Release Notes

These release notes contain major API extensions, fundamental UI/UX changes, and important bug fixes.

0.1.144 (In development)

API extensions

• Added menu/content/panel replace actions to allow replacements of current data at runtime (see Replace Action)
• Added Replace Action
• Updated Internal Actions
• Updated Dictionary Structure
• Updated Focus Separator

0.1.143 (Dec 13, 2021)

Big fixes

• iOS devices: Fixed storage issues within plugins

API extensions

• Updated Plugin API Reference

0.1.142 (Nov 17, 2021)

UI/UX changes

• Added more functions to customize the menu (i.e. display the menu in different styles, set the menu content background to transparent, and set the line colors of menu item separators) (see Menu Examples)

API extensions

• Updated Menu Root Object: Added ready property
• Updated Menu Root Object: Added style property
• Updated Menu Root Object: Added transparent property
• Updated Menu Item Object: Added transparent property
• Updated Menu Item Object: Added lineColor property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added ready property
• Updated Content Root Object: Updated transparent property
• Updated Content Page Object: Updated transparent property
• Updated Requests: Added {ID} keyword
• Updated Extended Properties: Added control:transparent property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added control:reuse property
• Updated Attached Data Examples: Added info.id property
• Updated Plugin API Reference
• Updated Dictionary Structure

0.1.141 (Oct 7, 2021)

API extensions

• Samsung TVs: Extended action to launch applications (it is now possible to add launch data to the system:tizen:launch/system:tizen:launch:{APP_ID} action)
• Samsung TVs: Improved subtitle support (see Tizen Player)
• LG TVs: Extended action to launch applications (it is now possible to add launch data to the system:lg:launch:{APP_ID} action)
• Updated Internal Actions
• Updated Tizen Player: Added tizen:subtitle:delay property
• Updated Tizen Player: Added tizen:subtitle:silent property
• Updated Tizen Player: Added tizen:subtitle:url property

0.1.140 (Aug 26, 2021)

API extensions

• Extended video events for plugins (added data.data property for specific events that contains the active video data before the event occurred)
• Updated Internal Actions
• Updated URL Parameters: Added secure parameter
• Updated Extended Properties: Added control:action property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added control:return property
• Updated Extended Properties: Updated button:{BUTTON_ID}:action property
• Updated Extended Properties: Updated button:{BUTTON_ID}:icon property
• Updated Attached Data Examples: Added info.framework.secure property
• Updated Plugin API Reference

0.1.138 (Jun 15, 2021)

UI/UX changes

• Slightly speed up menu navigation

0.1.137 (May 26, 2021)

UI/UX changes

• Improved player behavior (if the left/right key is pressed while the video/audio is in foreground, the player progress marker is focused; if the OK key is pressed while the video/audio is in foreground, the player default button is focused; by default, the last focused player button remains the focus)
• Updated application font (updated to the latest roboto font version)
• Added more icons (updated to the latest material icons version)

API extensions

• Updated Icons

0.1.136 (May 7, 2021)

UI/UX changes

• Added new hover effect (Settings → Hover Effect → Preselect), which directly applies the selection when the cursor is over an item
• Added long press feature (for pointer and touch devices) to select an item without executing it (e.g. to access additional options)

API extensions

• Android/iOS devices: Extended action to launch applications (it is now possible to add launch data to the system:tvx:launch/system:tvx:launch:{APP_ID} action and to handle the result)
• Added Android Player
• Added NetCast Menu
• Updated Internal Actions
• Updated Extended Properties: Updated label:duration property
• Updated Extended Properties: Updated label:position property
• Updated Extended Properties: Updated label:speed property
• Updated Dictionary Structure

0.1.134 (Apr 16, 2021)

UI/UX changes

• Improved navigation management
• Hide cursor on keyboard input
• Added hover effect for video/audio progress bar
• Added version suffix to make versions easier to identify
• The display of some translated labels has been improved by truncating too long values

API extensions

• Updated Menu Root Object: Added reference property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added reference property
• Updated Internal Actions
• Updated URL Parameters: Added welcome parameter
• Updated Extended Properties: Added trigger:active property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added trigger:inactive property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added trigger:player property
• Updated Attached Data Examples: Added info.framework.suffix property
• Updated Attached Data Examples: Added info.application.suffix property
• Updated Attached Data Examples: Updated info.content.state property
• Updated Dictionary Structure
• Updated Plugin API Reference

0.1.132 (Mar 18, 2021)

UI/UX changes

• Added shortcut feature for option items and player buttons

API extensions

• Updated Content Item Object: Added shortcut property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added button:{BUTTON_ID}:key property
• Added Option Shortcut

0.1.131 (Mar 9, 2021)

API extensions

• Updated URL Parameters: Added leave parameter
• Updated URL Parameters: Updated playback parameter
• Updated Dictionary Structure

0.1.130 (Mar 5, 2021)

UI/UX changes

• Windows devices: Improved user experience on Xbox consoles
• Added more functions to customize the player (i.e. show video/audio related info image and/or text and hide/override default player buttons) (see Extended Properties)
• Added more functions to customize the menu (i.e. set custom images instead of icons and change logo size) (see Menu Root Object and Menu Item Object)
• Slightly improved rendering performance

API extensions

• Updated Menu Root Object: Added logoSize property
• Updated Menu Item Object: Added image property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added caption property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added caption property
• Updated Actions
• Updated Internal Actions
• Updated Extended Properties: Added button:{BUTTON_ID}:display property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added control:type property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added info:image property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added info:text property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added label:speed:{LABEL} property
• Updated Plugin API Reference
• Updated Dictionary Structure
• Updated Selection Examples
• Updated Page Action

0.1.128 (Feb 17, 2021)

UI/UX changes

• Samsung TVs: Default player for Samsung TVs (2016+ models) is now the Tizen player to support 4k/8k video formats, buffer settings, and more (see Tizen Player)
• AFK delay (time to hide the player, notifications, etc. when there are no interactions) has been slightly decreased
• The display of the start parameters has been improved by truncating too long values
• The application suspend/resume feature has been improved

API extensions

• Added Tizen Player
• Updated Requests: Added keyword support
• Updated Content Item Object: Added truncation property
• Updated Internal Actions
• Updated URL Parameters: Added suspend parameter
• Updated Extended Properties: Added video:state property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added video:position property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added video:duration property
• Updated Extended Properties: Added video:speed property
• Updated Attached Data Examples: Added suspend property
• Updated Plugin API Reference
• Updated Dictionary Structure

0.1.127 (Jan 4, 2021)

UI/UX changes

• Samsung TVs: Exit button is not handled anymore to use the native application exit behavior

0.1.125 (Nov 23, 2020)

API extensions

• Updated Internal Actions
• Updated Attached Data Examples

Bug fixes

• Windows devices: Updated application capabilities to allow private network connections

0.1.123 (Nov 13, 2020)

API extensions

• Added Compress Property
• Updated Dictionary Inline Expressions
• Updated Content Root Object: Added compress property (see Compress Property)
• Updated Content Page Object: Added compress property (see Compress Property)
• Updated Content Item Object: Added compress property (see Compress Property)

0.1.120 (Oct 20, 2020)

API extensions

• Added Dictionary Structure
• Added Dictionary Inline Expressions
• Updated Execute Property
• Updated Focus Separator
• Updated Menu Root Object: Added flag property
• Updated Menu Root Object: Added restore property
• Updated Menu Root Object: Added dictionary property (see Dictionary Structure)
• Updated Menu Root Object: Added options property
• Updated Menu Item Object: Added execute property (see Execute Property)
• Updated Menu Item Object: Added options property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added flag property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added restore property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added dictionary property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added transparent property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added dictionary property (see Dictionary Structure)
• Updated Content Root Object: Added options property
• Updated Content Page Object: Added transparent property
• Updated Content Page Object: Added options property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added options property
• Updated URL Parameters

0.1.119 (Sep 28, 2020)

UI/UX changes

• Android tablets/phones: Enabled immersive mode (full screen experience)

0.1.118 (Sep 8, 2020)

UI/UX changes

• Updated welcome pages (removed unnecessary example items)

0.1.117 (Sep 4, 2020)

API extensions

• Updated Start Object: Added welcome property

0.1.116 (Sep 2, 2020)

UI/UX changes

• Android devices: Added AndroidX support

0.1.114 (Jun 9, 2020)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.112 (May 19, 2020)

API extensions

• Added Page Action
• Updated Content Root Object: Added underlay property
• Updated Content Page Object: Added action property (see Page Action)
• Updated Content Page Object: Added data property (see Page Action)
• Updated Actions: Updated extended actions (see Actions#Extended Actions)

0.1.111 (Apr 29, 2020)

API extensions

• Updated Selection Object
• Updated Extended Properties

0.1.110 (Mar 18, 2020)

API extensions

• Added Selection Object
• Added Large Offsets
• Updated Content Root Object: Added overlay property
• Updated Content Page Object: Added important property
• Updated Content Page Object: Updated offset property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added area property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added selection property
• Updated Content Item Object: Updated offset property
• Updated Inline Expressions: Updated {context:{PROPERTY}} expression
• Updated Actions: Updated extended actions (see Actions#Extended Actions)

0.1.109 (Feb 21, 2020)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.107 (Jan 22, 2020)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.106 (Jan 17, 2020)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.103 (Jan 7, 2020)

UI/UX changes

• Improved background mode
• Improved navigation engine

0.1.102 (Dec 5, 2019)

API extensions

• Updated Content Root Object: Added wrap property
• Updated Content Page Object: Added wrap property

0.1.100 (Nov 8, 2019)

UI/UX changes

• Updated playback speed values

0.1.97 (Oct 17, 2019)

API extensions

• Added Key Property
• Updated Start Object: Updated parameter property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added key property (see Key Property)
• Updated Content Item Object: Updated alignment property
• Updated Content Item Object: Updated imageOverlay property

0.1.96 (Sep 24, 2019)

UI/UX changes

• Improved video/audio error handling

0.1.95 (Sep 17, 2019)

UI/UX changes

• Performance improvements for parsing and converting JSON data

0.1.92 (Sep 9, 2019)

API extensions

• Updated Content Root Object: Added preload property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added group property

0.1.91 (Aug 21, 2019)

API extensions

• Added Number Inline Expressions
• Added Color Inline Expressions

0.1.90 (Aug 7, 2019)

UI/UX changes

• Improved navigation and animation performance

0.1.88 (Jun 25, 2019)

API extensions

• Updated Setup Start Parameter

UI/UX changes

• Improved HTTPS support when setting up the start parameter

0.1.87 (Jun 11, 2019)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.85 (May 16, 2019)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.82 (May 3, 2019)

API extensions

• Added Interaction Plugin
• Updated Menu Root Object: Added extension property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added extension property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added alignment property

0.1.80 (Apr 16, 2019)

UI/UX changes

• Improved image slider

0.1.78 (Mar 11, 2019)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.74 (Feb 28, 2019)

API extensions

• Added Hide Images
• Updated Video/Audio Plugin
• Updated Live Inline Expressions (see Live Inline Expressions#Live Duration Text)

0.1.70 (Feb 5, 2019)

API extensions

• Added Live Object
• Updated Content Item Object: Added progress property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added progressColor property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added wrapperColor property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added live property (see Live Object)

0.1.68 (Jan 9, 2019)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.66 (Nov 29, 2018)

Big fixes

• Android devices: Updated network configuration to allow insecure connections (i.e. via http://)

0.1.65 (Nov 22, 2018)

API extensions

• Updated Start Object: Updated parameter property

0.1.64 (Nov 6, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.60 (Oct 24, 2018)

API extensions

• Updated Menu Root Object: Added logo property

UI/UX changes

• Improved media player

0.1.58 (Sep 26, 2018)

API extensions

• Added Extended Properties
• Updated Menu Root Object: Added cache property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added cache property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added important property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added imagePreload property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added properties property (see Extended Properties)
• Updated Actions: Added extended actions (see Actions#Extended Actions)

0.1.54 (Aug 29, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.53 (Aug 24, 2018)

API extensions

• Updated Content Root Object: Added header property
• Updated Content Root Object: Added footer property

UI/UX changes

• Improved error handling

0.1.51 (Aug 3, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.48 (Jun 29, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.46 (Jun 22, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.45 (Jun 18, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.44 (Jun 6, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.43 (May 24, 2018)

UI/UX changes

• Added link to examples on welcome pages

0.1.41 (May 3, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.40 (Apr 20, 2018)

API extensions

• Added Video/Audio Plugin
• Added YouTube, Vimeo & Co.
• Updated Actions: Added video:plugin:{URL} action (see YouTube, Vimeo & Co.)
• Updated Actions: Added audio:plugin:{URL} action (see YouTube, Vimeo & Co.)

0.1.36 (Mar 23, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.34 (Mar 2, 2018)

UI/UX changes

• Improved slideshow performance

0.1.33 (Feb 28, 2018)

UI/UX changes

• Improved slideshow performance

0.1.30 (Feb 21, 2018)

API extensions

• Updated Actions: Added start action (see Actions#Basic Actions)
• Updated Actions: Added HbbTV actions (see Actions#HbbTV Actions)
• Updated Actions: Added server actions (see Actions#Server Actions)

0.1.28 (Feb 13, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.27 (Feb 7, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.26 (Feb 2, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.25 (Feb 1, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.24 (Jan 31, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.20 (Jan 22, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.14 (Jan 16, 2018)

UI/UX changes

• Updated image slider

0.1.13 (Jan 15, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.12 (Jan 12, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.11 (Jan 11, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.9 (Jan 10, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.7 (Jan 8, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.6 (Jan 6, 2018)

API extensions

• Updated Content Item Object: Added imageColor property
• Updated Content Item Object: Added imageScreenFiller property

0.1.5 (Jan 5, 2018)

• Minor bug fixes (no significant extensions/changes)

0.1.0 (Dec 18, 2017)

• Initial release