Cardboard SDK v1.10.0 (2021-11-30)

Breaking & behavioral changes

• Changed Android minimum SDK version to 24 from 18 in Android SDK, sample app, and Unity SDK. If you want to maintain a lower minimum SDK, you must remove Vulkan support by making the following changes. All the locations can be found by searching for "#vulkan":
  • Set minSdkVersion to 16 in sdk/build.gradle.
  • Set minSdkVersion to 16 in hellocardboard-android/build.gradle.
  • Remove all the sources, definitions and dl library requirement that relate to Vulkan from CMakeLists.txt.
• Bitcode is now enabled in the iOS native sample app.

New APIs and capabilities

• Added Vulkan distortion renderer (alpha).

Deprecations

None

Other changes

• Removed bitcode disabling step from Unity build post processor.
• Changed Protobuf dependency version to 3.10.0 from 3.8.0 in Android SDK, native Android sample app and XR Plugin for Android.
• Removed const qualifier from method RenderEyeToDisplay in C++ class DistortionRenderer.

Bug fixes

• Fixed #257: Added a workaround for underlying issue Unity bug #1184957 by using the Unity build post processor to remove the Cardboard SDK .meta files from the bundle.
• Fixed #258: Fixed runtime crash when using the SDK on Android 6 or lower by bumping the Protobuf dependency version.

Known issues

None

Tested devices

• Android
  • Google Pixel 3A (Android 11)
  • Google Pixel 3XL (Android 12)
  • Google Pixel 4XL (Android 12)
  • Google Pixel 5 (Android 11)
  • Google Pixel 5A 5G (Android 12)
  • Samsung Galaxy S8+ (Android 8)
  • Samsung Galaxy S9 (Exynos) (Android 10)
  • Samsung Galaxy S9 (Qualcomm) (Android 9)
• iOS
  • iPod Touch 7th gen (iOS 12.3)
  • iPhone 6 (iOS 12.5)
  • iPhone X (iOS 14.4)
  • iPhone SE (iOS 14.6)