Migrating to v8.1

This latest release brings a number of updates to the extension particularly around the Android integration.

Android Integration

Gradle Dependencies

We have moved to using gradle dependencies within our extensions which will improve dependency resolution, reduce update times and improve compatibility with other extensions.

This also reduces the amount of work required to manually integrate the extensions, reducing the additions to the manifest in your application descriptor.

We highly recommend using the apm tool to manage the integration of the extensions in your application and to generate your application descriptor:

apm update
apm generate app-descriptor

However, you can still integrate the manifest additions manually if you prefer. With this update we recommend starting fresh as there have been a lot of entries to be removed.

Updating code

There should be no changes to your code required for this update.

Updating the manifest

You can simplify the manifest now as well as the gradle implementation will add a significant amount of the required manifest entries for you. If you use the apm tool to generate your application descriptor you will see the manifest entries are significantly reduced and simply running the commands above will update the manifest for you.

If you manually update the manifest then, as mentioned above, we recommend starting fresh as there have been a lot of entries to be removed. The minimum manifest additions now looks like the following:

<manifest android:installLocation="auto" >
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="21" android:targetSdkVersion="34"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
    
    <queries>
        <!-- query for checking email apps -->
        <intent>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
            <data android:mimeType="message/rfc822" />
        </intent>
    </queries>

    <application>
        <meta-data android:name="android.max_aspect" android:value="2.5"/>
        <meta-data android:name="android.notch_support" android:value="true"/>

        <provider android:name="com.distriqt.extension.share.content.ShareFileProvider" android:authorities="APPLICATION_PACKAGE.sharefileprovider" android:exported="false" android:grantUriPermissions="true">
            <meta-data android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS" android:resource="@xml/distriqt_share_paths"/>
        </provider>

        <activity android:name="com.distriqt.core.auth.AuthorisationActivity" android:exported="false" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"/>
    </application>
</manifest>

There are still some meta-data entries that you may need to add for specific features, but these are minimal.