Titanium SDK 8.3.0.GA - 25 November 2019

About this release

Titanium SDK 8.3.0 is a minor release of the SDK, addressing high-priority issues from previous releases.

As of this release, Titanium SDK 8.2.x will not receive updates more than six months after the release of 8.3.0 (2020-05-25). Any needed fixes will be in 8.3.x or later supported releases within the 8.x branch. See Axway Appcelerator Deprecation Policyand 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 10.13.0 will be the new minimum supported version with SDK 9.0.0. :::

Community Credits

• Sergey Volkov

  • add missing comma (f08041e)

  • TIMOB-26463 - accessibility properties SDK version (72a57ef)

  • TIMOB-26463 - add accessibility properties to MenuItem (9f3c6b7)

• Hans Knöchel

  • TIMOB-27450 - fix webview basic authentication (1553fcd)

  • TIMOB-27272 - expose Ti.UI.Slider „tintColor“ and „trackTintColor“ (7238427)

  • properly set tint-color on image-view (7d96b81)

• Giorgio Mandolini

  • TIMOB-27396 - inverted condition on baseURL construction (a59cf84)

• Michael Gangolf

  • fix permission example for Android 8 (be984a1)

  • TIMOB-7786update log strings (1fc77a1)

  • reset before doing a release (#10800) (50c645e)

  • TIMOB-27283 - add contentSize to Ti.UI.ScrollView scroll event (6ffd9d4)

• teunklijn

  • TIMOB-27165 - localnotificationaction event contains notification id instead of the action id (11956d2)

Bug Fixes

Android platform

• allow requestLegacyExternalStorage attribute (097c5af)

• allow WebView.setData() to decrypt assets (1365850)

• TIMOB-27512 - amend constants for showSoftKeyboard() (ae3da3a)

• calculate correct stream size (dbfa501)

• call WebView.stopLoading() from main thread (438a43a)

• TIMOB-27496 - do not set properties on recycled proxy (e4459a1)

• exclude JS in HTML files from processing (bc45db4)

• fix dialog without selectedIndex reusage (a2a048f)

• TIMOB-27238 - fix onlink callback being creation only (3a46b79)

• TIMOB-27293 - fix onprogress payload value for data other than HashMap (a190a5d)

• fix reusing a dialog with a new "parent" window (a8d06c3)

• fix views with border and transparency (95fed44)

• fixes background color animation with borders (86b3699)

• focus on TextInputEditText view (8192ea2)

• TIMOB-27302 - guard for tab counts limit for bottom style (6a2aa4d)

• TIMOB-27191 - handle file: URIs without // after scheme (f4cf7c6)

• TIMOB-27108 - HTTPClient "responseData" blob returns 0 width/height for images over 512kb (722d6bc)

• TIMOB-27271 - resuming with intent "FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK" can hang the app (632c439)

• performance issue with deeply nested views as of 7.5.0 (057dad3)

• prevent conflict with TextField.isSingleLine() (20ae5fd)

• TIMOB-27118 - prevents TabGroup duplicate close event firing (34714b8)

• TIMOB-27177 - regression where closing root window from child window causes app exit issues as of 8.0.1 (be7b776)

• release string (0e21a4f)

• support Geolocation altitudeAccuracy (ac32e75)

• ui module dependency path (3b9bac8)

• TIMOB-27190 - up button flickering when clicked in NavigationWindow (69dfda5)

• TIMOB-27314 - update titanium_prep windows binaries (978d625)

• TIMOB-27193 - use specified Ti.Filesystem.File path to createFile() (37aace6)

• TIMOB-27444 - video player with border fails to render as of 8.3.0 (364724b)

• TIMOB-27610 - Debugger does not hit breakpoint for an alloy app on a device (https://github.com/tidev/titanium-sdk/pull/11344)

• TIMOB-27604 - Build to android on windows fails with issue related to ti.cloak (https://github.com/tidev/titanium-sdk/pull/11341)

• TIMOB-27602 - Liveview crashes application and throws error before reloading (https://github.com/tidev/titanium-sdk/pull/11338)

• TIMOB-27606 - Remote encryption policy broken in latest 8.3.0 (b2cd676)

Multiple platforms

• fix typo and add tests for weak map/set (bc9faba)

• TIMOB-27496 - do not modify original ListView proxy (b3a0306)

• Change from ifdef to if due to variable always being defined (da45e5f)

• disable bigint type checks (cbb8165)

• rename isRegexp usage to isRegExp (8c1e265)

• update Hyperloop to v4.0.4 for iOS 13 compatibility (d1cc406)

• use correct should assertion syntax (00b9845)

iOS platform

• added xcworkspacedata file generation (75f3881)

• TIMOB-27403 - also lookup semnantic colors in correct location for classic (8ecfb1e)

• app crashes when error happens in fetching location (6100379)

• TIMOB-27515 - avoid crash when openStream fails (d16b69f)

• TIMOB-26453 - can not show fullscreen modal windows anymore (1e3d161)

• close window handling from presentationController’s delegate method (40154d7)

• console.log does not log properly if it has multiple arguments (a57701d)

• TIMOB-27386 - correctly decode device token for ios 13 compatibility (715ef61)

• fix TiBase header to order macros properly, re-use macros (ef26648)

• TIMOB-27354 - guard source property and removed NSNull if it is nil (80cb018)

• hide dimming view (3d492b7)

• hideShadow handling for iOS 13 (3b925d3)

• TIMOB-27395 - include new iphone models into os extension (b3a720a)

• TIMOB-27503 - ipad popover crash (4a2afb9)

• non large title navigation bars show default navigation bar (11aef9c)

• remove additional gc protection once proxy is remembered (2ac7d80)

• select a valid ios sim xcodebuild destination (65527be)

• TIMOB-27488 - set dest to generic iOS sim (87bf091)

• TIMOB-27480 - setting last index of TabbedBar doesn't work (afb2a49)

• sf symbol handling for application shortcut (28907e0)

• TIMOB-27410 - update objc module template clang settings (da07971)

• MOD-2542 - update ti.applesigning module to 1.1.1 (1571e40)

• TIMOB-27484 - update to core-js 3 (4918823)

• verify module class type (3b12015)

• volume event handling (c697822)

• TIMOB-27385 - wkwebview is stripping out = characters in cookies (1bd852b)

• TIMOB-27583 - Crash with MobileIron wrapped app (https://github.com/tidev/titanium-sdk/pull/11356)

Features

Android platform

• add new constants for video scaling (16f04c5)

• add support for TabGroup in NavigationWindow (a886ccd)

• TIMOB-26542 - Added Ti.App "close" event support (44a5968)

• TIMOB-26953 - implement foregroundServiceType parameter (9ca5864)

• target api level 29 by default (4d73a63)

Multiple platforms

• enable color mode for inspect (78a15ec)

• add custom inspect behavior for buffers (1feaf6d)

• add method to convert Buffer to Ti.Buffer (32da366)

• TIMOB-18583 - node compatible fs module (74d07c1)

• TIMOB-27286 - add string_decoder module (4c5ac3d)

• node 12 compatible util module and improved console (7f19662)

• MOD-2545 - update to 3.3.0-ios, 4.5.0-android module releases (d0f0cb9)

iOS platform

• MOD-2534 - update facebook module to 7.0.0 (16f4d19)

Performance Improvements

Android platform

• implement ability to pre-cache common js assets (c3806d0)

• remove usage of getResourceAsStream() (a4c2b7a)

• refactor asset handling (c0b4ea1)

SDK modules versions

Android and iOS

Module	Android version	iOS version
urlSession	n/a	2.2.0
facebook	8.0.0	7.0.0
ti.coremotion	n/a	2.0.1
ti.map	4.5.0	3.3.0
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.applesignin	n/a	1.1.1
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	4.0.4