Titanium SDK 6.1.0.GA Release Note

Titanium SDK 6.1.0.GA - 26 May 2017

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About this release

Titanium SDK 6.1.0.GA is a feature release of the SDK, addressing high-priority issues from previous releases as well as adding new features and improvements.

Notice of feature and behavior changes

Android platform

• TIMOB-19578 - Android: Customize Touch Feedback
  • Added the opt-in feature from Android Lollipop's touch feedback

New features

Android platform

• TIMOB-16005 - Android: Small device textfield issue in landscape mode
  • When rotating a small screen device into landscape mode, the textField now expands to full screen

  • Demo:

     Expand source

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
    	backgroundColor : 'white',
    	layout : 'vertical'
    });
    
    var aTextField = Ti.UI.createTextField({
    	height : Ti.UI.SIZE,
    	top : 10,
    	width : Ti.UI.FILL,
    	hintText : 'This is hint text',
    	softKeyboardOnFocus : Ti.UI.Android.SOFT_KEYBOARD_DEFAULT_ON_FOCUS, // Android only
    	keyboardType : Ti.UI.KEYBOARD_DEFAULT,
    	returnKeyType : Ti.UI.RETURNKEY_DEFAULT,
    	borderStyle : Ti.UI.INPUT_BORDERSTYLE_ROUNDED
    });
    
    win.add(aTextField);
    
    var aTextField1 = Ti.UI.createTextField({
    	height : Ti.UI.SIZE,
    	top : 10,
    	width : Ti.UI.FILL,
    	hintText : 'This is hint text',
    	softKeyboardOnFocus : Ti.UI.Android.SOFT_KEYBOARD_DEFAULT_ON_FOCUS, // Android only
    	keyboardType : Ti.UI.KEYBOARD_DEFAULT,
    	returnKeyType : Ti.UI.RETURNKEY_DEFAULT,
    	borderStyle : Ti.UI.INPUT_BORDERSTYLE_ROUNDED
    });
    
    win.add(aTextField1);
    win.open();
     
      

• TIMOB-16369 - Android: Disable copy,define,share popup contextual bar inside webview when selecting text
  • Added feature that allows for the disabling of the contextual bar: disableContextMenu (set to false by default)
• TIMOB-18053 - Android: expose the text color for the picker
  • Revised picker for row text color
• TIMOB-18565 - Android: Support android *.aar libraries while building module
  • Added support for Android *.aar libraries while building modules
• TIMOB-20477 - Android: Request to support Superscript/Subscript Attributed String
  • Added support for superscript and subscript styles in Ti.UI.AtrributedString

  • Demo:

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    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: '#ddd',
    });
    
    var attr = Ti.UI.createAttributedString({
        text: 'x2 + y3, hello world!',
        attributes: [
            {
                type: Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_SUPERSCRIPT_STYLE,
                range: [1, 1]
            },
            {
                type: Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_SUPERSCRIPT_STYLE,
                range: [6, 1]
            },
            {
                type: Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_SUBSCRIPT_STYLE,
                range: [15, 5]
            }
        ]
    });
    
    var label = Ti.UI.createLabel({
        height: 50,
        color: "#000",
        attributedString: attr
    });
    
    win.add(label);
    win.open();
      

• TIMOB-23429 - Android N: File Permissions
  • Added support for Android N restrictions to file system permissions
• TIMOB-23455 - Android: Support for requesting Audio Focus
  • Added support for Audio Focus which allows Ti.Media.AudioPlayer to grab focus from other audio sources
• TIMOB-23974 - Android: Add property to release space when hiding an object
  
  • Added support for the ”gone”” property for visibility of elements in the layout views
• TIMOB-24400 - Android: Download video and save it to the Device's Gallery
  • Added support for saving video files to gallery

iOS platform

• TIMOB-5436 - iOS: Expose SystemAlert
  • Added support for Ti.Media.SystemAlert
• TIMOB-7406 - iOS: Set a user-agent for a webview
  • Added support to set an user-agent for WebView (iOS)
• TIMOB-15275 - iOS: Enable ARC by default in Titanium Mobile Module projects
  • Added support for ARC and other improvements in native iOS modules
• TIMOB-19911 - iOS: Set Entitlements.plist keys from tiapp.xml like we do for Info.plist
  • Set entitlements.plist keys from tiapp.xml in a similar fashion like info.plist
• TIMOB-20024 - iOS: Support setting values for Ti.UI.AlertDialog input fields
  • Added support for value, loginValue, and passwordValue for Ti.UI.AlertDialog
• TIMOB-20547 - iOS: Add Keychain-access to Ti.TouchID, add passcode-fallback mode, expose new iOS 10 TouchID API's
  • Added support for native keychain-access in Ti.TouchID and passcode-fallback mode
• TIMOB-23836 - iOS10: Support UITableView data-source prefetching
  • Added support for UITableView data-source prefetching

  • Demo:

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    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow();
    var list = Ti.UI.createListView();
    var items = [];
    
    for (var i = 0; i < 200; i++) {
        items.push({
            properties: {
                title: "Item " + i
            }
        });
    }
    
    list.setSections([Ti.UI.createListSection({items: items})]);
    
    
    list.addEventListener("prefetch", function(e) {
        Ti.API.warn("event:prefetch");
        Ti.API.warn(e.prefetchedItems);
    });
    
    list.addEventListener("cancelprefetch", function(e) {
        Ti.API.warn("event:cancelprefetch");
        Ti.API.warn(e.prefetchedItems);
    });
    
    win.add(list);
    win.open();
      

• TIMOB-23837 - iOS10: Support new TabGroup API's
  • Added support for new iOS 10 TabGroup API's

  • Demo:

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    var tabGroup = Ti.UI.createTabGroup({
        unselectedItemTintColor: "red",
        tabs: [createTab("Tab 1"), createTab("Tab 2"), createTab("Tab 3"), createTab("Tab 4")]
    });
    
    // Sets the badge after 3 seconds
    setTimeout(function() {
        tabGroup.tabs[1].badge = 3;
        tabGroup.tabs[1].badgeColor = "gray";
    },3000);
    
    tabGroup.open();
    
    function createTab(title) {
        return Ti.UI.createTab({
            title: title,
            icon: "chat.png",
            window: Ti.UI.createWindow({
                title: title
            })
        })
    }
      

• TIMOB-23992 - iOS: Disable context menu inside webview when selecting text
  • Added support to disable context menu inside WebView when selecting text
• TIMOB-24110 - iOS: Expose keyboardDisplayRequiresUserAction property in Ti.UI.WebView
  • Added support for the keyboardDisplayRequiresUserAction in Ti.UI.WebView
• TIMOB-24356 - iOS: Add missing animation transitions (top to bottom, bottom to top, cross-dissolve)
  • Added animation transitions for top to bottom, bottom to top, and cross-dissolve
• TIMOB-24372 - iOS: Get file path from Ti.Media.openMusicLibrary, use media identifier to Ti.Media.systemMusicPlayer
  • Added support for all missing Ti.Media.Item properties and the ability to play Apple Music items in the Ti.Media.AudioPlayer

Windows platform

• TIMOB-19935 - Windows: Implement Ti.Network.Socket.TCP
  • Implemented Ti.Network.Socket.TCP
• TIMOB-23388 - Windows: autoLink URLs support for Ti.UI.Label
  • Support autoLink URLs for Ti.UI.Label
• TIMOB-24093 - Windows: Modularize Hyperloop
  • Add support for Hyperloop on Windows
• TIMOB-24245 - Windows: listview.scrollToItem not working
  • Implemented listview.scrollToItem for Windows

Multiple platforms

• TIMOB-17467 - iOS/Android: Expose request-headers for WebView
  • Added capability to add custom request-header to Ti.UI.WebView request
• TIMOB-20286 - Support getElementById method to lookup views by ID
  • Added capability for the getElementById method to lookup views by ID

  • Demo:

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     var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: '#fff'
    });
    
    var container = Ti.UI.createView({
        width: 300,
        height: 300,
        backgroundColor: 'red'
    });
    
    var btn = Ti.UI.createButton({
        title: 'Get view by ID',
        id: 'myButton'
    });
    
    btn.addEventListener('click', function () {
        var myButton = win.getViewById('myButton');
    
        // If no button is found, it will return null
        if (myButton) {
            myButton.setTitle('Worked! ');
        }
    });
    
    container.add(btn);
    win.add(container);
    win.open();
      

Community credits

• Ivo Tasevski for his help on Android: Mime-type in Ti.Media.openPhotoGallery() (TIMOB-23898)
• Carlos Henrique Zinato for iOS: Expose Ti.UI.Label maxLines (Parity) (TIMOB-24071)
• Thomas Neerup Andersen for Android: Ti.TouchID fails on SDK < 23 (TIMOB-24230)
• Luc-Edmond Gaspard for Android: Add support for the roundIcon attribute (TIMOB-24659)
• Uriel Lizama for iOS CLI: Improve the way dist-appstore build works (TIMOB-24565)
• Flavio Maria De Stefano for
  • Android: ImageView quality (gradient banding) (TIMOB-24465)
  • iOS: Multiple Webviews with same local URL does not inject Titanium XHR bridge properly (TIMOB-24259)
  • iOS: Expose keyboardDisplayRequiresUserAction property in Ti.UI.WebView (TIMOB-24110)
  • iOS: Label doesn't fire link event correctly (TIMOB-24086)
  • iOS: Expose SystemAlert (TIMOB-5436)
• Kiley Williams for Android: Ti.Calendar.Calendar.getEventsBetweenDates returns same events for all calendars (TIMOB-24464)
• Michael Gangolf for 
  • TiAPI: Enable ScrollView.smoothScrollTo(x,y) method (TIMOB-24411)
  • Android: Small device textfield issue in landscape mode (TIMOB-16005)
  • Android: androidback event not working in Ti SDK 6.0.0.GA (TIMOB-24253)
  • Docs: Title in ListView example rendered wrong
  • Android: Adding getLocationOnScreen() to retrieve location after translation (TIMOB-24190)
  • Android: Update TableView/ListView accessory images, fix spacing (TIMOB-24174)
  • Android: Null pointer exception in destroyRunners() of Android.Service (TIMOB-24159)
  • Android: Add property to release space when hiding an object (TIMOB-23974)
  • iOS/Android: Add 'scrolling' event to ListView to track scroll direction (up or down) (TIMOB-23406)
  • Android HTTPClient onsendstream progress is wrong (TIMOB-20483)
• Christoph Eck for 
  • iOS: WebView - load a webpage with request headers (TIMOB-24397) 
  • iOS: setting additional request header disallows POST form requests (TIMOB-24329)
• Dongwoo Gim for Android: Child view's percent width incorrect of horizontal layout parent view (6.1.0 regression) (TIMOB-24308)
• Brianggalvez for Allow Multiple Selection When Editing in ListView
• Graziano Grespan for Android: SearchView: “change” event is fired on SearchView first initialization (TIMOB-24322) 
• Richard Lustemberg for 
  • Ti.UI.iOS.LivePhotoView does not update it's layout when it's livePhoto property is updated (TIMOB-24249)
  • iOS/Android: Add 'scrolling' event to ListView to track scroll direction (up or down) (TIMOB-23406)
• Tim Ma for 6.1.0.v20161006012211-osx iOS App Store distribution build fail 
• Dulmandakh for Android: Expose "setProgress" method in Ti.Android.Notification (TIMOB-23991)
• Rene Pot for getResponseHeaders method is missing from docs (TIDOC-2628)
• Hazem Khaled for Ti.Platform.name return value not documented since 5.5.0 (TIDOC-2611)
• Andrew Greenstreet for Android: Remove Default Sound Effect when touchEnabled = false (TIMOB-16080)

Fixed issues patch releases

Android platform

• TIMOB-3887 - Android: Image taken in portrait orients itself to landscape
• TIMOB-8430 - Android: TimePicker - Switching between am and pm time does not makes changes in time format on the top of the page
• TIMOB-14285 - Android: applyProperties() does not apply custom properties to proxy
• TIMOB-15890 - Android: Text shadow not working as expected
• TIMOB-17954 - Android: ScrollView's ScrollTo(x,y) incorrect behavior (Parity)
• TIMOB-19035 - Android: Ti.UI.SIZE on ScrollableView not working
• TIMOB-19629 - Android: Buttons stay uppercased in UI
• TIMOB-19984 - Android: transform animation doesn't work immediately after creating a view android
• TIMOB-20448 - Android: Adding text color to a singular row adds the color to multiple down the list
• TIMOB-20483 - Android HTTPClient onsendstream progress is wrong
• TIMOB-20490 - Android: Apps should be able to open/resume and respond to intents
• TIMOB-20502 - Using Android shortcut to start new activity fails to detect Alloy.
• TIMOB-23135 - Android: Ti.Geolocation.locationServicesEnabled returns false, but works
• TIMOB-23428 - Android: Ti.Media.Sound method 'setUrl' not working
• TIMOB-23556 - Android: Update the Android package.json in the sdk to support Android build tools 24
• TIMOB-23646 - Android: Button source missing properties on bubbleParent event.
• TIMOB-23715 - Android: Memory leak when window has listView inside
• TIMOB-23873 - Android: Template for Manifest needs updating
• TIMOB-23881 - Android: Analytics not enabled when root activity is not launched
• TIMOB-23885 - Android WebView Video stays black sound only
• TIMOB-23898 - Android: Mime-type in Ti.Media.openPhotoGallery() is always image/bitmap
• TIMOB-24039 - Android: ti.map.PolylineProxy cannot be cast to ti.map.PolygonProxy when adding polyline to map
• TIMOB-24048 - Android: Window transition animations are not working as expected
• TIMOB-24058 - Android: backgroundSelectedColor & backgroundSelectedImage property does not work for tableviewrow
• TIMOB-24082 - Ti.Media.soundPlayer is not working on Android KitKat (4.4)
• TIMOB-24095 - Android: Cannot set HTML property in WebViews
• TIMOB-24149 - Android: Remove redundant Ti.UI.Window url property code
• TIMOB-24158 - Android: Ti.UI.TableViewRow not shown in 6.1.0 (Regression)
• TIMOB-24159 - Android: Null pointer exception in destroyRunners() of Android.Service
• TIMOB-24161 - Android: Ti.UI.AlertDialog.androidView doesn't work when borderRadius is set
• TIMOB-24177 - Android : TiHTTPClient / Request Length Expected Wrong (6.1.0 regression)
• TIMOB-24192 - Android: PickerRow.setColor is not a function
• TIMOB-24204 - Android: require() not working with Android if path has ../ after Titanium SDK 6.0.0+
• TIMOB-24225 - Android: close event is not fired when a window is closed
• TIMOB-24231 - Android: Clean module build folder appropriately
• TIMOB-24232 - Android: Module build should not error when incompatible native libraries are in the 'libs' folder
• TIMOB-24233 - Android: tabsBackgroundColor is not working.
• TIMOB-24244 - Android: Large file uploads fail with java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
• TIMOB-24246 - Android: Use SecureRandom for SSLContext
• TIMOB-24250 - Android: TextField AUTOCAPITALIZATION_ALL property doesn't work with googles new keyboard: GBoard
• TIMOB-24262 - Android : Crash when Try to remove view from parents.
• TIMOB-24277 - Android: ListView horizontal layout ignores 'right'
• TIMOB-24322 - Android: SearchView: “change” event is fired on SearchView first initialization.
• TIMOB-24344 - Android: hdpi is mapped to incorrect value 213 in DisplayCapsProxy.java
• TIMOB-24347 - Android: Get image frames at times out of local video
• TIMOB-24367 - Android: Going back to the tabgroup with android back button crashes app with "java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.Object ti.modules.titanium.ui.TabGroupProxy.getProperty(java.lang.String)"
• TIMOB-24407 - Android: calendarViewShown does not work on Lollipop and above
• TIMOB-24413 - Android: Ti.TouchID crashes app on unsupported devices
• TIMOB-24417 - LiveView: App does not refresh after second time on android 7.0 & above
• TIMOB-24428 - Android: Titanium.UI.View.center setter does not work
• TIMOB-24459 - Android: Can’t remove unused permissions from AndroidManifest.xml using Ti SDK 6.x
• TIMOB-24464 - Android: Ti.Calendar.Calendar.getEventsBetweenDates returns same events for all calendars
• TIMOB-24654 - Android: Hybrid CommonJS and Native Modules don't export the commonjs code
• TIMOB-24660 - Android: openPhotoGallery is not working for downloads
• TIMOB-24667 - Android: borderRadius doesn't clip the backgroundColor on android 4.1.x, 4.2.x on SDK 6+
• TIMOB-24681 - Android: AVD detection fails if matching SDK is not installed
• TIMOB-24698 - Android: Unable to find default AVD emulator from CLI
• TIMOB-24703 - Android: Missing R class for modules
• TIMOB-24712 - Android: SDK 6.1.0.RC doesnt honor custom_theme.xml colorPrimary setting
• TIMOB-24728 - Crash when closing a window with a TableView on Android
• TIMOB-24733 - Android: Missing --no-version-vectors options for AAPT in during app builds
• TIMOB-24734 - Android: Duplicate resources with .aar and Hyperloop enabled
• TIMOB-24737 - Android: Reading property "WebView.disableContextMenu" causes crash if never assigned
  

iOS platform

• TIMOB-3408 - iOS: Expose Ti.UI.Label.textAlign "justify"
• TIMOB-7855 - iOS: Ti.Gesture.landscape and Ti.Gesture.portrait are undefined
• TIMOB-9007 - iOS: UI.Switch - does not display if value is not set when rendered
• TIMOB-10488 - iOS: webView.loading always returns null
• TIMOB-14763 - iOS: titleid and messageid properties don't work for AlertDialog
• TIMOB-16100 - iOS9: TextField with passwordMask & fontFamily changes its fontSize
• TIMOB-18276 - UI.Notification.setMessage function is not found even though it is documented
• TIMOB-19241 - iOS: Keyboard loses focus after 1 character when TextField is in a TableView TableViewRow
• TIMOB-19924 - iOS: "onclick" event is not triggered in the WebView if you are listening to multiple "click" events
• TIMOB-20482 - iOS: WebView converting spaces into extra lines
• TIMOB-20506 - iOS: Ti.App.Properties.setList failes when array element is object with null property
• TIMOB-20513 - iOS: Activity indicator label cut off when auto layout is enabled
• TIMOB-20623 - iOS: The application has crashed with an uncaught exception 'org.voya_crash.TiUITabProxy'
• TIMOB-23542 - Memory-leaks and warnings across the iOS-project
• TIMOB-23391 - iOS: View is not getting horizontally wrapped properly.
• TIMOB-23666 - iOS: Button setting remote backgroundImage doesn't appear to work
• TIMOB-23810 - iOS: Delay in firing click event listener on View when using run-on-main-thread
• TIMOB-23887 - Attributed string link on a TextArea doesn't fire link event
• TIMOB-23916 - iOS: After taking picture from landscape mode showing white color on top and bottom portion.
• TIMOB-23929 - Rename contextId to stop confusing Apple's private API scan
• TIMOB-23934 - iOS: The first view-children not firing click-events when using run-on-main-thread
• TIMOB-23960 - iOS: Application crashes from background-notifications when delegate method is not implemented
• TIMOB-23997 - iOS and Android revert incorrect CommonJS module changes
• TIMOB-24015 - Camera preview on app has red line across screen
• TIMOB-24067 - iOS: List view crash when deleting rows with "pruneSectionsOnEdit" set
• TIMOB-24086 - iOS: Label doesn't fire link event correctly
• TIMOB-24141 - iOS: TiBlob.imageAsResized resizing the Blob image but file size is very high (JPG)
• TIMOB-24196 - iOS: Debugging app with Safari throws error when adding event-listeners
• TIMOB-24203 - iOS: TextField ignores backgroundColor when borderStyle set
• TIMOB-24249 - Ti.UI.iOS.LivePhotoView does not update it's layout when it's livePhoto property is updated
• TIMOB-24259 - iOS: Multiple Webviews with same local URL does not inject Titanium XHR bridge properly
• TIMOB-24273 - iOS: Overwriting existing event listeners only calls the last one (Regression from 6.0.1)
• TIMOB-24320 - iOS: Removing a TableView with headerView may cause the app to crash
• TIMOB-24329 - iOS: setting additional request header disallows POST form requests
• TIMOB-24352 - iOS: Add MaskedImage, BlurView, LivePhotoView and and ButtonBar API's to ListView template types
• TIMOB-24358 - iOS: Ti.Media.systemMusicPlayer crashes with Apple Music
• TIMOB-24361 - iOS: Using rgb color values causing a false warning, Android: 2-digit float-values do not work
• TIMOB-24397 - iOS: WebView - load a webpage with request headers
• TIMOB-24474 - iOS: Animate object's opacity with animate({}) method don't change the opacity property
• TIMOB-24484 - iOS: Bundle images are copied to asset catalog when using app-thinning, causing apps to crash
• TIMOB-24489 - iOS: Ti.TouchID - Callback error with Ti.Network.createHTTPClient
• TIMOB-24525 - ioslib: Error detecting simulators when Xcode is not installed
• TIMOB-24535 - iOS: Ti.Geolocation Speed returning incorrect number or -1 for speed
• TIMOB-24663 - iOS: App with "More" tab crashes on tapping (6.0.4.GA)

Windows platform

• TIMOB-23319 - Windows: Ti.Platform.openURL does not open some media files
• TIMOB-23547 - Windows: Not all emulators shown when building with mismatched SDKs
• TIMOB-23613 - CLI: Encryption process fails on Windows with spawn ENAMETOOLONG on a large amount of files
• TIMOB-23678 - Windows: Device is unable to connect to LiveView server
• TIMOB-23682 - Windows: borderRadius for ProgressBar
• TIMOB-23728 - Windows: Items missing in parity report
• TIMOB-23758 - Windows: Unable to build to 10.0.10586 emulator after installing Windows SDK 10.0.14393
• TIMOB-23785 - Windows: Error thrown when updating list section item that doesn't exist
• TIMOB-23832 - Windows: Proximity sensor not included in auto-generated capabilities
• TIMOB-23879 - Windows: Unexpected behaviour when rebuilding an app and app is already open on device
• TIMOB-23976 - Windows: Unable to build to a Windows 10 device if no Windows 10 emulators are installed
• TIMOB-23977 - Windows: Invalid value returned for Ti.App.getSessiondId
• TIMOB-24103 - Windows: Tabgroup disappears when navigating back from an opened window
• TIMOB-24104 - Windows: appendrow does not work on a tableview with no data
• TIMOB-24125 - Windows: Calling insertRowBefore with an existing row causes application to freeze
• TIMOB-24130 - Windows: Labels in a tableviewrow are not sized correctly
• TIMOB-24132 - Windows: touchmove event not fired on tableview
• TIMOB-24134 - Windows: tableview.data/getData does not return a tableviewsection
• TIMOB-24147 - Windows: Unable to "new" EasClientDeviceInformation
• TIMOB-24185 - Windows: console log not printing right arguments
• TIMOB-24222 - Universal Windows App (UWP): ScrollView doesn't scroll vertically when the content is larger then height
• TIMOB-24223 - Universal Windows App (UWP) not getting the correct source.id
• TIMOB-24226 - Windows: Phone TCP Write Error
• TIMOB-24239 - Windows: zIndex property/method applied but without any effect
• TIMOB-24252 - Windows: touchEnabled property/method applied but without any effect
• TIMOB-24285 - Windows: Build fails when no target is specified
• TIMOB-24299 - Universal Windows App (UWP): Unable to render different fonts
• TIMOB-24328 - UniversalWindowsApp: touchEnabled: false does not disable button
• TIMOB-24336 - Windows: App crashes when Ti.Network.Socket.TCP fails to connect
• TIMOB-24371 - UniversalWindowsApp: Textfield's return event fires twice
• TIMOB-24385 - Windows: Ti.Network.Socket.TCP.readAsync() is not continuous
• TIMOB-24554 - Windows: Ti.UI.FILL resizes Label incorrectly
• TIMOB-24583 - Windows: Native view should use absolute position in Ti View
• TIMOB-24595 - Windows: Hyperloop addEventListener doesn't work
• TIMOB-24603 - Windows: Remove all children is not working on windows devices
• TIMOB-24615 - Windows -HTTPClient - responseText is not cleared between two requests
• TIMOB-24634 - (Windows) Unable to run a Windows application using the 6.1.0.v20170426072049 build
• TIMOB-24651 - Windows: Hyperloop unable to compile generic collections
• TIMOB-24656 - Windows: Failed to install app on device
• TIMOB-24689 - (Windows) Unable to build for Android on 6.0.4.GA
• TIMOB-24699 - LiveView: Alloy app errors out when built for Windows

Multiple platforms

• TIMOB-20247 - Regression in android HTTPClient
• TIMOB-20544 - Align permission methods Ti.Media.AudioRecorder with the others
• TIMOB-23490 - Packaged JavaScript and Hybrid Modules: it doesn't work properly
• TIMOB-23999 - CLI: Building a module on Windows errors with 'Missing required manifest key "name"'
• TIMOB-24181 - Parity: ListItem properties set to undefined/null have inconsistent results on iOS and Android
• TIMOB-24642 - TiAPI: Require call in a node_modules directory causes infinite loop
• TIMOB-24662 - CLI: Build errors out with "Couldn't find preset "babili" relative to directory" when deploy type is test
• TIMOB-24691 - Forked correct SDK command args doesn't resolve platform when using short flag
• TIMOB-24693 - LiveView: Incorrect argument checked for custom IP

Improvements

• TIMOB-1618 - Android: Expose Ti.UI.Label.minimumFontSize for Parity
  • Added support for the minimumFontSize property in Ti.UI.Label

  • Demo:

     Expand source

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: 'white'
    });
     
    var label = Ti.UI.createLabel({
        text: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore',
        minimumFontSize: 6,
        width: 200,
        height: 30,
        color: "#333"
    });
     
    win.add(label);
    win.open();
      

• TIMOB-16080 - Android: Remove Default Sound Effect when touchEnabled = false
  • Added new property called PROPERTY_TOUCH_SOUND_ENABLED that allows for the separation of functionality of clicking on a window and toggling the default sound (defaults to on) which can be specified by the user
• TIMOB-19482 - Parity: Ti.UI.View.add should support array of views on Android as iOS
  • Added support for passing arrays to Ti.UI.View.Add

  • Demo:

     Expand source

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: "#fff"
    });
    var btn1 = Ti.UI.createButton({
        title: "Add views together",
        top: 0
    });
     
    var view1 = Ti.UI.createView({
        backgroundColor: "red",
        top: 50,
        height: 100
    });
    var view2 = Ti.UI.createView({
        backgroundColor: "green",
        bottom: 50,
        height: 100
    });
     
    btn1.addEventListener("click", function() {
        win.remove(view1);
        win.remove(view2);
     
        // Just to see that they are actually removed before
        setTimeout(function() {
            win.add([view1, view2]);
        }, 250);
    });
     
    var btn2 = Ti.UI.createButton({
        title: "Add views after each other",
        bottom: 0
    });
     
    btn2.addEventListener("click", function() {
        win.remove(view1);
        win.remove(view2);
     
        // Just to see that they are actually removed before
        setTimeout(function() {
            win.add(view1);
            win.add(view2);
        }, 250);
    });
     
    win.add(btn1);
    win.add(btn2);
     
    win.open(); 
      

• TIMOB-19985 - Android - ListView doesn't have canScroll property
  • Implemented canScroll property in ListView for Android
• TIMOB-23193 - Windows: Change target specific build options into target agnostic build options
  • Deprecated the commands for wp-* and ws-*
  • The following replaces the deprecated commands:
    • ws-cert > win-cert
    • wp-sdk > win-sdk
    • wp-product-guid > win-product-guid
• TIMOB-23206 - iOS: Unable to Retrieve Detailed Calendar Information via Ti.Calendar.CalendarOS: Refactor default new app-projects
  • Added support for retrieving source details in calendar events

  • Demo:

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    function showCalendars(calendars) {
        for (var i = 0; i < calendars.length; i++) {
            Ti.API.info(calendars[i].name);
            Ti.API.info(calendars[i].sourceTitle);
            Ti.API.info(calendars[i].sourceIdentifier);
            Ti.API.info(formatSourceType(calendars[i].sourceType)+ '\n');
        }
    }
     
     function formatSourceType(type) {
        switch (type) {
            case Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_LOCAL:
            return "Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_LOCAL";
            
            case Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_EXCHANGE:
            return "Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_EXCHANGE";
        
            case Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_CALDAV:
            return "Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_CALDAV";
        
            case Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_MOBILEME:
            return "Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_MOBILEME";
        
            case Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_SUBSCRIBED:
            return "Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_SUBSCRIBED";        
     
            case Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_BIRTHDAYS:
            return "Ti.Calendar.SOURCE_TYPE_BIRTHDAYS";      
        }
        
        return "Unknown attendee role: " + type;
    }
     
    Ti.API.info('ALL CALENDARS:'+'\n');
    if (Ti.Calendar.hasCalendarPermissions()) {
        showCalendars(Ti.Calendar.allCalendars);
    } else {
        Ti.Calendar.requestCalendarPermissions(function(e) {
            if (e.success) {
                showCalendars(Ti.Calendar.allCalendars);
            } else {
                Ti.API.error(e.error);
                alert('Access to calendar is not allowed');
            }
        });
    } 
      

• TIMOB-23281 - Search Bar: search results listview background color change
  • Added option to style the search results in Ti.UI.ListView

  • Demo:

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    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: '#000',
        fullscreen: true
    });
    var search = Ti.UI.createSearchBar({
        barColor: '#000',
        showCancel: true,
        height: 43,
        top: 0,
    });
    search.addEventListener('cancel', function() {
        search.blur();
    });
     
    var listView = Ti.UI.createListView({
        searchView: search,
        caseInsensitiveSearch: true,
        backgroundColor: 'transparent',
     
        // NEW since 6.1.0
        resultsBackgroundColor: "red",
        resultsSeparatorColor: "green",
        resultsSeparatorInsets: {
            left: 0
        },
     
        templates: {
            "a": {
                properties: {
                    backgroundColor: 'transparent'
                },
                childTemplates: [{
                    type: 'Ti.UI.Label',
                    bindId: 'bindLabel',
                    properties: {
                        color: '#fff'
                    }
     
                }]
            }
        }
    });
     
    var listSection = Ti.UI.createListSection();
    var fruits = ['Papaya', 'Peach', 'Pear', 'Persimmon', 'Pineapple', 'Pluot', 'Pomegranate'];
    var data = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < fruits.length; i++) {
        data.push({
            template: 'a',
            properties: {
                searchableText: fruits[i]
            },
            bindLabel: {
                text: fruits[i]
            }
        });
    }
    listSection.setItems(data);
    listView.addEventListener('noresults', function(e) {
        alert("No results found!");
    });
    listView.sections = [listSection];
    win.add(listView);
    win.open();
      

• TIMOB-23327 - iOS: Webview request send out beforeload event is excuted on Webview (Parity)
  • Handle blacklisted URL's on iOS (Parity with Android)
• TIMOB-23331 - Windows: Implement Ti.UI.TableView filter properties
  • Implemented filterAttribute, filterAnchored, and filterCaseInsensitive properties for Ti.UI.TableView
• TIMOB-23370 - Windows: Log the Windows SDK version being built with
  • Display SDK version being built with Windows
• TIMOB-23406 - iOS/Android: Add 'scrolling' event to ListView to track scroll direction (up or down)
  • Added support to track the scroll direction in Ti.UI.ListView
• TIMOB-23493 - Android: Support #append() method on Ti.Filesystem.File
  • Added support for Ti.Filesystem.File#append() to the Android platform
• TIMOB-23494 - Android: Support #createFile() method on Ti.Filesystem.File
  • Added support for Ti.Filesystem.File#createFile()
• TIMOB-23497 - Android: Support indicatorColor and indicatorDiameter properties on Ti.UI.ActivityIndicator
  • Implement Ti.UI.ActivityIndicator's indicatorColor and indicatorDiameter properties
• TIMOB-23621 - Windows: Improve error message when passing an invalid number of arguments to a function
  • Improved error message when passing an invalid number of arguments to a function
• TIMOB-23660 - Windows: Implement Ti.UI.TableView separatorColor property
  • Implemented separatorColor property for Ti.UI.TableView
• TIMOB-23661 - Windows: Remove the concept of a selected Windows SDK in ti info
  • Using appc ti config windows.wpsdk.selectedVersion <version> changes selected Windows SDK
• TIMOB-23683 - Windows: Default to users OS version when building ws-local projects
  • Unless selected, ws-local defaults to Windows 10 OS
• TIMOB-23759 - Windows: Allow a user to define a target Windows version and Minimum Version in the tiapp.xml
  • Added feature to define a target version and a minimum target version in tiapp.xml

  • Example:

    <windows>
        <TargetPlatformVersion>10.0.14393.0</TargetPlatformVersion>
        <TargetPlatformMinVersion>10.0.10240.0</TargetPlatformMinVersion>
    </windows>

• TIMOB-23760 - Windows: --wp-sdk option should handle actual Windows SDK versions
  • CLI's --wp-sdk option now accepts Windows SDK versions
• TIMOB-23799 - iOS: Support Named Pasteboards
  • Added support to name Pasteboards
• TIMOB-23833 - Windows: Generate capabilities even when they are defined in tiapp.xml
  • Added support to generate capabilities even if they were not defined in the tiapp.xml
• TIMOB-23931 - Windows: Allow an event to be logged to the console for inspection
  • Added parity to log an event to the console to inspect the properties returned in the JSON payload
• TIMOB-23988 - iOS: Ti.Map - Add click event to "callout" bubble and return clicksource==infoWindow, deprecate showsCompass
  • Added parity for click-events on the callout bubble / info window, indicating with the clicksource being equal to "infoWindow"
  • deprecated showsCompass iOS property in favor of the cross-platform compassEnabled property
• TIMOB-23991 - Android: Expose "setProgress" method in Ti.Android.Notification
  • Added progress notification support
• TIMOB-24051 - Windows: Add the ability to remove all Ti.App.Properties at once
  • Parity for Ti.App.Properties.removeAllProperties()
• TIMOB-24063 - Windows: Allow a developer to specify required capabilities in their timodule file
  • Added support that lets developers specify required capabilities in timodule.xml
• TIMOB-24071 - iOS: Expose Ti.UI.Label maxLines (Parity)
  • Added support for numberOfLines property on UILabel component
• TIMOB-24085 - iOS: Add ability to style subtitle in native UITableViewCell templates
  • Added subtitleColor and selectedSubtitleColor properties to style subtitle in native UITableViewCell templates
• TIMOB-24097 - Windows: Native event handling
  • Added support for native event handling for Hyperloop using addEventListener
• TIMOB-24099 - Windows: Mix WinRT APIs with Titanium APIs
  • Added support for mixing WinRT APIs with Titanium APIs
• TIMOB-24101 - Windows: Ability to use 3rd-party native classes
  • Added capability to use third-party dependencies in Hyperloop enabled projects
• TIMOB-24102 - Windows: Native method resolution and casting
  • Implemented better method overload handling with given type
• TIMOB-24126 - Windows: Adding a searchbar to a tableview or listview search property should also add it to the window
  • Added support to use search bar without explicitly adding to the Window
• TIMOB-24153 - iOS: Add parity for Ti.UI.TextField.padding
  • Added parity for Ti.UI.TextField.padding
• TIMOB-24211 - iOS: Support Ti.UI.TextArea padding (Parity)
  
  • Added parity for Ti.UI.TextArea.padding
• TIMOB-24230 - Android: Ti.TouchID fails on SDK < 23
  • Added support for Ti.TouchID on SDK < 23
• TIMOB-24237 - iOS: Add backgroundSelectedColor property (Parity)
  • Added parity for backgroundSelectedColor property
• TIMOB-24288 - Deprecate "onStopBlacklistedUrl" WebView event in favor of cross-platform "blacklisturl" event
  • Deprecated blacklistedUrls property in favor of blacklisturl
• TIMOB-24382 - Windows: Adding same component multiple times should not cause error
  • Fixed issue where adding the same component multiple times doesn't cause an error
• TIMOB-24386 - Windows: Resize Label when Window is resized
  • Label resizes it's content when the parent Window is resized
• TIMOB-24402 - Windows: Building module for specific platform/architecture
  • Added feature to limit target platform for module
• TIMOB-24409 - Android: Improve Android 6.0 permission requirements
  • Improved how permission requirements are handled for Android 6.0
• TIMOB-24411 - TiAPI: Enable ScrollView.smoothScrollTo(x,y) method
  • Added support for the smoothScrollTo method in Ti.UI.ScrollView
• TIMOB-24438 - Android: Update bundled Android libraries to 23.4.0
  • Updated bundled Android Support Libraries to version 23.4.0
• TIMOB-24446 - Android: Allow user to specify Android Support Library version
  • Added support to allow users to specify Android Support Library version
• TIMOB-24454 - Windows: Improve library integration with module
  • Improved packaging libraries for use of third party JARs
    • Every .lib, .dll, and .winmd file in the lib director will be packaged into a module and copied or linked during Ti app build
    • Every file in platform directory is packaged into a module and copied into Ti app so the module can overwrite file using Ti app build
• TIMOB-24455 - Windows: Allow custom Extensions in manifest root
  • Added support to allow Package/Extensions for package manifest
• TIMOB-24565 - iOS CLI: Improve the way dist-appstore build works
  • Improved the way dist-appstore packaging works making it easier to integrate other CLI tools such as TiFastlane
• TIMOB-24609 - Replace uglifyjs usage with babel to parse ES6+ code
  • Babel replaces uglifyjs to parse ES6+ code
• TIMOB-24618 - Windows: Replace uglify usage in build process
  
  • Replaced uglifyjs with Babel in the build process
• TIMOB-24682 - Windows: require proper document for memory leaks and tracking memory allocations
  • Added documentation for Managing Memory and Finding Leaks#MonitoringallocationsonWindows

API changes

New APIs

The following APIs are new or have expanded platform support in Release 6.1.0.

Deprecated APIs

The following APIs are deprecated in Release 6.1.0.