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Changelog

[2024.3]

This release adds support for version 2024.3 of the APL specification.

Added

  • Add the ImportPackage Command. Refactored the APL Package section to consolidate common package definitions. Included the accept property for all package loading. Add an environment property packages to list packages loaded at document inflation.
  • Add List tags to support bulleted lists.
  • Add data as allowed image source type.
  • Add FlexSequence Component.
  • Add role to context elements.
  • Add the String.indexOf, String.lastIndexOf, and String.includes functions to String functions.

Changed

  • Bug fixes.
  • Performance improvements.

[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.