Other B4A v9.90 BETA #2 is available for download

[Erel]

v9.90 information: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4a-v9-90-beta-is-available-for-download.118628/#content

This update adds support for the freshly new B4XPages library. This library, which its current version is a draft version, will change the way we build B4A apps and also cross platform apps. No longer will we need to fight with Android complex activities life cycle. Nothing will be paused. Views and subs of other "pages" will be accessible. Activities will not jump out of nowhere after a forgotten http request completes and more.
There are some limitations and of course that all previous code will work exactly as before.

A few more libraries are now internal libraries:

- B4XPreferencesDialog, PreoptimizedCLV, X2, @agraham's Gestures, @corwin42's AppCompat, NB6 and B4XDrawer.
- B4XPages is included as an internal library. It is a cross platform library and is also attached. It will work with the current B4J and B4i versions.

A template for cross platform and also non-cross platform projects is attached.

More information tomorrow...

 

[Unobtainius]

You should see a warning about the orientation not locked. Set the #SupportedOrientation to portrait or landscape.

Note that you can add another activity, not managed by B4XPages and make it support both orientations.

Nice one. I hadn't even considered using both methods, pages and other activities, together.

 

[Toky Olivier]

???

Indeed it's a good improvement... Difficult to deal with it before.

 

[Toky Olivier]

Is there any impact with performance? No problem if there are many views per page?

 

[Erel]

Assuming that the app is built correctly, the memory consumption will be similar as with using multiple activities. If you are creating thousands of views and you see a performance issue then you should remove invisible views and add them back when needed.

 

[nedium]

Buen trabajo @Erel , Gracias por esta herramienta, un saludo