Titanium SDK 8.1.0.GA - 13 August 2019

About this release

Titanium SDK 8.1.0 is a minor release of the SDK, addressing high-priority issues from previous releases.

As of this release, Titanium SDK 8.0.x will not receive updates more than six months after the release of 8.1.0 (current) (2020-02-13). Any needed fixes will be in 8.1.x or later supported releases within the 8.x branch. See Axway Appcelerator Deprecation Policy and Nominal Lifetimes documents for details.

::: danger ❗️ Warning With the release of Titanium SDK 9.0.0, we will no longer support Node.js 8.X. Node.js 10.13.0 will be the new minimum supported version with SDK 9.0.0. :::

New features

Android platform

• TIMOB-4041 - Android: Add "separatorStyle" property to Ti.UI.ListView

  • Added support for ListView.separatorStyle

  • ListView.separatorStyle

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({ backgroundColor: 'black', fullscreen: true });
    var listView = Ti.UI.createListView({
        separatorStyle: Ti.UI.TABLE_VIEW_SEPARATOR_STYLE_NONE,
    });
    var section = Ti.UI.createListSection();
    var sectionData = ;
    var i = 25;
    for (var k = 0; k < 25; k++) {
        sectionData.push({
            properties: {
                title: 'Row ' + (k + 1)
            }
        });
    }
    section.setItems(sectionData);
    listView.sections = section;
    win.add(listView);
    win.open();

• TIMOB-14460 - Android: Add Ti.Platform.canOpenURL() support

  • Added support for Ti.Platform.canOpenURL()

• TIMOB-26793 - Android: Hide radio buttons OptionDialog

  • Added support to use OptionDialog without radio buttons

  • OptionDialog

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
      title: 'Click window to test OptionDialog',
      backgroundColor: 'white'
    });
    var opts = {
      title: 'Select an option',
      options: 'Option 1', 'Option 2', 'Option 3', 'Option 4',
      buttonNames: 'Cancel'
    }
    var dialog;
    win.addEventListener('click', function() {
      dialog = Ti.UI.createOptionDialog(opts);
      dialog.addEventListener('click', onSelectDialog);
      dialog.addEventListener('cancel', function(e) {
        alert('Dialog canceled! e.cancel = ' + e.cancel + ', e.index = ' + e.index);
      })
      dialog.show();
    });
    function onSelectDialog(e) {
      console.log(e);
    }
    var btn = Ti.UI.createButton({
      title: "toggle selected index",
      bottom: 5
    });
    btn.addEventListener("click", function() {
      if (opts.selectedIndex == 0) {
        opts.selectedIndex = -1;
      } else {
        opts.selectedIndex = 0;
      }
    });
    win.add(btn);
    win.open();

iOS platform

• TIMOB-18421 - iOS: Add animation properties "springVelocity" and "dampingRatio"

  • Added dampingRatio and springVelocity to allow iOS spring animations

• TIMOB-26523 - iOS 11+: Support large title style (dynamic fonts)

  • Added support for dynamic fonts in UIFontTextStyleLargeTitle

  • UIFontTextStyleLargeTitle

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: '#fff',
        extendSafeArea: false
    });
    
    var scrollView = Ti.UI.createScrollView({ layout: 'vertical', top: 50 });
    
    var textStyles =
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_HEADLINE,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_SUBHEADLINE,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_BODY,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_FOOTNOTE,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_CAPTION1,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_CAPTION2,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_CALLOUT,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_TITLE1,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_TITLE2,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_TITLE3,
        Ti.UI.TEXT_STYLE_LARGE_TITLE,
    ;
    
    for (var i = 0; i < textStyles.length; i++) {
        var textStyle = textStylesi;
        scrollView.add(Ti.UI.createLabel({
            top: 20,
            text: textStyle,
            font: {
                textStyle: textStyle
            }
        }));
    }
    
    win.add(scrollView);
    win.open();

• TIMOB-26599 - iOS: Add "allowTranscoding" option to Ti.Media.openPhotoGallery()

  • Added option to disable video compression when importing video

• TIMOB-26973 - iOS: Add accessibilityIdentifier

  • Added accessibilityIdentifier which can compose views on iOS the same way content description is composed on Android

• TIMOB-27124 - iOS 13: Support running on Xcode 11 Simulators

  • Added support for Xcode 11

Windows platform

• TIMOB-25778 - Windows: Implement Ti.UI.Label.ellipsize

  • Implemented Ti.UI.Label.ellipsize

  • TEXT_ELLIPSIZE_TRUNCATE_START , TEXT_ELLIPSIZE_TRUNCATE_MIDDLE, and TEXT_ELLIPSIZE_TRUNCATE_MARQUEE are not supported on Windows because platform component doesn't support them

Multiple platforms

• TIMOB-26571 - TiAPI: Global process object compatible with Node.js

  • Expanded the global process object to be more compatible with Node.js

• TIMOB-26669 - TiAPI: Create Node-compatible assert module API

  • Added Node.js-compatible asset module API

• TIMOB-26670 - TiAPI: Create Node-compatible util module API

  • Added Node.js-compatible util module API

  • This API does not include every method of util.types, nor does it include util.extends(), util.isDeepStrictEqual(), or util.inspect

  • Currently supports depth, showHidden, and to some degree breakLength

• TIMOB-27150 - Add ability to alias required modules in Titanium

  • Added ability to alias required modules

Community credits

• Prafulla Bansode - TIMOB-24415

• Sandro Lain - TIMOB-24418, TIMOB-24423, TIMOB-24443

• Hans Knöchel - TIMOB-26101, TIMOB-26854, TIMOB-26862, TIMOB-26885, TIMOB-26946, TIMOB-27049, TIMOB-27082, TIMOB-27089, TIMOB-27090, TIMOB-27100, TIMOB-27103, TIMOB-26523, TIMOB-26566, TIMOB-26509, TIMOB-26686, TIMOB-26770, TIMOB-27155, TIMOB-27210

• kedomuz - TIMOB-26326

• Michael Gangolf - TIMOB-26456, TIMOB-26993, TIMOB-25556, TIMOB-26793

• Sergey Volkov - TIMOB-26973

• shumne - TIMOB-26795

• alessandro la rocca - TIMOB-26829

• Andreas Pingas - TIMOB-26878, TIMOB-27188, TIMOB-27232

• Arbind - TIMOB-26898

• grebulon - TIMOB-26954

• Muhammad Ahmed Fahad - TIMOB-26986

• Adam Armstrong - TIMOB-27087

• Tim Poulsen - TIMOB-14460

• Richard Lustemberg - TIMOB-26599

• Mark Henderson - TIMOB-27098

Fixed issues

Android

• TIMOB-24415 - Android: Listview not able to add accessibility label in the ListItem components

• TIMOB-24881 - Android: Label ellipsize modes START and MIDDLE don't work if "autoLink" is true

• TIMOB-26456 - Android: Optimize TiBlob.imageAsResized

• TIMOB-26650 - Android: Using toImage on views with border properties not added to UI results in empty blob

• TIMOB-26841 - Android: Reading TextField "backgroundDisabledColor" will crash if background/border color is assigned

• TIMOB-26862 - Android: TextField/TextArea within a TableView can have performance issues with some keyboards

• TIMOB-26869 - CLI: Android build fails with cannot find module error

• TIMOB-26878 - Android: Ti.Database.install() fails if destination directory does not exist

• TIMOB-26954 - Android: Reading a JSON file fails on Android Q

• TIMOB-26993 - Android: WebView sometimes crashes on window close after zooming content

• TIMOB-27087 - Android: ShortcutItem not being updated based on "id"

• TIMOB-27094 - Android: ListView's SearchBar/SearchView wrongly overlaps rows as of 8.0.1

• TIMOB-27100 - Android: TabGroup labels not displayed anymore (SDK 8.1.0+)

• TIMOB-27153 - Android: Prevent multiple exception logs

• TIMOB-27188 - Android: TabGroup crashes if tab "title" property is not set as of 8.0.2

• TIMOB-27232 - Android: Setting Window "barColor" while using a theme without an ActionBar/TitleBar will cause a crash as of 8.1.0

• TIMOB-27269 - Android: Do not retry sending events if no connectivity

• TIMOB-27300 - Android: AssetCryptImpl buffer overflow for large JS assets

• TIMOB-27314 - Android: Unable to build to device on Windows

iOS

• TIMOB-26795 - iOS: Event listener on overlay is not working for camera when camera is kept idle for a few minutes

• TIMOB-26829 - iOS: Titanium.Media.openMusicLibrary returns empty items on iOS 9.3.5

• TIMOB-26833 - iOS: Two startup log messages are output

• TIMOB-26838 - iOS: the openWindow() method of NavigationWindow does not work when called from base window open event

• TIMOB-26854 - iOS: Crash when handling user-activities

• TIMOB-26885 - iOS: Crash when trying to push a window twice (e.g. on slow devices)

• TIMOB-26946 - iOS: Launch screen shows last screen when quickly relaunching the app

• TIMOB-27049 - iOS: Simulator can crash because of the "trackUserInteraction" feature

• TIMOB-27074 - IOS: Rebuilding the app with simulator fails with due to log port being occupied

• TIMOB-27082 - iOS: Modules using TiBlob and built before SDK 8.1 causing app crash

• TIMOB-27089 - iOS: App crashes when asking for location permissions (SDK 8.1.0+)

• TIMOB-27090 - iOS: Using a non-string value in alert() causes app to crash in SDK 8.0.0+

• TIMOB-27098 - iOS: debugger does not show all app files loaded

• TIMOB-27103 - iOS: Native extensions without sources are crashing build

• TIMOB-27155 - iOS: Incremental builds broken

• TIMOB-27175 - iOS: Ti.Platform.id changes when updating to SDK 8.0.0

• TIMOB-27202 - IOS:Rebuilding app on device throws Couldn't find module error

• TIMOB-27203 - iOS: no apiversion validation performed on application build

• TIMOB-27210 - iOS: Cannot find iOS 13 simulators in Xcode 11 Beta 3

• TIMOB-27230 - iOS: CLI prefers Xcode 11/iOS 13 even though Xcode 10.2.1 is selected

• TIMOB-27270 - iOS: Allow capture of signal exceptions

• TIMOB-27277 - iOS: Invalid analytics platform

• TIMOB-27278 - iOS: App crashes upon giving permission to Calendar

• TIMOB-27313 - IOS:Regression-Console.log does not concatenate and log if it has multiple arguments with space

Windows

• TIMOB-24418 - Windows Phone: OptionDialog undefined error

• TIMOB-24423 - Windows Phone: TableViewRow and Label layout not respected

• TIMOB-24443 - Windows Phone: Progressbar not respect width and not resize

• TIMOB-25134 - Windows: Mocha test Titanium.UI.TextField padding test failure

• TIMOB-26550 - Windows: Add support for file property to HTTPClient

• TIMOB-26664 - Windows: Ti.Geolocation.lastGeolocation should return string

• TIMOB-26689 - Windows: Wrong height for TableViewRow with Label

• TIMOB-26690 - Windows: TabGroup does not fire open/close events

• TIMOB-26791 - Windows: Ti.UI.View reports top/left/bottom/right values as Strings always

• TIMOB-26797 - Windows: removeEventListener removes wrong callback

• TIMOB-26969 - Windows: Codec encodeNumber/decodeNumber should throw Error on invalid setup

• TIMOB-27257 - [Windows] Error is shown when packaging a windows module

Multiple platforms

• TIMOB-27204 - CLI: apiversion validation always fails for native modules installed via npm

Improvements

Android

• TIMOB-26686 - Android: Allow Ti.Network.HTTPClient "file" parameter to be set to Ti.Filesystem.File object like iOS

  • Parity for File object support

• TIMOB-26817 - Android: Add parity for Window's barColor property.

  • Parity for barColor property of Ti.UI.Window

• TIMOB-26848 - Android: Re-add "baseURL" support to WebView.setHtml() that was removed in 6.0.3

  • Re-implemented baseURL to support WebView.setHtml

• TIMOB-26877 - Android: Ti.Database.install() should throw exception like iOS if source db file not found

  • Modified Ti.Database.install() to throw an exception if given source database file was not found

• TIMOB-26909 - Android: Improve V8 cold start performance

  • Updated V8 to 7.3.492.26 which provides performance updates

• TIMOB-26957 - Android: Update V8 runtime to 7.3.492.26

  • Updated V8 to 7.3.492.26 which provides performance updates

• TIMOB-27042 - Android: Update ti.playservices to 16.1.3

  • Updated ti.playservices to version 16.1.3

• TIMOB-27111 - Android: Implement async Ti.Database.DB methods

  • Implement asynchronous Ti.Database.DB methods for executing SQL queries

    • Ti.Database.DB.executeAsync(query, parameters[], callback)

    • Ti.Database.DB.executeAllAsync(queries[], callback)

  • Implement method for executing multiple queries in one request

iOS

• TIMOB-26509 - iOS: Allow Ti.UI.SearchBar to be displayed in navigation-bar

  • Added support to show search bar navigation for TiUIListView and TiUITableView

• TIMOB-26770 - iOS: Use Swift 5 by default

  • Added support for Swift 5

• TIMOB-27043 - Cache JS processing between builds

  • Improved incremental app build times

• TIMOB-27047 - iOS: Version of SDKs default modules are not up to date

  • Updated the following modules

    • urlSession from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0

    • ti.map from 3.1.0 to 3.1.2

    • ti.safaridialog from 1.1.1 to 3.1.0

    • ti.identity from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6

• TIMOB-27164 - iOS: Implement async Ti.Database.DB methods

  • Implement asynchronous Ti.Database.DB methods for executing SQL queries

    • Ti.Database.DB.executeAsync(query, parameters[], callback)

    • Ti.Database.DB.executeAllAsync(queries[], callback)

  • Implement method for executing multiple queries in one request

Windows

• TIMOB-19965 - Windows: Implement WebView.data

  • Implemented WebView.data

  • WebView.data

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: 'green'
    });
    var blob = Ti.Filesystem.getFile('app.js').read();
    var webview = Ti.UI.createWebView({
        data: blob,
        height: Ti.UI.FILL,
        width: Ti.UI.FILL
    });
    webview.addEventListener('load', function () {
        Ti.API.info(typeof webview.data);
    });
    win.add(webview);
    win.open();

• TIMOB-26575 - Windows: Support async variants of Ti.Network.TCP #read and #write

  • Parity for async variants of Ti.Network.TCP

• TIMOB-26855 - Windows: Add "baseURL" support to WebView.setHtml()

  • Re-implemented baseURL to support WebView.setHtml

• TIMOB-26961 - Windows: Save HttpClient instance until callback is fired

  • The httpClient instance is saved until onerror or onloadcallback is called

  •   win.addEventListener('open', function () {
          var _tmpURL = "https://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/api/"
          var _tmpClient = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient({
    
              onload: function (e) {
                  alert('Loaded');
              },
              onerror: function (e) {
                  alert("Error:" + e.error);
              },
              timeout: 30000
          });
    
          _tmpClient.open("GET", _tmpURL);
          _tmpClient.send();
          // In this case _tmpClient may be garbage-collected as soon as this function is finished.
          // We could think this as "logical" failure but I think Titanium developers tend to use HttpClient like this.
      });
    
      win.open();

Multiple platforms

• TIMOB-26574 - TiAPI: Implement set/clearImmediate

  • Implemented process.nextTick() and the global setImmediate/clearImmediate

• TIMOB-26729 - TiAPI: Ship baseline polyfills in built SDK

  • This update injects the core-js/regenerator polyfills into the bundle common JS SDK code we ship when we build

• TIMOB-27045 - Pass along ENV variables to process.env on development builds

  • Write env.json file with ENV variables

• TIMOB-27182 - Update Hyperloop to 4.0.3

  • Android: Debugging in Hyperloop enabled projects

  • iOS: Debugging in Hyperloop enabled projects

  • iOS: Correctly require minimum SDK 8.0.0

API changes

New APIs

SDK modules versions

Android and iOS

Module	Android version	iOS version
urlSession	n/a	2.2.0
facebook	8.0.0	6.0.0
ti_coremotion	n/a	2.0.1
ti_map	4.3.1	3.1.2
ti_safaridialog	n/a	1.1.1
ti_webdialog	1.1.0	1.1.0
ti_touchid	3.0.1	2.1.4
ti_identity	2.1.0	1.0.6
ti_cloudpush	6.0.1	n/a
ti_playservices	16.1.3	n/a

CommonJS

Module	Version
ti.cloud	3.2.11

Hyperloop

Module	Version
Hyperloop	4.0.3