pebble/devsite/source/_changelogs/2.0-BETA4.md

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Pebble SDK 2.0 BETA4 - Changelog	2013-12-23

• Pebble SDK 2.0 is currently in BETA and intended for developers only.
• SDK 2.0 will be released early next year as an over-the-air update to all Pebble users.
• Applications written for Pebble 1.x are not compatible with SDK 2.0
• If a 2.0 version of an application exists, the Pebble mobile applications will automatically install it when when a user upgrades her/his Pebble.

You can start uploading your application to the Pebble appstore TODAY - Please do so!

What has changed since BETA3

Overview:

• Fixed a problem where the iOS app would get killed after a few minutes in the background
• Lots of Data Logging fixes on the firmware and on Android
• Added timestamps on accelerometer samples
• Improved error handling for PebbleKit JS apps on iOS and Android

Firmware

• Developers of apps can now register single and multi click handlers on the back button
• Holding down the back button for 1.5s will force quit an existing app
• Fixed bugs and optimize the filesystem: faster persist times, less problems with persistent storage, fix a bunch of rather complex problems where the recovery firmware could be damaged
• Fixed scroll offset bug when displaying notifications
• Dismiss missed call notfication after 180s
• Fixed a bug where unicode characters were not supported in appinfo.json
• Changed graphics_text_layout_get_max_used_size() to not require a graphic context
• Fixed a few more bluetooth bugs
• Fixed a bug where Pebble could crash when you delete the last alarm
• Fixed memory read exception that can occur when using a malloc-ed appsync buffer
• Save notifications to storage during do not disturb
• Document AccelAxisType in API Documentation
• Fixed Music UI problems
• Automatically center on screen a selected cell in a SimpleMenuLayer
• Fixed bug where snprintf could crash the watch
• Display an error message if a 2.0 pebble is connected to a 1.x mobile app
• Fixed a bug where calling atoi() would crash an app
• Many DataLogging improvements and fixes based on new unit tests
• Display an alert on Pebble when we reset due to a system crash
• Ignore NULL pointer passed to text_layer_destroy()
• Limit the number of datalogging sessions to 20
• Fixed a race condition that occurs when you set the sampling rate immediately after subscribing to the accel service
• Keep persistent storage intact when upgrading an application
• Added timestamps on accelerometer samples and a flag indicating if the watch was vibrating at the time of the sample
• Fixed a bug where psleep could crash pebble
• Fixed a bug where text_layer could add ellipsis to the wrong line

iOS App

• Fixed a bug where the iOS app would get killed in the background after just a few minutes
• Show a local notification if a developer is connected but the app is about to get killed
• PebbleKit JS: Fixed a bug where apps could not access localStorage with the array syntax
• PebbleKit JS: Fixed a bug where a space in an URL opened with XmlHTTPRequest could crash the iOS app
• PebbleKit JS: Fixed a bug where sending a byte array with 0xff in it would send 0x00 instead

Android App

• PebbleKit JS: Fixed a bug where a byte array would not be sent properly for named keys
• Use new Android KitKat (4.4) APIs to do pairing on 4.4
• PebbleKit JS: Do not send ack for ack/nack messages
• Fixed Android crashing with OutOfMemory error when using Data Logging
• Fixed Android Data Logging of byte array that was not working

PebbleKit iOS

• Do not ack ACKs...

PebbleKit Android

• No changes

SDK Tools

• Added support to libpebble to trigger reboot to recovery firmware
• Added support for computers where python2 and python3 co-exist
• Fixed an exception when receiving APP_LOG with extended characters
• Fixed a bug where unicode characters were not supported in characterRegex field of appinfo.json
• Fixed 30 second delay that can occur when building pebble apps on Ubuntu when there is no internet access
• Added Pillow python dependency: needed for the screenshot functionality
• Detect PIL/Pillow conflict and suggest a fix to the user

Examples

• Added a License to the examples