Changelog

0.35.0-SNAPSHOT (In Development)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 28, Support Libraries: 28.0.0)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.3.10, Coroutines: 1.0.1)
  • GeckoView (Nightly: 65.0.20181129095546, Beta: 64.0.20181022150107, Release: 63.0.20181018182531)
  • Mozilla App Services (FxA: 0.11.5, Sync Logins: 0.11.5, Places: 0.11.5)
  • Third Party Libs (Sentry: 1.7.14, Okhttp: 3.12.0)
• browser-errorpages
  • Localized strings for de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, zh-rCN, zh-rTW.
• feature-customtabs *
  • ⚠️ This is a breaking change CustomTabsService has been renamed to AbstractCustomTabsService and is now an abstract class in order to allow apps to inject the Engine they are using. An app that wants to support custom tabs will need to create its own class and reference it in the manifest:

  class CustomTabsService : AbstractCustomTabsService() {
    override val engine: Engine by lazy { components.engine }
  }
  

• feature-prompts
  • Added support alerts dialogs.
• concept-engine, engine-gecko-nightly:
  • Add setting to enable testing mode which is used in engine-gecko to set FULL_ACCESSIBILITY_TREE to true. This allows access to the full DOM tree for testing purposes.

  // Turn testing mode on by default when the engine is created
  val engine = GeckoEngine(runtime, DefaultSettings(testingModeEnabled=true))
  
  // Or turn testing mode on at a later point
  engine.settings.testingModeEnabled = true
  

  • The existing userAgentString setting is now supported by engine-gecko-nightly.

0.34.2

• Commits

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 28, Support Libraries: 28.0.0)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.3.10, Coroutines: 1.0.1)
  • GeckoView (Nightly: 65.0.20181129095546, Beta: 64.0.20181022150107, Release: 63.0.20181018182531)
  • Mozilla App Services (FxA: 0.11.5 🔺, Sync Logins: 0.11.5 🔺, Places: 0.11.5 🔺)
  • Third Party Libs (Sentry: 1.7.14, Okhttp: 3.12.0)
• Re-release of 0.34.1 with updated App Services dependencies (0.11.5).

0.34.1

• Commits

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 28, Support Libraries: 28.0.0)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.3.10, Coroutines: 1.0.1)
  • GeckoView (Nightly: 65.0.20181129095546 🔺, Beta: 64.0.20181022150107, Release: 63.0.20181018182531)
  • Mozilla App Services (FxA: 0.11.2, Sync Logins: 0.11.2, Places: 0.11.2)
  • Third Party Libs (Sentry: 1.7.14, Okhttp: 3.12.0)
• browser-engine-gecko-nightly
  • Updated GeckoView dependency.

0.34.0

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 28, Support Libraries: 28.0.0)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.3.10, Coroutines: 1.0.1)
  • GeckoView (Nightly: 65.0.20181123100059, Beta: 64.0.20181022150107, Release: 63.0.20181018182531)
  • Mozilla App Services (FxA: 0.11.2 🔺, Sync Logins: 0.11.2 🔺, Places: 0.11.2 🔺)
  • Third Party Libs (Sentry: 1.7.14, Okhttp: 3.12.0)
• browser-engine-gecko-nightly
  • Added support for observing history events and providing visited URLs (HistoryTrackingDelegate).
• browser-engine-system
  • Fixed a crash when calling SystemEngineSession.saveState() from a non-UI thread.
• browser-awesomebar
  • Added ability for search suggestions to span multiple rows.
• browser-toolbar
  • Fixed rendering issue when displaying site security icons.
• feature-prompts
  • 🆕 New component: A component that will subscribe to the selected session and will handle all the common prompt dialogs from web content.

  val promptFeature = PromptFeature(sessionManager,fragmentManager)
  
  //It will start listing for new prompt requests for web content.
  promptFeature.start()
  
  //It will stop listing for future prompt requests for web content.
  promptFeature.stop()
  

• feature-session, browser-session, concept-engine, browser-engine-system:
  • Added functionality to observe window requests from the browser engine. These requests can be observed on the session directly using onOpenWindowRequest and onCloseWindowRequest, but we also provide a feature class, which will automatically open and close the corresponding window:

  windowFeature = WindowFeature(engine, sessionManager)
  
  override fun onStart() {
    windowFeature.start()
  }
  
  override fun onStop() {
    windowFeature.stop()
  }
  
  

  In addition, to observe window requests the new engine setting supportMultipleWindows has to be set to true:

  val engine = SystemEngine(context,
    DefaultSettings(
      supportMultipleWindows = true
    )
  )
  

• concept-storage, browser-storage-sync, services-logins-sync:
  • Added a new interface, SyncableStore<AuthType>, which allows a storage layer to be used with feature-sync.
  • Added a SyncableStore<SyncAuthInfo> implementation for browser-storage-sync
  • Added a SyncableStore<SyncUnlockInfo> implementation for services-logins-sync.
• feature-sync:
  • 🆕 New component: A component which orchestrates synchronization of groups of similar SyncableStore objects using a FirefoxAccount.
  • Here is an example of configuring and synchronizing a places-backed HistoryStorage (provided by browser-storage-sync component):

  val historyStorage = PlacesHistoryStorage(context)
  val featureSync = FirefoxSyncFeature(Dispatchers.IO + job) { authInfo ->
      SyncAuthInfo(
          fxaAccessToken = authInfo.fxaAccessToken,
          kid = authInfo.kid,
          syncKey = authInfo.syncKey,
          tokenserverURL = authInfo.tokenServerUrl
      )
  }.also {
      it.addSyncable("placesHistory", historyStorage)
  }
  val syncResult = featureSync.sync().await()
  assert(syncResults["placesHistory"]!!.status is SyncOk)
  

• service-firefox-accounts:
  • ⚠️ This is a breaking change
  • We’ve simplified the API to provide the FxA configuration:

  // Before
  Config.custom(CONFIG_URL).await().use {
    config -> FirefoxAccount(config, CLIENT_ID, REDIRECT_URL)
  }
  
  // Now
  val config = Config(CONFIG_URL, CLIENT_ID, REDIRECT_URL)
  FirefoxAccount(config)
  

  A full working example can be found here.

0.33.0

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 28, Support Libraries: 28.0.0)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.3.10 🔺, Coroutines: 1.0.1)
  • GeckoView (Nightly: 65.0.20181123100059 🔺, Beta: 64.0.20181022150107, Release: 63.0.20181018182531)
  • Mozilla App Services (FxA: 0.10.0, Sync Logins: 0.10.0, Places: 0.10.0)
  • Third Party Libs (Sentry: 1.7.14, Okhttp: 3.12.0)
• feature-contextmenu
  • 🆕 New component: A component for displaying context menus when long-pressing web content.
• concept-toolbar: 🆕 Added autocomplete support
  • Toolbar concept got a new setAutocompleteListener method.
  • Added AutocompleteDelegate concept which allows tying together autocomplete results with a UI presenter.
• concept-storage and all of its implementations
  • ⚠️ This is a breaking change
  • Renamed getDomainSuggestion to getAutocompleteSuggestion, which now returns a HistoryAutocompleteResult.
• feature-toolbar
  • 🆕 Added new ToolbarAutocompleteFeature:

  toolbarAutocompleteFeature = ToolbarAutocompleteFeature(toolbar).apply {
    this.addHistoryStorageProvider(components.historyStorage)
    this.addDomainProvider(components.shippedDomainsProvider)
  }
  

• samples-browser, samples-toolbar
  • Converted these samples to use the new ToolbarAutocompleteFeature.
• feature-session
  • Introducing CoordinateScrollingFeature a new feature to coordinate scrolling behavior between an EngineView and the view that you specify. For a full example take a look at its usages in Sample Browser.
• feature-tabs
  • Added a filter to TabsFeature to allow you to choose which sessions to show in the TabsTray. This is particularly useful if you want to filter out private tabs based on some UI interaction:

  val tabsFeature = TabsFeature(
    tabsTray,
    sessionManager,
    closeTabsTray = closeTabs()
  )
  tabsFeature.filterTabs {
    it.private
  }
  

• engine-gecko,engine-gecko-beta and engine-gecko-nightly
  • Fixing bug #1333. This issue didn’t allow to use a GeckoEngineSession after sending a crash report.

0.32.0

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 28 🔺, Support Libraries: 28.0.0 🔺)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.3.0, Coroutines: 1.0.1)
  • GeckoView (Nightly: 65.0.20181116100120 🔺, Beta: 64.0.20181022150107, Release: 63.0.20181018182531)
  • Mozilla App Services (FxA: 0.10.0 🔺, Sync Logins: 0.10.0 🔺, Places: 0.10.0 🔺)

• ⚠️ This is the first release compiled against Android SDK 28.

• browser-domains
  • Deprecated DomainAutoCompleteProvider in favour of CustomDomainsProvider and ShippedDomainsProvider.
• lib-crash
  • The state of the “Send crash report” checkbox is now getting saved and restored once the dialog is shown again.
  • The crash reporter can now sends reports if the prompt is closed by pressing the back button.
• lib-fetch-httpurlconnection
  • 🆕 New component: concept-fetch implementation using HttpURLConnection.
• lib-fetch-okhttp
  • 🆕 New component: concept-fetch implementation using OkHttp.
• browser-session:
  • Replace DefaultSessionStorage with a new configurable implementation called SessionStorage:

  SessionStorage().autoSave(sessionManager)
    .periodicallyInForeground(interval = 30, unit = TimeUnit.SECONDS)
    .whenGoingToBackground()
    .whenSessionsChange()
  

0.31.0

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 27, Support Libraries: 27.1.1)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.3.0 🔺, Coroutines: 1.0.1 🔺)
  • GeckoView (Nightly: 65.0.20181107100135 🔺, Beta: 64.0.20181022150107, Release: 63.0.20181018182531)
• concept-storage, browser-storage-memory, browser-storage-sync
  • Added a getDomainSuggestion method to HistoryStorage which is intended to power awesomebar-like functionality.
  • Added basic implementations of getDomainSuggestion to existing storage components.
• browser-session, concept-engine, browser-engine-system, browser-engine-gecko(-beta/nightly):
  • ⚠️ This is a breaking change
  • Added functionality to observe permission requests from the browser engine. We have now removed the workaround that automatically granted permission to play protected (DRM) media. Permission requests can be observed via the browser session:

  // Grant permission to all DRM content
  permissionObserver = object : SelectionAwareSessionObserver(sessionManager) {
      override fun onContentPermissionRequested(session: Session, permissionRequest: PermissionRequest): Boolean =
          permissionRequest.grantIf { it is Permission.ContentProtectedMediaId }
  }
  
  override fun onStart() {
    // Observe permission requests on selected sessions
    permissionObserver.observeSelected()
  }
  
  override fun onStop() {
    permissionObserver.stop()
  }
  
  

• concept-engine, engine-system:
  • ⚠️ This is a breaking change
  • Web font blocking is now controlled by an engine setting only. TrackingProtectionPolicy.WEBFONTS was removed:

  // Disable web fonts by default
  SystemEngine(runtime, DefaultSettings(webFontsEnabled = false))
  

• feature-customtabs
  • 🆕 New component for providing custom tabs functionality. CustomTabsService was moved from browser-session to this new component.
• browser-awesomebar
  • Various colors of the Awesome Bar can now be styled:

    <mozilla.components.browser.awesomebar.BrowserAwesomeBar
      ..
      mozac:awesomeBarTitleTextColor="#ffffff"
      mozac:awesomeBarDescriptionTextColor="#dddddd"
      mozac:awesomeBarChipTextColor="#ffffff"
      mozac:awesomeBarChipBackgroundColor="#444444" />
  

• browser-toolbar, feature-toolbar
  • Added support for displaying the site security indicator (lock/globe icon).
• concept-fetch
  • 🆕 New component defining an abstract definition of an HTTP client for fetching resources. Later releases will come with components implementing this concept using HttpURLConnection, OkHttp and Necko/GeckoView. Eventually all HTTP client code in the components will be replaced with concept-fetch and consumers can decide what HTTP client implementation components should use.
• Reference Browser
  • Integrated crash reporting with lib-crash.
  • Added awesome bar with browser-awesomebar.
  • Toolbar is hiding automatically now when scrolling web content.
  • Added “Sync Now” button to preferences (without functionality in this release)
  • Updated theme colors.

0.30.0

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 27, Support Libraries: 27.1.1)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.2.71, Coroutines: 0.30.2)
  • GeckoView (Nightly: 65.0.20181023100123, Beta: 64.0.20181022150107, Release: 63.0.20181018182531)
• concept-storage
  • ⚠️ These are a breaking API changes
  • Added a getSuggestions method to HistoryStorage, which is intended to power search, autocompletion, etc.
  • Added a cleanup method to HistoryStorage, which is intended to allow signaling to implementations to cleanup any allocated resources.
  • HistoryStorage methods recordVisit and recordObservation are now suspend.
  • HistoryStorage methods getVisited() and getVisited(uris) now return Deferred.
• 🆕 Added browser-storage-memory ✨
  • Added an in-memory implementation of concept-storage.
• 🆕 Added browser-storage-sync ✨
  • Added an implementation of concept-storage which is backed by the Rust Places library provided by application-services.
• service-firefox-accounts:
  • ⚠️ This is a breaking API change
  • The FxaResult type served as a custom promise-like type to support older versions of Java. We have now removed this type and switched to Kotlin’s Deferred instead. We’ve also made sure all required types are Closeable:

  // Before
  Config.custom(CONFIG_URL).then { config: Config ->
    account = FirefoxAccount(config, CLIENT_ID, REDIRECT_URL)
  }
  
  // Now
  val account = async {
    Config.custom(CONFIG_URL).await().use { config ->
      FirefoxAccount(config, CLIENT_ID, REDIRECT_URL)
    }
  }
  

  In case error handling is needed, the new API will also become easier to work with:

  // Before
  account.beginOAuthFlow(scopes, wantsKeys).then({ url ->
    showLoginScreen(url)
  }, { exception ->
    handleException(exception)
  })
  
  // Now
  async {
      try {
        account.beginOAuthFlow(scopes, wantsKeys).await()
      } catch (e: FxaException) {
        handleException(e)
      }
  }
  
  

• browser-engine-system, browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta and browser-engine-gecko-nightly: Adding support for using SystemEngineView and GeckoEngineView in a CoordinatorLayout. This allows to create nice transitions like hiding the toolbar when scrolls.
• browser-session
  • Fixed an issue where a custom tab Session? could get selected after removing the currently selected Session.
• browser-toolbar:
  • Added TwoStateButton that will change drawables based on the isEnabled listener. This is particularly useful for having a reload/cancel button.

  var isLoading: Boolean // updated by some state change.
  BrowserToolbar.TwoStateButton(
      reloadDrawable,
      "reload button",
      cancelDrawable,
      "cancel button",
      { isLoading }
  ) { /* On-click listener */ }
  

  • ⚠️ These are a breaking API changes: BrowserToolbar APIs for Button and ToggleButton have also been updated to accept Drawable instead of resource IDs.

  // Before
  BrowserToolbar.Button(R.drawable.image, "image description") {
    // perform an action on click.
  }
  
  // Now
  val imageDrawable: Drawable = Drawable()
  BrowserToolbar.Button(imageDrawable, "image description") {
    // perform an action on click.
  }
  
  // Before
  BrowserToolbar.ToggleButton(
    R.drawable.image,
    R.drawable.image_selected,
    "image description",
    "image selected description") {
    // perform an action on click.
  }
  
  // Now
  val imageDrawable: Drawable = Drawable()
  val imageSelectedDrawable: Drawable = Drawable()
  BrowserToolbar.ToggleButton(
    imageDrawable,
    imageSelectedDrawable,
    "image description",
    "image selected description") {
    // perform an action on click.
  }
  

• concept-awesomebar
  • 🆕 New component: An abstract definition of an awesome bar component.
• browser-awesomebar
  • 🆕 New component: A customizable Awesome Bar implementation for browsers.A
• feature-awesomebar
  • 🆕 New component: A component that connects a concept-awesomebar implementation to a concept-toolbar implementation and provides implementations of various suggestion providers.

0.29.0

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 27, Support Libraries: 27.1.1)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.2.71 🔺, Coroutines: 0.30.2 🔺)
  • GeckoView (Nightly: 65.0.20181023100123 🔺, Beta: 64.0.20181022150107 🔺, Release: 63.0.20181018182531 🔺)
• browser-toolbar:
  • Added new listener to get notified when the user is editing the URL:

    toolbar.setOnEditListener(object : Toolbar.OnEditListener {
      override fun onTextChanged(text: String) {
          // Fired whenever the user changes the text in the address bar.
      }
    
      override fun onStartEditing() {
          // Fired when the toolbar switches to edit mode.
      }
    
      override fun onStopEditing() {
          // Fired when the toolbar switches back to display mode.
      }
    })
    

  • Added new toolbar APIs:

    val toolbar = BrowserToolbar(context)
    toolbar.textColor: Int = getColor(R.color.photonRed50)
    toolbar.hintColor: Int = getColor(R.color.photonGreen50)
    toolbar.textSize: Float = 12f
    toolbar.typeface: Typeface = Typeface.createFromFile("fonts/foo.tff")
    

    These attributes are also available in XML (except for typeface):

    <mozilla.components.browser.toolbar.BrowserToolbar
      android:id="@+id/toolbar"
      app:browserToolbarTextColor="#ff0000"
      app:browserToolbarHintColor="#00ff00"
      app:browserToolbarTextSize="12sp"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    

  • API improvement for more flexibility to create a BrowserToolbar.Button, and BrowserToolbar.ToggleButton, now you can provide a custom padding:

    val padding = Padding(start = 16, top = 16, end = 16, bottom = 16)
    val button = BrowserToolbar.Button(mozac_ic_back, "Forward", padding = padding) {}
    var toggle = BrowserToolbar.ToggleButton(mozac_ic_pin, mozac_ic_pin_filled, "Pin", "Unpin", padding = padding) {}
    

• concept-toolbar:
  • API improvement for more flexibility to create a Toolbar.ActionToggleButton, Toolbar.ActionButton, Toolbar.ActionSpace and Toolbar.ActionImage, now you can provide a custom padding:

    val padding = Padding(start = 16, top = 16, end = 16, bottom = 16)
    var toggle = Toolbar.ActionToggleButton(0, mozac_ic_pin_filled, "Pin", "Unpin", padding = padding) {}
    val button = Toolbar.ActionButton(mozac_ic_back, "Forward", padding = padding) {}
    val space = Toolbar.ActionSpace(pxToDp(128), padding = padding)
    val image = Toolbar.ActionImage(brand, padding = padding)
    

• support-base:
  • A new class add for representing an Android Padding.

    val padding = Padding(16, 24, 32, 40)
    val (start, top, end, bottom) = padding
    

• support-ktx:
  • A new extention function that allows you to set Padding object to a View.

    val padding = Padding(16, 24, 32, 40)
    val view = View(context)
    view.setPadding(padding)
    

• concept-engine, browser-engine-system, browser-engine-gecko(-beta/nightly)
  • RequestInterceptor was enhanced to support loading an alternative URL. :warning: This is a breaking change for the RequestInterceptor method signature!

    // To provide alternative content the new InterceptionResponse.Content type needs to be used
    requestInterceptor = object : RequestInterceptor {
      override fun onLoadRequest(session: EngineSession, uri: String): InterceptionResponse? {
          return when (uri) {
              "sample:about" -> InterceptionResponse.Content("<h1>I am the sample browser</h1>")
              else -> null
          }
      }
    }
    // To provide an alternative URL the new InterceptionResponse.Url type needs to be used
    requestInterceptor = object : RequestInterceptor {
      override fun onLoadRequest(session: EngineSession, uri: String): InterceptionResponse? {
          return when (uri) {
              "sample:about" -> InterceptionResponse.Url("sample:aboutNew")
              else -> null
          }
      }
    }
    

• concept-storage:
  • Added a new concept for describing an interface for storing browser data. First iteration includes a description of HistoryStorage.
• feature-storage:
  • Added a first iteration of feature-storage, which includes HistoryTrackingFeature that ties together concept-storage and concept-engine and allows engines to track history visits and page meta information. It does so by implementing HistoryTrackingDelegate defined by concept-engine. Before adding a first session to the engine, initialize the history tracking feature:

    val historyTrackingFeature = HistoryTrackingFeature(
      components.engine,
      components.historyStorage
    )
    

    Once the feature has been initialized, history will be tracked for all subsequently added sessions.

• sample-browser:
  • Updated the sample browser to track browsing history using an in-memory history storage implementation (how much is actually tracked in practice depends on which engine is being used. As of this release, only SystemEngine provides a full set of necessary APIs).
• lib-crash
  • Added option to display additional message in prompt and define the theme to be used:

    CrashReporter(
      promptConfiguration = CrashReporter.PromptConfiguration(
        // ..
    
        // An additional message that will be shown in the prompt
        message = "We are very sorry!"
    
        // Use a custom theme for the prompt (Extend Theme.Mozac.CrashReporter)
        theme = android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Dialog
      )
      // ..
    ).install(applicationContext)
    

  • Showing the crash prompt won’t play the default activity animation anymore.
  • Added a new sample app samples-crash to show and test crash reporter integration.
• feature-tabs:
  • TabsToolbarFeature is now adding a TabCounter from the ui-tabcounter component to the toolbar.
• lib-jexl
  • New component for evaluating Javascript Expression Language (JEXL) expressions. This implementation is based on Mozjexl used at Mozilla, specifically as a part of SHIELD and Normandy. In a future version of Fretboard JEXL will allow more complex rules for experiments. For more see documentation.
• service-telemetry
  • Added option to send list of experiments in event pings: Telemetry.recordExperiments(Map<String, Boolean> experiments)
  • Fixed an issue where DebugLogClient didn’t use the provided log tag.
• service-fretboard
  • Fixed an issue where for some locales a MissingResourceException would occur.
• browser-engine-system
  • Playback of protected media (DRM) is now granted automatically.
• browser-engine-gecko
  • Updated components to follow merge day: (Nightly: 65.0, Beta: 64.0, Release: 63.0)

0.28.0

Release date: 2018-10-23

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

⚠️ Note: This and upcoming releases are only available from maven.mozilla.org.

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 27, Support Libraries: 27.1.1)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.2.61, Coroutines: 0.23.4)
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 64.0.20181004100221
    • Beta: 63.0b3 (0269319281578bff4e01d77a21350bf91ba08620)
    • Release: 62.0 (9cbae12a3fff404ed2c12070ad475424d0ae869f)
• concept-engine
  • Added HistoryTrackingDelegate interface for integrating engine implementations with history storage backends. Intended to be used via engine settings.
• browser-engine
  • Download.fileName cannot be null anymore. All engine implementations are guaranteed to return a proposed file name for Downloads now.
• browser-engine-gecko-, browser-engine-system
  • Added support for HistoryTrackingDelegate, if it’s specified in engine settings.
• browser-engine-servo
  • Added a new experimental Engine implementation based on the Servo Browser Engine.
• browser-session - basic session hierarchy:
  • Sessions can have a parent Session now. A Session with a parent will be added after the parent Session. On removal of a selected Session the parent Session can be selected automatically if desired: ```kotlin val parent = Session(“https://www.mozilla.org”) val session = Session(“https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/”)

  sessionManager.add(parent) sessionManager.add(session, parent = parent)

  sessionManager.remove(session, selectParentIfExists = true) ```

• browser-session - obtaining an restoring a SessionsSnapshot:
  • It’s now possible to request a SessionsSnapshot from the SessionManager, which encapsulates currently active sessions, their order and state, and which session is the selected one. Private and Custom Tab sessions are omitted from the snapshot. A new public restore method allows restoring a SessionsSnapshot.

    val snapshot = sessionManager.createSnapshot()
    // ... persist snapshot somewhere, perhaps using the DefaultSessionStorage
    sessionManager.restore(snapshot)
    

  • restore follows a different observer notification pattern from regular add flow. See method documentation for details. A new onSessionsRestored notification is now available.
• browser-session - new SessionStorage API, new DefaultSessionStorage data format:
  • Coupled with the SessionManager changes, the SessionStorage API has been changed to operate over SessionsSnapshot. New API no longer operates over a SessionManager, and instead reads/writes snapshots which may used together with the SessionManager (see above). An explicit clear method is provided for wiping SessionStorage.
  • DefaultSessionStorage now uses a new storage format internally, which allows maintaining session ordering and preserves session parent information.
• browser-errorpages
  • Added translation annotations to our error page strings. Translated strings will follow in a future release.
• service-glean
  • A new client-side telemetry SDK for collecting metrics and sending them to Mozilla’s telemetry service. This component is going to eventually replace service-telemetry. The SDK is currently in development and the component is not ready to be used yet.
• lib-dataprotect
  • The Keystore class and its encryptBytes() and decryptBytes() methods are now open to simplify mocking in unit tests.
• ui-tabcounter
  • The TabCounter class is now open and can get extended.
• feature-downloads
  • Now you’re able to provide a dialog before a download starts and customize it to your wish. Take a look at the updated docs.

0.27.0

Release date: 2018-10-16

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 27, Support Libraries: 27.1.1)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.2.61, Coroutines: 0.23.4)
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 64.0.20181004100221 🔺
    • Beta: 63.0b3 (0269319281578bff4e01d77a21350bf91ba08620)
    • Release: 62.0 (9cbae12a3fff404ed2c12070ad475424d0ae869f)
• browser-engine-system
  • Fixed a bug where SystemEngineSession#exitFullScreenMode didn’t invoke the internal callback to exit the fullscreen mode.
  • A new field defaultUserAgent was added to SystemEngine for testing purposes. This is to circumvent calls to WebSettings.getDefaultUserAgent which fails with a NullPointerException in Robolectric. If the SystemEngine is used in Robolectric tests the following code will be needed:

    @Before
    fun setup() {
        SystemEngine.defaultUserAgent = "test-ua-string"
    }
    

• browser-engine-gecko-nightly:
  • Enabled Java 8 support to meet upstream GeckoView requirements. Apps using this component need to enable Java 8 support as well:

    android {
    ...
    compileOptions {
      sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
      targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
    }
    

• browser-search
  • Fixed an issue where a locale change at runtime would not update the search engines.
• browser-session:
  • Added reusable functionality for observing sessions, which also support observering the currently selected session, even if it changes.

    class MyFeaturePresenter(
      private val sessionManager: SessionManager
    ) : SelectionAwareSessionObserver(sessionManager) {
    
      fun start() {
          // Always observe changes to the selected session even if the selection changes
          super.observeSelected()
    
          // To observe changes to a specific session the following method can be used:
          // super.observeFixed(session)
      }
    
      override fun onUrlChanged(session: Session, url: String) {
          // URL of selected session changed
      }
    
      override fun onProgress(session: Session, progress: Int) {
         // Progress of selected session changed
      }
    
      // More observer functions...
    }
    

• browser-errorpages
  • Added more detailed documentation in the README.
• feature-downloads
  • A new components for apps that want to process downloads, for more examples take a look at here.
• lib-crash
  • A new generic crash reporter component that can report crashes to multiple services (documentation).
• support-ktx
  • Added new helper method to run a block of code with a different StrictMode policy:

    StrictMode.allowThreadDiskReads().resetAfter {
    // In this block disk reads are not triggering a strict mode violation
    }
    

  • Added a new helper for checking if you have permission to do something or not:

    var isGranted = context.isPermissionGranted(INTERNET)
    if (isGranted) {
        //You can proceed
    } else {
        //Request permission
    }
    

• support-test
  • Added a new helper for granting permissions in Robolectric tests:

     val context = RuntimeEnvironment.application
     var isGranted = context.isPermissionGranted(INTERNET)
    
     assertFalse(isGranted) //False permission is not granted yet.
    
     grantPermission(INTERNET) // Now you have permission.
    
     isGranted = context.isPermissionGranted(INTERNET)
    
     assertTrue(isGranted) // True :D
    

0.26.0

Release date: 2018-10-05

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android (SDK: 27, Support Libraries: 27.1.1)
  • Kotlin (Stdlib: 1.2.61, Coroutines: 0.23.4)
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 64.0.20180905100117
    • Beta: 63.0b3 (0269319281578bff4e01d77a21350bf91ba08620)
    • Release: 62.0 (9cbae12a3fff404ed2c12070ad475424d0ae869f)
• ⚠️ Releases are now getting published on maven.mozilla.org.
  • Additionally all artifacts published now use an artifact name that matches the gradle module name (e.g. browser-toolbar instead of just toolbar).
  • All artifcats are published with the group id org.mozilla.components (org.mozilla.photon is not being used anymore).
  • For a smooth transition all artifacts still get published on JCenter with the old group ids and artifact ids. In the near future releases will only be published on maven.mozilla.org. Old releases will remain on JCenter and not get removed.
• browser-domains
  • Removed microsoftonline.com from the global and localized domain lists. No content is being served from that domain. Only subdomains like login.microsoftonline.com are used.
• browser-errorpages
  • Added error page support for multiple error types.

    override fun onErrorRequest(
        session: EngineSession,
        errorType: ErrorType, // This used to be an Int
        uri: String?
    ): RequestInterceptor.ErrorResponse? {
        // Create an error page.
        val errorPage = ErrorPages.createErrorPage(context, errorType)
        // Return it to the request interceptor to take care of default error cases.
        return RequestInterceptor.ErrorResponse(errorPage)
    }
    

  • :warning: This is a breaking change for the RequestInterceptor#onErrorRequest method signature!
• browser-engine-*
  • Added a setting for enabling remote debugging.
  • Creating an Engine requires a Context now.

       val geckoEngine = GeckoEngine(context)
       val systemEngine = SystemEngine(context)
    

• browser-engine-system
  • The user agent string now defaults to WebView’s default, if not provided, and to the user’s default, if provided. It can also be read and changed:

    // Using WebView's default
    val engine = SystemEngine(context)
    
    // Using customized WebView default
    val engine = SystemEngine(context)
    engine.settings.userAgentString = buildUserAgentString(engine.settings.userAgentString)
    
    // Using custom default
    val engine = SystemEngine(context, DefaultSettings(userAgentString = "foo"))
    

  • The tracking protection policy can now be set, both as a default and at any time later.

    // Set the default tracking protection policy
    val engine = SystemEngine(context, DefaultSettings(
      trackingProtectionPolicy = TrackingProtectionPolicy.all())
    )
    
    // Change the tracking protection policy
    engine.settings.trackingProtectionPolicy = TrackingProtectionPolicy.select(
      TrackingProtectionPolicy.AD,
      TrackingProtectionPolicy.SOCIAL
    )
    

• browser-engine-gecko(-*)
  • Creating a GeckoEngine requires a Context now. Providing a GeckoRuntime is now optional.
• browser-session
  • Fixed an issue that caused a Custom Tab Session to get selected if it is the first session getting added.
  • Observer instances that get attached to a LifecycleOwner can now automatically pause and resume observing whenever the lifecycle pauses and resumes. This behavior is off by default and can be enabled by using the autoPause parameter when registering the Observer.

    sessionManager.register(
        observer = object : SessionManager.Observer {
            // ...
        },
        owner = lifecycleOwner,
        autoPause = true
    )
    

  • Added an optional callback to provide a default Session whenever SessionManager is empty:

    val sessionManager = SessionManager(
        engine,
        defaultSession = { Session("https://www.mozilla.org") }
    )
    

• service-telemetry
  • Added Telemetry.getClientId() to let consumers read the client ID.
  • Telemetry.recordSessionEnd() now takes an optional callback to be executed upon failure - instead of throwing IllegalStateException.
• service-fretboard
  • Added ValuesProvider.getClientId() to let consumers specify the client ID to be used for bucketing the client. By default fretboard will generate and save an internal UUID used for bucketing. By specifying the client ID consumers can use the same ID for telemetry and bucketing.
  • Update jobs scheduled with WorkManagerSyncScheduler will now automatically retry if the configuration couldn’t get updated.
  • The update interval of WorkManagerSyncScheduler can now be configured.
  • Fixed an issue when reading a corrupt experiments file from disk.
  • Added a workaround for HttpURLConnection throwing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
• ui-autocomplete
  • Fixed an issue causing desyncs between the soft keyboard and InlineAutocompleteEditText.
• samples-firefox-accounts
  • Showcasing new pairing flow which allows connecting new devices to existing accounts using a QR code.

0.25.1 (2018-09-27)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android
    • SDK: 27
    • Support Libraries: 27.1.1
  • Kotlin
    • Standard library: 1.2.61
    • Coroutines: 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 64.0.20180905100117
    • Beta: 63.0b3 (0269319281578bff4e01d77a21350bf91ba08620)
    • Release: 62.0 (9cbae12a3fff404ed2c12070ad475424d0ae869f)
• browser-engine-system: Fixed a NullPointerException in SystemEngineSession.captureThumbnail().

0.25 (2018-09-26)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android
    • SDK: 27
    • Support Libraries: 27.1.1
  • Kotlin
    • Standard library: 1.2.61
    • Coroutines: 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 64.0.20180905100117
    • Beta: 63.0b3 (0269319281578bff4e01d77a21350bf91ba08620)
    • Release: 62.0 (9cbae12a3fff404ed2c12070ad475424d0ae869f)
• ⚠️ This is the last release compiled against Android SDK 27. Upcoming releases of the components will require Android SDK 28.
• service-fretboard:
  • Fixed a bug in FlatFileExperimentStorage that caused updated experiment configurations not being saved to disk.
  • Added WorkManager implementation for updating experiment configurations in the background (See WorkManagerSyncScheduler).
  • Experiment.id is not accessible by component consumers anymore.
• browser-engine-system:
  • URL changes are now reported earlier; when the URL of the main frame changes.
  • Fixed an issue where fullscreen mode would only take up part of the screen.
  • Fixed a crash that could happen when loading invalid URLs.
  • RequestInterceptor.onErrorRequest() can return custom error page content to be displayed now (the original URL that caused the error will be preserved).
• feature-intent: New component providing intent processing functionality (Code moved from feature-session).
• support-utils: DownloadUtils.guessFileName() will replace extension in the URL with the MIME type file extension if needed (http://example.com/file.aspx + image/jpeg -> file.jpg).

0.24 (2018-09-21)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android
    • SDK: 27
    • Support Libraries: 27.1.1
  • Kotlin
    • Standard library: 1.2.61
    • Coroutines: 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 64.0.20180905100117
    • Beta: 63.0b3 (0269319281578bff4e01d77a21350bf91ba08620)
    • Release: 62.0 (9cbae12a3fff404ed2c12070ad475424d0ae869f)
• dataprotect:
  • Added a component using AndroidKeyStore to protect user data. ```kotlin // Create a Keystore and generate a key val keystore: Keystore = Keystore(“samples-dataprotect”) keystore.generateKey()

  // Encrypt data val plainText = “plain text data”.toByteArray(StandardCharsets.UTF_8) val encrypted = keystore.encryptBytes(plain)

  // Decrypt data val samePlainText = keystore.decryptBytes(encrypted) ```

• concept-engine: Enhanced settings to cover most common WebView settings.
• browser-engine-system:
  • SystemEngineSession now provides a way to capture a screenshot of the actual content of the web page just by calling captureThumbnail
• browser-session:
  • Session exposes a new property called thumbnail and its internal observer also exposes a new listener onThumbnailChanged.

  session.register(object : Session.Observer {
      fun onThumbnailChanged(session: Session, bitmap: Bitmap?) {
              // Do Something
      }
  })
  

  • SessionManager lets you notify it when the OS is under low memory condition by calling to its new function onLowMemory.

• browser-tabstray:

  • Now on BrowserTabsTray every tab gets is own thumbnail :)

• support-ktx:

  • Now you can easily query if the OS is under low memory conditions, just by using isOSOnLowMemory() extention function on Context.

  val shouldReduceMemoryUsage = context.isOSOnLowMemory()
  
  if (shouldReduceMemoryUsage) {
      //Deallocate some heavy objects
  }
  

  • View.dp is nowResource.pxtoDp.

  // Before
  toolbar.dp(104)
  
  // Now
  toolbar.resources.pxToDp(104)
  

• samples-browser:
  • Updated to show the new features related to tab thumbnails. Be aware that this feature is only available for systemEngine and you have to switch to the build variant systemEngine*.

0.23 (2018-09-13)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android
    • SDK: 27
    • Support Libraries: 27.1.1
  • Kotlin
    • Standard library: 1.2.61
    • Coroutines: 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 64.0.20180905100117
    • Beta: 63.0b3 (0269319281578bff4e01d77a21350bf91ba08620)
    • Release: 62.0 (9cbae12a3fff404ed2c12070ad475424d0ae869f)
• Added initial documentation for the browser-session component: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/blob/master/components/browser/session/README.md
• sync-logins: New component for integrating with Firefox Sync (for Logins). A sample app showcasing this new functionality can be found at: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/tree/master/samples/sync-logins
• browser-engine-*:
  • Added support for fullscreen mode and the ability to exit it programmatically if needed.

    session.register(object : Session.Observer {
      fun onFullScreenChange(enabled: Boolean) {
          if (enabled) {
              // ..
              sessionManager.getEngineSession().exitFullScreenMode()
          }
      }
    })
    

• concept-engine, browser-engine-system, browser-engine-gecko(-beta/nightly):
  • We’ve extended support for intercepting requests to also include intercepting of errors

    val interceptor = object : RequestInterceptor {
    override fun onErrorRequest(
      session: EngineSession,
      errorCode: Int,
      uri: String?
    ) {
      engineSession.loadData("<html><body>Couldn't load $uri!</body></html>")
    }
    }
    // GeckoEngine (beta/nightly) and SystemEngine support request interceptors.
    GeckoEngine(runtime, DefaultSettings(requestInterceptor = interceptor))
    

• browser-engine-system:
  • Added functionality to clear all browsing data

      sessionManager.getEngineSession().clearData()
    

  • onNavigationStateChange is now called earlier (when the title of a web page is available) to allow for faster toolbar updates.

• feature-session: Added support for processing ACTION_SEND intents (ACTION_VIEW was already supported)

  // Triggering a search if the provided EXTRA_TEXT is not a URL
  val searchHandler: TextSearchHandler = { searchTerm, session ->
       searchUseCases.defaultSearch.invoke(searchTerm, session)
  }
  
  // Handles both ACTION_VIEW and ACTION_SEND intents
  val intentProcessor = SessionIntentProcessor(
      sessionUseCases, sessionManager, textSearchHandler = searchHandler
  )
  intentProcessor.process(intent)
  

• Replaced some miscellaneous uses of Java 8 forEach with Kotlin’s for consistency and backward-compatibility.
• Various bug fixes (see Commits for details).

0.22 (2018-09-07)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android
    • SDK: 27
    • Support Libraries: 27.1.1
  • Kotlin
    • Standard library: 1.2.61
    • Coroutines: 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 64.0.20180905100117 🔺
    • Beta: 63.0b3 (0269319281578bff4e01d77a21350bf91ba08620) 🔺
    • Release: 62.0 (9cbae12a3fff404ed2c12070ad475424d0ae869f) 🔺
• We now provide aggregated API docs. The docs for this release are hosted at: https://mozilla-mobile.github.io/android-components/api/0.22
• browser-engine-*:
  • EngineView now exposes lifecycle methods with default implementations. A LifecycleObserver implementation is provided which forwards events to EngineView instances.

    lifecycle.addObserver(EngineView.LifecycleObserver(view))
    

  • Added engine setting for blocking web fonts:

    GeckoEngine(runtime, DefaultSettings(webFontsEnabled = false))
    

  • setDesktopMode() was renamed to toggleDesktopMode().
• browser-engine-system: The X-Requested-With header is now cleared (set to an empty String).
• browser-session: Desktop mode can be observed now:

  session.register(object : Session.Observer {
      fun onDesktopModeChange(enabled: Boolean) {
          // ..
      }
  })
  

• service-fretboard:
  • Fretboard now has synchronous methods for adding and clearing overrides: setOverrideNow(), clearOverrideNow, clearAllOverridesNow.
  • Access to Experiment.id is now deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in a future release (target: 0.24). The id is an implementation detail of the underlying storage service and was not meant to be exposed to apps.
• ui-tabcounter: Due to a packaging error previous releases of this component didn’t contain any compiled code. This is the first usable release of the component.

0.21 (2018-08-31)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.61 🔺
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180830111743 🔺
    • Beta: 62.0b21 (7ce198bb7ce027d450af3f69a609896671adfab8) 🔺
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)
• concept-engine, engine-system, engine-gecko: Added API to set default session configuration e.g. to enable tracking protection for all sessions by default.

    // DefaultSettings can be set on GeckoEngine and SystemEngine.
    GeckoEngine(runtime, DefaultSettings(
        trackingProtectionPolicy = TrackingProtectionPolicy.all(),
        javascriptEnabled = false))
  

• concept-engine, engine-system, engine-gecko-beta/nightly:
  • Added support for intercepting request and injecting custom content. This can be used for internal pages (e.g. focus:about, firefox:home) and error pages.

    // GeckoEngine (beta/nightly) and SystemEngine support request interceptors.
    GeckoEngine(runtime, DefaultSettings(
        requestInterceptor = object : RequestInterceptor {
            override fun onLoadRequest(session: EngineSession, uri: String): RequestInterceptor.InterceptionResponse? {
                return when (uri) {
                    "sample:about" -> RequestInterceptor.InterceptionResponse("<h1>I am the sample browser</h1>")
                    else -> null
               }
           }
       }
    )
    

  • Added APIs to support “find in page”.

        // Finds and highlights all occurrences of "hello"
        engineSession.findAll("hello")
    
        // Finds and highlights the next or previous match
        engineSession.findNext(forward = true)
    
        // Clears the highlighted results
        engineSession.clearFindMatches()
    
        // The current state of "Find in page" can be observed on a Session object:
        session.register(object : Session.Observer {
            fun onFindResult(session: Session, result: FindResult) {
                // ...
            }
        })
    

• browser-engine-gecko-nightly: Added option to enable/disable desktop mode (“Request desktop site”).

        engineSession.setDesktopMode(true, reload = true)
  

• browser-engine-gecko(-nightly/beta): Added API for observing long presses on web content (links, audio, videos, images, phone numbers, geo locations, email addresses).

        session.register(object : Session.Observer {
            fun onLongPress(session: Session, hitResult: HitResult): Boolean {
                // HitResult is a sealed class representing the different types of content that can be long pressed.
                // ...
  
                // Returning true will "consume" the event. If no observer consumes the event then it will be
                // set on the Session object to be consumed at a later time.
                return true
            }
        })
  

• lib-dataprotect: New component to protect local user data using the Android keystore system. This component doesn’t contain any code in this release. In the next sprints the Lockbox team will move code from the prototype implementation to the component.
• support-testing: New helper test function to assert that a code block throws an exception:

    expectException(IllegalStateException::class) {
        // Do something that should throw IllegalStateException..
    }
  

0.20 (2018-08-24)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.60
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180820100132 🔺
    • Beta: 62.0b15 (7ce198bb7ce027d450af3f69a609896671adfab8)
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)
• GeckoView Nightly dependencies are now pulled in from maven.mozilla.org.
• engine-system: Added tracking protection functionality.
• concept-engine, browser-session, feature-session: Added support for private browsing mode.
• concept-engine, engine-gecko, engine-system: Added support for modifying engine and engine session settings.

0.19.1 (2018-08-20)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.60
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180810100129 (2018.08.10, d999fb858fb2c007c5be4af72bce419c63c69b8e)
    • Beta: 62.0b15 (7ce198bb7ce027d450af3f69a609896671adfab8)
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)
• browser-toolbar: Replaced ui-progress component with default Android Progress Bar to fix CPU usage problems.
• ui-progress: Reduced high CPU usage when idling and not animating.

0.19 (2018-08-17)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.60
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180810100129 (2018.08.10, d999fb858fb2c007c5be4af72bce419c63c69b8e)
    • Beta: 62.0b15 (7ce198bb7ce027d450af3f69a609896671adfab8)
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)
• concept-engine, engine-system, engine-gecko: Added new API to load data and HTML directly (without loading a URL). Added the ability to stop loading a page.
• ui-autocomplete: Fixed a bug that caused soft keyboards and the InlineAutocompleteEditText component to desync.
• service-firefox-accounts: Added JNA-specific proguard rules so consumers of this library don’t have to add them to their app (see https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/blob/master/www/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.md#jna-on-android for details). Underlying libfxa_client.so no longer depends on versioned .so names. All required dependencies are now statically linked which simplified our dependency setup as well.

0.18 (2018-08-10)

• Commits, Milestone, API reference

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.60
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180810100129 (2018.08.10, d999fb858fb2c007c5be4af72bce419c63c69b8e) 🔺
    • Beta: 62.0b15 (7ce198bb7ce027d450af3f69a609896671adfab8) 🔺
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)
• engine-gecko-beta: Since the Load Progress Tracking API was uplifted to GeckoView Beta engine-gecko-beta now reports progress via EngineSession.Observer.onProgress().
• service-fretboard: KintoExperimentSource can now validate the signature of the downloaded experiments configuration (validateSignature flag). This ensures that the configuration was signed by Mozilla and was not modified by a bad actor. For now the validateSignature flag is off by default until this has been tested in production. Various bugfixes and refactorings.
• service-firefox-accounts: JNA native libraries are no longer part of the AAR and instead referenced as a dependency. This avoids duplication when multiple libraries depend on JNA.
• ui-tabcounter: New UI component - A button that shows the current tab count and can animate state changes. Extracted from Firefox Rocket.
• API references for every release are now generated and hosted online: https://mozilla-mobile.github.io/android-components/reference/
• Documentation and more is now hosted at: https://mozilla-mobile.github.io/android-components/. More content coming soon.
• tooling-lint: New (internal-only) component containing custom lint rules.

0.17 (2018-08-03)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.60 🔺
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180801100114 (2018.08.01, af6a7edf0069549543f2fba6a8ee3ea251b20829) 🔺
    • Beta: 62.0b13 (dd92dec96711e60a8c6a49ebe584fa23a453a292) 🔺
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)
• support-base: New base component containing small building blocks for other components. Added a simple logging API that allows components to log messages/exceptions but lets the consuming app decide what gets logged and how.
• support-utils: Some classes have been moved to the new support-base component.
• service-fretboard: ⚠️ Breaking change: ExperimentDescriptor instances now operate on the experiment name instead of the ID.
• ui-icons: Added new icons (used in Firefox Focus UI refresh): mozac_ic_arrowhead_down, mozac_ic_arrowhead_up, mozac_ic_check, mozac_ic_device_desktop, mozac_ic_mozilla, mozac_ic_open_in, mozac_ic_reorder.
• service-firefox-accounts: Added documentation.
• service-fretboard: Updated documentation.

• browser-toolbar: Fixed an issue where the toolbar content disappeared if a padding value was set on the toolbar.

• Commits, Milestone

0.16.1 (2018-07-26)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.51
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180724100046 (2018.07.24, 1e5fa52a612e8985e12212d1950a732954e00e45)
    • Beta: 62.0b9 (d7ab2f3df0840cdb8557659afd46f61afa310379)
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)

• service-telemetry: Allow up to 200 extras in event pings.

• Commits, Milestone

0.16 (2018-07-25)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.51
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180724100046 (2018.07.24, 1e5fa52a612e8985e12212d1950a732954e00e45)
    • Beta: 62.0b9 (d7ab2f3df0840cdb8557659afd46f61afa310379)
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)
• service-fretboard: Experiments can now be filtered by release channel. Added helper method to get list of active experiments.
• service-telemetry: Added option to report active experiments in the core ping.
• service-firefox-accounts, sample-firefox-accounts: libjnidispatch.so is no longer in the tree but automatically fetched from tagged GitHub releases at build-time. Upgraded to fxa-rust-client library 0.2.1. Renmaed armeabi directory to armeabi-v7a.
• browser-session, concept-engine: Exposed website title and tracking protection in session and made observable.
• browser-toolbar: Fixed bug that prevented the toolbar from being displayed at the bottom of the screen. Fixed animation problem when multiple buttons animated at the same time.
• Various bugfixes and refactorings (see commits below for details)
• Commits, Milestone

0.15 (2018-07-20)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.51
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180704100138 (2018.07.04, 1c235a552c32ba6c97e6030c497c49f72c7d48a8)
    • Beta: 62.0b5 (801112336847960bbb9a018695cf09ea437dc137)
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)
• service-firefox-accounts, sample-firefox-accounts: Added authentication flow using WebView. Introduced functionality to persist and restore FxA state in shared preferences to keep users signed in between applications restarts. Increased test coverage for library.
• service-fretboard: New component for segmenting users in order to run A/B tests and rollout features gradually.
• browser-session: Refactored session observer to provide session object and changed values to simplify observer implementations. Add source (origin) information to Session.
• browser-search: Introduced new functionality to retrieve search suggestions.
• engine-system, engine-gecko, browser-session: Exposed downloads in engine components and made them consumable from browser session.

• engine-gecko: Added optimization to ignore initial loads of about:blank.

• Various bugfixes and refactorings (see commits below for details)
• Commits, Milestone

0.14 (2018-07-13)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.51
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180704100138 (2018.07.04, 1c235a552c32ba6c97e6030c497c49f72c7d48a8)
    • Beta: 62.0b5 (801112336847960bbb9a018695cf09ea437dc137)
    • Release: 61.0 (785d242a5b01d5f1094882aa2144d8e5e2791e06)
• support-test: A new component with helpers for testing components.
• browser-session: New method SessionManager.removeSessions() for removing all sessions except custom tab sessions. SessionManager.selectedSession is now nullable. SessionManager.selectedSessionOrThrow can be used in apps that will always have at least one selected session and that do not want to deal with a nullable type.
• feature-sessions: SessionIntentProcessor can now be configured to open new tabs for incoming Intents.
• ui-icons: Mirrored mozac_ic_pin and mozac_ic_pin_filled icons.
• service-firefox-accounts: Renamed the component from service-fxa for clarity. Introduced FxaResult.whenComplete() to be called when the FxaResult and the whole chain of then calls is completed with a value. Synchronized blocks invoking Rust calls.
• Various bugfixes and refactorings (see commits below for details)
• Commits, Milestone

0.13 (2018-07-06)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.51
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.4
  • GeckoView
    • Nightly: 63.0.20180704100138 (2018.07.04, 1c235a552c32ba6c97e6030c497c49f72c7d48a8)
    • Beta: 62.0b5
    • Release: 61.0
• service-fxa, samples-fxa: Various improvements to FxA component API (made calls asynchronous and introduced error handling)
• browser-toolbar: Added functionality to observer focus changes (setOnEditFocusChangeListener)
• concept-tabstray, browser-tabstray, features-tabs: New components to provide browser tabs functionality

• sample-browser: Updated to support multiple tabs

• API changes:
  • InlineAutocompleteEditText: onAutocomplete was renamed to applyAutocompleteResult
  • Toolbar: setOnUrlChangeListener was renamed to setOnUrlCommitListener
• Various bugfixes and refactorings (see commits below for details)
• Commits

0.12 (2018-06-29)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.50
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.23.3
  • GeckoView Nightly
    • date: 2018.06.27
    • version: 63.0.20180627100018
    • revision: 1c235a552c32ba6c97e6030c497c49f72c7d48a8
• service-fxa, samples-fxa: Added new library/component for integrating with Firefox Accounts, and a sample app to demo its usage
• samples-browser: Moved all browser behaviour into standalone fragment

• Various bugfixes and refactorings (see commits below for details)

• Commits

0.11 (2018-06-22)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.41
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.22.5
  • GeckoView Nightly
    • date: 2018.06.21
    • version: 62.0.20180621100051
    • revision: e834d23a292972ab4250a8be00e6740c43e41db2
• feature-session, browser-session: Added functionality to process CustomTabsIntent.
• engine-gecko: Created separate engine-gecko variants/modules for nightly/beta/release channels.
• browser-toolbar: Added support for setting autocomplete filter.

• Various refactorings (see commits below for details)

• Commits

0.10 (2018-06-14)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.41
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.22.5
  • GeckoView Nightly
    • date: 2018.05.16
    • version: 62.0.20180516100458
    • revision: dedd25bfd2794eaba95225361f82c701e49c9339
• browser-session: Added Custom Tabs configuration to session. Added new functionality that allows attaching a lifecycle owner to session observers so that observer can automatically be unregistered when the associated lifecycle ends.

• service-telemetry: Updated createdTimestamp and createdDate fields for mobile-metrics ping

• Commits

0.9 (2018-06-06)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.41
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.22.5
  • GeckoView Nightly
    • date: 2018.05.16
    • version: 62.0.20180516100458
    • revision: dedd25bfd2794eaba95225361f82c701e49c9339
• feature-session, engine-gecko, engine-system: Added functionality and API to save/restore engine session state and made sure it’s persisted by default (using DefaultSessionStorage)

• concept-toolbar: Use “AppCompat” versions of ImageButton and ImageView. Add notifyListener parameter to setSelected and toggle to specify whether or not listeners should be invoked.

• Commits

0.8 (2018-05-30)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.41
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.22.5
  • GeckoView Nightly
    • date: 2018.05.16
    • version: 62.0.20180516100458
    • revision: dedd25bfd2794eaba95225361f82c701e49c9339
• browser-session, engine-gecko, engine-system: Added SSL information and secure state to session, and made it observable.
• browser-toolbar: Introduced page, browser and navigation actions and allow for them to be dynamically shown, hidden and updated. Added ability to specify custom behaviour for clicks on URL in display mode. Added support for custom background actions. Enabled layout transitions by default.

• service-telemetry: Added new mobile-metrics ping type.

• Commits

0.7 (2018-05-24)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.41
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.22.5
  • GeckoView Nightly
    • date: 2018.05.16
    • version: 62.0.20180516100458
    • revision: dedd25bfd2794eaba95225361f82c701e49c9339
• browser-toolbar: Added support for dynamic actions. Made site security indicator optional. Added support for overriding default height and padding.
• feature-session: Added new use case implementation to support reloading URLs. Fixed bugs when restoring sessions from storage. Use AtomicFile for DefaultSessionStorage.
• feature-search: New component - Connects an (concept) engine implementation with the browser search module and provides search related use case implementations e.g. searching using the default provider.
• support-ktx: Added extension method to check if a String represents a URL.
• samples-browser: Added default search integration using the new feature-search component.

• samples-toolbar: New sample app - Shows how to customize the browser-toolbar component.

• Commits

0.6 (2018-05-16)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.41
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.22.5
  • GeckoView Nightly
    • date: 2018.05.16
    • version: 62.0.20180516100458
    • revision: dedd25bfd2794eaba95225361f82c701e49c9339
• browser-menu: New component - A generic menu with customizable items for browser toolbars.
• concept-session-storage: New component - Abstraction layer for hiding the actual session storage implementation.
• feature-session: Added DefaultSessionStorage which is used if no other implementation of SessionStorage (from the new concept module) is provided. Introduced a new SessionProvider type which simplifies the API for use cases and components and removed the SessionMapping type as it’s no longer needed.
• support-ktx: Added extension methods to View for checking visibility (View.isVisible, View.isInvisible and View.isGone).

• samples-browser: Use new browser menu component and switch to Gecko as default engine.

• Commits

0.5.1 (2018-05-03)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.41
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.22.5
  • GeckoView Nightly
    • date: 2018.04.10
    • version: 61.0.20180410100334
    • revision: a8061a09cd7064a8783ca9e67979d77fb52e001e
• browser-domains: Simplified API of DomainAutoCompleteProvider which now uses a dedicated result type instead of a callback and typealias.
• browser-toolbar: Added various enhancements to support edit and display mode and to navigate back/forward.
• feature-session: Added SessionIntentProcessor which provides reuseable functionality to handle incoming intents.
• sample-browser: Sample application now handles the device back button and reacts to incoming (ACTION_VIEW) intents.
• support-ktx: Added extension methods to View for converting dp to pixels (View.dp), showing and hiding the keyboard (View.showKeyboard and View.hideKeyboard).
• service-telemetry: New component - A generic library for generating and sending telemetry pings from Android applications to Mozilla’s telemetry service.
• ui-icons: New component - A collection of often used browser icons.

• ui-progress: New component - An animated progress bar following the Photon Design System.

• Commits

0.5 (2018-05-02)

Due to a packaging bug this release is not usable. Please use 0.5.1 instead.

0.4 (2018-04-19)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.31
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.22.5
• browser-search: New module - Search plugins and companion code to load, parse and use them.
• browser-domains: Auto-completion of full URLs (instead of just domains) is now supported.
• ui-colors module (org.mozilla.photon:colors) now includes all photon colors.
• ui-fonts: New module - Convenience accessor for fonts used by Mozilla.

• Multiple (Java/Kotlin) package names have been changed to match the naming of the module. Module names usually follow the template “$group-$name” and package names now follow the same scheme: “mozilla.components.$group.$name”. For example the code of the “browser-toolbar” module now lives in the “mozilla.components.browser.toolbar” package. The group and artifacts Ids in Maven/Gradle have not been changed at this time.

• Commits

0.3 (2018-04-05)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.1
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.30
  • Kotlin coroutines 0.19.3
• New component: ui-autocomplete - A set of components to provide autocomplete functionality. InlineAutocompleteEditText is a Kotlin version of the inline autocomplete widget we have been using in Firefox for Android and Focus/Klar for Android.
• New component: browser-domains - Localized and customizable domain lists for auto-completion in browsers.

• New components (Planning phase; Not for consumption yet): engine, engine-gecko, session, toolbar

• Commits

0.2.2 (2018-03-27)

• Compiled against:
  • Android support libraries 27.1.0
  • Kotlin Standard library 1.2.30
• First release with synchronized version numbers.