BlinkID/blinkid-android v6.6.0

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Document Updates

New Documents Support:

• Australia - Polycarbonate Passport
• Indonesia - Polycarbonate Passport
• Mexico - Consular Voter ID
• Moldova - Polycarbonate Passport
• Pakistan - Proof Of Registration
• Panama - Polycarbonate Passport
• USA - West Virginia - ID Card

New Beta Documents Support:

• Brazil - Ceara - ID Card
• Brazil - Goias - ID Card
• Brazil - Sergipe - ID Card
• China - Exit Entry Permit
• China - Mainland Travel Permit Taiwan
• Colombia - Temporary Protection Permit
• India - DL
• India - Andhra Pradesh - DL
• India - Haryana - DL
• European Union - Health Insurance Card

New Document Versions for Supported Documents:

• Australia - Queensland - DL
• Australia - Victoria - DL
• Australia - Western Australia - DL
• Bolivia - Minor's ID
• Brazil - Alien ID
• Estonia - DL
• Finland - Alien ID
• Guatemala - Paper Passport
• India - Paper Passport - New side type
• Malta - DL
• Mexico - Guanajuato - DL
• Mexico - San Luis Potosi - DL
• New Zealand - Polycarbonate Passport
• Paraguay - ID Card
• Slovenia - Residence Permit
• USA - Green Card
• USA - Work Permit
• USA - Arizona - ID Card
• USA - Colorado - DL
• USA - Colorado - ID Card
• USA - District of Columbia - DL
• USA - District of Columbia - ID Card
• USA - Idaho - DL
• USA - Idaho - ID Card
• USA - Missouri - ID Card
• USA - Nebraska - ID Card
• USA - Nevada - ID Card
• USA - New York - ID Card
• USA - North Dakota - DL
• USA - Oklahoma - ID Card
• USA - Pennsylvania - ID Card
• USA - Utah - ID Card
• USA - Virginia - DL
• USA - Virginia - ID Card
• USA - West Virginia - DL
• USA - Wisconsin - DL
• USA - Wisconsin - ID Card

New Document Versions for Beta Supported Documents:

• Australia - Queensland - Proof of Age Card
• Brazil - ID Card
• Ireland - Residence Permit
• Mexico - Consular ID
• Mexico - Residence Permit
• Mexico - Nayarit - DL
• USA - North Dakota - ID Card

Out of Beta:

• Croatia - Residence Permit
• Moldova - Paper Passport

Platform Updates

• Expanded geographic support with new Region enum values:

  • ANDHRA_PRADESH
  • CEARA
  • GOIAS
  • GUERRERO_ACAPULCO_DE_JUAREZ
  • HARYANA
  • SERGIPE

• Document recognition enhanced with new Type enum values:

  • EXIT_ENTRY_PERMIT
  • MAINLAND_TRAVEL_PERMIT_TAIWAN
  • NBI_CLEARANCE
  • PROOF_OF_REGISTRATION
  • TEMPORARY_PROTECTION_PERMIT

• UI flexibility:

  • Introducing optional Torch button and cancel button through BlinkIdUISettings (setShowTorchButton and setShowCancelButton) and ReticleOverlayView.

• Data extraction improvements:

  • Added Sponsor and BloodType result fields to BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer.Result, BlinkIdSingleSideRecognizer.Result and VizResult

Accessibility Changes:

• Refined UI to meet required contrast ratios, ensuring better readability for all users.
• Clickable button areas have been enlarged to comply with accessibility standards, providing easier interaction and ensuring that users with motor impairments can comfortably use the interface.
• Haptic feedback has been introduced throughout the scanning flow, highlighting important events and providing tactile confirmation to users

Deprecated Functionality:

• IdBarcodeRecognizer is now marked as deprecated. We recommend transitioning to BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizer, which not only covers the functionality of IdBarcodeRecognizer but also offers additional features.

Minor API changes

• split up Image class to Image and InputImage
  • InputImage is to be used as an input to the recognizers. Image will be the result of recognizer processing
  • InputImage retains ROI functionality, but is now not serializable
  • InputImage handles YUV planes more efficiently
  • Image is now always BGRA and is serializable
• Add shouldShowTorchButton and shouldShowCancelButton to ReticleOverlayView constructor.

Bug fixes

• removed UI thread blocking while waiting for recognition to complete
  • this fixes the ANR that can occur when app gets resumed from background on slow network connections when using online license keys
• fix documentation generated links to Javadoc
• fixed crash that occurred when HDR image was provided as Bitmap to the Direct API
  • if provided Bitmap is not in ARGB_8888 config, it will be automatically converted into ARGB_8888 config
  • only if the conversion is not possible, then the exception will be thrown

Other changes

• native code is now built using NDK r26c and uses dynamic c++ runtime (libc++_shared.so)
  • in case when multiple different dependencies use the same runtime in the same app, the latest available version of the library should be packaged into the app
• added support for license keys that support multiple application IDs