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Android SDK Release Notes

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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

  • GDPR

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)