WP-AppKit – Applications mobiles et PWA pour WordPress

Journal

Also see changelog on github for full details.

1.6.0 (2020-10-27)

Features

• End of PhoneGap Build: allow to build apps with raw Cordova tools or VoltBuilder online service

1.5.6 (2020-05-05)

Fixes

• Fix PWA: manifest.json not linked properly
• User authentication: fix purge time when long expiration time
• User authentication: fix old connections cleanup
• Fix PHP notice when accessing preview for private app

Features

• User authentication: add expiration time info

1.5.5 (2019-11-20)

Fixes

• Corrupted PhoneGap build export on some installs
• Update jQuery in apps core: 3.2.1 to 3.4.1
• Notice in WP-AppKit admin interface
• Add charset to app HTML

Default themes update

• q-android version 1.2.1 : Fix custom pages titles, external links in menu and other minor fixes

1.5.4 (2019-07-23)

Features

• Allow multiple user login from multiple devices. Information about currently logged in users.
• Add version to export file name
• Allow platform attributes and phonegap version hook
• Allow addons and plugins to add custom files to app export

Upgrades

• Upgrade android-targetSdkVersion to 28
• Upgrade cordova-plugin-customurlscheme to v4.4.0
• Upgrade cordova-build-architecture to v1.0.4

1.5.3 (2019-01-28)

Features

• Allow to pass custom dynamic data to the app through synchronization webservice
• Handle local time changes in app

Fixes

• Fix post_type conflict on app save (« Post type mismatch » error)
• Fix license expiration message throws notice

Default themes update

• q-android version 1.2.0 : Handle local time changes / Add compatibility with Offline favorites addon

1.5.2 (2018-07-02)

Features

• Deactivate CrossWalk by default (fixes PhoneGap Build « FontFamilyFont » error)
• Force android-targetSdkVersion to 26
• Allow addon activation for PWA
• Allow to add custom preferences to config.xml

Fixes

• Fix launch routing for deeplinks
• Fix error when inserting custom component created by addons in navigation

Default themes update

• q-android version 1.1.2, q-ios vesion 1.0.7: fix link opening in post content

1.5.1 (2018-03-06)

Minor fixes

• Fix error message when wrong permissions on PWA export directory
• Fix HTTPS warning message
• Enable translation on PWA installation messages
• Redirect http to https only if site is https
• q-android version 1.1.1: fix app version display
• Remove empty ‘help me’ messages

1.5 (2018-03-04)

Features

• Progressive Web App (PWA) support!

Default themes update

• Embed last version (1.1.0) of Q for Android default app themes, which is compatible with PWAs.

Main evolutions for PWA

• Add Progressive Web App export type
• Add pwa manifest
• Icones PWA
• Update available platforms to add PWA
• Show/Hide PhoneGap/PWA metaboxes when needed
• Check/Sanitize PWA install path
• Allow going directly to url fragment at app launch
• Add pretty url support to PWA
• Update Export/Install UI
• JS Minification
• CSS Minification
• Add default background/theme colors and a color picker
• Set auth key from option instead of WP const
• First Launch Content
• Add-ons compatibility
• Handle Internal links

Corrections de bugs et évolutions

• App last modification date stays to creation date
• Add option to disable warning alerts when modifying components and navigation

1.2 (2017-10-22)

Features

• Automatically retrieve posts and pages from server if not in the app
• Allow easy comment screen refresh from theme

Default themes update

• Embed last version (1.0.6) of Q for iOS and Q for Android default app themes

Bugfixes

• Better history management when re-triggering same route
• Can’t go back from custom page
• Component’s label can’t be numeric
• Apply « the_title » filter on post title returned in webservice
• Warning: Illegal string offset ‘current_theme’
• Warning on post’s thumbnail array

1.1 (2017-07-26)

License Management

• Pro Support license keys can now be registered directly from WP-AppKit settings panel

Default themes update

• Embed last version (1.0.5) of Q for iOS and Q for Android default app themes

Bugfixes

• Add x86/ARM compilation choice in PhoneGap Build export settings
• Theme error when empty post content
• Custom WP-AppKit user role stays even after deactivation
• getCurrentScreenObject() error on some custom screens
• Wrong routing initialization when no network at first app launch

1.0.2 (2017-05-05)

• Bugfix: User authentication fails randomly

1.0.1 (2017-04-11)

• Update readme file

1.0 (2017-03-24)

Release on WordPress.org!

• Readme.txt for WordPress.org
• Add Domain Path header to plugin’s file headers
• New WP-AppKit menu icon
• Comply to WordPress.org repository requirements

Default themes update

• Embed last version (1.0.4) of Q for iOS and Q for Android default app themes

Core evolutions

• Add new hooks to allow component customizations
• Allow re-rendering menu from theme
• Allow to customize current_screen data on app side
• Create global functions to retrieve current app slug and id
• Include addons php files where we include themes php files
• Include theme’s php files before export

Bugfixes

• Wrong Items Backbone Collections initializations
• Malformed config.xml in PhoneGap Build

Backward compatibility

• No change in this version that affect backward compatibility with previous WP-AppKit version or already deployed apps.

0.6.2 (2017-02-06)

Bugfixes

• Update Crosswalk plugin version from 1.5.0 to 2.3.0

0.6.1 (2016-11-29)

Bugfixes

• WP-AppKit Upload Theme panel hidden in last WP version

0.6 (2016-06-20)

Features / Evolutions

• Demo themes included in core & New theme library!
• Deep Links
• Authentication module: be compatible with WP 4.5 authentication using email
• Shortcodes to show/hide app specific content
• Allow themes to add custom theme settings to config.js
• Add WordPress url in config.js
• Include theme’s PHP folder in the config.js/config.xml process
• Allow using standard pagination for post lists

Cordova / Phonegap

• CrossWalk support
• Gradle support
• App permissions
• Status bar support for Android
• Missing splashscreen fading delay
• Hide splashscreen spinner on Android

Better Theme and Plugin API

• Add upgrade routines
• Better history info in custom screen transitions
• Remove ThemeApp.setAutoScreenTransitions()
• Fix argument names and order in ‘screen-transition’ action
• Remove ‘screen:before-transition’ event
• Homogenize web service event types
• Better « preloaded-templates » filter
• JS action hooks clarification
• Unused or misused events
• Enhance web service context info retrieval
• Make ThemeApp.refreshComponentItems() more flexible
• Create ThemeApp.refreshComponent()

Bugfixes

• Script localization and escaping, remove esc_js() calls
• Metaboxes help texts
• Display comments directly: add parent post/page to history
• Reset component form
• Default liveQuery type should be ‘replace-keep-global-items’ and not ‘update’
• LiveQuery error when type=update
• Back action broken for pages

Backward compatibility note regarding Theme API

• Argument names and order changed in ‘screen-transition’ action
• ThemeApp.setAutoScreenTransitions() removed, replaced by manual hooks
• Changes on 3 asynchronous actions: « pre-start-router », « get-more-component-items », « debug-panel-render »
• Simplification of template format passed to « preloaded-templates » filter: « single » instead of « text!theme/single.html »
• Events prefix homogenization: use of « ws-data » replaced by « web-service »
• ‘screen:before-transition’ event removed because not usable as is, potentially leading to errors
• Unused events removed: ‘menu:refresh’,’header:render’,’waiting:start’,’waiting:stop’
• LiveQuery webservice default type is now ‘replace-keep-global-items’ instead of ‘update’

0.5.1 (2016-05-23)

• Add GPL mention in plugin main file

0.5 (2016-03-07)

Better Theme and Plugin API

• Allow adding custom meta data to post list components
• Allow platform detection from app
• Check If We’re In Default Screen
• Preload templates at app launch
• Allow to retrieve components and component links from theme
• Add timezone offset to config.js
• Add the minimum required WP-AppKit version to theme’s readme header
• Add a Theme API function that retrieves the current screen object in a standardized format
• Better comments screen display error management
• Add post slug and permalink to default web service data
• Post data into comment:posted info event
• Create a ThemeApp.navigateToPreviousScreen() function
• Add error callback to ThemeApp.getMoreComponentItems()
• Trigger a « component:get-more » info event in App.getMoreOfComponent()
• Create a ThemeApp.getGlobalItem() method that allows to retrieve a specific item from local storage
• « Post list » component : add a hook to allow filtering the available post types
• Rename default transitions in App.getTransitionDirection()
• Replace « data » property by « core_data » in format_theme_event_data()
• Page screens : rename « item » to « post » in current_screen.data

UI

• Platform column on application list
• Add spinner to Save new component button
• Add spinner to Add component to navigation button
• Translations and cosmetics
• Platform specific fields, be able to show/hide some metaboxes or fields depending on the selected platform
• Hide menu icons management

Icons & Splashscreens

• Embed WP-AppKit icons and splashscreens by default
• Better support for splashscreens
• Splashscreen fading delay to 300ms

Bugfixes

• Error navigating to a comments screen from a page screen
• Fix Default to single for page appears to be broken
• Default embedded Android splashscreen raises error in Phonegap Build
• Fix 404 error for « Upload Theme » link
• Fix Handle the case where the app has no component more gracefully
• Fix Problem with read-more on singular post. Thanks Willy! 🙂
• Translation : include texts
• TemplateTags.isTreePage() called with wrong arguments

Evolutions

• Allow Web service authentication (Add an action hook that fires just before web services dispatch)
• Finish testing iOS9 compatibility by making https tests
• Add WP Network specific htaccess rules automatically at WP-AppKit installation
• Config.xml plugin declarations
• Activate whitelist plugin by default for iOS builds with Phonegap CLI
• Allow all HTML tags in post content by default
• Allow to git checkout directly the root of wp-appkit repository

Backward compatibility note

• ThemeApp.getGlobalItems() renamed ThemeApp.getItems()
• Screen transitions renamed: left > next-screen, right > previous-screen, replace > default
• Error and info events: event.data renamed event.core_data
• Removed ThemeApp.setAutoBackButton() and ThemeApp.updateBackButtonEvents()
• Config.xml: <gap:plugin> replaced by <plugin> + ‘version’ attribute replaced by ‘spec’
• TemplateTags.isTreePage( page_id, screen ) replaced by TemplateTags.isTreePage( screen )
• current_screen.data.item replaced by current_screen.data.post for page screens

0.4.1 (2015-09-30)

Bugfixes

• Fix setAutoScreenTransitions() following hooks implementation evolution
• Support for the Whitelist Cordova plugin
• Plugin parameters

0.4 (2015-08-03)

Features

• Create a new template tag to retrieve a component’s items
• Add new filter « redirect » to allow to force redirection to a different screen than the queried one
• Allow users to comment securely from apps
• User login : allow users to authenticate securely from apps
• Extract favorites feature from core
• WP CLI command to export WP-AppKit apps
• « Live query » web service
• Add an easier way (template tag?) to retrieve the template used for the current page
• Remove unused code following the Zip export history simplification in 0.3
• « Post list » component : don’t force to choose a taxonomy term

Bugfixes

• Collections items not removed from local storage when the collection is empty in webservice
• Themes’ readme files not supported if filename upper case
• Plugins field doesn’t allow « source » parameter
• Setup appearance and navigation checkbox wrongly checked
• wpak_unavailable_media.png appears unexpectedly in a single post
• PhoneGap plugins duplicates in config.xml

0.3.1 (2015-06-09)

Bugfixes

• Export zip creation with PHP >= 5.2.8

0.3 (2015-05-04)

Features

• Help buttons in metaboxes
• Remove « Simulator » entry in WordPress menu
• Thoughts about the new publish metabox
• PhoneGap metabox fieldsets
• Better menu items filtering : make « menu-items » js filter more general
• Allow to pass any custom data along with web services from app themes and to filter server answer accordingly : new “web-service-params” js filter
• Pass any custom param to app templates : new “template-args” js filter
• Allow to customize web services jQuery ajax calls : new “ajax-args” js filter
• WordPress 4.2 Compatibility
• Feedback message when saving
• New Appearance Metabox
• New My Project Metabox

Bugfixes

• Edit panel title capitalization
• Edit panel add new button label
• Components metabox title
• PhoneGap Build metabox title
• PhoneGap Build metabox – mandatory fields
• Components not immediatly updated in nav when component changes
• « Increment JS/CSS resources version
• « Help me » displays above the web service link in the « Synchronization »
• Export returns always the same .zip
• Fatal Error on Plugin Activation
• Windows zip creation
• Access rights problem when trying uploading a theme

Security

• More security for web services calls by checking that the corresponding app is valid

0.2 (2015-03-08)

Features

• Persistent storage
• New theme directory
• Theme’s metadata
• Sample themes migration
• Allow to add custom routes
• theme templates files with add-ons
• Geolocation module
• Static views
• Filter app history management
• Create components with add-ons
• Permalinks activation warning

Bugfixes

• Secure PhoneGap meta box
• Remove default mobile image size
• Woff2 files not accepted in themes