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nativescript v1.6.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-02-17 // about 5 years ago

  • 💥 Breaking changes

    • 💅 Up to v 1.6.0, the background drawable attribute of the buttons in Android was always replaced. To keep the consistency with the default platform-specific background, the attribute is not changed now and the button is only styled.

    🛠 Fixed

    • (#1534) FileSystemAccess.fileExists returns true for directory as well

    • 🖨 (#1524) Label text="{{ anyField }}" should not print out "null" if the field is "null"

    • (#1520) When using remote background images, positioning CSS properties ignored

    • 📜 (#1467) Detect JSON response in XHR and auto-parse the response

    • (#1463) fetch/XMLHttpRequest re-URL-encodes first % character in query string

    • (#1443) Impossible to rotate 360 degrees on iOS

    • 💅 (#1426) App crash when TabView has more than 5 items and different font-style

    • (#1415) TabView crashes the app when "Don't keep activities" option is turned on

    • (#1405) Complete app crash when tapping around a Textfield at times

    • 🛠 (#1396) Fixed bug in GridLayout

    • (#1381) Fix originX/Y not applied when set before layout in Android

    • (#1371) ListView Android bug and fix

    • ⏪ (#1359) Getting error when restore/opening minimized app first time after installation

    • (#1349) FormattedText Span foregroundColor and backgroundColor cannot be set using known color

    • 🚚 (#1340) Remove global dependency from fetch library

    • ⏪ (#1326) Fix action-bar when app is put to background and restored (and Do not keep activities is TRUE)

    • (#1296) Change Android button background method

    • (#1290) ListView with rounded items cannot show the background of page

    • (#1280) text-transform breaks child colors

    • (#1275) ActionBar disappears when app closes with back button

    • 🚚 (#1240) Android 5.x: setting View.opacity (setAlpha) removes its background

    • (#1232) WrapLayout crashes when itemWidth value is too high

    • (#1223) Android image that has a complex background (i.e., with rounded corners) cannot animate opacity correctly

    • (#1218) Setting and instantly animating a property fails for iOS

    • (#1177) Alert dialog in SegmentedBar selectedIndexChanged event blocks navigation

    • (#1127) Changing ActionBar title after page is loaded does not show the ActionBar

    • (#1123) iOS: ActionBar covers the page

    • (#830) The border-radius on Android 4.4.4 (Samsung Tab) not applied to

    • (#758) The platformModule.device.language results are different in iOS and Android for the same language

    • (#659) Problem with iOS resizing when there is an activity running in background (active call, hotspot, etc.)

    • (#518) Allow ActionItems to be directly specified between the ActionBar opening and closing tags

    🆕 New

    • 🔀 (#1433) Binary sync read/write added

    • (#1429) File download implemented

    • (#1366) Export listeners/events for GestureStateType "began" and "ended"

    • (#1363) Cross-platform animation-timing-function / easing

    • (#1357) Frame.goBack can now accept an entry to navigate back to

    • 👍 (#1352) Data URLs supported for Image object

    • (#1283) Can't access args.object.page from ActionBar ActionItem tap event

    • (#1242) Add Page showingModally event

    • 0️⃣ (#1129) Why are iOS modal animations disabled by default? Can we pass an option to enable it?

    • (#811) Page navigation transitions

    • 0️⃣ (#733) Add API to open a file at a given path with the default application

    • (#714) Automation ids

    • (#709) API Stability Index (proposal)

    • 👍 (#520) XML declaration better error reporting for malformed attribute content

    • 👍 (#412) Feature request: support percentages for width and height

    • 👍 (#98) Support for advanced CSS selectors