RELEASE_NOTES.md

Release Notes

Release Notes for 2.9.5

July 02, 2021

• Features
  • Flexible event attributes in mobile push notifications. Custom tracking attributes added into push notification payload are automatically included in the events as properties.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Session start is no longer tracked on anonymizing when automatic session tracking is off.
  • Fixed: In-app message buttons with long text are no longer pushed outside the window.

Release Notes for 2.9.4

May 28, 2021

• Features
  • Documentation improvements
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: In-app messages now initialize properly after killing the application.
  • Fixed: In-app message without the image is no longer blocking other in-app messages from showing,

Release Notes for 2.9.3

April 21, 2021

• Features
  • Push notifications events are now chronologically synced (the event with status sent always occurs before the event with status delivered).
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: The Exponea Android SDK no longer depends on version properties in BuildConfig class as they are no longer available since Gradle Plugin 4.1.
  • Fixed: In-app messages with A/B testing now properly handle the control group.

Release Notes for 2.9.1

January 07, 2021

• Features
  • In-app message clicked event now contains property text with label of the button that was interacted with.
  • In-app messages are only preloaded when a new session is started. To ensure that you get fresh in-app messages while testing, kill the app between runs.
  • Updated dependencies, moved all libraries to AndroidX.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Crash occurring when push notification is received and the notification channel provided in configuration doesn't exist.

Release Notes for 2.9.0

November 20, 2020

• Features
  • Removed Firebase default init override. By default Firebase initializes before the application is started using FirebaseInitProvider. Our SDK was removing this initializer and manually creating Firebase app when the Exponea SDK was initialized, to make Firebase token tracking easier. This has caused issues in React Native, where other packages rely on the default Firebase initializer. In 2.8.3 we made a change that remembers Firebase token until Exponea SDK is initialized, so there is no point in overriding default Firebase initializer any more.
  • Documentation improvements

Release Notes for 2.8.3

October 06, 2020

• Features
  • Paper DB updated to version 2.7.1 that should fix rare crashes.
  • When Firebase is initialized before Exponea SDK, push notification token is stored until Exponea is initialized.

Release Notes for 2.8.2

September 09, 2020

• Features

  • Default properties that are tracked with every event can be changed at runtime by setting Exponea.defaultProperties property.
  • In-app messages definitions are re-downloaded every time the customer is identified. After customer identification, the set of in-app messages available for the customer may change due to targeting.

• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed: Notification sound was played when the app notifications were disabled or the notification channel was muted. SDK now respects these settings + “Do not disturb” setting.
  • Fixed: When the SDK was initialized with activity context, this context was stored causing memory leak - the activity could not be garbage collected. The SDK now only stores application context.

Release Notes for 2.8.1

August 07, 2020

• Features
  • Support for new in-app message delay and timeout fields soon to be available in Exponea web app.
  • Troubleshooting guide for In-app messages.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Opening a deeplink that couldn't be handled inside in-app message would cause the application to crash. Now, an error is logged.
  • Fixed: In-app message text was not correctly centered.
  • Fixed: Serialization issue in in-app messages would prevent some in-app messages from being displayed.
  • Fixed: String mode errors with unclosed closable resources.

Release Notes for 2.8.0

July 20, 2020

• Features
  • Silent push notifications support. You're now able to send background updates to your application and respond to them using Exponea.notificationDataCallback. Delivery of silent push notifications is tracked to Exponea backend.
  • When the application is started from a push notification, resulting session will contain UTM parameters.
  • Updated push notifications documentation and self-check mechanism to make notifications integration easier.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Push notification sound is no longer played in Do not Disturb mode

Release Notes for 2.7.4

June 30, 2020

• Features
  • When initialized with instance of resumed AppCompatActivity, the SDK now automatically starts the session and displays in-app message (if applicable). Before, the SDK would perform these actions after next activity resume.

Release Notes for 2.7.3

May 01, 2020

• Features
  • Retrieve the cookie of the current customer used for tracking by calling Exponea.customerCookie.
  • Improved logging for in-app messages explaining why each message should/shouldn’t be displayed.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Updated Gradle and removed unused dependencies.
  • Removed: Legacy banners implementation that wasn’t working properly

Release Notes for 2.7.2

April 09, 2020

• Features
  • Switching projects in anonymize() method. If you need to switch projects, you can use anonymize() method to create a new customer and start fresh tracking into a new project. Please see ANONYMIZE.md for more information.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: When the app was opened from a push notifications, in-app messages would not initialize properly and would not show until the app is restarted.
  • Fixed: When the SDK was initialized with the application context instead of the activity context, in-app messages would not show properly.
  • Fixed: Tracking to multiple projects. It now requires both project token and authorization token. Please see PROJECT_MAPPING.md.

Release Notes for 2.7.1

March 24, 2020

• Features
  • Push notification accent color setting - you can now set ExponeaConfiguration property pushAccentColor to change color of push notification title and buttons.
  • Improved documentation on handling push notifications and flushing setup.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Occasional crash during in-app message preload.
  • Fixed: Push notifications deeplinking issue. In some rare cases, push notification with deeplink would not open correctly.

Release Notes for 2.7.0

March 02, 2020

• Features
  • New in-app messages - display rich messages when app starts or an event is tracked - even when offline. This SDK is fully ready for the feature when it is publicly available soon.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Rare internal database thread-safety related crash.

Release Notes for 2.6.3

February 20, 2020

• Features
  • Updated Firebase messaging library to version 2.1.0
  • Updated minimum SDK version to 16 as recommended by Google

Release Notes for 2.6.2

January 10, 2020

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Fetch recommendations functionality was reimplemented, it was incorrectly removed at one point. (see FETCH.md)
  • Fixed: Thread safety problem in crash reporting that caused the application to crash (it would still report the crash itself).
  • Fixed: Issue with serializing Infinity, -Infinity and NaN. Double and Float variables can hold these values, but they are not part of JSON standard and Exponea doesn't support them. These values will now be reported as string values, but should be avoided. Fixes Issue #20.
  • Removed: Automatic payment tracking was broken and has been removed from the Exponea Android SDK. In case you're interested in this functionality let us know. Manual tracking is simplified - device properties are now automatically added. (see PAYMENT.md)

Release Notes for 2.6.1

December 20, 2019

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Google Play Billing Library version > 2.0 would cause the SDK to fail to initialize properly. To mitigate the issue, SDK now only disables automatic payment tracking. Proper solution will be implemented later.

Release Notes for 2.6.0

November 26, 2019

• Features
  • The SDK is now able to report the SDK-related crashes to Exponea. This helps us keep the SDK in a good shape and work on fixes as soon as possible.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: #16 - The internal database could have been initialized twice. This won't happen anymore.
  • Fixed: The SDK now correctly reports the version of the host application in the session events.

2.5.0

November 05, 2019

• Features
  • The SDK has a new protective layer for the public API as well as for the interaction with the operating system. It means that in the production setup it prefers to fail silently instead of crashing the whole application.
  • Push notification events now contain more information about campaigns and the action taken and are consistent with Exponea iOS SDK.
• Bug Fixes
  • Increased overall code quality by fixing many lint errors. This makes many warnings from the SDK disappear when the application is compiled.
  • The internal mechanisms of the SDK are now really hidden and not usable by the application. It prevents developers from using some undocumented internal part of the SDK in an inappropriate way.
  • Fixed: The periodic flushing mechanism has been fixed. Once it was started, it wouldn't stop. Now it does.
  • There are significant improvements in the unit tests of the SDK.

2.4.0

September 30, 2019

• Features
  • App links: SDK can now track app opens from App Link. Sessions that are started from App Link contain campaign data.
• Bug Fixes
  • Exponea SDK can only be initialized once. Subsequent calls to Exponea.init are ignored. Multiple instances of SDK cause sessions to be tracked twice.

2.3.3

August 28, 2019

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Properties in the events were found to be accumulating over time. This happened always after tracking multiple events (after multiple calls of Exponea.trackEvent(), Exponea.identifyCustomer() or similar). The impacted versions are thankfully only 2.3.1 and 2.3.2.

2.3.2

• WorkManager updated to the latest version to avoid inconsistency and crashes
• Configuration now has a token update frequency, which specifies how often should the push token be sent to Exponea (on change, on every start, daily)

2.3.1

• Added option to specify default properties to be tracked with all events

2.3.0

• Added option to fetch consent cateogires (see FETCH.md)

2.2.7

• Make push notifications valid when they have a title or a message

2.2.6

• Improvements to notification tracking parameters

2.2.5

• Documentation improvements
• Change notification action_type to "mobile notification" for better tracking purposes

2.2.4

• Update dependencies

2.2.3

• Possible fix for null enum ordinal crash on routes when loading from database
• Don't display push notifications if title is empty

2.2.2

• Fixed a bug with notification body deeplink not getting parsed correctly

2.2.1

• Add the ability to use custom Firebase service by create public method in Exponea to handle remote push notification, which tracks and optionally shows notification

2.2.0

• Fix for crash with billing client 1.2 dependency
  • It is now required to provide a list of SKUs of in app purchases you wish to track. Please see this document for information about how to set this up.

2.1.0

• Advanced tracking for push-notification actions
• Flushing behaviour fixes

2.0.0

• Removal of deprecated functions
• Documentation improvements

1.2.0-beta-5

• Fix parsing of notification body action deeplink url
• Improve initialising Exponea from configuration file
• Update documentation

1.2.0-beta-4

• Add a workaround for a crash happening only on Meizu M5 with Android 6.0 due to OkHttp

1.2.0-beta-3

• Fix an edge case where a notification triggered intent might crash the app
• Add automatic ProGuard rules to the SDK
• Internal improvements to rich push notifications code

1.2.0-beta-2

• Fix image quality in rich push
• Fix dismissal of notification tray on button click

1.2.0-beta-1

• Adds support for the rich push notifications feature

1.1.7

• Fix for crash when Looper.prepare() wasn't called on Exponea init
• Deprecations of basic auth in favor of token auth
• Anonymize feature now carries over the push token of the device

1.1.6

• Automatic session tracking property in configuration is now properly respected
• Fixed a crash when Firebase was initialised before Exponea

1.1.5

• Fixed a crash when push notification payload was null

1.1.4

• Timestamp type changed from Long to Double for better precision

1.1.3

• Fixed anonymize functionality

1.1.2

• Default flush mode set to IMMIDIATE
• Improved retry mechanism for events flushing

1.1.1

• Expandable Notifications

1.1.0

• Anonymize feature
• Dependencies update
• Pass custom data to FCM manager
• Fixed flushing behavior (Changed timestamp from milliseconds to seconds)
• Fixed push tracking with Android 8+
• SDK is now compatible with Android API 14+

1.0

Initial release.