@nativescript/core@8.5.5

Bug Fixes

• animation: css keyframes (685d61c)
• Application: orientation & systemAppearance root classes (7f09b92)

@nativescript/core@8.5.4

Bug Fixes

• android: improve content uri handling (#10316) (77f252e)
• animation: avoid uncaught reject on cancel (#10309) (622f365)
• Application: inBackground handling & missing once (#10307) (e430555)
• ensure Application instance initialized early (#10315) (0401b09)
• shared-transition: race condition with interactive updates (#10312) (25cc49d)
• shared-transitions: layer opacity set back to original on next tick (#10310) (0956cb0)

@nativescript/core@8.5.3

Bug Fixes

• ios: FormattedString and Span a11y font scale (#10281) (a14becd)
• shared-transition: iOS snapshot opacity (#10278) (b8a548f)

Performance Improvements

• faster nativeView accessors (#10279) (b7d02c9)

@nativescript/core@8.5.2

Bug Fixes

• ios: resilience to nativeView access under edge cases (#10276) (4551da0)

Features

• file-system: allow copy when opening a File (#10274) (18bba2b)
• file: copy sync and async support (#10273) (c63a50a)

@nativescript/core@8.5.1

Bug Fixes

• core: improve strong type src of Image (#10265) (f549667)
• core: RootLayout view and shade cover should animate in parallel (#10256) (2b64e17)
• core: unhandled error typings (#10268) (0a2f002)

Features

• ios: new a11y properties for managing font scale (#10260) (7aaa1d8)
• text: valueFormatter for easy and flexible input auto-formatting (#10264) (b3abc5f)
• transitions: support zIndex on ios shared elements + support page props on android (#10261) (f4b2722)

@nativescript/core@8.5.0

Bug Fixes

• android: box shadow and border radius white border resolution (#10125) (ea45758)
• android: dialogs activity usage (#10246) (7edd21a)
• android: knownFolders.externalDocuments improvement (#10186) (a7f1305)
• android: Label now defaults to vertical-align middle (#10233) (a23c8bd)
• android: native-helper utils types are now correct (#10231) (6779cdc)
• android: path must be convex (#10238) (89fc249), closes #10235
• android: ScrollView BadParcelableException (#10213) (a26a03e)
• core: add equalityComparer to border-radius properties (#10185) (571d515)
• core: added item template handling for external renderers (#10196) (b993a83)
• core: autofillTypes correction (#10210) (fd35d6c)
• core: classes .ns-light and .ns-dark apply to dialogs (#10201) (48ef249)
• core: CSS animation parsing (#10245) (ab436db)
• core: Frame to Page property propagation (#10225) (4e62b00)
• core: improved handling for unsupported '!important' css rule (#10243) (e560cb1)
• core: Observable event types consistency (#10181) (485fb61)
• core: RootLayout shade cover asynchronous execution (#10228) (a19568c)
• core: unset css values of type Property (#10199) (dcf6a36)
• global declarations fix (#10247) (2f4c318)
• ios: embed systemAppearance handling (#10219) (ee92512)
• ios: embedding sdk (#10211) (9179ff8)
• ios: guard against no nativeView in createBackgroundUIColor (#10229) (9ed3c9b)
• ios: sdk embedding (#10216) (0183f7e)
• ios: support for a11y font scale (#10207) (95f3772)
• types-android: min api types from 17 to 31 (#10209) (e613ecf)
• webpack: notify CLI even if there are compilation errors (#10141) (6059984)

Features

• core: export foregroundEvent and backgroundEvent (#10226) (6fd6943)
• core: Shared Element Transitions (#10022) (59369fb)
• files: read & write using js buffers (#10093) (0173769)
• ios: Swift Package Manager support in config (#10252) (09832ad)
• ios: types for latest 16.2 sdk (#10253) (318fb36)
• webpack: support tsconfig.app.json when present (#10221) (ebb827f)

Performance Improvements

• android: reduce java object creation (#10129) (2da0064)

Breaking Changes

Most projects will be unaffected by these but in an effort to be clear as possible, we will note the following:

1. Event binding callbacks prefer a properly typed argument:

Potential issue:

error TS2339: Property 'newValue' does not exist on type 'EventData'.

2611       if (e.newValue) {

Possible causes:

Application.on(Application.orientationChangedEvent, (event) => {

Solution:

Application.on(Application.orientationChangedEvent, (event: OrientationChangedEventData) => {

2. Android labels are vertical align middle by default.

This means that potentially if you were using margins to position, for example on font icon labels, they may appear mis-positioned intially after updating. You should be able to remove custom margin handling to simplify.

3. Page transitions have improved their API to provide more platform control and introduced a breaking change to the method signatures on iOS. If you had created a custom by extending the Transition class:

• BEFORE:

animateIOSTransition(containerView: UIView, fromView: UIView, toView: UIView, operation: UINavigationControllerOperation, completion: (finished: boolean) => void): void {
    toView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(0, 0);
    fromView.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;

    switch (operation) {
        case UINavigationControllerOperation.Push:
            containerView.insertSubviewAboveSubview(toView, fromView);
            break;
        case UINavigationControllerOperation.Pop:
            containerView.insertSubviewBelowSubview(toView, fromView);
            break;
    }

    var duration = this.getDuration();
    var curve = this.getCurve();
    UIView.animateWithDurationAnimationsCompletion(
        duration,
        () => {
            UIView.setAnimationCurve(curve);
            toView.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
            fromView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(0, 0);
        },
        completion
    );
}

• AFTER:

animateIOSTransition(transitionContext: UIViewControllerContextTransitioning, fromViewCtrl: UIViewController, toViewCtrl: UIViewController, operation: UINavigationControllerOperation): void {
    const toView = toViewCtrl.view;
    const fromView = fromViewCtrl.view;
    toView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(0, 0);
    fromView.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;

    switch (operation) {
        case UINavigationControllerOperation.Push:
            transitionContext.containerView.insertSubviewAboveSubview(toView, fromView);
          ...

@nativescript/webpack@5.0.14

feat(webpack): support tsconfig.app.json when present (ebb827f)

fix(webpack): notify CLI even if there are compilation errors (6059984)

@nativescript/core@8.4.7

Bug Fixes

• core: allow CoreTypes declarations to be auto generated (#10183) (9f76fea)
• ios: race condition when setting preferredContentSize on view controller (#10179) (ed14e24)
• ios: race conditions with nativeView (#10182) (c42c3c5)

@nativescript/core@8.4.6

Bug Fixes

• core: ScrollView event wiring sequencing improvement (#10178) (75821ea)

@nativescript/core@8.4.5

Bug Fixes

• core: improve loaded/unloaded handling (18b911e)
• core: improve loaded/unloaded handling to be stable and consistent (#10170) (c9e29aa)
• ios: embedder usage of window (#10167) (a69a9d6)