Titanium SDK 8.2.0.GA - 19 September 2019

About this release

Titanium SDK 8.2.0 is a minor release of the SDK, addressing high-priority issues from previous releases.This release is geared towards supporting iOS 13.

As of this release, Titanium SDK 8.1.x.x will not receive updates more than six months after the release of 8.2.0 (current) (2020-03-19). Any needed fixes will be in 8.2.x or later supported releases within the 8.x branch. See Axway Appcelerator Deprecation Policy and Nominal Lifetimes documents for details.

Notice of feature and behavior Changes

• TIMOB-27126 - iOS 13: Support dark mode
  • Added TiColor support for all color-setters

  • In iOS 13, Apple introduced support for users to adopt a system-wide Dark Mode setting where the screens, view, menus, and controls use a darker color palette. You can read more about this in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. There are two aspects to dark mode that can be specified for your app: colors and images. To specify colors for dark mode, also known as semantic colors, first create a file called semantic.colors.json in the Resources directory for classic applications, or in the assets directory for Alloy applications. Then you can specify color names in the following format:

    {
      "textColor": { // the name for your color
        "dark": {
        "color": "#ff85e2", // hex color code to be set
        "alpha": "50.0" // can be set from a range of 0-100
      },
      "light": "#ff1f1f"
      }
    }

  • To reference these colors in your application use the Titanium.UI.fetchSemanticColor API method, this is a cross platform API that on iOS 13 and above will use the native method that checks the users system-wide setting, and in all other instances will check the Titanium.UI.semanticColorType property and return the correct color for the current setting.
  • Note: Dark Mode images are iOS only.
  • To specify dark mode images, use the -dark suffix on the image name. When building your app the images are set as the dark mode variant, then refer to images as normal and iOS will select the correct image dependent on the users system-wide setting.
  • For example given an image logo.png with @2x and @3x variants, the following dark mode images should exist:
  • • logo-dark.png
    • logo-dark@2x.png
  • • logo-dark@3x.png
  • And you would reference the image as before using logo-dark.png

New features

• MOD-2534 - TiAPI: Update Facebook SDK's to latest (iOS 5.5.0, Android 5.4.0) to support iOS 13
  • Updated Facebook SDK's to 5.5.0 for iOS and 5.4.0 for Android
  • Facebook has removed support for Share to Messenger SDK. See Sharing to Messenger for iOS and Android for more details.
• TIMOB-26566 - iOS: Add ability to remove previously added motion effects
  • Added clearMotionEffects() method
• TIMOB-27127 - iOS 13 : Expose new APIs to support Apple login
  • Added ti.applesignin 1.1.0 module
• TIMOB-27133 - iOS 13: Add support for SF Symbols
  • Added support for SF Symbols
  •  Expand source

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: '#fff'
    });
    var triangle = Ti.UI.iOS.systemImage('drop.triangle.fill');
    var forward = Ti.UI.iOS.systemImage('forward');
    var backward = Ti.UI.iOS.systemImage('backward');
    var folder = Ti.UI.iOS.systemImage('folder.fill');
     
    var imageView = Ti.UI.createImageView({
        width: '150',
        height: '150',
        image: triangle,
        tintColor: 'red'
    });
    
    var button = Ti.UI.createButton({
        top: 60,
        width: 100,
        height: 50,
        //backgroundImage: folder
        image: folder
    })
     
    var stepper = Ti.UI.iOS.createStepper({
        top: 150,
        incrementImage: forward,
        decrementImage: backward
    });
    
    win.add(button);
    win.add(stepper);
    win.add(imageView);
    win.open();
      

• TIMOB-27142 - iOS 13 : Multiple row selection in ListView
  • Added multiple row selection support in ListView and TableView
  • Ti.UI.ListView  Expand source

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: '#fff'
    });
     
    var nav = Ti.UI.createNavigationWindow({ 
      window: win,
     });
     
     var items = [];
     for (var i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
        items.push({
                properties: {
                    title: 'Item ' + i,
                    canEdit: true,
                }
            });
      }
     
    var list = Ti.UI.createListView({
        allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing: true,
        allowsMultipleSelectionInteraction: true,
        sections: [Ti.UI.createListSection({
                    items: items
                })]
    })
     
     list.addEventListener('itemclick', function(e) {
        Ti.API.info('click at index: ' + e.itemIndex); 
    })
     
     list.addEventListener("delete", function(e){
        Ti.API.info("Deleted Row Index is is: " +e.itemIndex);
        Ti.API.info("Deleted Section Index is is: " +e.sectionIndex);
     
     });
     
      list.addEventListener("itemsselected", function(e){
        Ti.API.info("Selected  Item count is: " +e.selectedItems.length);
     
     
      var dialog = Ti.UI.createAlertDialog({
        buttonNames: ['Change Color', 'Cancel'],
        message: 'Would you like to change title color of selected rows?',
      });
     
      dialog.addEventListener('click', function(f) {
        if (f.index === 1) {
          list.editing = false;
        } else {
            for (var i = 0; i < e.selectedItems.length; i++) { 
                var rowObject = e.selectedItems[i];
                var item = rowObject.section.getItemAt(rowObject.itemIndex)
                item.properties.color = 'green';
                rowObject.section.updateItemAt(rowObject.itemIndex, item);
            }
            list.editing = false;
        }
      });
     dialog.show();
     
    });
     
    win.add(list);
    nav.open();
      

• TIMOB-27376 - iOS: Malformed Xcode project warning printed on every build
  • Fixed duplicate reference warnings

Community credits

• Christy Thomas - TIMOB-24171
• Fabian Martinez - TIMOB-27205
• Sergey Volkov - TIMOB-27234
• Hans Knöchel - MOD-2534, MOD-2537, TIMOB-27263, TIMOB-27367, TIMOB-27169, TIMOB-27171, TIMOB-27209

Fixed issues

• TIMOB-24171 - iOS: AccessibilityLabel or AccessibilityValue does not work.
• TIMOB-27195 - iOS: Using a commonjs module in an itemtemplate fails in a classic app
• TIMOB-27205 - Webview http redirects not working as on 7.5.1
• TIMOB-27234 - iOS: VideoPlayer natural size
• TIMOB-27263 - iOS 13: Modal windows with large titles do not honor barColor
• TIMOB-27292 - iOS: App crashes on startup on iOS 9
• TIMOB-27351 - iOS: Unit tests failing on Xcode 11 / iOS 13
• TIMOB-27360 - Watch app does not get installed on the watch with watch OS 6.0 & IOS 13
• TIMOB-27362 - Hyperloop example with Xcode 11 throws error on pod
• TIMOB-27367 - iOS: Apps can be rejected when including UIWebView refs
• TIMOB-27386 - iOS: Correctly decode push notification token

Improvements

• TIMOB-26573 - TiAPI: Make Ti.Buffer Node-compatible with Node's Buffer type
  • Added Node.js compatible Buffer module
• TIMOB-27125 - iOS 13: Make iOS development-project compatible with Xcode 11
  • Added support for Xcode 11 and iOS 13 development environment
• TIMOB-27163 - iOS: Update Xcode project template settings and resolve warnings
  • Resolved project warnings for missing method selectors, nullability flags, and strict prototypes
• TIMOB-27169 - iOS 13: Prevent modal windows from being swiped down
  • Added support to prevent modal windows from being swiped down
  •  Expand source

    var window1 = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        title: "Modal Window",
        backgroundColor: 'white'
    });
     
    var win = Ti.UI.createNavigationWindow({ window: window1 });
     
    var button1 = Ti.UI.createButton({ title: 'Open Window' });
     
    window1.add(button1);
     
    win.open();
     
    var window2 = Ti.UI.createWindow({ backgroundColor: 'blue' });
     
    var button2 = Ti.UI.createButton({ title: 'Close Window' });
     
    window2.add(button2);
     
    button1.addEventListener('click', function(e){
      window2.open({
        modal:true,
        forceModal: true
      });
    });
     
    button2.addEventListener('click', function(e){
      window2.close();
    });
      

• TIMOB-27171 - iOS 13: Support new UITableViewStyleInsetGrouped style in list-view
  • Added support for UITableViewStyleInsetGrouped style in ListView
• TIMOB-27209 - iOS: Be able to determine dark / light mode, as well as changes on it
  • Added feature that allows for detection of dark and light mode
  •  Expand source

    var currentStyle = Ti.App.iOS.userInterfaceStyle;
     
    console.log('Initial style:' + formattedUserInterfaceStyle(currentStyle));
     
    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: '#fff'
    });
     
    var btn = Ti.UI.createButton({
        title: 'Check User Interface Style'
    });
     
    btn.addEventListener('click', function() {
        Ti.API.info('User Interface Style: ' + formattedUserInterfaceStyle(currentStyle));
    });
     
    Ti.App.iOS.addEventListener('traitcollectionchange', function (event) {
        if (currentStyle !== Ti.App.iOS.userInterfaceStyle) {
            currentStyle = Ti.App.iOS.userInterfaceStyle;
            Ti.API.info('User Interface Style changed: ' + formattedUserInterfaceStyle(currentStyle));
        }
    });
     
    win.add(btn);
    win.open();
     
    function formattedUserInterfaceStyle(style) {
        switch (style) {
            case Ti.App.iOS.USER_INTERFACE_STYLE_LIGHT: return 'Light';
            case Ti.App.iOS.USER_INTERFACE_STYLE_DARK: return 'Dark';
        }
     
        return 'Unspecified';
    }
      

• TIMOB-27273 - iOS 13: Support new type of status bar style UIStatusBarStyleDarkContent
  • Added support for UIStatusBarStyleDarkContent
  •  Expand source

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: 'white',
        statusBarStyle: Ti.UI.iOS.StatusBar.DARK_CONTENT
    });
     
    var btn = Ti.UI.createButton({ title: 'Trigger' });
     
    btn.addEventListener('click', function() {
        Ti.API.info('Hello world!');
        Ti.API.info(Ti.UI.iOS.StatusBar.DARK_CONTENT);
    });
     
    win.add(btn);
    win.open(); 
      

• TIMOB-27310 - iOS 13: Support new type of UIBlurEffectStyle constants

  • Added support for UIBlurEffectStyle

• TIMOB-27318 - iOS: Use swift 5 for apple watch template
  • Updated Swift to version 5 for Apple watch template
• TIMOB-27358 - iOS: Support Apple Developer certificates
  • Added support for generic Apple certificates
• TIMOB-27395 - iOS: Support new devices in os.cpus()
  • Included new iPhone models into os extension

API changes

New APIs

The following APIs are new or have expanded platform support in release 8.2.0.

SDK modules versions

Android and iOS

CommonJS

Hyperloop

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