Titanium SDK 7.4.0.GA - 17 September 2018

About this release

Titanium SDK 7.4.0.GA is a minor release of the SDK that focuses on supporting iOS 12 and Xcode 10 updates.

As of this release, Titanium SDK 7.3.x will not be supported six months from 7.4.0.GA's release date. See Axway Appcelerator Deprecation Policy and Nominal Lifetimes documents for details.

New features

iOS platform

• TIMOB-25708 - iOS: Support iOS 12 and Xcode 10
  • Implemented support Xcode 10 and iOS 12
• TIMOB-26312 - iOS 12 : Expose new NSUserActivity APIs for Siri Intents
  • Added support NSUserActivity API

  • Sample app

     Expand source

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
      backgroundColor: '#fff'
    });
     
    var identifierBtn = Ti.UI.createButton({
      top: 100,
      title: 'Persistent Identifier'
    });
     
    var btn = Ti.UI.createButton({
      top: 200,
      title: 'Delete UserActivity for identifier'
    });
     
    var deleteBtn = Ti.UI.createButton({
      top: 300,
      title: 'Delete All UserActivity'
    });
     
    var itemAttr = Ti.App.iOS.createSearchableItemAttributeSet({
      itemContentType: Ti.App.iOS.UTTYPE_IMAGE,
      title: 'Titanium Siri Shortcut Tutorial',
      contentDescription: 'Tech Example \nOn: ' + (new Date().toLocaleString()),
    });
     
    var activity = Ti.App.iOS.createUserActivity({
      activityType: 'com.appcelerator.titanium',
      title: 'Siri shortcut activity',
      userInfo: {
        msg: 'hello world'
      },
      eligibleForSearch: true,
      eligibleForPrediction: true,
      persistentIdentifier: 'titanium_siri_identifier'
    });
     
    activity.addContentAttributeSet(itemAttr);
     
    if (!activity.isSupported()) {
      alert('User Activities are not supported on this device!');
    } else {
      activity.becomeCurrent();
     
      Ti.App.iOS.addEventListener('continueactivity', function(e) {
        Ti.API.info('continueactivity called');
        if (e.activityType === 'com.appcelerator.titanium' && e.userInfo.msg) {
          alert(e.userInfo.msg);
        }
      });
    }
     
    activity.addEventListener('useractivitydeleted', function(e) {
      Ti.API.info('useractivitydeleted called');
      alert('user activity deleted');
    });
     
    btn.addEventListener('click', function() {
      activity.deleteSavedUserActivitiesForPersistentIdentifiers('titanium_siri_identifier');
    });
     
    identifierBtn.addEventListener('click', function() {
      Ti.API.info('persistent identfier is: ' +activity.persistentIdentifier);
      Ti.API.info('\neligibleForPrediction is: ' +activity.eligibleForPrediction);
    });
     
    deleteBtn.addEventListener('click', function() {
      activity.deleteAllSavedUserActivities();
    });
     
    win.add(identifierBtn);
    win.add(btn);
    win.add(deleteBtn);
    win.open();
      

Fixed issues

• TIMOB-25226 - Xcode 9/10: Support using new build-system
• TIMOB-26096 - iOS 12: Simulator does not boot with Xcode 10
• TIMOB-26097 - Hyperloop: iOS 12 - Using CocoaPods in Hyperloop does not work with Xcode 10
• TIMOB-26103 - iOS 12: Support grouped notifications
• TIMOB-26109 - Xcode 10: Cannot build modules with the new (default) build system
• TIMOB-26110 - Xcode 10: Cannot build application with new (default) build system
• TIMOB-26351 - iOS CLI (Babel): Cannot read property 'isIfStatement' of null
• TIMOB-26388 - iOS 12: Support iPhone Xs Max & iPhone XR launch-screen images

Improvements

• TIMOB-26089 - iOS 12: Update simulator mappings for Xcode 10
  • Dropped support for versions of Xcode below 9 and added support for Xcode 10
• TIMOB-26090 - iOS 12: Make iOS development-project compatible with Xcode 10
  • Made minor updates to Xcode template
• TIMOB-26094 - iOS 12: Add Password Autofill improvements
  • Added new Ti.UI.TextField API
  • Related docs:
  • UITextInputPasswordRules
  • passwordRules
  • UITextContentTypeNewPassword
  • UITextContentTypeOneTimeCode

  • Sample code

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        backgroundColor: '#ddd'
    });
     
    var field = Ti.UI.createTextField({
        autofillType: Ti.UI.AUTOFILL_TYPE_PASSWORD,
        passwordRules: 'required: upper; required: lower; required: digit; max-consecutive: 2; minlength: 8;',
        passwordMask: true,
        width: 300,
        height: 40,
        backgroundColor: '#fff' });
     
    win.add(field);
    win.open()

Known issues

• TIMOB-26320 - Xcode 10: Cannot build native modules in Xcode IDE when using new build-system (default)
  
  • Xcode cannot find the header-source-paths used before (e.g. #import "TiApp.h") from ~/Library/Application Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/7.3.0.GA/iphone/include/ anymore. While building the module works fine, but building the library from Xcode to debug the development process, does not work anymore. The radar is rdar://40906817.
  • Workaround: go to File > Project Settings and select the Legacy Build System.

API changes

New APIs

The following APIs are new or have expanded platform support in release 7.4.0.

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