Version 0.5 of SDK Released (Release Notes)

[BC-Ashley]

Release Notes (0.5.0)

Features

• Ability to turn on/off native navigation. On iOS this is the native tabbar and on Android this is the options menu that is populated with each view. This is controlled via a new value in the manifest.xml file of platformConfig. See example below:
  

          <template>
            <name>Your template name</name>
            <platformConfig>
              <iOS nativeNavigation="false"/&Gt;
              <Android nativeNavigation="false"/&Gt;
            </platformConfig&Gt;
            ...
        

  By turning off the native navigations schemes and using the navigateToView API, template authors can now create navigation schemes similar to the ones seen in apps like Facebook and Linkedin.
• A new viewfocus event, which is fired whenever a view gains focus.
• A new viewblur event, which is fired whenever a view loses focus.
• Improvements to the android loading screens -- ability to support portait and landscape for Android Tablets
• Improved error messaging when reading the manifest.xml file
• iTunes store links now open up in App Store app. E.g., URLs that begin with http://itunes.apple.com
• Android market links now open in Android market app. E.g., URLs that begin with http://market.android.com
• iOS Workshop now supports HTTP redirects for manifest URL (E.g., bit.ly URLs)

Bug Fixes

• Ability to load option menu icons over HTTPS for Android apps
• Return key now works for Android Workshop when running on an HTC phone
• Passing a bad URL to the bc.core.fetchContentFeed() function now results in calling the error callback.
• The loading spinner for the PlaylistComponent is now centered on the page.
• bc.device.IsCameraAvailable() function now correctly returns true/false on all iOS devices