ReleaseNotes

Releases are available as standalone jars or via Maven.

Note: Items in bold are not backward compatible.

Upcoming release: 2.4

Note: A snapshot is available on the snapshot repository.

See the list of issues for the 2.4 milestone.

Latest release: 2.3

Test

Main changes

Other changes

You can browse the closed issues for the 2.3 Release to see all changes.

2.2

Released on Dec 8, 2011

• Issue 93: View binding & @AfterViews are executed every time setContentView is called
• Issue 94: Deploy AndroidAnnotations to Maven Central
• Issue 102: Rename pref.field().get(default) to getOr(default)
• Issue 83: @Click & friends with multiple id parameters
• Issue 125: Dropped support for Eclipse 3.4.X
• Issue 55: Rest API using Spring Android.
• Issue 95: @HtmlRes & @FromHtml annotations to inject spanned html strings
• Issue 107: abstract annotated activities generate abstract activities instead of final activities
• Issue 111: Convention over configuration can now do camel case => snake case conversion.
• Issue 112: Adding Null checkers for view injection & binding
• Issue 41: Setting the dev project as an eclipse plugin, to ease development (hotreplace & debug)
• Issues 117 & 116 : More doc on how to develop AndroidAnnotations, and being able to run functional tests from eclipse
• Issues 113 & 63: @EViewGroup (equivalent of @EActivity for ViewGroups)
• Issue 118: Pref are sometimes not generated / injected
• Issue 123: long not supported in prefs
• Issues 109, 126 & 128: Support for dozens of new types of Android Managers injection with @SystemService, even for API level 14 and even hidden system services (useful for custom Android builds).
• Issue 104: Support for @OptionsMenu and @OptionsItems
• Issue 127: @NoTitle and @Fullscreen on activities
• Issue 87: @Trace to trace methods and durations
• Issue 134: Exception in @Rest when using @Get without value
• Issue 137: Disable warning on @EActivity when the activity is abstract
• Issue 136: New tests for @ItemClick Annotation
• Issue 133: @EActivity on abstract classes generated errors when doing a clean build
• Issue 135: Support for setRestTemplate() in @Rest
• Issue 138: onCreate() visibility adapted in abstract activities

2.1.2

Released on Sep 17, 2011

Bugfix release

• Issue 103: @UiThread & @Background didn't work with generic parameters

2.1.1

Released on Sep 8, 2011

Bugfix release

• Issue 100: @RoboGuice doesn't work with MapActivity
• Issue 97: AndroidAnnotations releases failed at perform goal.

2.1

Released on Aug 29, 2011

• Issue 73: View injection happens after onCreate() and before @AfterViews annotated methods
• Issue 64: The generated classes are now final.
• Issue 91: Switched Maven repository from Google Code to Excilys. The new repository is here
• BackgroundExecutor is now part of the API package instead of being generated at compile time (r858).
• Added a compile scoped dependency on Android for AndroidAnnotations, which allows Javadoc links as well as including some classes in the API Jar (r856 and r857).
• Issue 46: handling of Activity.onBackPressed for pre ECLAIR (2.0) Android versions.
• Issue 47: Creating helpers for SharedPreferences
• Issue 49: Create an assembly Zip for releases
• Issue 51: Add automatic functional tests
• Added NOTE messages at compile time to let the user know which files are generated. Can be viewed in Eclipse with the Error log view. Done at r976.
• Issue 55: Partial implementation of a Rest API using Spring Android. Not officially supported yet.
• Issue 74: InputMethodManager service can not be injected
• Issue 69: SensorManager service can not be injected
• Issue 75: Using @Extra without value adds an additional unexpected compile error
• Issue 68: @Extra does not work with Generics
• Issue 70: @Extra does not work with Arrays
• Added compiler notes when activities declared in the manifest are not found in the compile path. Done at r1139.
• Issue 61: Inject Application with @App
• Issue 79: Add a license checker
• Issue 78: Switch source repository to Git
• Issue 88: @AnimationRes can now be used to inject Animation fields

2.0.2

Bugfix release

Released on Apr 13, 2011

• Issue 48: Unexpected warnings for registered activities that have a different package than the application package.

2.0.1

Bugfix release

Released on Apr 9, 2011

• Issue 42: AndroidAnnotations could not find the AndroidManifest.xml file if there was a space in the project path.

2.0

Released on Apr 6, 2011

The version number went from 1.0.3 to 2.0 because we made some API changes that are not backward compatible (@EActivity, startActivity* methods), and because a whole part of the internals has been rewritten (i.e. code generation).

• Issue 7: Code generation using CodeModel instead of Strings
• Issue 37: Created a sample project to show how to integrate Maven and AndroidAnnotations. Also created a dedicated wiki page.
• Issue 27: Removed overriding of startActivity()methods. One cannot anymore start an enhanced activity without using the generated name (ieMyActivity_`).
• Better stack trace printing of compile time unexpected exceptions.
• Issue 36: Created a snapshots and a releases Maven repository, instead of a common repository. The old repository is still available for previous releases.
• Activities do not need any more to be in the same package as the R class (we read the AndroidManifest.xml to determine the R class package)
• Issue 29: Added online Javadoc
• Issue 39: Removed compile errors on class members when @EActivity is available but has compile errors.
• Issue 34: Compile errors are issued when @EActivity annotated activities are not registered in the AndroidManifest.xml file.
• Issue 4: Using a shared executor service instead of creating a new thread each time an @Background method is called.
• Issue 35: Renamed @Enhance to @EActivity.
• Global improvements based on the Hibernate Metamodel Generator (which is an annotation processor).

Bug fixes:

• Issue 26: RClassFinder returned null when the r class was not found, which led to NPE in CoumpoundRClass at compile time instead of a clear error message.
• Compile time bug when an @ItemSelect method had no parameter (the generated code did not compile)
• @Transactional overridden method did not call through super (Stack overflow)

Pre 2.0 releases are available on the old Maven repository.

1.0.3

Released on Mar 17, 2011

• Fixed issue 25: Missing View import when using @RoboGuice without some other annotations.
• Removed an unused @Inject import in some cases

1.0.2

Released on Mar 13, 2011

• Issue 22: Support for RoboGuice 1.1.1, removed support for RoboGuice 1.0 and 1.1 (too much hassle). RoboGuice 1.1.1 bug fixes have been successfully backported to AndroidAnnotations.
• Issue 24: synchronized keyword is not allowed anymore on @UiThread and @Background methods.
• Issue 21: Created a thin API JAR that should be included in the build path instead of the whole preprocessor JAR. AndroidAnnotations has a much smaller footprint !

1.0.1

Released on Jan 25, 2011

• Retrofitted a bug fix from RoboGuice (r557)

1.0

Released on Jan 25, 2011

• Issue 17: support for RoboGuice 1.0 and 1.1. Event listeners (RoboGuice 1.1) are supported as well.
• Issue 18: injection happens before @BeforeCreate method calls (except view injection of course)
• Issue 2: @Click and other listener methods cannot be used twice for the same id
• Improved javadocs
• Improved code generation, with support for imports
• @Enhance annotated classes may now be abstract (useful with RoboGuice : you can let your activity implement InjectorProvider and call the getInjector method, which will be implemented in the generated subclass)

1.0-RC4

Released on Jan 17, 2011

• Issue 11: overriding more startActivity*() methods
• Issue 12: @Extra throws NPE when extra not set
• Issue 13: Support for @BeforeCreate
• Renamed @Layout to @Enhance
• Issue 10: remove the need for @Layout

1.0-RC3

Released on Jan 9, 2011

• Support for integrating with RoboGuice

1.0-RC2

Released on Jan 6, 2011

• android.R support
• @Transactional
• Events : @LongClick, @ItemClick, @ItemSelect, @LongItemClick, @Touch
• method names for events can have a specific suffix (myButtonClicked, myButtonSelected)
• constraints on event methods: no exception allowed

1.0-RC1

Released on Jan 5, 2011

• Support for @UiThreadDelayed
• Enough wiki documentation to easily get started and discover all the use cases
• Added exception handling to @UiThread and @Background

0.5

Released on Jan 4, 2011

• Support for @Extra, @SystemService, all @XXXRes (replacing @XXXValue)
• startActivity is now overriden to replace MyActivity with MyActivity_ in Intents

0.4

Released on Jan 4, 2011

• Support for @Background and @UiThread
• @Value is replaced by @StringArrayValue, @ColorValue and @StringResValue (will be necessary to support more values)

0.3

Released on Dec 22, 2010

• Replaced @UiView with @ViewById
• Added more constraints : private modifier not allowed
• Support for @Value on Strings, String arrays and colors