Difference between revisions of "Version 2.5 (Android)"

New features

UI Design

• The commissioning design was improved.
• The property list was redesigned.
• All content object lists were redesigned.
• Several font and UI element sizes were adapted slightly.
• The content browser's individual tabs are now only shown if necessary.

Live Values

• Frequently updated "live value" properties are now available

Context sensitive actions

• The support button in the context menu is available for the Demo app.
• Geo-information of objects can now be used for positioning, using a context sensitive action.
• Objects can now be discarded locally, deleted on the server or reverted to the last known version from the server, using context sensitive actions.

Accounts and Settings

• All settings are user-specific and completely accessible before/after login.
• Advanced server-side account configuration (accounts, settings and shared presets plus restriction) is now available.

Marker Scanning

• Finding UBIK objects by OCR scanning (optical text recognition) is now supported.
• Geo-information of nearby objects can now be used for positioning, using marker scanning.

Augmented Reality and Maps

• Google Maps has been replaced by Open Street Maps (OSM) as a technical basis for the map view. This means no Google Play Services are required anymore.
• For both the map as well as the AR views, building levels are now supported.
• The ID-marker scan button was removed from the AR view.

Bugfixes

• A bug where objects were filtered from the map view when showing a specific content was fixed.
• If the required sensors for AR features are not available on a device, a notification is shown instead of an app crash.
• Fixed an issue where button states/colors are not shown correctly on Android 5.
• An issue where objects weren't found after scanning QR codes was fixed.
• Fixed an issue where the Getac Z710 barcode scanner crashed after rotating the screen.
• An issue where child objects weren't committed automatically was fixed.
• Fixed an issue where the attempt to remove a child from a not existing parent resulted in an error.
• The login activity now use the correct layout when switching between landscape and portrait mode.
• An issue where the navigation drawer showed the wrong activity as selected was fixed.
• An issue where live value updates happened unnecessarily was fixed.
• An issue where the AR view's billboards were flickering was fixed.

Enhancements

• Cleaned up the sync event related implementation for further development.
• The former complicated entry points for Map and AR features were refactored for clarity.
• The list components in the content browser can now be easily replaced by project specific derivates.
• Context aware actions such as redlining, editing documents can now be easily reused in code.
• Batch synchronization is now implemented correctly.

This version supports Android 5 (Lollipop), but the minimum Android version is 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich).