Kodular Eagle 🦅

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Version 1.4B.0

Major Changes

• New authentication system – Kodular Auth.
  https://support.kodular.io/help/en-us/3-my-account/25-how-to-login-into-kodular

• New account/projects management system – My Kodular.
  my.kodular.io

• Thunkable package names are now handled the same as Kodular default package names.
  Projects with package name com.thunkable.<email>.<app_name> will no longer incur extra commission for being custom package names.

• Mentioning a project’s ID in the hash of the Creator’s URL will open it when the page loads.

• Added new upgraded compilers
  We now have 5 high-end compilers, which will build and export your fast much faster!

• Commission levied on advertisement components can now be removed via purchase.
  Commission Removal - Kodular Support

• Kodular branding in the “About” section of projects can now be removed via purchase.
  Branding Removal - Kodular Support

• Support for Adaptive Icons has been added.
  Add adaptive icons (#1888) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@653d8d2 · GitHub

UI Changes

• New Performance Mode.
  This mode enhances Kodular’s performance on devices with weak specifications. Tested to have improved performance by ~80% when working with very large projects. Enable it from the Settings Dialog > Appearance.

• Product placement has been made more prominent.
  The Creator is now titled “Creator” instead of “Kodular”.

• Closing the search palette will now also clear the textbox content.

• Blocks can now be expanded/collapsed on double click.
  Make blocks collapse/expand on double click (#1809) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@ad97f10 · GitHub

• Deprecated blocks are now hidden in the toolbox.
  Hide deprecated blocks · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@bbf9c58 · GitHub

Companion Changes

• Companion now occasionally shows ads which can be removed via purchase.
  Removal is a one-time purchase which can be made from within the app.

• Companion now displays its full version.
  The full version is now shown as opposed to only the first two digits being previously displayed.

• Support for disabling events in the Companion has been added.
  Support disabling events in the REPL (#1849) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@43a74f9 · GitHub

New Components

Palette components

• New Custom Progress component in User Interface.
  

  

• New Grid View component in Layout > General.
  

  

• New Gallery View component in Layout > Views.
  

  

• New Hygrometer component in Sensors.
  Add environment sensors · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@f2554cf · GitHub

  

• New Battery Utilities component in Utilities.
  

  

• New Decoration component in Utilities.
  

  

• New Firebase Storage component in Google.
  

  

Parity components

Parity components will not be available in the Palette and are meant only to support projects imported from AppyBuilder.

• Spacer component.

• Network Manager component.

• Google Spreadsheet component.

• Memory Info component.

New Events

User Interface

Web Viewer

• New parameter “value” in the Web View String Change event of the Web Viewer component.
  This parameter returns the new WebViewString value, a change of which originally invoked the event.

  

New Methods

User Interface

Button

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Date Picker

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Label

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

List Picker

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Textbox

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Time Picker

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Media

Audio Picker

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Image Picker

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Video Picker

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Drawing and Animation

Canvas

• New Draw Polygon method.
  Draws an n-sided polygon in the canvas.

  

Social

Contact Picker

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Email Picker

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Phone Number Picker

• New Set Animation Style method.
  Inserts an animated image inside the component.

  

Connectivity

Network

• New Is Wifi Connection method.
  Returns true if the device is currently connected to WiFi, false otherwise.

  

• New Is Mobile Connection method.
  Returns true if the device is connected to a mobile network, false otherwise.

  

• New Is Fast Connection method.
  Returns true if the current connection speed is greater than 400kb/s.

  

• New Is Roaming method.
  Returns true if using roaming; false otherwise.

  

New Properties

User Interface

Notifier

• New Linkify property.
  Allows disabling auto-hyperlinking of URLs and phone numbers.

  
  

Drawing and Animation

Ball

• New Origin At Center property.
  Add OriginAtCenter property to Ball · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@d2083ab · GitHub

  

Canvas

• New Extend Moves Outside Canvas property.
  Ignore any canvas move events that are outside of the canvas borders · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@4e7df34 · GitHub

  
  

Maps

Circle

• New Fill Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  
  
  

• New Stroke Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  
  
  

Line String

• New Fill Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  

• New Stroke Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  
  
  

Marker

• New Fill Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  
  
  

• New Stroke Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  
  
  

Polygon

• New Fill Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  
  
  

• New Stroke Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  
  
  

Rectangle

• New Fill Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  
  
  

• New Stroke Opacity property.
  Support fill-opacity/stroke-opacity for map features (#1859) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fca2c24 · GitHub

  
  
  

Connectivity

Web

• New Timeout property.
  Add Timeout property to Web component · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@28e898d · GitHub

  
  
  

Monetization > Advertising

Unity Ads Interstitial

• New Placement ID property
  Allows for Rewarded Videos to be placed in Unity Ads.

  

Sensors

Pedometer

• Deprecated Pause method.
  Remove Redundant Pedometer Resume and Pause methods (#1907) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fbd7536 · GitHub

• Deprecated Resume method.
  Remove Redundant Pedometer Resume and Pause methods (#1907) · mit-cml/appinventor-sources@fbd7536 · GitHub

Bugs Fixed

• Issue with Status and Navigation Bar dark icons.
  Status Bar dark icons and Navigation Bar dark icons can now be set simultaneously.

• Inability to enter negative and decimal numbers.
  The TextBox and Notifier components now accept negative and decimal numeric inputs.

• Issue with Background Color of Card Views.
  Updates to backgrounds of Card View components now reflect correctly in the display.

• Issue with File Upload Cancel event in the Web Viewer component.
  Apps no longer crash when this event is invoked.

• Lottie animations do not load.
  The Lottie library has been updated and animations now load as expected.

• Issue with AES 128 and AES 256 algorithms in the Cryptography component.
  The algorithms now return the correct encodings regardless of the length of keys used.

• Issue with MD5 algorithm in the Cryptography component.
  The MD5 algorithm has been updated and now reports the correct encoding.

• Issue with Arduino icon in Knight and Bliss themes.
  The icon has been updated and now better reflects the original Arduino logo.

• Failure to invoke the Download Progress event in the Download component.
  The Download component now correctly reports the progress of the download.

• AdColony library version.
  The component’s library has been updated to its latest version.

• Issue with Facebook ads and Monetization approval.
  All apps using Facebook ads now require approval before they can be monetized.

• Issue with exposed API keys.
  The exposed API keys concerned have been removed, and the Google Play Store should no longer show API key warnings on apps made with Kodular.

• Fabric deprecation.
  Fabric libraries have been removed from Kodular apps. Kodular apps are now smaller in size.

• MIT Security vulnerability.
  A security hole in the MIT App Inventor system has been patched up; more details will be published soon.

• Issue with Android Oreo Web Viewer layout size.
  The Web Viewer now loads with the correct sizing even after the first refresh.