Titanium SDK

# Titanium SDK 8.1.0.RC - 22 July 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) (2020-01-22). 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.

❗️ 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.

# Notice of feature and behavior Changes

  • TIMOB-27250 (opens new window) - Add Node 8 deprecation warning for SDK 9.0 release

    • With the release of Titanium SDK 9.0.0, users should see a deprecation notice for Node.js if they are using a version lower than 10.13

# New features

# Android platform

  • TIMOB-4041 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - Android: Add Ti.Platform.canOpenURL() support

    • Added support for Ti.Platform.canOpenURL()

  • TIMOB-26793 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - iOS: Add animation properties "springVelocity" and "dampingRatio"

    • Added dampingRatio and springVelocity to allow iOS spring animations

  • TIMOB-26523 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - iOS: Add "allowTranscoding" option to Ti.Media.openPhotoGallery()

    • Added option to disable video compression when importing video

  • TIMOB-26973 (opens new window) - iOS: Add accessibilityIdentifier

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

  • TIMOB-27124 (opens new window) - iOS 13: Support running on Xcode 11 Simulators

    • Added support for Xcode 11

# Windows platform

  • TIMOB-25778 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - TiAPI: Global process object compatible with Node.js

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

  • TIMOB-26669 (opens new window) - TiAPI: Create Node-compatible assert module API

    • Added Node.js-compatible asset module API

  • TIMOB-26670 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - Add ability to alias required modules in Titanium

    • Added ability to alias required modules

# Community credits

# Fixed issues

# Android

# iOS

# Windows

# Multiple platforms

# Improvements

# Android

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

    • Parity for File object support

  • TIMOB-26817 (opens new window) - Android: Add parity for Window's barColor property.

    • Parity for barColor property of Ti.UI.Window

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

    • Re-implemented baseURL to support WebView.setHtml

  • TIMOB-26877 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - Android: Improve V8 cold start performance

    • Updated V8 to 7.3.492.26 which provides performance updates

  • TIMOB-26957 (opens new window) - Android: Update V8 runtime to 7.3.492.26

    • Updated V8 to 7.3.492.26 which provides performance updates

  • TIMOB-27042 (opens new window) - Android: Update ti.playservices to 16.1.3

    • Updated ti.playservices to version 16.1.3

  • TIMOB-27111 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - iOS: Allow Ti.UI.SearchBar to be displayed in navigation-bar

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

  • TIMOB-26770 (opens new window) - iOS: Use Swift 5 by default

    • Added support for Swift 5

  • TIMOB-27043 (opens new window) - Cache JS processing between builds

    • Improved incremental app build times

  • TIMOB-27047 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - Windows: Support async variants of Ti.Network.TCP #read and #write

    • Parity for async variants of Ti.Network.TCP

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

    • Re-implemented baseURL to support WebView.setHtml

# Multiple platforms

  • TIMOB-26574 (opens new window) - TiAPI: Implement set/clearImmediate

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

  • TIMOB-26729 (opens new window) - 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 (opens new window) - Pass along ENV variables to process.env on development builds

    • Write env.json file with ENV variables

  • TIMOB-27182 (opens new window) - 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

← 8.0.2.GA - 18 June 2019 →

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