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Migrating to v8.1

Read SMS Messages​

The Share ANE now supports reading SMS messages on Android. This is a new feature that allows your application to access SMS messages stored on the device. To read SMS messages, you can use the Share.service.sms.readSMS() method. This method returns an array of SMS objects representing the SMS messages on the device.

Android Gradle Version​

We have updated the required gradle version used to build your application to be higher than the default AIR currently uses.

To specify a higher version add the following to your android node in your application descriptor:

<android>
    <gradleVersion>8.9</gradleVersion>
    <androidGradlePluginVersion>8.7.3</androidGradlePluginVersion>

  ...
</android>

If you don't do this you will see the following error when building your application:

Unexpected failure: Unable to run java: com.adobe.air.ADTException: gradle tool failed: 
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

...

   > BUG! exception in phase 'semantic analysis' in source unit '_BuildScript_' Unsupported class file major version 65
note

April 2025: This is not currently automatically handled by apm so you will need to add this manually to your application descriptor.

We are working on an update to handle this.