cordova-android/RELEASENOTES.md

Release Notes for Cordova (Android)

3.5.0 (May 2014)

• OkHttp has broken headers. Updating for ASF compliance.
• Revert accidentally removed lines from NOTICE
• CB-6552: added top level package.json
• CB-6491 add CONTRIBUTING.md
• CB-6543 Fix cordova/run failure when no custom_rules.xml available
• defaults.xml: Add AndroidLaunchMode preference
• Add JavaDoc for CordovaResourceApi
• CB-6388: Handle binary data correctly in LOAD_URL bridge
• Fix CB-6048: Set launchMode=singleTop so tapping app icon does not always restart app
• Remove incorrect usage of AlertDialog.Builder.create
• Catch uncaught exceptions in from plugins and turn them into error responses.
• Add NOTICE file
• CB-6047 Fix online sometimes getting in a bad state on page transitions.
• Add another convenience overload for CordovaResourceApi.copyResource
• Update framework's .classpath to what Eclipse wants it to be.
• README.md: android update to android-19.
• Fix NPE when POLLING bridge mode is used.
• Updating NOTICE to include Square for OkHttp
• CB-5398 Apply KitKat content URI fix to all content URIs
• CB-5398 Work-around for KitKat content: URLs not rendering in tags
• CB-5908: add splascreen images to template
• CB-5395: Make scheme and host (but not path) case-insensitive in whitelist
• Ignore multiple onPageFinished() callbacks & onReceivedError due to stopLoading()
• Removing addJavascriptInterface support from all Android versions lower than 4.2 due to security vu
• CB-4984 Don't create on CordovaActivity name
• CB-5917 Add a loadUrlIntoView overload that doesn't recreate plugins.
• Use thread pool for load timeout.
• CB-5715 For CLI, hide assets/www and res/xml/config.xml by default
• CB-5793 ant builds: Rename AndroidManifest during -post-build to avoid Eclipse detecting ant-build/
• CB-5889 Make update script find project name instead of using "null" for CordovaLib
• CB-5889 Add a message in the update script about needing to import CordovaLib when using an IDE.

3.4.0 (Feb 2014)

43 commits from 10 authors. Highlights include:

• Removing addJavascriptInterface support from all Android versions lower than 4.2 due to security vulnerability
• CB-5917 Add a loadUrlIntoView overload that doesn't recreate plugins.
• CB-5889 Make update script find project name instead of using "null" for CordovaLib
• CB-5889 Add a message in the update script about needing to import CordovaLib when using an IDE.
• CB-5793 Don't clean before build and change output directory to ant-build to avoid conflicts with Eclipse.
• CB-5803 Fix cordova/emulate on windows.
• CB-5801 exec->spawn in build to make sure compile errors are shown.
• CB-5799 Update version of OkHTTP to 1.3
• CB-4910 Update CLI project template to point to config.xml at the root now that it's not in www/ by default.
• CB-5504 Adding onDestroy to app plugin to deregister telephonyReceiver
• CB-5715 Add Eclipse .project file to create template. For CLI projects, it adds refs for root www/ & config.xml and hides platform versions
• CB-5447 Removed android:debuggable=“true” from project template.
• CB-5714 Fix of android build when too big output stops build with error due to buffer overflow.
• CB-5592 Set MIME type for openExternal when scheme is file:

3.3.0 (Dec 2013)

41 commits from 11 authors. Highlights include:

• CB-5481 Fix for Cordova trying to get config.xml from the wrong namespace
• CB-5487 Enable Remote Debugging when your Android app is debuggable.
• CB-5445 Adding onScrollChanged and the ScrollEvent object
• CB-5422 Don't require JAVA_HOME to be defined
• CB-5490 Add javadoc target to ant script
• CB-5471 Deprecated DroidGap class
• CB-5255 Prefer Google API targets over android-## targets when building.
• CB-5232 Change create script to use Cordova as a Library Project instead of a .jar
• CB-5302 Massive movement to get tests working again
• CB-4996 Fix paths with spaces while launching on emulator and device
• CB-5209 Cannot build Android app if project path contains spaces

3.2.0 (Nov 2013)

27 commits from 7 authors. Highlights include:

• CB-5193 Fix Android WebSQL sometime throwing SECURITY_ERR.
• CB-5191 Deprecate
• Updating shelljs to 0.2.6. Copy now preserves mode bits.
• CB-4872 Added android version scripts (android_sdk_version, etc)
• CB-5117 Output confirmation message if check_reqs passes.
• CB-5080 Find resources in a way that works with aapt's --rename-manifest-package
• CB-4527 Don't delete .bat files even when on non-windows platform
• CB-4892 Fix create script only escaping the first space instead of all spaces.

3.1.0 (Sept 2013)

55 commits from 9 authors. Highlights include:

• [CB-4817] Remove unused assets in project template.
• Fail fast in create script if package name is not com.foo.bar.
• [CB-4782] Convert ApplicationInfo.java -> appinfo.js
• [CB-4766] Deprecated JSONUtils.java (moved into plugins)
• [CB-4765] Deprecated ExifHelper.java (moved into plugins)
• [CB-4764] Deprecated DirectoryManager.java (moved into plugins)
• [CB-4763] Deprecated FileHelper.java (moved into plugins), Move getMimeType() into CordovaResourceApi.
• [CB-4725] Add CordovaWebView.CORDOVA_VERSION constant
• Incrementing version check for Android 4.3 API Level 18
• [CB-3542] rewrote cli tooling scripts in node
• Allow CordovaChromeClient subclasses access to CordovaInterface and CordovaWebView members
• Refactor CordovaActivity.init so that subclasses can easily override factory methods for webview objects
• [CB-4652] Allow default project template to be overridden on create
• Tweak the online bridge to not send excess online events.
• [CB-4495] Modify start-emulator script to exit immediately on a fatal emulator error.
• Log WebView IOExceptions only when they are not 404s
• Use a higher threshold for slow exec() warnings when debugger is attached.
• Fix data URI decoding in CordovaResourceApi
• [CB-3819] Made it easier to set SplashScreen delay.
• [CB-4013] Fixed loadUrlTimeoutValue preference.
• Upgrading project to Android 4.3
• [CB-4198] bin/create script should be better at handling non-word characters in activity name. Patched windows script as well.
• [CB-4198] bin/create should handle spaces in activity better.
• [CB-4096] Implemented new unified whitelist for android
• [CB-3384] Fix thread assertion when plugins remap URIs