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Mobile updates, lots of bug fixes
30 June, 2020 ()
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Notes
We've continued updating the technologies used in various places in Construct. This includes a minor bump in the iOS version of Cordova, but a more significant update for the Android version of Cordova up to v9.0.0. This should fix a problem with builds failing when using adaptive icons, which was a Cordova bug that is fixed in this version. Note this also bumps the minimum supported Android version up to 5.1 - but 5.0 only has around a 1% market share and falling, so there's not much lost.
In the last release we switched the JavaScript minifier used for the editor to Google's Closure Compiler. In this release we've also switched the minifier used for exporting projects to Closure Compiler as well. This brings similar improvements to the size of the exported JavaScript code, and should also fix an issue in r205 where exporting failed due to an incompatibility between the old minifier and Closure Compiler. However one thing to be aware of is the new Closure Compiler appears to be significantly slower - exports with minify enabled could take a minute or two to process. We're not sure why this is, but it still works if you wait, and an upcoming update in Chrome seems to make it a little better. Hopefully minified exports aren't something you need to do regularly anyway.
Other than that we have a number of bug fixes, including some significant regressions in r205. Sorry for the inconvenience but please be aware this is the beta channel and that's what happens sometimes with beta releases! Things should be working more smoothly in this release now. Finally please note that due to staff breaks, there won't be a release next week (6-10th July), but we'll be back to our usual schedule the week after that.
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New Additions
Mobile IAP: optional validation service URL property
Changes
Updated clipboard operations to support Safari 13.1
Updated cordova-ios to v6.1.0
Updated cordova-android to v9.0.0
iOS export: ensure iPadOS detects as mobile instead of desktop
Mobile IAP: update cordova-plugin-purchase to v10.1.2
Switched export minifier to Closure Compiler
Bug Fixes
Google Drive/OneDrive cloud save broken in r205
OneDrive cloud save: allow uploading project files larger than 4mb
Event sheet view: incorrect checking of where actions/conditions using function parameters can be drag/dropped potentially resulting in corrupt project
Mobile IAP: work around issue that could prevent store registration completing with existing purchases
iframe: displayed local HTML files incorrectly in Android app
Line of sight: did not correctly handle inverted 'Has LOS to object' with no instances
Runtime: crash using 'Pick by UID' in 'On destroyed' when loading savegame
Pathfinding: error previewing (regression in r205)
Tween behaviour: incorrect text color tweening
Tweens & Timelines: tweens and timelines modifying global instances no longer stopped when changing layouts at runtime
Animations editor: clipboard not working in desktop app mode
Performance Improvements
Improve editor performance adding instance variables with large number of instances
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