iViewer for Android Release Notes

iViewer for Android is on par, feature-wise, with iViewer for iOS. You can get it from the Google Play Store:

iViewer 5

To load a beta release, please see the Sideloading page for Android.

Below are the release notes specific to Android versions.

Date Released: August 23rd, 2020

• Fix crash relating to location services on some devices

Date Released: August 21st, 2020

• Fix issue with SSL validation

Date Released: October 25th, 2019

• Fix issue with systems not restarting after being enabled when using a hostname instead of an IP address
• Fix a potential crasher when resuming the app

Date Released: October 23rd, 2019

• Fixes for loading encrypted GUI
• Add support for skipping LaunchPad error pages when using Return page flips.

Date Released: September 11th, 2019

• Major version bump to keep inline with iOS releases. See the iOS Release Notes for more details.

Date Released: August 9th, 2019

• Added new licensing features for upcoming cloud platform.

Date Released: July 29th, 2019

• Added support for /gui deep links to load GUIs via special URLs

Date Released: July 29th, 2019

• GUI Archives with multiple GUI files - added more checks for resolution matching both orientations (checks current device orientation first).

Date Released: July 23rd, 2019

• Added support for iBeacon detection via JS API - see Sensors JS API

Date Released: July 9th, 2019

• Fix for resetting to default GUI using CF.loadGUI(null);
• Support for overriding theme properties (text size, color and alignment) on buttons and text objects, without having to create new themes.
• Show device resolution in settings via GUI Settings > User Interface > Device Resolution

Date Released: July 9th, 2019

• Fix to allow HTTP Client systems to use SSL (https://)
• When loading a zipped GUI, iViewer will now look for a GUI matching the device screen size, based on the filename (including any subfolders). First looks for a path matching ###w###h where the numbers are the screen width and height. If none found, then looks for match with just height ###h. Then if none found, looks for matching closest screen ratios to iOS sizes (896h, 812h, 736h, etc). Then if none still found, uses first .gui file found in zip.
• So now a single zip file can be used to target multiple device screen variations.
• Push Notification support - more to come on this at a later date (requires cloud software release, yet to come).
• Cleanup splash screen a little more

Date Released: June 27th, 2019

• Fix for GUI cache failing

Date Released: June 25th, 2019

• Allow HTTP (clear text) transfers in Android 9
• Introduces Immersive mode - full screen with no status bar or navigation bar by default.
  • Navigation and status bars using transparency overlay - swipe from edge of screen to bring them back visible and they automatically hide after no interaction.
• Adds CF.playSound and CF.stopSound JS APIs - CF.playSound(“sound name”);
• Fixes for show/hide status bar and navigation bar JS APIs:
  • CF.setDeviceProperty(CF.StatusBarAppearanceProperty, CF.STATUS_BAR_VISIBLE);
  • CF.setDeviceProperty(CF.StatusBarAppearanceProperty, CF.STATUS_BAR_HIDDEN);
  • CF.setDeviceProperty(CF.NavigationBarAppearanceProperty, CF.NAVIGATION_BAR_VISIBLE);
  • CF.setDeviceProperty(CF.NavigationBarAppearanceProperty, CF.NAVIGATION_BAR_HIDDEN);
• Fix for missing CF.device.uniqueIdentifier property in JS API
• Updated splash screens to be more flexible on screen resolutions and reduce install size dramatically
• Fix assets missing when loaded from zip (relating to backslashes used instead of forward slashes, or having spaces encoded in file names)
• Change to look at the content-type of the GUI being loaded to determine if its a zip or not (along with the .zip extension if exists in URL)
• Fix JS asset loading from zip which could result in malformed script if a new line was missing at the end of a script.
• Fix for background images not being scaled up with screen resolution when set to repeat.

Date Released: June 21st, 2019

• Fix for webviews not rendering some content correctly

Date Released: June 21st, 2019

• Added support for HTTP Digest Auth in video streams

Date Released: June 21st, 2019

• Fixed issue where device licenses were being ignored

Date Released: June 20th, 2019

• Fixed app icon on some device resolutions
• Added About page to settings to easily find the app version
• Optimised splash screens

Date Released: June 19th, 2019

• Fixed crasher when closing SSL sockets
• Fixed issue loading GUIs on older Android releases

Date Released: June 18th, 2019

• Added support for app linking and sending data to app via CF.ApplicationCallbackEvent using URL scheme
• Fixed an issues with math parsing for 4 digits or longer
• Fixed issue with dynamic join assignment using capture group names
• Fixed bug when changing to hostname addresses via CF.setSystemProperties
• Fixes for remembering GUI files and reloading
• Updated splash screens and icon imagery for latest OS

Date Released: March 27th, 2019

• Settings are now accessed via a second app icon named “iViewer Settings” on the home screen - look for the gear icon.
• Added support for latest Android OS versions
• Various fixes for networking
• Minimum Android API Level 17 (Android 4.2+)

Date Released: April 29th, 2016

• Fixed an issue with licensing for Android 6.0. If your device reports a Device ID during licensing of 0F607264-FC63-18A9-2B9E-13C65DB7CD3C, then you must update to this app version. Once updated, a new valid ID will be generated that you can use to license your device.
• Various fixes with memory usage and networking for devices running Android 5+
• Fixes for possible GUI corruptions when loading and closing the app before loading is complete
• Slider rendering fixes

Date Released: January 15th, 2015

• Fixed an issue with .zip GUI archives where the archive contains subfolders

Date Released: January 15th, 2015

• Added support for Android 5.x
• Improved TCP systems stability & reliability
• Improved Bonjour stability
• Added support for immersive mode & programmatically controlling the status and navigation bars using CF.setDeviceProperty()
• Fixed issue where long lists could show incorrect contents
• Fixed issues with iViewer Protocol
• Fixed issue where password fields were being silently capitalized
• Fixed issue where persistent tokens were being cleared when not needed
• JS: Improved detection & reporting of available networks
• JS: Added new CF.launch() API
• JS: Fixed Javascript startup issues
• JS: Fixed CF.stopMacro() API where stopping all macros wouldn't work
• JS: Fixed CF.openURL() url encoding issues
• JS: Fixed issue with CF.listAdd() not being to set digital join values

Date Released: February 16th, 2014

• Fixed issue where buttons would not immediately update when their title was changed using their text join
• Fixed issue with gestures not working correctly when the GUI was scaled
• Fixed issue with assets preloading: in some cases, the preloaded version was ignored and asset was being cached a second time after preload
• Fixed issue with commands whose name end with one or more spaces

Date Released: January 31st, 2014

• Fixed issues with remote debugging
• Fixed crasher issues in several areas of the software
• Fixed issues with CF.loadAsset() not behaving correctly with regards to assets caching and binary data reloads
• Fixed networking issues, including issues with iViewer Protocol
• Fixed display issue with stretchable button bitmaps when running GUI in scaled mode
• Fixed GUI reloading issues on return from settings

Date Released: September 16th, 2013

• Fixed an issue with CF.setSystemProperties() not changing the IP address of a system when instructed to
• Fixed issue with Reload GUI menu item not working if Reload GUI setting turned off
• Fixed a couple crash issues

Date Released: September 9th, 2013

• Tags support now officially in Android build
• TCP server systems now execute their startup command and/or macro at new incoming connection
• Added new communication mode (dialog mode) along with inactivity timeout and other options available in the new guiDesigner beta
• Fixed some user interface issue (text centering and wrapping, image scaling, etc)
• Fixed issue with showing / hiding status bar not working
• Fixed networking issues (reconnection after network loss / reacquire, talking to iViewer protocol)
• Fixed issue with textEncoding specification not being enforced
• Fixed various crash issues

Date Released: June 6th, 2013

• Added support for describing the joins touched by Gesture actions (mostly for modules like CrestronMobile to use)
• Fixed issues with remote debugging, JS execution, port selection for remote debugger, zip files
• Fixed an issue where feedback matching on systems with a define EOM string could process partial data and not return the full block
• Other various bug fixes

Date Released: May 27th, 2013

• First final release on iViewer for Android. Features are the same as iViewer for iOS.