cordova-android/RELEASENOTES.md

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## Release Notes for Cordova (Android) ##

### Release 3.7.0 (January 2015) ###

* CB-8328 Allow plugins to handle certificate challenges (close #150)
* CB-8201 Add support for auth dialogs into Cordova Android
* CB-8017 Add support for `<input type=file>` for Lollipop
* CB-8143 Loads of gradle improvements (try it with cordova/build --gradle)
* CB-8329 Cancel outstanding ActivityResult requests when a new startActivityForResult occurs
* CB-8026 Bumping up Android Version and setting it up to allow third-party cookies.  This might change later.
* CB-8210 Use PluginResult for various events from native so that content-security-policy <meta> can be used
* CB-8168 Add support for `cordova/run --list` (closes #139)
* CB-8176 Vastly better auto-detection of SDK & JDK locations
* CB-8079 Use activity class package name, but fallback to application package name when looking for splash screen drawable
* CB-8147 Have corodva/build warn about unrecognized flags rather than fail
* CB-7881 Android tooling shouldn't lock application directory
* CB-8112 Turn off mediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture
* CB-6153 Add a preference for controlling hardware button audio stream (DefaultVolumeStream)
* CB-8031 Fix race condition that shows as ConcurrentModificationException
* CB-7974 Cancel timeout timer if view is destroyed
* CB-7940 Disable exec bridge if bridgeSecret is wrong
* CB-7758 Allow content-url-hosted pages to access the bridge
* CB-6511 Fixes build for android when app name contains unicode characters.
* CB-7707 Added multipart PluginResult
* CB-6837 Fix leaked window when hitting back button while alert being rendered
* CB-7674 Move preference activation back into onCreate()
* CB-7499 Support RTL text direction
* CB-7330 Don't run check_reqs for bin/create.

### 3.6.4 (Sept 30, 2014) ###

* Set VERSION to 3.6.4 (via coho)
* Update JS snapshot to version 3.6.4 (via coho)
* CB-7634 Detect JAVA_HOME properly on Ubuntu
* CB-7579 Fix run script's ability to use non-arch-specific APKs
* CB-6511 Fixes build for android when app name contains unicode characters.
* CB-7463: Adding licences.  I don't know what the gradle syntax is for comments, that still needs to be done.
* CB-7463: Looked at the Apache BigTop git, gradle uses C-style comments
* CB-7460: Fixing bug with KitKat where the background colour would override the CSS colours on the application

### 3.6.0 (Sept 2014) ###

* Set VERSION to 3.6.0 (via coho)
* CB-7410 fix the menu test
* CB-7410 Fix the errorUrl test
* CB-7410 Fix Basic Authentication test
* CB-3445: Allow build and run scripts to select APK by architecture
* CB-3445: Add environment variable 'BUILD_MULTIPLE_APKS' for splitting APKs based on architecture
* CB-3445: Ensure that JAR files in libs directory are included
* CB-7267 update RELEASENOTES for 3.5.1
* CB-7410 clarify the title
* CB-7385 update cordova.js for testing prior to branch/tag
* CB-7410 add whitelist entries to get iframe/GoogleMaps working
* CB-7291 propogate change in method signature to the native tests
* CB-7291: Restrict meaning of "\*" in internal whitelist to just http and https
* CB-7291: Only add file, content and data URLs to internal whitelist
* CB-7291: Add defaults to external whitelist
* CB-7291: Add external-launch-whitelist and use it for filtering intent launches
* CB-3445: Read project.properties to configure gradle libraries
* CB-7325 Fix error message in android_sdk_version.js when missing SDK on windows
* CB-7335 Add a .gitignore to android project template
* CB-7330 Fix dangling function call in last commit (broke gradle builds)
* CB-7330 Don't run "android update" during creation
* CB-3445 Add gradle support clean command (plus some code cleanup)
* CB-7044 Fix typo in prev commit causing check_reqs to always fail.
* CB-3445 Copy gradle wrapper in build instead of create
* CB-3445 Add .gradle template files for "update" as well as "create"
* CB-7044 Add JAVA_HOME when not set. Be stricter about ANDROID_HOME
* CB-3445 Speed up gradle building (incremental builds go from 10s -> 1.5s for me)
* CB-3445: android: Copy Gradle wrapper from Android SDK rather than bundling a JAR
* CB-3445: Add which to checked-in node_modules
* CB-3445: Add option to build and install with gradle
* CB-3445: Add an initial set of Gradle build scripts
* CB-7321 Don't require ant for create script
* CB-7044, CB-7299 Fix up PATH problems when possible.
* Change in test's AndroidManifest.xml needed for the test to run properly. Forgot the manifest.
* Change in test's AndroidManifest.xml needed for the test to run properly
* Adding tests related to 3.5.1
* CB-7261 Fix setNativeToJsBridgeMode sometimes crashing when switching to ONLINE_EVENT
* CB-7265 Fix crash when navigating to custom protocol (introduced in 3.5.1)
* Filter out non-launchable intents
* Handle unsupported protocol errors in webview better
* CB-7238: I should have collapsed this, but Config.init() must go before the creation of CordovaWebView
* CB-7238: Minor band-aid to get tests running again, this has to go away before 3.6.0 is released, since this is an API change.
* Extend whitelist to handle URLs without // chars
* CB-7172 Force window to have focus after resume
* CB-7159 Set background color of webView as well as its parent
* CB-7018 Fix setButtonPlumbedToJs never un-listening
* Undeprecate some just-deprecated symbols in PluginManager.
* @Deprecate methods of PluginManager that were never meant to be public
* Move plugin instantiation and instance storing logic PluginEntry->PluginManager
* Fix broken unit test due to missing Config.init() call
* Update to check for Google Glass APIs
* Fix for `android` not being in PATH check on Windows
* Displaying error when regex does not match.
* Fix broken compile due to previous commit :(
* Tweak CordovaPlugin.initialize method to be less deprecated.
* Un-deprecate CordovaActivity.init() - it's needed to tweak prefs in onCreate
* Tweak log messages in CordovaBridge with bridgeSecret is wrong
* Backport CordovaBridge from 4.0.x -> master
* Update unit tests to not use most deprecated things (e.g. DroidGap)
* Add non-String overloades for CordovaPreferences.set()
* Make CordovaWebview resilient to init() not being called (for backwards-compatibility)
* Add node_module licenses to LICENSE
* Update cordova.js snapshot to work with bridge changes
* Provide CordovaPlugin with CordovaPreferences. Add new Plugin.initialize()
* Convert usages of Config.\* to use the non-static versions
* Change getProperty -> prefs.get\* within CordovaActivity
* Make CordovaUriHelper class package-private
* Fix PluginManager.setPluginEntries not removing old entries
* Move registration of App plugin from config.xml -> code
* Make setWebViewClient an override instead of an overload. Delete Location-change JS->Native bridge mode (missed some of it).
* CB-4404 Revert setting android:windowSoftInputMode to "adjustPan"
* Refactor: Use ConfigXmlParser in activity. Adds CordovaWebView.init()
* Deprecate some convenience methods on CordovaActivity
* Fix CordovaPreferences not correctly parsing hex values (valueOf->decode)
* Refactor: Move url-filter information into PluginEntry.
* Don't re-parse config.xml in onResume.
* Move handling of Fullscreen preference to CordovaActivity
* Delete dead code from CordovaActivity
* Update .classpath to make Eclipse happy (just re-orders one line)
* Delete "CB-3064: The errorUrl is..." Log message left over from debugging presumably
* Refactor Config into ConfigXmlParser, CordovaPreferences
* Delete Location-change JS->Native bridge mode
* CB-5988 Allow exec() only from file: or start-up URL's domain
* CB-6761 Fix native->JS bridge ceasing to fire when page changes and online is set to false and the JS loads quickly
* Update the errorurl to no longer use intents
* This breaks running the JUnit tests, we'll bring it back soon
* Refactoring the URI handling on Cordova, removing dead code
* CB-7018 Clean up and deprecation of some button-related functions
* CB-7017 Fix onload=true being set on all subsequent plugins
* CB-5971: Fix package / project validation
* CB-5971: Add unit tests to cordova-android
* CB-5971: Factor out package/project name validation logic
* Delete explicit activity.finish() in back button handling. No change in behaviour.
* CB-5971: This would have been a good first bug, too bad
* CB-4404: Changing where android:windowSoftInputMode is in the manifest so it works
* Add documentation referencing other implementation.
* CB-6851 Deprecate WebView.sendJavascript()
* CB-6876 Show the correct executable name
* CB-6876 Fix the "print usage"
* Trivial spelling fix in comments when reading CordovaResourceApi
* CB-6818: I want to remove this code, because Square didn't do their headers properly
* CB-6860 Add activity_name and launcher_name to AndroidManifest.xml & strings.xml
* Add a comment to custom_rules.xml saying why we move AndroidManifest.xml
* Remove +x from README.md
* CB-6784 Add missing licenses
* CB-6784 Add license to CONTRIBUTING.md
* Revert "defaults.xml: Add AndroidLaunchMode preference"
* updated RELEASENOTES
* CB-6315: Wrapping this so it runs on the UI thread
* CB-6723 Update package name for Robotium
* CB-6707 Update minSdkVersion to 10 consistently
* CB-5652 make visible cordova version
* Update JS snapshot to version 3.6.0-dev (via coho)
* Update JS snapshot to version 3.6.0-dev (via coho)
* Set VERSION to 3.6.0-dev (via coho)

### 3.5.1 (August 2014) ###

This was a security update to address CVE-2014-3500, CVE-2014-3501,
and CVE-2014-3502. For more information, see
http://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2014/08/04/android-351.html

* Filter out non-launchable intents
* Handle unsupported protocol errors in webview better
* Update the errorurl to no longer use intents
* Refactoring the URI handling on Cordova, removing dead code

### 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 <img> 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 <url-filter>
* 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