Mobile SDK Release - 10282021

Created by Toni Connelly
Last updated: Nov 22, 2021
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Android Native Libraries Released - October 28, 2021

  • Android Full Library v1.13.0-alpha

  • Android Aggregator Library v1.13.0-alpha

  • Android LifeScan OneTouch Library v1.13.0-alpha

Android Native Changes

  • General

    • Bump Android Gradle plugin to 7.0.3

    • Require Java 8 targetCompatibility

    • Add support for Android 12

      • Support required FLAG_IMMUTABLE and FLAG_MUTABLE for PendingIntent flags

      • Bump WorkManager version to 2.7.0-alpha05 for Android 12 support with PendingIntents

      • new ValidicInitializer androidx.startup Intializer that automatically calls ValidicMobile.getInstance().initialize(context). This call is deprecated and will be removed in the future.

    • Support for Android 5 (Lollipop) - 7.x (Nougat) will end in mid-Q1 2022 - an exact date is to be announced. Android 8 and up will continue to be supported by our hard-working implementation and support teams.

  • Bluetooth

    • This Bluetooth framework is an alpha release of our Android 12 support. Please provide our support team (support@validic.com) with any feedback you have on the Bluetooth framework API changes in this release.

    • Bump RxAndroidBLE dependency to v1.13.0

    • Improve Foracare IR 20b Read success when failing to disconnect

    • Add new dependencies for Kotlin coroutines and rxjava2. Several files have been converted to kotlin.

      implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android:1.5.1"
      implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-rx2:1.5.1"

    • Converted Several public interfaces to Kotlin. Adjusted nullability.

    • New BluetoothRequests public api for interacting with Bluetooth Devices and peripherals.

    • Bluetooth Operations now return the BluetoothDevice that an operation was executed with.

    • Scanning for Passive Bluetooth Peripherals is now automatically initialized with an androidx.startup's Intializer implementation, ValidicBluetoothInitializer.

    • Fixed a bug where Passive Bluetooth Scanning would not restart if Bluetooth was turned off during a Pair or Read operation.

  • Sample Apps

    • Bump compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion to 31

    • Request new BluetoothScan and BluetoothConnect permissions when interacting with BluetoothPeripherals

  • Samsung Health

    • New dependencies on androidx.work:work-runtime, androidx.work:work-runtime-ktx, and org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android

    • Observers are now managed using a CoroutineWorker instead of SHealthService. SHealthService has been removed.

    • New listener for events related to observers starting and stopping

    • add SHealthManager.getInstance().hasReadAccess(Set<String>) to check if permissions have previously been granted by an end user for a set of dataTypes.

    • SHealthListener.onError(error) has changed to return SHealthException that wraps all possible errors in the SDK. To retrieve the SHealthError use SHealthException.getSHealthError()

  • Vitalsnap (OCR)

    • Fix cases where Vitalsnap would not start after granting permissions to the Camera

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