HockeyApp v5.0.0-beta.1 Release Notes
Release Date: 2017-08-03 // over 6 years ago-
๐ฅ Breaking Changes
๐ This release comes with one major breaking change. HockeySDK 5.0.0-beta.1 raises the minimum API level to 15.
๐ In addition, we no longer support restricting builds by device id. The reason is that, with Android O,ANDROID_ID
no longer ensures a consistent way of identification of a user.To be ready for Android O, HockeySDK-Android now limits the
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
permission with themaxSdkVersion
filter. In some use cases, e.g. where an app contains a dependency that requires this permission,maxSdkVersion
makes it impossible for those dependencies to grant or request the permission. The solution for those cases is to declare thetools:node="replace"
manifest merging strategy later in the dependency tree:<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" tools:node="replace"/>
Thx a lot to Lauri for notifying us.
๐ Changelog
๐ In addition, this release contains the following changes:
- ๐ [IMPROVEMENT] Support for Android O.
- โ [IMPROVEMENT] Code scans no longer trigger warnings related to usage of
ANDROID_ID
as we are no longer using it. - ๐ [IMPROVEMENT] The SDK supports Android Strict Mode way better as it no longer violates it.
- [IMPROVEMENT] We've improved the way we send Feedback attachments.
- โก๏ธ [IMPROVEMENT] The SDK no longer caches information about in-app updates to make sure updates are available immediately. The iOS SDK has behaved like this for a while and we decided to align the behavior across SDKs.
- ๐ [BUGFIX] Metrics no longer leaks a connection.
โก๏ธ Updating the HockeySDK
๐ We didn't remove any API with this release. Just update to this version and you're good to go!
Acknowledgments
Thanks to @bmourat @MatkovIvan and @friederbluemle for their input and help! =)