Android

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[4.22.1] - 04 July 2022

Changed

• Improved the vehicle crash detection algorithm.

[4.22.0] - 30 May 2022

This release updates the SDK's TensorFlow Lite dependency version to 2.7.0. If your app depends on a different version of TensorFlow Lite, make sure to test it for compatibility before updating.

Changed

• Updated the TensorFlow Lite dependency to v2.7.0.

• Updated the vehicle crash detection ML model for TensorFlow Lite v2.7.0 compatibility.

[4.21.3] - 27 Apr 2022

Changed

• Improved the vehicle crash detection algorithm.

[4.21.2] - 25 Mar 2022

Fixed

• A minor bug in the cash detector related to processing negative longitude and latitude coordinates.

[4.21.0] - 3 Feb 2022

Added

• Step count tracking (disabled by default).

Changed

• Improved the vehicle crash detection algorithm.

• Added support for vehicle crash detection when activity recognition permission is not granted.

• Improved trip detection under certain inaccurate location conditions.

• Added more leniency towards short interruptions to the SDK detections that are caused by toggled airplane mode, or changing of available location providers (usually a result of OS power saving optimizations).

• Limited foregrounding SDK services when the debugger is attached, to prevent potential ANRs.

Deprecated

• Legacy on-device trip profiling. This feature will be removed in the next major release.

Fixed

• Incompatible machine learning model usage when the SDK is downgraded.

• SecurityException on Android 5 when the READ_PHONE_STATE permission is missing.

Security

• Avoid logging credentials in the SDK's private log files.

[4.20.0] - 7 Dec 2021

This version targets API level 31, adding Android 12 support.

If you app supports Android 5, you must add the READ_PHONE_STATE permission in your app's manifest in order to allow the Sentiance SDK to detect phone calls. You can limit this permission to API level 22 by specifying android:maxSdkVersion="22".

Note: the absence of READ_PHONE_STATE in your app's manifest will cause the application to crash on Android 5. This is a bug that will be fixed in the next SDK version.

Added

• Support for targeting Android 12 in the host app.

• HIGH_SAMPLING_RATE_SENSORS manifest permission for Android 12.

• SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM manifest permission for Android 12.

• ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION manifest permission for Android 12.

Changed

• Improved crash detection with an update to the internal crash detection model.

• Exported all manifest components that define intent filters.

• Specified mutability for internal Pending Intents.

• Updated mobile call detection to work without requiring the READ_PHONE_STATE permission (on Android 6 and above).

• Modified foreground service usage to support the new Android 12 restriction.

• Handled the absence of the precise location permission. The SDK will stop detections if this permission (ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) is not granted. A new status indicator called isPreciseLocationPermGranted has been added to the SdkStatus for this purpose.

• Reduced the number of Android notifications that appear during stationary.

Fixed

• NullPointerException caused by JobScheduler.getAllPendingJobs() returning null in some instances.

• Memory leak cause by holding a strong reference to an SDK service instance.

Removed

• The READ_PHONE_STATE permission has been removed from SDK library manifest. This permission was previously capped at API level 22, using the maxSdkVersion attribute.

[4.19.3] - 14 Sep 2021

Fixed

• Occasional SecurityException when accessing the ConnectivityManager on Android 11+ devices.

• Failure to detect some phone calls during trips.

• A rare occurrence of a NullPointerException during internal SDK message handling.

[4.19.2] - 1 Jul 2021

Fixed

• Failure to initialize the SDK on some emulator images due to a divide by zero error.

[4.19.1] - 9 Jun 2021

Fixed

• Failure to run crash detection immediately after resetting the SDK.

[4.19.0] - 14 Apr 2021

Added

• Support for tracking app foreground and background state changes.

• Support for collecting accelerometer range and max supported frequency.

• Improve detection of tablet devices by taking the device's smallest screen width into account.

Changed

• Use existing authentication token when submitting a token refresh request.

• Add fail-fast mechanism during third party user linking if linking has not been completed.

Fixed

• Improve handling of out of order sensor data

• Fix skipped events in some rare cases.

[4.18.1] - 8 Feb 2021

Fixed

• Stability improvements to the user authentication and sensor data collection.

[4.18.0] - 14 Jan 2021

Added

• An improved and a more accurate vehicle crash detection, backed by a machine learning model. You must switch to using the new Sentiance API method setVehicleCrashListener(VehicleCrashListener) to activate it.
• A new method to help test your crash detection integration. See invokeDummyCrash().
• A new method to check if crash detection is supported on the device for a specific trip type. See isCrashDetectionSupported(TripType).

Changed

• Points of interest data is no longer provided in the StationaryInfo object (returned by getStationaryInfo()) by default. If you use this data, please reach out to us before updating to this SDK version.
• On Android 9 and above, when background execution is restricted for your app (by the user or an OS power saving feature), SDK detections will no longer run. An SdkStatus update will be delivered to your app, with startStatus set to PENDING and isBackgroundProcessingRestricted set to true so that you can take the appropriate action.
• Library dependency changes:

  • Removed compile-time dependency on com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305

  • Added runtime dependency on org.tensorflow:tensorflow-lite:2.2.0. This dependency adds native libraries to your app. To limit their architectures, see here.

Deprecated

• setCrashCallback(CrashCallback) is now deprecated. Use setVehicleCrashListener(VehicleCrashListener) instead.

Fixed

• Minor stability and timeline quality improvements.

[4.16.2] - 2 Jul 2020

Fixed

• Fatal exception when aborting service start-up due to uninitialized SDK.

[4.16.1] - 19 Jun 2020

Fixed

• Stability improvement in the SDK logging subsystem.

[4.16.0] - 3 Jun 2020

Starting from 4.16.0, SDK detections will no longer be supported on Android 4.4 and lower. When initializing the SDK, onInitFailure will return INITIALIZATION_ERROR with an accompanying SdkException containing the message "Unsupported OS version."

This change does not impact the SDK's minimum supported API level (i.e. minSdkVersion).

Added

• Support for on-device trip profiling and hard event detection. This feature is not enabled by default.

• Support for remotely enabling "controlled trips only" detection mode.

Changed

• Disabled Proguard method synchronization optimization (method/marking/synchronized) due to incorrect removal of synchronized method markings. This change is also carried over to any application code when using Proguard. If you're using R8, it will have no impact on your code.

Removed

• Detection support for Android 4.4. and lower is now disabled.

• The WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission is no longer requested by the SDK. Previously, this permission was requested up to API level 18. If you rely on the presence of this permission in the final manifest, please add it manually to your app's manifest instead.

Fixed

• Issues related to ANR and failed foregrounding of SDK services.

• Properly reflect on the users timeline any SDK termination during trips.

• Ensure long trips are split to no more than 4 hour durations.

• Rare issue causing sensor timestamp misalignment.

[4.14.0] - 31 Jan 2020

Added

• Support resetting the SDK to a "never initialized" state, clearing all SDK user data and allowing the creation of a new Sentiance user. See reset(ResetCallback).
• Improve the detection of granting the background location access permission on Android 10+.

Changed

• Update and replace the use of deprecated Google Play Services APIs.

Fixed

• Motion activity detection issue during trips.

• A rare token refresh issue that causes an unreleased wakelock.

• Other minor bugs.

[4.13.0] - 6 Jan 2020

Starting from 4.13.0, we are no longer releasing the -R variant of the Sentiance SDK. If you are currently using the -R version, please update to the regular version. This change will not have any impact on your integration or user data.

Changed

• The WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE manifest permission is now limited to API level 18 and lower.

Fixed

• Stop the internal heartbeat task when the SDK is stopped.

• Fix an occasional NullPointerException that occurs during detections.

[4.12.0] - 4 Oct 2019

Removed

• The ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission is now removed from the SDK's manifest. If you are targeting API level 29+, please add this permission to your app's manifest instead. The inclusion of this permission affected apps targeting API level 28 or lower. For more information about this change, please see here.

[4.11.0] - 23 Sep 2019

This version targets API level 29, adding Android 10 support.

Added

• Android 10 permission support.

  • The ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission has been added to the SDK's manifest. Background location access is mandatory to support proper detections. See Location Permission.
  • The android.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION permission is required on Android 10 and above to prevent degradation in the detection quality. See Activity Recognition Permission.
• Ability to obtain a user's nearby points of interest during stationary. You can now obtain a list of POIs and their type directly from the SDK instead of querying the Sentiance API. See getPointsOfInterest().
• Report the app's notification setting (enabled/disabled) to the Sentiance Platform.

• Report the device's Google Play Services version to the Sentiance Platform.

• Keep a metadata journal to prevent sending duplicate user metadata requests.

Changed

• Target API level is now 29.

• Use Android's network capability API on Android 10.

• The return type of StationaryInfo.getLocation() is no longer nullable. A stationary activity is guaranteed to have a proper location.

Fixed

• Rare crash caused by a null pointer exception during call detection.

• Rare crash caused by concurrent modification exception.

• Properly capture unhandled exceptions (reported to the Sentiance Platform).

• Incorrect user activity type reported during SDK startup.

Security

• The Sentiance app secret is no longer stored by the SDK.

[4.10.1] - 26 Aug 2019

Added

• Improved stationary detection.

• Faster detection of location permission grant.

Changed

• Decrease the number of notifications shown during stationary.

• Explicitly set the uses-feature "android.hardware.location.gps" required attribute to false.

Fixed

• Add missing fields to toString() and equals() methods of the SdkStatus class.
• Properly detect and end ongoing (internal) SDK trips with poor location accuracy.

[4.10.0] - 24 Jun 2019

Added

• Support automatic stopping of detections by specifying an expiry date when calling start(). The expired detection will cause the StartStatus to become START_EXPIRED.
• Support additional fine-tuning of the SDK's disk usage quota.

Fixed

• Rare crash caused by a NullPointerException in the ContinuousSensorStreamService class.

[4.9.1] - 6 Jun 2019

Added

• Remotely configurable sensor collection rate for non -R SDK versions.

Changed

• Relax the high accuracy location mode requirement. Detections will also work with battery saving mode.

Fixed

• Occasional excessive wake-ups on Samsung devices.

• Rare issue where duplicate detection payloads are uploaded to the server.

• Rare issue where an invalid waypoint is added to a trip.

[4.9.0] - 21 May 2019

Added

• Support adding trip metadata during an ongoing trip. See addTripMetadata().
• Support asynchronous user linking. See setMetaUserLinker().
• Send user-agent info to API calls.

Changed

• Internal changes to user linking, sdk configuration updates, and SDK heartbeat data.

Fixed

• Issue related to incorrectly timed activity transition events supplied by play services.

[4.8.0] - 24 Apr 2019

Added

• Batched payload submission.

• Voip call detection.

Changed

• Improved trip detection.

Fixed

• Screen on/off detection during trips.

[4.7.1] - 3 Apr 2019

Fixed

• Deobfuscate TripInfo and StationaryInfo classes used with UserActivity.
• Fix crash when targeting a pre-12.0.1 version of Google Play Location Services.

• Minor internal bug fixes and improvements.

[4.7.0] - 25 Mar 2019

Added

• Support updating the SDK notification at runtime with updateSdkNotification(Notification).
• Ability to register for user activity updates (trips and stationary moments) with setUserActivityListener(UserActivityListener).

Fixed

• Fixed a rare issue where the location availability sdk status value is incorrect.

• Other minor bugs.

[4.6.0] - 13 Mar 2019

Added

• Support overwriting the Sentiance API URL with SdkConfig.Builder.baseURL(String).
• App version code in the device info payload.

Fixed

• Prevent creating very long stationaries when the device has been offline (no location updates or powered off).

[4.5.2] - 4 Mar 2019

Changed

• Include geofence exit triggering locations in trips.

• Drop payloads when the API responds with 413 (payload too large).

• Reschedule SDK tasks with changed criteria.

Fixed

• Rare crash caused by shared SimpleDateFormat instance.

• Prevent stopping of incoming location fixes during trips caused by high frequency requests (1 per 10 secs or higher).

[4.5.1] - 20 Feb 2019

Added

• Capture unexpected exceptions and errors during SDK init, and fail with reason InitIssue.INITIALIZATION_ERROR.
• Minor detection improvement.

Changed

• OnInitCallback.onInitFailure() now passes a Throwable as an additional parameter in case of the aforementioned InitIssue.INITIALIZATION_ERROR .

Fixed

• Stuck stationary issue.

• Alarms not triggering on Samsung.

[4.5.0] - 11 Feb 2019

Added

• Upload device location-mode, battery-saving state, and battery optimization config to the Sentiance platform.

• Capture hourly heartbeat events to track SDK runtime.

• Support uploading select SDK events (e.g. heartbeat) to the Sentiance platform over mobile data.

Fixed

• TransportMode enum obfuscation issue.

[4.4.0] - 17 Jan 2019

Added

• Support for uploading SDK logs over mobile data.

• Detection improvements to some Samsung and Huawei devices.

Changed

• Prevent Sentiance credentials change for an already authenticated user (init will fail with CHANGED_CREDENTIALS).
• Prevent premature user access token refreshes.

Deprecated

• Sentiance.isInitialized() is now deprecated. Use Sentiance.getInitState() instead, which returns an InitState enum.

Fixed

• Minor bug fixes.

[4.3.0] - 9 Jan 2019

Added

• Ability to disable battery optimization for improved detections (see here).
• New SdkStatus fields.

  • isBatteryOptimizationEnabled

  • isBatterySavingEnabled

  • isBackgroundProcessingRestricted

Changed

• Updated min required Google Play Location Services version to 12.0.1.

• Improved detections.

Fixed

• Minor bug fixes.

[4.2.9] - 18 Dec 2018

Added

• android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE permission required for Android 9.

Changed

• Updated target API to 28.

Fixed

• Bug fixes.

[4.2.8] - 21 Nov 2018

Changed

• Improved detection algorithm.

[4.2.7] - 15 Nov 2018

Fixed

• Bug fixes.

[4.2.6] - 12 Nov 2018

Added

• Support for sending mocked locations.

Changed

• Improved detection algorithm.

Fixed

• Minor bug fixes.

[4.2.5] - 22 Oct 2018

Added

• Provide the ability to set the SDK's notification ID.

Changed

• Improve stationary detection.

Fixed

• Fix google play console warning related to AWS credentials.

[4.2.4] - 8 Oct 2018

Changed

• Disable SDK notifications for triggered trips flavor when no trip is ongoing.

Fixed

• Prevent LocationService from crashing during startup.

[4.2.3] - 2 Oct 2018

Changed

• Stationary detection improvement.

[4.2.1] - 24 Sep 2018

Added

• More SDK logging.

Changed

• Removed explicit allowBackup param from manifest.

Fixed

• Wakelock prevention and other minor fixes.

[4.2.0] - 27 Aug 2018

Added

• Support for meta users.

• Remotely configurable required location providers.

[4.1.22] - 23 Aug 2018

Fixed

• Prevent automatic detections in triggered trips mode.

[4.1.21] - 21 Aug 2018

Changed

• Location parameter of CrashCallback.onCrash() is now nullable.

• Vehicle crash detection algorithm update.

Fixed

• Various bug fixes.