PDF417/pdf417-android v8.0.0

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PDF417.mobi v8 Release Announcement

As of this version, PDF417.mobi SDK is fully compatible with other Microblink SDKs, which means that you can use it alongside another Microblink SDK in the same application.

Improvements:

• We've translated complete SDK to the following languages: Arabic, Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Slovenian, Thai and Vietnamese.
• We added the option to disable Microblink logs in the console output. Use LoggingSettings.disableMicroblinkLogging(). Be careful with this option. We need full log outputs from the application for support purposes. In case of having problems with scanning certain items, undesired behavior on the specific device(s), crashes inside SDK or anything unmentioned, we will need a full log from your side. If you disable Microblink logging, you won't be able to provide us this information. Hence support might be limited.
• We've made the SDK safe from tapjacking, a form of attack where a user is tricked into tapping something he or she didn't intend to tap. We did this by adding a new security option that prompts the SDK to discard touches when the activity's window is obscured by another visible window.
• We've introduced a new FrameRecognitionCallback callback for the RecognizerRunnerView, which is invoked each time a camera frame from a video stream is recognized. Use RecognizerRunnerView.setFrameRecognitionCallback method to set the callback.
• We've improved camera performance on some Samsung devices.

Major API changes:

• To ensure compatibility with other Microblink SDKs, we have repackaged all classes. We have renamed the root package com.microblink to com.microblink.blinkbarcode, which is unique to PDF417.mobi SDK.
• SDK has been migrated to AndroidX dependencies - previous SDK dependency com.android.support:appcompat-v7 has been replaced with androidx.appcompat:appcompat
• ScanResultListener interface now has an additional method called when the scanning cannot continue because of an unrecoverable error. You have to implement onUnrecoverableError method.
  If you're using built-in activities, when onActivityResult is called with RESULT_CANCELED result code, the exception will be available via ActivityRunner.EXTRA_SCAN_EXCEPTION intent extra. If the user canceled the scan, the exception would be null.

Minor API changes:

• We've deprecated Pdf417Recognizer - use BarcodeRecognizer instead.
• We've introduced new API for configuring camera options on UISettings - use UISettings.setCameraSettings, which accepts object of CameraSettings type.
• RecognizerRunnerFragment extends androidx.fragment.app.Fragment, instead of deprecated android.app.Fragment.
• All provided scan activities extend AppCompatActivity.
• We've removed RecognizerRunnerView custom attributes: mb_initialOrientation and mb_aspectMode. Use RecognizerRunnerView.setInitialOrientation and RecognizerRunnerView.setAspectMode to configure the attributes in the code.
• We've changed default IntentDataTransferMode to IntentDataTransferMode.PERSISTED_OPTIMISED. It can be configured by using MicroblinkSDK.setIntentDataTransferMode.
• We've replaced Using time-limited license! warning with Using trial license! warning. The warning message is displayed when using a trial license key.
• We've renamed RecogitionMode to RecognitionDebugMode in RecognizerBundle.

Bug fixes:

• We've fixed camera busy error in camera management that was happening during the quick closing and opening of the camera.
• We've fixed rare crash on Samsung J5 Prime caused by race condition during the initialization of native camera frame.
• We've fixed problems with aspect ratio of camera preview on Huawei Mate 10.
• We've fixed crash when using Direct API on high-resolution com.microblink.image.Image from HighResImageWrapper.
• We've fixed race conditions in camera management, which in some cases caused that the camera was unable to resume after it has been paused.
• We've fixed the front-facing camera error on Oukitel WP8 Pro.