v4.20.0 – February 15, 2023
- Fix – Video widget sometimes crashed due to chromium known issue with post image, see reference
- Feature – add a new flag `shouldCollapseOnError`, i.e. height of WebView will collapse to 0 on network error.
- Feature – support for OBNews in “regular” and “Bridge” widgets.
v4.19.0 – January 19, 2023
- Internal – add query param to all ODB and MV requests `ref=https://app-sdk.outbrain.com/`
v4.18.0 – January 11, 2023
- Internal – add query param to all ODB and MV requests `ref=app.sdk`
v4.17.0 – December 20, 2022
- Internal – use `bridgeParams` to pass values between 2 Bridge widget on the same page (instead of `t` param)
v4.16.0 – December 7, 2022
- Feature – add support for platforms API for the Bridge (SFWebViewWidget).
v4.15.0 – October 31, 2022
- Internal – add `deviceType` and `dosv` params to Bridge and ODB requests to improve user-agent detection.
v4.14.0 – September 14, 2022
- Feature – Bridge support for “widget external events”, passed via
SFWebViewEventsListener
.
v4.12.0 – August 24, 2022
- Minor – add a new
SFWebViewEventsListener
to receive the onWidgetRendered
event (external events)
v4.11.1 – August 11, 2022
- Infra – Take the 2 dependecies from jcenter() (service not available anymore) and upload them both to cherry-repo.com instead.
v4.10.0 – July 19, 2022
- Infra: Compile with Min SDK: 16 –> 21
- Infra: Compile with TargetSDK: 30 –> 31
- Infra: OKHttp library update from
3.12.x
to 4.9.3
- Infra: Picasso
2.71828
–> 2.8
- Error Fix – OKHttp mismatch version error.
- Internal – many Lint fixes
- Internal – add
oo
(opted out) param to viewability report
- Internal – add new Bridge method for error reporting coming from the HTML
v4.9.0 – May 31, 2022
- Bug fix – memory leak report by a publisher PR
- Improvement – add protection in code in case a mandatory field from ODB response is missing.
- Internal – add “error report” to Outbrain backend in case of major error in SDK.
- Improvement – refactor code around Otto Bus library
- Internal – change the logic of
isPaid()
to be similar to JS widget
- Internal – create SFWebViewWidgetVisibility for “compose solution”
v4.8.7 – May 18, 2022
- Bug fix – Fix Crash on OKHTTP interceptor on bad URL
- Bug fix – Fix for the bridge problem – WebView scrolls to top on click
v4.8.6 – April 07, 2022
- Feature – Bridge viewability
v4.8.5 – March 30, 2022
- Feature – support regular widget with bridge widget (idx=1) in one page
v4.8.4 – March 27, 2022
- Feature – support configure viewability per listing for ViewGroup
- Improvement – Bridge initialization with ViewGroup. No need to pass RecyclerView or ScrollView
- Improvement – loading more items calculations in Bridge are more accurate
v4.8.3 – January 19, 2022
- Fix – Remove JCenter dependencies
v4.8.0 – December 14, 2021
- Feature – SFWebViewWidget (SDK bridge) support for 2 widgets on the same page (widgetIndex param).
- Feature – Support for
darkMode
in SFWebViewWidget (SDK-bridge).
- Infra – build with with compileSDK=30 minSDK=16
v4.4.1 – October 26, 2021
- Fix – memory leaks reported by Leak Canary (related to OBCardView and ViewablityTimerTask) – now fixed.
- Update – remove all instances of
OBTextView
from SDK code and examples (it was deprecated before, now completly removed).
v4.4.0 – October 24, 2021
- Improvement – UI fixes for the Smartfeed according to new design guidelines.
- Feature – Viewability per listing for regular widget
- Feature – support video on SDK Bridge
- Improvement – add
darkMode
flag to ODB requests.
- Update – fix Journal sample app with the new implementation for Viewability per listing
v4.3.0 – March 21, 2021
- Minor – fix title color for organic recs (should be the same as paid)
- Bug fix – widget title color should be according to dark\light theme
- Improvement – add
defaultMarginInGrid
as a new property in OBSmartFeed
- Feature – support new ODB setting
dynamic:HeaderFontSize
v4.2.0 – February 28, 2021
- Feature – SFWebView solution (Smartfeed on WebView)
- Internal – Parse and use ODB settings
dynamic:IsShowButton
from odb response
- Internal – Implement support for new ODB settings
dynamic:OrganicSourceFormat
and dynamic:PaidSourceFormat
- Bug fix – Widget header should appear only once per widget
- Bug fix – Fix for displaySourceOnOrganicRec – it didnt work for single col rec
v4.1.0 – February 14, 2021
- Feature: CTA button on single rec
- Feature: Smartfeed theme color can be customized by the publisher
- Bug fix – OKHttp close respones body leaks
- Bug fix – Viewablity weak listener in
ViewTimerTask.java
was gone before event was dispatched.
v4.0.2 – November 25, 2020
- Feature: “dark mode” support (configure with
this.obSmartFeed.setDarkMode(true)
)
- Feature: “Read More”
- Bug fix – Fixed memory leaks detected by Leak Canary in Viewability flow and in VideoUtils.
v4.0.1 – October 13, 2020
- Critical Change: Support for AndroidX – compile with API 29, min SDK is 16
- Feature: GIF image format support.
- Feature: Weekly Highlights card
- Feature: Support for platforms odb endpoint
- Feature: Aura platform support (via contextKV)
- Internal: Update OKHttp3 version from 3.10.0 (2018-02-24) to 3.12.12 (2020-05-17)
- Bug fix – SFViewability per listing – there were several ViewTimerTasks that run on the same rec
- Bug fix – SFViewability per listing – when app switched to background – the viewability timer tasks kept on running, resulting in a burden on the system.
v3.9.2 – June 22, 2020
- Feature: Branded Carousel card
- Feature: App install card
- Bug fix: if “custom ui” is configured – font should stay “as is” (bypass optimizations)
- Internal: add
sdkVersion
param to video url
v3.9.1 – April 27, 2020
- Internal – fix for AB tests didn’t pass values to child widgets in the Smartfeed.
- Feature – GDPR v2 support according to this spec
v3.9.0 – April 14, 2020
- Feature: support for optimizations (A\B tests) in Smartfeed
- Internal: add default vidget url
- Internal: change isVideoItem logic (only vid=1)
- Bug fix: if “source format” was active and “source name” was null – the sdk would crash
v3.8.5 – January 22, 2020
- Feature: support CCPA according to the official iAB guidelines (last page)
- Feature: new Smartfeed card –
trending in category
- Internal – add
article url
to video url params
- Bug fix – bad values for dynamic:PaidLabelTextColor or dynamic:PaidLabelBackgroundColor could crash the SDK
v3.7.10 – October 28, 2019
- Improvement – add
displaySourceOnOrganicRec
flag in OBSmartFeed
- Feature – support Video in “2 items in line” (outside of grid)
v3.7.9 – September 12, 2019
- Bug fix – SFItemData for horizontal type view was missing the OBResponseRequest – might affect Viewability per listing.
- Improvement: add getter for
hasMore()
in OBSmartFeed
.
- Internal – in case of multivac success with 0 cards in response – we need to log error and set the
isLoading
.
- Internal – add protection for checking
hasMore
before fetchMoreRecommendations
is called.
v3.7.8 – August 26, 2019
- Bug fix – SDK crashed if rec image url was an empty string.
- Bug fix – Viewability data null, add some protection in code to try to avoid “null pointer exception” crash.
- Bug fix – Update UI in parent response for smartfeed with no children.
- Bug fix –
OBSmartFeedDefaultListener
exception for startActivity
with appContext.
v3.7.7 – July 15, 2019
- Bug fix – Add protection in code to fix a crash happening on Activity restoration (
Adapter.notifyItemRangeInserted
null object reference) – part 2
v3.7.6 – July 11, 2019
- Bug fix – Add protection in code to fix a crash happening on Activity restoration (
Adapter.notifyItemRangeInserted
null object reference)
v3.7.5 – July 8, 2019
- Improvement: Add
Outbrain.testLocation("us")
for example, to simulate Geo in ODB requests.
- Improvement: Add protection for non-valid url strings in pixels array. (folllowing a crash in production)
- Improvement: Smartfeed in the middle (improved implementation)
- Improvement: set recycleView is now a public method in OBSmartFeed
v3.7.0 – June 6, 2019
- Feature: Support for Smartfeed in the middle of the RecycleView.
- Feature: App developer can now use
OBSmartFeedDefaultListener
as a default listener instead of implementing one.
- Improvement:
getOutbrainAboutURL(Context ctx)
is now deprecated. Use getOutbrainAboutURL()
instead.
- Improvement: OBSmartFeed method
fetchMoreRecommendations()
is now public.
- Improvement: proguard will now allow the project to build in release mode
- Improvement: update project to use the new Picasso lib version 2.7
- Bug fix: new implementation for ViewabilityService
editTmParameterInUrl()
method (served reporting error).
v3.6.0 – April 4, 2019
- Feature: new Smartfeed API (Multivac)
- Feature: Viewability per listing
- Feature: Served vs. Requested
- Feature: Smartfeed
pauseVideo
method
- Improvement: Update UI before fetchMoreRecommendations for parent widget
- Improvement: Video – support reload of additional videos in the same WebView
v3.5.1 – February 5, 2019
- SmartFeed – Sponsored label text color and background color shouldn’t changed for Custom UI
v3.5.0 – January 24, 2019
- SmartFeed – Remove “Recommended by” from items header
- SmartFeed – “chunk size” settings support
- SmartFeed – BugFix: Publisher logo size
v3.4.7 – January 17, 2019
- VideoWidget – Improvements: fetch recommendation only once per article and support recycle view
- VideoWidget – update sample app (recycle view)
- SmartFeed – Supports additional listener: OBSmartFeedAdvancedListener
- SmartFeed – isVideoEligible field in OBSmartFeed
- Smartfeed – Bug fix: Bad HTML encoded characters in recommendation title
- Smartfeed – Bug fix: Visibility of recommendation source shouldn’t change for custom UI
- Smartfeed – Bug fix: Shadow color should be transparent for non-paid recommendations
v3.4.4 – January 3, 2019
- Support VideoWidget
- Add Audience Campaigns Label field in OBRecommendation
- Smartfeed onOutbrainRecsReceived listener to OBSmartFeedListener interface
- Smartfeed – Improve the performance of the recycleview UI updates
- Smartfeed – Add getSfItemType method – get the item type of an item in the recycleview
- Smartfeed – Support set custom UI for SFItemType
- Smartfeed – Support source format
- Smartfeed – Add a new flag to test (simulate) RTB recs
- Smartfeed – Bug fix: Header images background color should be transparent
- Smartfeed – Bug fix: Recommendation title text color won’t change for custom UI
v3.4.3 – December 5, 2018
- Smartfeed Paid Label support
- RTL support
- Viewability support for Smartfeed sub-widgets (children)
v3.4.1 – Novemeber 22, 2018
- Bug fix: replace all clearOnScrollListeners with removeOnScrollListener
v3.4.0.beta1 – Novemeber 21, 2018
- External ID
- Update Google Play Services library to 15.0.1 (was 11.8.0)
- Support RTL in Smartfeed, phase 1
- Update SDK version logic, cleaner code
v3.3.0.beta1 – Novemeber 1, 2018
v3.2.0.beta2 – October 22, 2018
- bug fix: infinite smartfeed didnt work
v3.2.0.beta1 – October 21, 2018
- Video player in Smartfeed
- Improvement: add items to smart feed array on background thread
- Support for Smartfeed with only a parent with single recommendation (no children)