Snowplow Android Tracker v1.0.0

This release introduces features to alleviate blocking issues on tracker instantiation, add control over sessions, and improve the robustness of foreground and background detection.

• Blog post to be added

New features

• Add Futures for loading of Emitter and Session (#285)
• Add ability to share an OkHttpClient instance with Emitter (#269)
• Add option for callbacks on session transitions (#281)
• Add setter for session context boolean (#282)
• Use ProcessLifecycleOwner to detect foreground and background (#272)
• Add ability to momentarily suspend session checking (#271)

Under the hood

• Update to Android Target API level 28 (#287)
• Output maximum logging detail in demo app (#279)
• Perform blocking operations in the background (#159)
• Enforce strict mode for demo app (#278)
• Bump versions in build.gradle for demo app (#284)
• Bump Android Gradle to 3.2.1 (#280)
• Bump versions of build tools in Travis (#283)
• Update to Android Target API level 26 (#273)

Bug fixes

• Fix Travis license issue (#288)

Snowplow Android Tracker v0.8.0

This release fixes a bug that stops Android lifecycle tracking whenever an activity is destroyed. The release also adds methods to set and view the custom contexts sent with lifecycle events.

• Blog post

New features

• Add ability to change custom context sent by LifecycleHandler (#267)

Bug fixes

• Fix LifecycleHandler callbacks being unregistered on activity destruction (#266)

Version 0.7.0

This release introduces privacy rights tracking, lifecycle handler improvements, as well as some new convenience methods and bugfixes.

• Blog post

Testing and deployment

• Fix outdated and broken Travis configuration (#258)

New features

• Add trackConsentGranted and trackConsentWithdrawn methods (#255)
• Add ability to specify TLS protocols to use for emitting events (#245)
• Add the ability to suspend and resume a LifecycleHandler (#261)
• Add support for custom contexts to LifecycleHandler (#263)
• Add a method to start a new session (#226)
• Add identifyUser as alias for setUserId (#254)

Under the hood

• Raise minimum supported Android API to level 14 (#262)

Bug fixes

• Reset firstId even if app is in the foreground (#257)
• Make tracker.setLifecycleHandler take a Context instead of an Activity (#224)
• Unregister LifecycleHandler callbacks on activity destruction (#259)

Documentation

• Update README markdown in accordance with CommonMark (#256)

Version 0.6.2

Bugs

• Ensure we do not pass invalid information to application_error event (#237)
• Mobile context: offline events not being recorded as such (#239)
• GeoLocation context: changes in position not being reflected (#240)
• Fix logger crashing when a value contains '%' (#238)

Build

• Bump Android Gradle to 2.2.3 (#241)

Documentation

• Update copyright to 2015-2017 (#243)

Development

• Ensure vagrant environment can build and test tracker (#227)

Version 0.6.1

Bugs

• Ensure mobile_context only contains accepted enum values (#232)
• Do not include geolocation permissions in tracker manifest (#229)

Deployment

• Bump Gradle Version to 2.2.0 (#230)

Version 0.6.0

Blog post: http://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2016/08/29/snowplow-android-tracker-0.6.0-released-with-automatic-crash-tracking/

API

• Added support for attaching true timestamp for events (#196)
• Removed RxJava and merge Classic into core (#187)
• Renamed TimingWithCategory to Timing (#164)
• Renamed Unstructured Event to SelfDescribing Event (#190)
• Refactored how extra contexts are attached to events (#204)
• Forced singleton pattern for the Tracker (#175)

Tracking

• Added network type and technology to mobile context (#180)
• Added firstEventId to client_session context (#160)
• Bumped geolocation_context to 1-1-0 (#203)
• Automatically track fatal/uncaught application exceptions (#202)
• Automatically track activity resume/pause lifecycle events (#206)

Backend

• Stopped incrementing SessionIndex while application in background (#192)
• Removed Emitter:performSyncEmit as no longer used (#209)
• Converted removal of events from database into a single query (#177)
• Upgraded OkHttp from 2 to 3 (#183)
• Moved EventStore serialize & deserialize functions to Util (#211)

Bugs

• Removed trailing newline character from base64 encoding (#207)
• Ensured Timing event does not set a null or empty value for label (#210)
• Util.getAdvertisingId(Context) e.getCause() can be null (#191)
• Do not send "co/cx" when there are no contexts to send (#194)
• SelfDescribingJson setData has invalid equality check (#208)

Deployment/Testing

• Added code coverage to project (#205)
• Added CI/CD to project (#213)
• Added Bintray credentials to .travis.yml (#212)

Snowplow Android Tracker v0.5.4

Important bug fix around sessionization

Bug fix

• Core: fixed input string "null" is not a valid UUID with previousSessionId on Android Versions lower than KitKat (#185)

Build

• Add speed optimisations to Vagrantfile (#188)

Snowplow Android Tracker v0.5.3

Bug fixes around session handling and stm

Bug fixes

• Core: fixed session context fails on first session (#176)
• Core: fixed adding STM to events is not in order (#169)

Documentation

• Added comments to demo-app's build.gradle to explain why it shouldn't be copied (#158)

Testing

• Removed chmod +x ./ci/wait_for_emulator from README (#157)

Snowplow Android Tracker v0.5.2

Fixes a bug in the Timing event.

Bug fixes

• Core: Timing event field is incorrectly converted to a String (#168)

Snowplow Android Tracker v0.5.1

Fixing a bug created by the change to using Event Builders.

Bug fixes

• Core: Fixed eid and dtm being incorrectly added to screen_view and timing context (#163)

Testing

• Common: Fixed test environment imposter path (#161)