Releasenotes MDA Client for Android

• Separating GDApplicationIDs to allow distribution of different build variants in one BES environment
• Raising version to reflect end of 2.x beta phase

• Raising target Androids to 5.0-8.0
• Making texts smaller, hence UI usable on modern smartphones
• Optimizing decimal number editing to be usable with buggy onscreen keyboard of Samsung XCover 3
• Support for operation in BB UEM jail using GD Library for HTTP(S) connections
• Support to use IMEI, Android_ID, Phone. Nr. as dynamic device ID

1.2.1 (1401)

• HTTP(S) requests to server now come with extended User-Agent header and additional X-MDA-* headers, to collect information about client's software version and track rollouts
• Workaround to avoid uncritical Exception MDAAPK-20, which occured when the Server Sync Acitivity re-runs and fails while the device is still busy waking up

1.2.0 (1371)

• Introduces concept of configurable scanType, and a new scanType:
  • Beta support for barcode/RFID scanners in keyboard wedge mode (primarily for Pidion BIP-6000 Series)
• Fixed MDAAPK-16: If suspended tours fail to get written to the storage completely, starting any tour became impossible. Now those damaged files are "migrated" into a failure report, getting them uploaded to the server for eventual manual "recovery" of measurement data already entered.
• To reduce occurences of MDAAPK-16 situations, specified and implemented MDAAPK-17, optimizing writing of tour xml files by a factor of 10:
  • Only the youngest "former measurement" is carried along, reducing the size of those xml files by up to roughly 49%
  • Tour files are written with a more efficient XML creation approach, and buffered
• Workaround for MDAAPK-18, a NPE for which I have no idea how it could have happened
• In case of an unexpected Exception (like MDAAPK-18), the UncaughtException report is now accompanied by logcat output, which might include hints on the exact situation
• Fixed MDAAPK-19, wrong refusal of inserting digits in decimal value after comma but before the end

1.1.3 (978)

• Proposal for next measurement point to read now proposes the next un-finished measurement point, not the first un-finished measurement point
• Employee selection page shows Tour name and system date, to make visible which tour had been selected
• Extended recognition of allegro's left orange function key as back button

• After sync error message is confirmed, client now goes to main screen, making it clear that there are no automatic retries
• MDA Admin proposes Backend and Update URIs to allow faster initial configuration
• MDA Admin connection test 
  
  • now works in background (making it compatible with newer Android versions), and gives back more information in case of an error
  • now requests new connectionTest servlet instead of employee list
• Fixed missing recalculation of calculated values after using back button within complex measurement profiles
• Fine tuned display of download and upload progress
• Barcode variant of "fast mode"
• Easy way to go back to most recently saved measurement
• Server sync now starts with connection test to clearly distinct from tour XML problems
• Server sync checks difference between android system time and server time, and prints a warning if the difference is larger than 5 minutes

•  2 final UI enhancements

• Introducing MDA Admin for configuration and other maintenance tasks
• Measurement profiles fully dynamic.
• Decimal number format handled better with unified internal representation but localized user presentation.
• Dropped mirroring of pending and suspended tours to SD card, due to poor reliability of memory cards. The hypothetical situation of a device dying without the memory card beeing damged seems negligable.
• Tour navigation enhancements
  
  • Tours can be aborted, not only suspended
  • The first page of a measurement assistant for a single measurement point does not force performing the measurement.any more. It is possible to go back and more using the back and menu buttons.
  • There is now a "fast mode" that jumps to the next measurement point right away. With the newly introduced options (see former change list item) it is still possible to switch elsewhere.
  • When barcode scanning is used to change the order of measurements in a tour, there is no more backcheck, only a passive information
  • The tour to start can now be selected faster because the step "select from list" has been eliminated
  • When starting a tour and selecting the employee to assign, the most recent employee to start a tour can be assigned with one click
• Crash reporting (without data leaving the organisation): If a crash occurs, a detailed report is created and persisted. Data synchronization with the MDA server uploads these reports to the server, which then can be given to developers.

• Fixed empty userId and wrong employee name after scanning user barcode
• Implementing lot's of feedback from 2 intense test rounds by first customer
• Refactored entering of measurment data to use generic screens ("activities"), removing 1 of 2 hard-coded layers of measurement profile processing
• Several minor other fixes and enhanements

• Changed storage policy. Internal Storage is now the main storage, SD card only use for backups of pending tours and configuration injection.
• All buttons supporting the allegro's orange function key now have right arrow

• NPE at redoing of a Measurement from the End-Of-Tour-Screen fixed
• Demo tours may now have 16 measurement points
• Main screen now has direct link to WLAN and network settings (will be moved to a less aggressive place lateron)
• When synching, downloads now happen before uploads, so upload problems (like xml disputes with server) do not block updates of download data
• Tours refused by the server with a bad response code (like in case of xml disputes) are now moved aside to a directory tours/upload-failures/
• Demo app now uses https: connection to mda-demo.iteg.at
• Main screen menu now provides short links to WLAN and system settings (can be configured away though)
• Removed obsolete "Exit" from main screen menu

• Minimal Android version now 2.2, not 2.3.3. Sideeffekt: No "installated on" date in about-box and update screen, no SERIAL in about-box

• Detection of missing memory card
• Measureround selectable using Barcodes
• Navigation buttons (Next, Previous) now contains arrows and are closer to skeye.allegro's orange function buttons that trigger them
• Several other usability and robustness enhancements

• First public RC