Changelog: Twilio Chat Android SDK

Changelogs

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Programmable Chat Android 7.0.1 (Aug 31, 2021)

• aar sha256:da0c837ddbb47fd9971f801b8c3536696f1cb74d48d6b8d6bb4c9cc234d22f7e
• Documentation

Changes

• Fixed a bug when onChannelAdded event sometimes didn't arrive after restoring application from background

Programmable Chat Android 7.0.0 (May 17, 2021)

• aar sha256:04457c2f02b13c9fe407841c86cc408144afcfcbf8f3133c9b63de96a4d91d24
• Documentation

Programmable Chat Android 6.2.2 (Apr 27, 2021)

• aar sha256:e403ee284d774285bfffc3ec5325872dcfbe3b2f26cba0fe69dbc004b908f575
• Documentation

Changes

• Fixed a reconnection issue after restoring application from background.

Programmable Chat Android 6.2.1 (Mar 17, 2021)

• aar sha256:f8d388cb4d3417efb5be67e589d2b85bbf9838f5d7ae2d3f074a6699a704a6a4
• Documentation

Changes

• Reduced SDK footprint
• Fixed a bug when user update event with reason ReachabilityOnline is not received in some cases

Starting from this release all artifacts are published on mavenCentral instead of jcenter. Root build.gradle have to be updated by adding mavenCentral() repository:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

Programmable Chat Android 6.2.0 (Nov 20, 2020)

• aar sha256:c71270b35e1f17cb352e55958f7a2fc451cd31c6689b3906fc012cbf4f262916
• Documentation
• javadocs

Changes

• Added connection via proxy support. See ChatClient.Properties.Builder.setUseProxy().
• Fixed a bug when onChanelDeleted doesn’t come for a private channel when a member is removed by another user.
• Fixed a bug which could lead to client synchronization getting stuck.

Known issues

• Update to v6.2.1 or newer, if you got runtime error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lcom/getkeepsafe/relinker/ReLinker.

Programmable Chat Android 6.1.1 (Oct 21, 2020)

aar Documentation javadocs

Changes

• Fixed a bug which could lead to crashes when member attributes are updated.

Programmable Chat Android 6.1.0 (Jul 30, 2020)

aar Documentation javadocs

Changes

• SDK has switched to Android’s native SSLSocket implementation (javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket), resulting in a noticeable decrease in final application size compared to release 6.0.0.

Programmable Chat Android 6.0.0 (Jul 20, 2020)

aar Documentation javadocs

Breaking Changes

• ChatClient can now have multiple observers.
  • Renamed setListener to addListener.
  • Changed removeListener() to removeListener(listener).
  • Added removeAllListeners().
• Now Channel.getUnconsumedMessagesCount() returns null instead of 0 if the message consumption horizon was not set.
  • Messages.setNoMessagesConsumedWithResult() always returns null instead of 0 (because it resets the consumption horizon).
• Media message body is not hardcoded to always return null anymore. Returns actual value received from the backend instead.
• Added Member.UpdateReason.LAST_CONSUMPTION_TIMESTAMP.
  • This as a result also changed the value of Member.UpdateReason.ATTRIBUTES (potentially silently breaking change if this value was serialized).

Changes

• Added NotificationPayload.getMessageIndex() and NotificationPayload.INVALID_MESSAGE_INDEX for retrieving the message index from push notifications.
• Exposed Message.dateUpdated, dateUpdatedAsDate and lastUpdatedBy.
  • lastUpdatedBy will be null if messages were not edited, or it will contain the identity of the last user who edited this message.
• Added Message.Media.getContentTemporaryUrl() to get a temporary direct link to Media content.
  • Message.Media.download(OutputStream) is deprecated.
  • To download Media by direct URL, use some external mechanism, such as Android Download Manager or java.net.URL.readText().

Programmable Chat Android 5.1.1 (Jun 1, 2020)

aar Documentation javadocs

Changes

• Fixed the bug when connection is dropped with message The WebSocket message exceeded the locally configured limit.

Programmable Chat Android 5.1.0 (May 20, 2020)

This version has been deprecated — please use 5.1.1.

aar Documentation javadocs

Changes

• Added ability to specify custom command timeout for operations like send message, join to a channel, etc.

Programmable Chat Android 5.0.1 (Apr 2, 2020)

This version has been deprecated June 1, please use 5.1.1.

aar Documentation javadocs

Changes

• Improved stability, fixed crashes.

Programmable Chat Android 5.0.0 (Mar 5, 2020)

aar Documentation javadocs

Breaking changes

• Introduced a type-safe interface Attributes for Channel, Message, Member and User. Attributes type allows attributes to be represented as JSON types JSONObject, JSONArray, String, Number or NULL. You could query attributes to understand what type you've received.
• registerGCMToken()/unregisterGCMToken() now use GCMToken as a parameter type instead of String.
• registerFCMToken()/unregisterFCMToken() now use FCMToken as a parameter type instead of String.

Here are examples of how code should be changed:

For attributes:

JSONObject json = channel.getAttributes();
json.put("newKey", "newValue");
channel.setAttributes(json);

replace with:

JSONObject json = channel.getAttributes().getJSONObject();
json.put("newKey", "newValue");
channel.setAttributes(new Attributes(json));

For GCM tokens:

String token = getToken();
chatClient.registerGCMToken(token);
chatClient.unregisterGCMToken(token);

replace with:

String token = getToken();
GCMToken gcmToken = new GCMToken(token);

chatClient.registerGCMToken(gcmToken);
chatClient.unregisterGCMToken(gcmToken);

For FCM tokens:

String token = getToken();
chatClient.registerFCMToken(token);
chatClient.unregisterFCMToken(token);

replace with:

String token = getToken();
FCMToken fcmToken = new FCMToken(token);

chatClient.registerFCMToken(fcmToken);
chatClient.unregisterFCMToken(fcmToken);

Bug fixes:

• Fixed incorrect behavior when user identity contained a back-tick character (`).
• Fixed unregistering from notifications while offline.

4.X

For older changelog entries, including 4.x, please see this changelog.