APM Update, InAppBilling testing

This month a series of smaller updates have been released including updates for Firebase, Adverts and Share extensions to address some minor issues that were found in the extensions.

Importantly APM v1.2.0 has been released! If you aren't using APM to manage your extensions we highly recommend spending a small amount of time to migrate to using this tool. It will save you an enormous amount of time maintaining your application descriptor particularly for Android builds when needing to update the manifest additions.

SWC Build issues, InApp Billing changes, iOS Simulator

There is a lot of work in progress at the moment with some major changes coming up later this year, particularly for Android and the Google Play store.

Extension Updates

This month has been full of update releases. We have been working on a series of updates for some of our major extensions over the past few months and many of them have been released this month.

• Facebook
• Firebase
• PushNotifications (FCM + OneSignal)
• Adverts
• IronSource

At some point in your application development when you start to store and share data you will need to handle user GDPR settings.

If you use personalised advertising or store user related data on your server then you will need to address GDPR concerns in your application.

Android 12 (API 31)

What a hectic month! But the great news is that all of our extensions have been updated to the latest Google Play Services and androidx libraries including all the air packages for use in apm!

Android 12 (API 31), apm documentation

This month we were aiming to have released a complete upgrade of all our extensions to be compatible with Android 12 (API 31) including Google Play Services and the AndroidX libraries. Along with this comes a major update to all our documentation to use the AIR Package Manager (apm)!

Unfortunately due to the unexpected weather event in Australia, distriqt's offices have been affected by extreme flooding and power outages and we have been delayed with this release.

We are currently aiming to start release of these updates over the next fortnight, as soon as our office is operating again.

Android 31, Google Play Services, AndroidX, APM Documentation

The start to the year has been a disrupted one, with our team having to deal with several COVID cases in our families. Fortunately we weren’t too badly affected and are all back on deck now. But this has meant our schedule for native extension work has been delayed.

Camera Roll Extended, and APM

It has been a quieter month here at distriqt. The team took some time early in the month to have a much needed break especially before the end of year rush.

Work continues on the AIR package manager. If you are using the tool we’d really love to hear any feedback you may have. We are currently looking to v2.0 and what features the community will need in this utility going forward.

AIR Packages, APM v1.0.0

Again this month has seen a large focus on APM. Porting our extensions over to the new AIR package has taking up much of this month.

Notable ANE updates include:

• critical patch for the Facebook API ANE (v9.3.1 was a corrupted build);
• fix for authorisation process in OneSignal on iOS (Push Notifications);
• Native Web View updates for Android API 30 and Windows 64bit support;
• Permissions updated with new System Settings permissions;
• BluetoothLE iOS authorisation process update;

airsdk.dev, extension updates, and more on APM

I am hope you aren't sick of hearing about APM, we are really excited for this tool so may feel like that is all we are talking about recently. We have been pushing out all our extensions as air packages and have over 70 packages in the repository now and are hoping to complete all our extensions early in October.