Release notes

3.0.2 (November 08 2022)

  • Fix: Crash when secure views are added before the .launch() method is called

3.0.1 (October 26 2022)

  • Fix: Rare ConcurrentModificationException in network interception setup logic

3.0.0 (August 19 2022)

  • Breaking: minSdkVersion is now set to 21
  • Feature: Full Android 13 support (e.g. POST_NOTIFICATIONS permission support)
  • Feature: Early crashes are now sent synchronously which let Bugsee Android SDK to report application launch crashes
  • Feature: Dark theme support
  • Fix: Memory leak in notification management for VideoMode.V2

2.1.3 (May 22 2022)

  • Fix: Race condition in video capture which leads to a crash in some rare cases
  • Fix: Make interoperation with WebViews more secure

2.1.2 (May 4 2022)

  • Fix: View hierarchy may not be captured in some cases
  • Feat: When VideoMode.V2 is being used user permission for video capture is asked only upon launch (i.e. once)

2.1.1 (April 19 2022)

  • Fix: In some rare and specific cases, some bug reports may not be sent to the server

2.1.0 (April 14 2022)

  • Feat: Improve network requests capturing
  • Fix: Catch network exceptions

2.0.9 (April 8 2022)

  • Fix: Internal improvements for View Hierarchy capturing

2.0.8 (April 6 2022)

  • Feat: Custom view hierarchy capturing

2.0.7 (March 11 2022)

  • Feat: Improve early crash info capturing (console, network, etc)

2.0.6 (February 09 2022)

  • Feat: Improve rooted/jailbroken devices detection

2.0.5 (January 27 2022)

  • Fix: Correctly handle requirement to request bluetooth permission explicitly from user on Android 12+

2.0.4 (January 26 2022)

  • Fix: AndroidRuntime: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

2.0.3 (January 23 2022)

  • Internal improvements and bug fixes

2.0.2 (January 20 2022)

  • Fix: checking for an explicitly set VideoMode as None

1.21.5, 2.0.1 (December 23 2021)

  • Fix: In some cases portion of the video may be obscured by black area

2.0.0 (December 2 2021)

  • Feat: Bugsee Android SDK migrated to AndroidX. Jetifier is not required now for builds with Bugsee SDK.

1.21.4 (November 22 2021)

  • Fix: Video may not be captured when some views have invalid dimensions (VideoMode.V1)

1.21.3 (November 11 2021)

  • Feat: Remove ProGuard/R8 rules which prevented optimizations of R$ class
  • Fix: Make VideoMode.V3 more resistant to failures

1.21.2 (November 1 2021)

  • Feat: Small optimizations

1.21.1 (October 4 2021)

  • Fix: Fix shake detector's behavior on Android 12.

1.21.0 (August 25 2021)

  • Feat: VideoMode.V3 now works on most devices. Previously it was disabled on all Samsung devices. From now on, Samsung devices with Android 8 and up are supported.

1.20.0 (August 2 2021)

  • Feat: Embedded dependencies updated to their latest versions to avoid NonSdkApi calls

1.19.18 (July 23 2021)

  • Fix: In some rare cases network capturing may cause an unhandled exception

1.19.17 (May 26 2021)

  • Fix: Video may not be captured if VideoMode not provided explicitly via launch options

1.19.16 (May 17 2021)

  • Feat: Video capture intialization refactor

1.19.15 (April 28 2021)

  • Fix: Add missing internal method for Unity wrapper

1.19.14 (April 27 2021)

  • Fix: Improve WebViews management

1.19.13 (Apil 20 2021)

  • Fix: Do not automatically fallback from VideoMode.V2 to VideoMode.V1 upon failure
  • Fix: Rare crash during network interception initialization

1.19.12 (March 22 2021)

  • Feat: New API to add attachments directly to the ExtendedReport instance

1.19.11 (February 10 2021)

  • Fix: Notification bar trigger was mistakenly displayed in some scenarious

1.19.10 (February 4 2021)

  • Fix: Rare crash during Bugsee launch with NullPointerException
  • Fix: Rare launch failure in some wrappers introduced by the bug in 1.19.9

1.19.9 (January 28 2021)

  • Fix: More cases when SDK were initially launched without video and then relaunched with video, touches may not be captured properly

1.19.8 (January 20 2021)

  • Fix: In some cases when SDK was initially launched without video and then relaunched with video, touches may not be captured properly

1.19.7 (December 30 2020)

  • Fix: In some cases, video capture will not restart when VideoMode.V2 is used and Bugsee.relaunch is called
  • Fix: When some specific locales are chosen on device, SDK may improperly generate data file contents (which is worked around in web dashboard)

1.19.6 (December 12 2020)

  • Fix: VideoMode.V2 did not capture video in some cases

1.19.5 (December 5 2020)

  • Fix: VideoMode.V2 failed to restart video recording in some cases

1.19.4 (November 27 2020)

  • Fix: Crash on application startup caused by the bug in Android Gradle Plugin

1.19.3 (November 25 2020)

  • Fix: Properly pick device metrics to avoid IncorrectContextUseViolation on the latest Android
  • Fix: VideoMode.V2 may fail to restart in some cases

1.19.2 (September 7 2020)

  • Fix: Video may not be available in some cases when VideoMode.V2 is used on Android 10+ devices

1.19.1 (August 27 2020)

  • Fix: Video recoding may stuck when software and hardware views are present simultaneously

1.19.0 (July 24 2020)

  • Feat: Drag events are now properly intercepted
  • Feat: Hide password fields for payment systems
  • Feat: Bugsee now stores its settings and data in dedicated preferences file. This prevents interference with app settings.
  • Fix: Crash due to illegal internal state of video capturing mechanism
  • Fix: In some cases secure fields may be revealed during device rotation

1.18.0 (May 29 2020)

  • Feat: Better hide secure fields
  • Feat: Improve crash reports interception
  • Feat: Better ANR handling

1.17.3 (March 24 2020)

  • Fix: Properly capture DialogFragment UI elements when VideoMode.V1 is used

1.17.2 (February 17 2020)

  • Fix: Rare crash while application is in background

1.17.1 (January 28 2020)

  • Fix: Maintain backward compatibility for SD card settings

1.17.0 (January 24 2020)

  • Feature: Deprecate SD card usage

1.16.1 (January 8 2020)

  • Fix: Some bug/error/crash reports were not uploaded correctly on Android 10

1.16.0 (November 27 2019)

  • Feature: Allow settings report labels (tags) via API methods and in reporting UI
  • Fix: Video was not recorded in some cases on emulators

1.15.0 (October 24 2019)

  • Feature: Add a set of launch options to make input fields in reporting UI mandatory
  • Feature: Add two new life cycle events: BeforeReportAssembled and AfterReportAssembled
  • Feature: Network requests and responses with content type of 'x-www-form-urlencoded' are now also intercepted
  • Fix: Make VideoMode.V2 work on Android 10 again
  • Fix: Network request/response body is now correctly intercepted for error responses
  • Note: An update to the latest version of "compileSdkVersion" (API 29) may be required if build/sync is failing with "foregroundServiceType not found".

1.14.12 (October 1 2019)

  • Fix: Improve WebView requests handling/interception

1.14.11 (September 26 2019)

  • Fix: Do not skip WebView requests

1.14.10 (September 20 2019)

  • Feat: Add support for Android 10

1.14.9 (August 29 2019)

  • Fix: Properly set video settings and constraints upon relaunch

1.14.8 (August 19 2019)

  • Fix: Add custom attributes size checks
  • Fix: Add auto duration clamping for extra long recordings

1.14.7 (July 17 2019)

  • Fix: crash when video management resources are released (MediaMuxer)

1.14.6 (July 9 2019)

  • Fix: Tweak proguard rules to not interfere with application's activities

1.14.5 (July 9 2019)

  • Feature: Add option to remember/reset the user decision for video capture for VideoMode.V2

1.14.4 (June 26 2019)

  • Fix: Rare crash with FS

1.14.3 (June 12 2019)

  • Feature: Add support for lifecycle events for Unity

1.14.2 (May 29 2019)

  • Fix: Properly capture network body for requests made via URLConnection

1.14.1 (May 21 2019)

  • Fix: Wrong ProGuard rules were used in 1.14.0 release

1.14.0 (May 21 2019)

  • Feature: Lifecycle events
  • Fix: OOM during screenshot capturing and preparation
  • Fix: Properly intercept proxied network requests via URLStreamHandler

1.13.17 (May 14 2019)

  • Fix: Rare crash with destroyed screenshot

1.13.16 (May 1 2019)

  • Feature: Add launch option to enable/disable View hierarchy capturing

1.13.15 (Apr 22 2019)

  • Fix: Special handling added for controls with infinite animations

1.13.14 (Apr 15 2019)

  • Fix: Properly catch ANR errors
  • Fix: Prevent some OOM errors

1.13.13 (Apr 8 2019)

  • Feature: View hierarchy capturing
  • Feature: Introduce translations for Arabic, Chineese, Czech, French, German, Hindi, Japaneese, Spanish

1.13.12 (Apr 05 2019)

  • Fix: ViewMode.V1 was not capturing some activities with animations

1.13.11 (Mar 28 2019)

  • Fix: Safelly perform internal calls to several methods that are not implemented on some devices/firmwares.

1.13.10 (Mar 12 2019)

  • Fix: Properly intercept touches. Do not prevent them from being propagated to root views

1.13.9 (N/A)

  • Skipped

1.13.8 (Dec 20 2018)

  • Fix: Handle attachments asynchronously (required for wrappers)

1.13.7 (Dec 7 2018)

  • Feature: Optimize recordings stop/relaunch

1.13.6 (Dec 04 2018)

  • Various stability fixes

1.13.5 (Nov 15 2018)

  • Feature: Keep all user events added before recording was started
  • Feature: Add full support for AndroidX library
  • Refactor: Change feedback messages request logic to make it unified with the one on iOS

1.13.4 (Oct 29 2018)

  • Bug fix: Fix NullPointerException in some rare cases when MediaProjection is used to capture video

1.13.3 (Oct 26 2018)

  • Various stability fixes

1.13.0 (Oct 24 2018)

  • Feature: add ability to set launch options via LaunchOptions class read more
  • Feature: add HandleAnr launch option (experimental) read more
  • Feature: add new system trace "Carrier"
  • Feature: gather more data for "Connection" trace
  • Feature: add ability to stop recording for the time when custom report UI is shown read more

1.12.10 - 1.12.14

  • Various stability fixes

1.12.9 (Aug 27 2018)

  • Bug fix: Fix possible ANR cause when accessing user preferences

1.12.7 (Aug 14 2018)

  • Feature: Do not generate sessions if last one was within 30 minutes
  • Feature: Don't capture AppBarLayout, the component has internal bugs
  • Feature: Add getDeviceId() method
  • Feature: Treat invalid app token response as remote kill switch

1.12.6 (Aug 6 2018)

  • Feature: Prepare for Android 9
  • Feature: Add CaptureNetworkAndNetworkNames option for privacy read more

1.12.0 (Jul 19 2018)

  • Feature: Added CaptureDeviceAndNetworkNames launch option for privacy read more
  • Bug fix: Handle hidden fields in Polymer/Shadow DOM properly

1.11.12 (May 25 2018)

  • Add MD5 hash to uploaded bundles headers
  • Bug fix: hidden views placement within WebView
  • Various stability fixes

1.11.11 (May 21 2018)

  • Feature: Make bugsee notifications customizable read more

1.11.10 (May 10 2018)

  • Better handling for Video recording and animations interaction
  • Various stability fixes

1.11.8 (Apr 10 2018)

  • Feature: Screen regions can now be hidden by coordinates read more
  • Feature: SDK can now be stopped and relaunched with different options
  • Bug fix: Removed ACCESS_WIFI_STATE permission request

1.11.5 (Mar 9 2018)

  • Feature: Draw black rectangle in place of keyboard
  • Feature: Add VideoScale option for downgrading video quality read more
  • Various stability fixes

1.11.0 (Dec 26 2017)

  • Added support for Instant Apps
  • View drawing cache became the default way for screen capture (ExtendedVideoMode launch option is false by default now) read more
  • Various stability fixes

1.10.0 (Nov 1 2017)

  • Added DefaultBugPriority, DefaultCrashPriority, ReportPrioritySelector options read more
  • Various stability fixes

1.9.1 (Oct 12 2017)

  • Added 'WifiOnlyUpload' option to allow uploading issues only on WiFi read more

1.9.0 (Oct 03 2017)

  • Support for Russian locale
  • Support for Android 8 (trace Picture-In-Picture mode).
  • Various stability fixes

1.8.5 (Sep 01 2017)

  • Support for Bugsee Xamarin plugin

1.8.2 - 1.8.4

  • Various stability fixes

1.8.1 (Aug 02 2017)

1.8.0 (Jul 13 2017)

  • Feature: User Feedback read more
  • Various stability fixes

1.7.0 (May 26 2017)

  • Feature: New experimental video capture method not involving MediaProject and system enforced user consent dialog. The mechanism does have some limitations: it does not record status bar, keyboard, GL and Media views, but it is expected to become the default mode in the next release. To enable, set ExtendedVideoMode launch option to false to disable MediaProjection and switch to the new method. read more
  • Feature: Crash reporting from services - experimental feature, enabled by Service launch flag. read more
  • Feature: Better handling for low disk space environment
  • Various stability fixes

1.6.0 (Apr 14 2017)

  • Feature: Add Secure views in XML read more
  • Feature: Support for maven builds read more
  • Feature: Charging and Bluetooth system traces added
  • Various stability fixes

1.5.0 (Mar 03 2017)

  • Feature: Proguard support read more
  • Remove "gson" library to reduce size and method count
  • Various stability fixes

1.4.0 (Jan 23 2017)

  • Feature: Network traffic capture in WebView
  • Feature: Hidden fields concealment in WebView read more
  • Feature: User attachments read more
  • Various stability fixes

1.3.0 (Nov 24 2016)

  • Feature: Screenshot annotations
  • Various stability fixes

1.2.0 (Oct 20 2016)

  • Feature: Network traffic body is now captured as well
  • Various stability fixes