual components
  • Add maxHeight, maxWidth, minHeight, minWidth to the onConfigChange handler
  • Add -experimentalHardwareAccelerationForAndroid as an experimental flag for enabling hardware acceleration for AVG rendering in Android devices as a document setting
  • Add accessibilityAdjustableRange and accessibilityAdjustableValue as new properties. Add the “increment” and “decrement” standard actions
  • Add 'AudioItemId' property to audioplayer extension

Changed

  • Bug fixes
  • Performance improvements

[2023.3]

This release adds support for version 2023.3 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Add Log command
  • Support conditional imports
  • Support gradient as Frame background
  • Add duration control for scrolling animations
  • Add onChildrenChanged handler to Multichild component
  • Add data field expansion for Sequential and Parallel commands
  • Alpha feature: Support autosizing of Host component

Changed

  • Bug fixes
  • Performance improvements

[2023.2]

This release adds support for version 2023.2 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Deferred evaluation
  • SeekTo command for video
  • Alpha feature: Host component
  • Alpha feature: Support for viewport autosize
  • Alpha feature: InsertItem and RemoveItem command

Changed

  • Bug fixes
  • Performance improvements.

[2023.1]

Added

  • Three Porter-Duff operations to the Blend filter
  • Selector syntax for choosing the target of a command
  • TextTrack property for closed captions

Changed

  • Bug fixes.

[2022.2.1]

Changed

  • Bug fixes.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Build improvements.

[2022.2.0]

This release adds support for version 2022.2 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Support selective preservation of sequencers and associated state upon re-inflation.
  • Allow easy synchronization of visual and audio with onSpeechMark handler.
  • Alpha feature: Scene graph rendering to provide simplified drawing instructions to the view host.

Changed

  • Bug fixes.
  • Videos can be muted/unmuted by setting the corresponding property.

[2022.1.1]

Changed

  • Bug fixes

[2022.1.0]

This release adds support for version 2022.1 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Alpha feature: New APL Extensions lifecycle.
  • Alpha feature: Added new encryption and webflow interfaces into the extension library.
  • Added log id to help to track logs between multiple experiences.
  • Video now can be muted and unmuted dynamically.

Changed

  • Bug fixes.
  • Build improvements.
  • Fixed typos and cleanup formatting.
  • Improved localization handling within core.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Update Yoga dependency to 1.19.

[1.9.1]

Changed

  • Performance improvements.
  • Bug fixes.

[1.9.0]

This release adds support for version 1.9 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Added new flag to disallow video player.
  • Added new gesture, Tap.
  • Added support for animating bound values and vector graphic parameters.
  • Added support for source http headers on images, vector graphics and video tracks.
  • Allow config change objects to contain custom environment property values.

Changed

  • Alpha feature: APL Extension logic is no longer interleaved with APL
  • Bug fixes.
  • Build improvements.

[1.8.1]

Changed

  • Bug fixes

[1.8.0]

This release adds support for version 1.8 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Added events to notify about readiness and failure for video tracks
  • Added events to notify success or failure loading images and vector graphics
  • Added flags to SendEvent Command to allow runtimes to modify the UserEvent behavior
  • New version of the media player for video tracks
  • Runtimes can get the display state of a document to identify if it is hidden, in the background or foreground.
  • Support for data-binding in the document environment property
  • Alpha feature: Added extension component to allow extensions to render contents

Changed

  • OnMount now run for components inflated after the initial pass and on normal mode
  • Removed lang and layoutDirection from the document to environment
  • Improved focus behavior
  • Bug fixes
  • Build improvements

[1.7.2]

Changed

  • Bug fixes

[1.7.1]

Changed

  • Bug fixes

[1.7.0]

This release adds support for version 1.7 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Added new position sticky for children containers
  • Support specifying layout direction for components as well as the entire document
  • Support for document level language
  • Extended swipe away gesture to support forward and backward directions
  • Added support for <span> text markup
  • Added start*, end* and padding variants to override left* and right* variants depending on layoutDirection
  • Data-binding definitions now support Array and Maps
  • Alpha feature: Improved extension message builder API
  • Alpha feature: Extension client now supports modification of non-defined LiveMap members
  • Alpha feature: APL Audio Player Extension. The Audio Player Extension extends APL capabilities providing a custom audio player extension

Changed

  • Data grammar now translates to byte code
  • Performance improvements during the inflation process
  • Component properties shadowColor, shadowHorizonalOffset, shadowRadius and shadowVerticalOffset are now also styled and dynamic
  • Pager navigation and pageDirection properties are now also dynamic
  • Updated reported APL version to 1.7
  • Other bug fixes
  • Build improvements

[1.6.3]

Changed

  • Bug fixes

[1.6.2]

Changed

  • Bug fixes

[1.6.1]

Changed

  • Improved pager fling behavior to provide a more consistent navigation
  • Fixed keyboard and focus handling when wrapping an EditText in a TouchWrapper
  • Updated PEGTL to version 2.8.3
  • Visibility property in visual context rounded to 2 decimal points
  • Perfomance improvements
  • Other bug fixes

[1.6.0]

This release adds support for version 1.6 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Reinflation support for viewport size and orientation changes
  • Add handlePageMove property to Pager to allow custom transitions
  • Add pageDirection to support vertical pagers
  • Added support for <nobr> text markup
  • New Math functions: Math.int and Math.float
  • New API to expose visible children of a component
  • Support bound values in layouts
  • Alpha feature: Asynchronous management of media requests
  • Alpha feature: Focus EditText on tap
  • Alpha feature: Alexa Extensions library. The Alexa Extensions library facilitates extending APL capabilities by providing custom extensions

Changed

  • Build improvements
  • Extended key handling to offer consistent spatial (focus) navigation experience accross platforms
  • Extended handling of all scrolling and fling gestures
  • Enumgen tool improvements
  • Handle pager animations consistently across all platforms
  • Made string locatization configurable with platform-specific implementations
  • Memory management improvements
  • Previously styled properties that only affect component bounds are now also dynamic
  • Other bug fixes

[1.5.1]

Changed

  • Improved native SwipeAway behavior
  • Fixed JSON serialization of singular transforms
  • Build improvements
  • Other bug fixes

[1.5.0]

This release adds support for version 1.5 of the APL specification.

Added

  • New Math functions: Math.isNaN, Math.isInf and Math.isFinite
  • New Array functions: Array.indexOf, Array.range, Array.slice
  • New String function: String.length
  • Report visible children from Sequence and GridSequence components
  • DropShadow filter for AVG
  • Accessibility: add fontScale, screenMode, screenReader, and timing properties to environment.
  • Accessibility: Added actions and role to base component.
  • Extensions: extensions can provide custom image filters
  • Support bind in AVG
  • Report when the visual context is dirty
  • Alpha feature: handle scrolling and paging in the APL Core library
  • Alpha feature: scroll snapping
  • Alpha feature: custom transitions for Pager

Changed

  • Updated reported APL version to 1.5
  • Accessibility: Update accessibilityLabel property to be dynamic
  • Update AVG inflation to support the multi-child inflation rules
  • Update gesture processing to consider applied transforms
  • Bug fixes
  • Build improvements

See README.md for more details on alpha features.

[1.4.1]

This is a bug fix release of apl-core-library.

Added

  • (Alpha) Report visible children from Sequence and GridSequence components. See README.md for more details on alpha features.

Changed

  • Fixed visual context reporting for multi-child components
  • Fixed visitor handling in pager component
  • onPress is now correctly handled when a touchable component is transformed
  • Improved reporting when attempting to update non-dynamic properties
  • Fixed resource lookups during dependency propagation of data-binding context
  • Fixed windows build
  • Stop exposing context.h externally

[1.4.0]

This release adds support for version 1.4 of the APL specification.

Added

  • New components: EditText and GridSequence
  • New AVG features (e.g. text support) and improvements
  • Tick handlers
  • onDown, onMove, and onUp event handlers to touchable components (e.g VectorGraphic and TouchWrapper)
  • Gesture support
  • Named sequencers for commands in order to control which commands can execute in parallel
  • Transcendental math functions
  • Misc updates to component properties

Changed

  • Updated reported APL version to 1.4
  • Bug fixes
  • Build improvements

[1.3.3]

This release is a bug fix release of apl-core-library

Added

  • Added support for memory checks with valgrind during unit testing

Changed

  • Fixed windows build
  • Fixed a bug in Math.random implementation that caused random numbers not to use the full range of possible values

[1.3.2]

This release fixes a performance regression found in release 1.3.1.

Changed

  • Optimized layout during scrolling

[1.3.1]

This release is a bug fix release of apl-core-library.

Added

  • dynamicIndexList: Allow data source bounds to be grown. Previously, they could only be shrunk.
  • dynamicIndexList: Trigger a RuntimeError when a response to a LoadIndexListData request times out
  • dynamicIndexList: Trigger a RuntimeError when a directive is buffered longer than a specified duration

Changed

  • dynamicIndexList: improved handling of delayed responses
  • Expose settings to the runtime before a document is fully inflated
  • Better handling of spacing when components change dynamically
  • Better handling of empty item inflation
  • Fixed memory leak
  • Minor bug fixes

[1.3.0]

Welcome to the March 2020 release of apl-core-library. This release supports version 1.3 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Added support for Windows and the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler.
  • Added support for Finish Command.
  • Added background property to documents.
  • Added Time functions for displaying and formatting time values. Included three top-level bound variables for the current time: elapsedTime, localTime, and utcTime.
  • Added export to documents.
  • Added support for the Select command.
  • Added document extensions, extension event handlers and extension commands. The data-binding environment includes a new extensions property that informs the APL document which extensions have been loaded.
  • Added definition for new Backstack Extension to enable back navigation.
  • Added handleKeyUp and handleKeydown properties to the top-level APL document and components.
  • Added dynamic data containers: LiveArray and LiveMaps.

Changed

  • Updated reported version numbers from 1.2 to 1.3.
  • Bug fixes.