Basic4android v1.60 beta version is released

[Erel]

The first beta version of v1.60 will be released shortly.
The main new feature in this version is support for home screen widgets: http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...roid-home-screen-widgets-tutorial-part-i.html

Other features:
- IDE supports Android SDK 2.2 or above.
- String.Contains, LastIndexOf, LastIndexOf2.
- Fix for Honeycomb spinner issue.
- "Do not overwrite manifest option" added to project properties. An example manifest is created when this option is selected allowing you to compare the two manifests.
- RndSeed keyword.
- Activity KeyUp event.
- Phone.HideKeyboard method.
- Spinner.TextColor / TextSize
- Designer - Create new variant - list of standard variants now appears.
- Tools - IDE Options - Timeout value.
- A combo box with the list of subs appears in the upper tool bar.
- Service_Start method now gets the starting intent (optionally).
- Activity.GetStartingIntent / SetActivityResult - makes it possible to return results to 3rd party applications.
- Handling of applications started by services improved. Services will not restart automatically if the process was stopped.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.

Backwards compatibility issue
- The phone object in Phone library was changed. As most of its methods do not require any permission, the methods that do require the READ_STATE permission were moved to PhoneId and the vibrate method that requires the VIBRATE permission was moved to PhoneVibrate. This change helps with minimizing the required permissions.

The Intent object has also moved from the phone library to the core library.

 

[Omar]

This sounds great!

I can wait for the final release



Omar

 

[dealsmonkey]

Nice set of updates, congrats..

Does the "Do not overwrite manifest option", mean that we will not need to make a manifest read only ?

 

[Erel]

Does the "Do not overwrite manifest option", mean that we will not need to make a manifest read only ?

Yes. Though the read-only method is still working as before.
AndroidManifest-Example.xml will be created now so it will be easier to maintain your own custom manifest file.

 

[ssg]

those are superb features in the update Erel!

great work!

 

[ssg]

Hi Erel,

I marked one of my manifest files as not read-only, and re-compiled with the new beta version. It reset the version numbers in the manifest file to 1.

Is this expected behaviour? Will need to manually change the version number again?

Thank you.

 

[Erel]

Have you set the version number under Project - Application Version?

 

[agraham]

Something's broke compiling

Cannot find: C:\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools\aapt.exe
Please configure paths (Tools - Configure Paths).

There is an aapt.exe separately located for each platforms\android-x\tools folder. Do I need to start again and install the latest Android SDK?

 

[susu]

I got this problem, too

 

[Erel]

Please don't install a new SDK. Which SDK are you using (7 / 8 / 9) ?

 

[susu]

I copy aapt.exe from "android-sdk-windows/platforms/android-8/tools" to "android-sdk-windows/tools" and it worked!

 

[agraham]

I have 4, 7 and 8 installed and the android.jar path, picked up from the installation of the previous B4A version is

C:\Android\android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-8\android.jar

 

[Erel]

I will update the beta version and upload a new version which should fix it.
Should be online in 5 minutes.

 

[Erel]

Please download the updated beta version from the same link.

Do not alter the SDK file structure if it still doesn't work. The IDE should be fixed instead.

 

[agraham]

Thanks Erel, it's working again now.

 

[nfordbscndrd]

I've tried all that I can think of, but can't figure out how to implement RndSeed.

 

[Erel]

Just call:

RndSeed(1000)

Then you will get the same random numbers each time.

 

[agraham]

Should be just

RndSeed(MySeedValue)

   Dim msg1, msg2 As String
   RndSeed(2345)
   For i = 0 To 10
      msg1 = msg1 & Rnd(0, 10)
   Next
   RndSeed(2345)
   For i = 0 To 10
      msg2= msg2 & Rnd(0, 10)
   Next
   Msgbox(msg1 & CRLF & msg2, "Rand")

Gives identical sequences.

 

[Erel]

@agraham, can you test the Spinner ItemClick event on your 3.0 device? I tested it on a 3.1 device and it works fine (the implementation of ItemClick has changed).

 

[nfordbscndrd]

Thanks guys. What threw me off first is that I expected it to be some extension of Rnd, then when I tried just typing in "RndSeed(", the usual type of prompt didn't come up, such as "RndSeed(number as Int)", so I figured that was a wrong format too.

But it is working for me now. Really appreciate it!!