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.
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:
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.
APM, Adverts and Android 30
Another big month, APM is moving along quickly and our first version of manifest merging has been added! We are super excited about this tool and the way it will change AIR development. I know a lot of the people we talk to emphasise the lack of quick integration being the biggest hurdle with AIR development and we believe this tool is almost ready to resolve that.
Other updates include latest AdMob SDK and mediation networks. Flurry SDK has been updated and the new "standard events" added. CameraUI has had some major changes integrated to support Android 30, and the Scanner extension had some bug fixes released.
APM, Dialog, ironSource
What an exciting month for AIR! Harman now has a feasible solution for publishing to AAB on Android and excitingly for us, we have released the first beta of the AIR Package Manager!
I am really excited to get this tool out to developers.
APM, AdMob
Here we are already at the mid point of the year! This month has been lots of internal work for us here at distriqt and not a lot of public releases, so this will be a short one this month.
I have mainly been focussed on APM, and am really excited to get this tool out to developers.