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Erel Administrator Staff Member Licensed User
I'm happy to release B4A v8.30. This update includes many improvements to the debugger, an important change to the way the starter service behaves on Android 8+ as well as other improvements.

New features and improvements:

Resumable subs in debug mode are optimized in the same way other subs are optimized. You can see the difference in this video:

(direct link: https://vimeo.com/266683414)

Starter service is never destroyed until the process is killed - if you carefully read the automatic foreground notifications tutorial then you should be aware to a significant behavioral change in Android 8+. The OS kills services while the app is in the background. In previous versions the OS never killed specific services (only the complete process). This change made it much more difficult to work with the starter service as you could no longer assume that the starter service is running.
Starting from B4A v8.3 the starter service will never be paused until the process is killed. Internally it switches from the service context to the application context.

Several other important debugger optimizations.

Bit.ArrayCopy method. Same as ByteConverter.ArrayCopy.

New File methods: CopyAsync, Copy2Async, ReadBytes, WriteBytes and ListFilesAsync.

Support for Java 8 jars and AARs.

Ctrl + Click on class types and custom types.

Autocomplete improvements.

Autocomplete in CallSub methods:

B4A Sdk Manager v3.27 - Supports Java 10.

Files can be added to groups directly.

For loops optimization (in release mode).

BitmapCreator v3.60 is included as an internal library.

xCustomListView v1.63 is included as an internal library.

XUI v1.70 is included as an internal library. This is a large update to XUI library with support for text measurements and other features.

Phone.ShellAsync - Asynchronous version of Phone.Shell.

Bug fixes and other minor improvements.

Developers who are eligible for a free upgrade will receive an email with upgrade instructions.
Other developers will receive an email with a renewal offer.
Last edited: Jun 12, 2018 at 11:14 AM

Erel, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:20 AM

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beacon, Beja, mshafiee110 and 55 others like this.
Peter Simpson Expert Licensed User

Thank you Erel, I've just downloaded it

Peter Simpson, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:33 AM

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makis_best Member Licensed User

Thank you

makis_best, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:20 AM

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Colin Evans Member Licensed User

Cheer Erel, just finished my first (full) program and been amazed how easy, with help of yourself and others explaining things along the way, its been to develop my Sea Fishing App. Thanks again.

Colin Evans, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:32 AM

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Erel likes this.
netsistemas Member Licensed User

For f = 1 to 1
great!
f = f -1
next

and, what is the best way to send you ideas for new features?

netsistemas, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:35 AM

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Cebuvi Member Licensed User

Thank you, muchas gracias, Erel.

Cebuvi, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:42 AM

#6
PassionDEV Active Member Licensed User

Thank you Erel great work

PassionDEV, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:03 PM

#7
SnowyDog Member Licensed User

Thank you Erel, exciting new release as always!

SnowyDog, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:26 PM

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Erel Administrator Staff Member Licensed User

Thank you all

Erel, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:28 PM

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mcqueccu Member Licensed User

Erel Great work as usual

netsistemas said: ↑

and, what is the best way to send you ideas for new features?
Click to expand...

Put it in the Bugs and Wisheslist section
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/forums/bugs-wishlist.30/

mcqueccu, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:36 PM

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Levit Member Licensed User

Thank you Erel.
Nice improvements!

Levit, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:14 PM

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arastoo Member Licensed User

Thank you Erel.

arastoo, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:18 PM

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soyVB6 Active Member Licensed User

Amo b4a
Amo b4j

Amo Anywhere Software, GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS

soyVB6, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:24 PM

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microbox Active Member Licensed User

Thank you Erel for a great product and awesome community!

microbox, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:28 PM

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ocalle Active Member Licensed User

Downloaded, work fine! Many Thanks!

ocalle, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:28 PM

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MarcoRome Expert Licensed User

Big THANKS

MarcoRome, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:33 PM

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Eme Fibonacci Active Member Licensed User

Thank you Erel. A great work as usual.

Eme Fibonacci, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:00 PM

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afields Member Licensed User

The versions...
As usually it's great to work once again.
Thank you Erel

afields, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:37 PM

#18
pazzokli Member Licensed User

Hi Erel, with this release my apps crash

*** Service (starter) Create ***
** Service (starter) Start **
** Activity (main) Create, isFirst = true **
** Activity (main) Resume **
*** Service (firebasemessaging) Create ***
** Service (firebasemessaging) Start **
firebasemessaging_subscribetotopics (java line: 267)
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No virtual method subscribeToTopic(Ljava/lang/StringLcom/google/android/gms/tasks/Task; in class Lcom/google/firebase/messaging/FirebaseMessaging; or its super classes (declaration of 'com.google.firebase.messaging.FirebaseMessaging' appears in /data/app/com.domos.client-1/base.apk)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.objects.FirebaseNotificationsService$FirebaseMessageWrapper.SubscribeToTopic(FirebaseNotificationsService.java:130)
at com.domos.client.firebasemessaging._subscribetotopics(firebasemessaging.java:267)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:191)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.keywords.Common$11.run(Common.java:1154)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6682)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1520)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1410)
--------- beginning of crash
*** Service (httputils2service) Create ***
** Service (httputils2service) Start **
*** Service (starter) Create ***
** Service (starter) Start **
** Activity (main) Create, isFirst = true **
** Activity (main) Resume **
*** Service (firebasemessaging) Create ***
** Service (firebasemessaging) Start **
firebasemessaging_subscribetotopics (java line: 267)
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No virtual method subscribeToTopic(Ljava/lang/StringLcom/google/android/gms/tasks/Task; in class Lcom/google/firebase/messaging/FirebaseMessaging; or its super classes (declaration of 'com.google.firebase.messaging.FirebaseMessaging' appears in /data/app/com.domos.client-1/base.apk)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.objects.FirebaseNotificationsService$FirebaseMessageWrapper.SubscribeToTopic(FirebaseNotificationsService.java:130)
at com.domos.client.firebasemessaging._subscribetotopics(firebasemessaging.java:267)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:191)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.keywords.Common$11.run(Common.java:1154)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6682)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1520)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1410)
*** Service (starter) Create ***
** Service (starter) Start **
** Activity (main) Create, isFirst = true **
** Activity (main) Resume **
*** Service (firebasemessaging) Create ***
** Service (firebasemessaging) Start **
firebasemessaging_subscribetotopics (java line: 267)
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No virtual method subscribeToTopic(Ljava/lang/StringLcom/google/android/gms/tasks/Task; in class Lcom/google/firebase/messaging/FirebaseMessaging; or its super classes (declaration of 'com.google.firebase.messaging.FirebaseMessaging' appears in /data/app/com.domos.client-1/base.apk)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.objects.FirebaseNotificationsService$FirebaseMessageWrapper.SubscribeToTopic(FirebaseNotificationsService.java:130)
at com.domos.client.firebasemessaging._subscribetotopics(firebasemessaging.java:267)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:191)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.keywords.Common$11.run(Common.java:1154)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6682)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1520)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1410)

pazzokli, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:34 PM

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Erel Administrator Staff Member Licensed User

pazzokli said: ↑

Hi Erel, with this release my apps crash
Click to expand...

You need to update firebase-messaging. Open B4A Sdk Manager and update all recommended items.
Note that there is an issue with the latest version of firebase-auth. For now it is better not to update firebase-auth if you are using FirebaseAuth.

Erel, Jun 13, 2018 at 6:11 AM

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