By each release the article is updated, and you can track what changes you will benefit from, next time your app is upgraded.
Patches after 3.23.01
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- Fixed old kiosk blocking opening of provisionals
- Fixed crash caused by podcast missing author or summary + made it possible to have multiple URLscemes + added missing return in handleURL
- Allow changing label color and font of VLModulePublications
- Fixed vl tool overrides settings for DFP module on upgrade of app + Fixed app freeze when Buttons are clicked in specific order in Spread View + Added the option to delay when pull messages are displayed
- External keyboard can now again be used to navigate in spread view
- ModuleContainer would set kioskContainer title instead of navigationbarTitle
- Add displayPullMessagesAfterDelay to default settings to avoid error when pushing serverside changes
- White page Article view 2.0 Information
- Support for audio articles without images + Handle both page and article parameter in universal links + Fixed MobileEdition updating tabbar item with wrong text + Fixed podcast description not showing quotes
- Fixes GA4 missing parameter values
- Added new properties for sorting of podcast module (include, exclude and limit)
- Removed subarticles as standalone articles in articleview 2 as they are already included
- In “More” tab icons are reloaded with a delay to fix blinking icons
- Fixed images in article view 2 when offline
- Fixed app able to open several articleviews on top of each other
- Fixed crash caused by canceling a podcast login
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Fixed margin on livefeed module + fixed articles without images or audio getting incorrect fallback image
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Fixed problem where podcasts would stay in temporary directory
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Fixed “close” button not working for login view
Release: iOS 3.23.01
Improvements
- Added support for iOS 16
- Added support for Xcode 14
Patches after 3.22.04
- Make it possible to set a fixed region on a newest issue module and added simple layout for newest issue module
- Updated Greenlandic translations
- Changed tracking parameters so double naming start with big letters and fixed vl_value_app_id not sending any values
- Update show all button translations for article teaser module
- Added app-switch example for developers in vlqa
- Fixed the articleteaser show-all button to properly show all articles
- Added a new property to the article module which allows for hiding the showall/playall button
- Fixed Google Ads always update module ad when returning from reading publication
- Added option to change background and text color on mobile edition module
- Updated App rater to use new iOS 14+ method for showing app store review prompt
- Fixed problem with tracking when “targeting” option is hidden
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Added property to adjust animation duration for clickable ads
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Added support for change the background color and text color on mobile edition cell item
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Fixed duplicate publication when using fixedRegion
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Fixed podcast module title left margin and fixed same “show all” translation being used for different things
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Fixed not able to scroll to bottom of sections view when showRelated is enabled
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Removed warning from xcode when no UA-id on GA4, as it is not needed
- GoogleAnalyticsKey is no longer a requirement in GA4
- Fixed error in narrated articles where item could be added to download queue twice
- Added refresh of podcast load (if getting stuck on bad network)
- Fixed translation of support mail
- Select button not translated in archive and search module
- Fixed a Danish translation
- GDPR button are now all in same color and added access to GDPR setting to the bottom bar
- Fixed podcast module title not being left aligned on iPad
- Fixed module label color always being black or white
- Fixed region picker background always being green
- Added limit property to publication module
- Added support for linking directly to the appstore in deeplinks using appstore parameter or having itms-apps as urlscheme for the link
- Fixed GDPR dialog having wrong size on phone when displaying the description/information page
- Fixed GDPR being displayed from the tabbars first 5 items on ipad would cause a crash
- Moved the removal of consentedGroups to happen right before they are saved, and now only allow the option of user tracking in GDPR 3 if ATT as been approved by the enduser
- Fixed Universal Links not working as expected when app was force closed
- Updated GDPR3 help texts
- Updated GDPR3 help text German translation
- Changed pre-caching of ads from Hub to when a publication is opened instead of pre-loading all ads for all papers. This improves load times for apps with many ads booked through Hub.
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Onboarding screen image now uses full screen when there is no text
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Onboarding screen buttons weren’t clickable on device with small screen
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Fixed onboarding screen showing on every new app version even though the setting to reset wasn’t enabled
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Fixed crash in the publication module
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Fixed problem with autodownload showing double notification
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Fixed a case where you couldn’t play a podcast that was queued from the more tab
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Fixed scenario where it wasn’t possible to open a publication
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Added error message if to support button if email hasn’t been setup on device
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Fixed podcast would not display the login if the podcasts were behind a paywall
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Fixed a problem where the screenshot tool didn’t always dismiss the login view properly
- Screenshot tool improvements
- Fixed articleview not showing quotes and factboxes
- Fixed GDPR3 box not remembering settings after app update
Release: iOS 3.22.04
Release date: October 2022
This release is focused on maintenance
Improvements
- Improved load order of app elements
- Adjusted the "see more" be "play all" if all elements are Narrated Articles
- Improved archive: Added an "ok" and a "cancel" button
- Improved archive: Added an icon next to the date to make it clear that it's clickable
- Locked the audio player to portrait mode on phone
- Added same styling options for titles in the audio page, as exist for the front page module titles
- Hold down shift + left/right arrow to swipe between pages when using keyboard (just arrows worked previously, but Apple have started to require a modifier since iOS 15)
- Added support for deeplinks in DFP interstitials
- Updated the generic help screens and text
- Added date on RSS items older than the current days date
- Added support for new language - Greenlandic
Bug Fixes
- Fixed load icon continuously spinning for live feed in some scenarios
- Fixed minutes field getting cut off in podcast module
- Fixed push test data being stored in the database
- Fixed podcast icon "+" not immediately updating to a "-" on slow networks
- Fixed problem with audio jumping back and forth for narrated articles
Release: iOS 3.22.03
Release date: 6. May 2022
This release is focused on tracking improvements and fixes.
New Features
- Module tracking (read more here)
- Source tracking expansion (read more here)
- Page duration expansion (read more here)
Improvements
- 'Article View' included as a source parameter for the Article event
- Duration improvements for Podcast event
- Duration improvement for Article event -Timer stops after 120 sec if screen is not touched
- TTS and Narrated event have been combined to one new event called Audio Articles
- Podcast Channel name been changed to take the naming in the App
- Default value changed from ‘NA’ to ‘Other’ on Source parameter for the Podcast event
- When you click on a podcast item, but not the play icon, you now open the podcast list
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Publication title and publication date for old archive downloads that reported NA
- Fixed "play now" being displayed to high in dialog on phone
- Fixed scenario where button disappear from bottom bar
- Fixed some apps not swiping smoothly
Release: iOS 3.22.02
Release date: April 2022
New Features
- New Article View
Improvements
- Improved load of serverside settings
- Added info text on download page when no publications exist
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Web View error on iOS 15
- Removed "-" when no author in podcast
- Fixed "play all" button with long text
- Fixed auto download not updating page overview thumbnails
- Fixed that when removing podcast episodes from playlist they could disappear instead of go to history
- Fixed FAB appearing in top left corner on iOS 12
- Fixed long headlines in modules not cutting off
- Fixed help page having dark text in dark mode
Release: iOS 3.22.01
Release date: 7. February 2022
New Features
- Support for Onboarding Screen
- Support for Expose External Buy
Improvements
- GDPR adjustments to show GDPR before ATT and then only show ATT in some cases. The different cases are as follows:
- GDPR1 = Always show ATT
- GDPR2 = If tracking is on, then show ATT afterwards. If it's off, then don't show ATT
- GDPR3 = We have three tracking categories: Necessary, Performance/Statistics and Reader Insights. If Reader Insights is off, then don't show ATT (regardless of Performance/Statistics selection). In all other cases, show ATT
- Added better crash detection
- Improvements to image loading
- Improvements to podcast loading
Bug Fixes
- Added scrollbar to GDPR dialog where not all buttons were visible on small phone screens
- Fixed issue with some publications having wrong size in publication module
- Fixed issue with splash duration being hardcoded to 2 seconds in some cases
- Fixed a problem with not all cached images in feed items being displayed when offline
- Fixed issue with text being cut off in TTS dialog
- Fixed HTML tags being included in mail sharing
- Fixed audio information not being displayed correctly in locked screen audio player
- Fixed some missing translations for bookmarks
Release: iOS 3.21.04
Release date: 9. December 2021
New Features
- Added support for Social Sharing 2.0. Read more about it here
- Added complete support for iOS 15 - Apples iOS 15 info
- Changed minimum version to iOS 12. Read more in our announcement here
- Added support for XCode 13
Improvements
- Adjusted GDPR3 text translations. Will not affect custom translations. You can see all standard translations here
- Added an option to hide "targeting" toggle in GDPR3
- Added option to link from frontpage module to tabs
- Added option to link directly to app settings in iOS settings through a button in the bottom bar
- Added option to link directly to a specific podcast series through a button in the bottom bar
- Added icons in larger scale factor for smoother look in new devices with higher resolution
- Added a "show password" button for login
- Added option for a "support button" in the bottom bar. This will create an email to a specific receiver with necessary app information prefilled
Bug Fixes
- Fixed tracking issue with user id 000000-0000-000000-0000-000000
- Fixed an issue with wrong load of titles in Youtube module when scrolling
- Fixed deleted Youtube videos showing up in feed
- Fixed an issue where search engine returned [null]
- Fixed incorrect GDPR2 translations
- Fixed title in module being to limited in character length
- Fixed GDPR3 labels not resizing properly when text is very long
- Fixed ATT popup not showing in iOS 15
- Fixed issue with user tracking on old GDPR1
- Fixed article teaser and livefeed modules displaying incorrect cell sizing
- Fixed rare crash in article module
Release: iOS 3.21.03
Release date: 31. August 2021
New Features
- Added option show latest publications in the top module, next to todays publication. Can also include publication title.
- Added support for French language
- Added support for multiple bylines by default
Improvements
- Minimum supported iOS version is now iOS 12
- Added option in the publication module to display the latest publications from the currently selected region (previously it wasn't dynamic)
- Added on/off text to GDPR dialog buttons to show current state for the colorblind
- Added section name to tracking info (previously only had section number)
- Added option for a shortcut to audio playlist in bottom bar
- Added option to have labels under publications module. Date, title, edition
- Adjusted cell sizes of podcast items on phone to show more text
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a problem with App Tracking Transparancy not working in all cases
- Fixed an issue with clickable ads blink not being visible
- Fixed an issue with restore subscription button not working on iOS 9
- Removed option to zoom on interstitials. It was never intended
- Fixed icons in podcast being invisible in darktheme
- Fixed being stuck after opening an image in articleview and longpressing
- Fixed thumbnail in pagebar not updating
- Fixed list of titles to push, to not being cleared after an update
- Fixed article teaser module headline being slightly off position
- Fixed article teaser module headline being cut off too early with long text
- Fixes spelling error in English
- Fixed Finnish text not fitting in the GDPR text box
- Fixed clickable ads not working correctly with interstitials
Release: iOS 3.21.02
Release date: 26. May 2021
New Features
- Added new GDPR version - Q&A for our new GDPR
Improvements
- Implemented support for a catalog where not all pages are the same size
- Added French to possible languages
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with same podcast episode showing twice in the same module
- Fixed grey overlay missing in search when using quotes
- Fixed a styling issue on info page, when a long privacy policy URL went out of the page
- Fixed bug with Youtube not loading content, if the app only have a Youtube tab and not a module
Release: iOS 3.21.01
Release date: 25. March 2021
New Features
- Merged featured articles and narrated articles into same module. We had a problem with same articles being shown in the Featured Articles and Narrated Articles modules. Now they share the same module, but with a slightly different visual layout. You can see example below.
Old Narrated Articles
New Narrated Articles, including Featured Articles
Improvements
- Added functionality to allow for custom consent apps to toggle non-personalized ads
- Now shows more than 1 Youtube item on phone
- Minor performance improvements
- Improved autodownload to only display message when issue have been downloaded
Bug Fixes
- Fixed wrong Podcast Channel name in tracking
- Fixed DFP tracking issue
- Fixed missing images for audio when app reopens after a long time
- Fixed "more" button in podcast
- Fixed missing translation
- Adjusted cell size on phone to make more content visible
- Fixed issue with many clicks on podcast download button
- Fixed podcast items missing background color
Release: iOS 3.20.08
Release date: 9 December 2020
Improvements
- Added new required App Tracking Transparency popup. See details here
- Added support for LinkPulse
- Added support for XCode 12
- Better image loading in archive if scrolling fast
- Added better support for region specific live feed articles
- Added setting to disable tracking of specific elements
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an iOS 9 bug that would cause the app to crash in article view or feed view
- Fixed german translation
Release: iOS 3.20.07
Release date: 12 November 2020
Podcast improvements
- Added dialog to podcast for play now or add to queue
- Added support for change text color
- Now uses series name instead of publisher on frontpage
- Visual changes to play button on frontpage
- Visual improvements to the audio player
- Added description to items in series overview (only tablet)
- Added support for grouping of series (technically done with fields "group name" and "group priority" on each channel)
- Visual adjustments to podcast overview
- Visual adjustments to playlist
- Icon changes
- Removed HTML tags in podcast titles
- Added extra parameters when validating podcasts
- Changes to download
- Downloaded items are no longer directly deleted automatically
- Any items skipped / finished playing / removed from playlist = put in history
- Items in history are deleted automatically after 24 hours or when pushed out due to limit
- Max 15 items in history
Other improvements
- Improved the way we load images
- Added option to change text color for buttons in alerts
- Added support for Swift programming language
Bug fixes
- Fixed iOS14 bug with black pages, when image would cover both sides of a page
- Fixed issue with articles sometimes being misplaced resulting in words getting cut off
- Fixed case where blurb area was hidden unnecessarily
- Fixed crash on page overview with newly downloaded papers
- Fixed publications with large text exceeding their boundaries in "My Downloads"
- Fixed DFP interstitials causing crash when tracking is disabled
- Fixed crash when downloading a large amount of bookmarks
- Fixed podcast not playing correctly on iOS14.2
- Fixed issues with deeplink to podcast
- Fixed reopen of podcast in app after long time causing a crash
- Fixed double impressions from hotspots
Release: iOS 3.20.06
Release date: 24 July 2020
Improvement
- Added support for different background images pr. region
- Added app ID as a parameter for tracking
- Performance improvements to podcast
- Increased max zoom level
Bug Fixes
- Fixed container titles not being centered after rotating the device
- Fixed audio player not available on the locked screen when playing audio
- Fixed GDPR being showed twice in some cases
Release: iOS 3.20.05
Release date: 16 June 2020
Improvement
- Performance optimizations
- Minor improvements to Voice Over
- Improvements to search in spread view
Bug Fixes
- Fixed blank pages when flipping from vertical to horizontal
- Fixed text boxes to better fit some long translations
- Fixed minor issues with DFP
- Fixed missing translations
Release: iOS 3.20.04
Release date: 29 May 2020
New Features
Improvement
- Now disable play next button when there are no items left in the audio queue
- Updated WebView code with a new system
- Many minor Audio improvements
- Added play now / play next buttons to podcasts
- Improvements to live news pictures when offline
- Maximum and minimum fontsize is now adjustable when building an app
- Updated all versions of submodules such as DFP, Firebase, Google Analytics, etc. (should have no effect for users)
- Updated app purchase to use new Appstore receipt (should have no effect for users)
Bug Fixes
- Singlepage mode now allows for scrolling without being forced to the top or bottom of the page
- Fixed issue on iOS 13.4.1 where it wasn't possible to mark text
- Fixed issue with downloaded podcasts when offline
- Fixed podcasts and narrated articles not playing sometimes
- Fixed issue with archive teaser module when publication is missing
- Minor corrections to date format in different languages
- Fixed case with bookmarks loading slowly or not at all
- Fixed interstitials being swipeable up/down
Release: iOS 3.20.03
Release date: 27. April 2020
New Features
Improvements
- Minor tracking adjustments
- Minor download improvements
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash when trying to rate app in offline mode
- Fixed issue with swipe on login box
Release: iOS 3.20.02
Release date: 16. March 2020
New Features
- Added a setting to enable bypass article overview and going directly to an article when clicking article teasers on the frontpage
- Added support for changing background colors on various objects
Improvements
- XCode 11 support
- New setting for DFP that enables ads from ad networks (i.e. AdSense) and programmatic ads
Bug Fixes
- Fixed cut off of frontpage modules
- Fixed blank page on bookmarked article after idle
- Fixed page overview jumping during download
- Fixed HTML tags being included in tracking data for some events
- Fixed searchbar results also being affected when changing font size
- Fixed infinite interstitial error
- Fixed a search icon not being used
- Fixed frontpage not returning to top after each login
- Fixed an issue with bookmarks after flipping between landscape and portrait mode
- The message to apply an update or not, is now displayed
- Fixed section dropdown list sometimes being the wrong size
Release: iOS 3.20.01
Release date: 24. February 2020
New Features
Improvements
- Added support for region specific live feed
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash in archive search
Release: iOS 3.19.06
Release date: 15. January 2020
Improvements
- Added support for custom override of text-to-speech language
- Added Voiceover accessibility through Spread View
Bug Fixes
- Fixed crash when jumping between audio elements in queue
- Fixed issue with blank pages in Article View
- Fixed several issues related to VoiceOver
Release: iOS 3.19.05
Release date: 25. November 2019
Improvements
- General performance improvements
- Added support for changing background color on modules
- Added new audio icons in Article View
- Now remembers zoom level when going back to Authentic View from Article View
- Now properly truncate author in audio player
- Modules with empty RSS feeds will now collapse as expected
- Added support for alternative to uiwebview for embedded browser
Bug Fixes
- Fixed other audio apps stop playing when ours open
- Fixed audio not playing correctly using the scroll bar
- Fixed Universal Links to related content
- Fixed audio player not being displayed in some cases
- Fixed audio queue not playing in expected order
- Fixed crash when trying to open 2 different publications at the same time from archive
Release: iOS 3.19.04
Release date: 26. August 2019
New Features
- Download & Replace – Makes it possible to have an early edition replaced by a new edition, including XML.
- Singlepage View – A feature that gives users the option to read the spread view as a single page experience, both when in landscape and portrait mode.
Improvements
- Voiceover Accessibility changed, so now each paragraph is a separate element you can swipe between. Also added 4 finger touch to top/bottom of screen to select first/last element.
- We now wait with giving a download estimate until we are more confident in the numbers
- Smoothed experience of Narrated Articles with first play
- Download optimization
- Improved download queue for pictures
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where module doesn’t reload when network reappears
- Fixed issue with blank area after swiping
- Fixed issue with images not shown in articles when in flight mode
- Fixed a rare bug when loading newest issue
- Fixed crash when playing Podcast
- Fixed offline articles changing position
- Fixed issue with podcast starting itself
- Fixed DFP crash when opening links in external browser
Release: iOS 3.19.03
Release date: 26. June 2019
New Features
- Support for Firebase tracking
Improvements
- Now able to zoom in Visiolink Interstitials
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue being unable to play podcast outside the app
- Fixed crash caused by missing object
- Fixed issue with Universal Links not working every time
Release: iOS 3.19.02
Release date: 14. June 2019
New Features
Improvements
- Added setting to allow portrait images in the article teaser
- Added dialog box for Rate This App
- Clarified the text on purchase screen that for Automatic Renew
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with module height ratio on iPhone
- Fixed Universal Links working not working with Clickable Ads
- Fixed Sections and Related Content not having correct size on first launch
- Fixed issue with custom colors being black first time.
- Fixed text in Livefeed sometimes cutting the bottom of the letters off
- Fixed minor spelling error in Norwegian
- Fixed a loading issue for iPhone 5
Release: iOS 3.19.01
Release date: 03. April 2019
New Features
Improvements
- Added feed tracking
- Added support for App review inside the app when on iOS 10.3+
- Improved tracking of frontpage ads (now properly refreshes)
- Social Sharing can now be limited to X characters
Bug Fixes
- Fixed long titles overflowing cards on live news
- Push messages are now displayed when the splash is dismissed
- Fixed issues with region and delete icons on phone
- Article image is now properly shown when offline if downloaded and available
- Fixed some wrong translations
- Fixed Live Feed not loading first time after app install
- Fixed issue with Live Feed when half size
- Fixed issue with pagebar overlapping spread
- Fixed issue where size of newspaper image and title was off
- Fixed issue with different cell height on some modules
- Fixed crash in articlelist when in landscape mode
- Fixed issue with spam clicking publications
- Fixed crash related to publication grid
- Fixed issue where sharing, and font size buttons were missing in article view
- Fixed crash in articlelist when searching for non-existent article
- Fixed app freezing if clicking page overview while search is active
- Fixed issue with latest article in bookmarks not being highlighted or showing text
Release: iOS 3.18.04
Release date: 30. November 2018
New Features
- Voice Over support for all core functionality
Improvements
- Much improved article list performance
- The app now remembers how far in the article you’ve read
- Improvements and fixes to Engagement Event
- Improved how Live News updates the app
- Improved support for notched displays
- General improvements to how the app loads content
- Better handling of unstable internet
- Reduced load caused by many bookmarks on initial login
- WebP and enhanced resolution support enabled for most devices
Bug Fixes
- Fixed minor visual issue at login page
- Fixed issue where Early Release publications wouldn’t load on initial app launch
- Fixed issue where Article View didn’t load images from cache
- Fixed alignment issues in Article View on iPhone 4S
- Fixed crash in Archive Search on iOS 9
- Fixed rare crash on iOS 9
- Fixed visual inconsistencies
Release: iOS 3.18.03
Release date: 19. June 2018
New Features
- Added new article ad support. Can now show ads from the physical paper in the article view (if images are delivered)
- Added support for Engagement Studio
- Added support for Segmented Push
Improvements
- Now possible to enrich URLs in push messages with user data for automatic login
- Improved Youtube module on mobile
- Added DFP module to News Modules
- Added option to sort titles after name, ID or date
- Added option to show supplements instead of sections in the top module of News Modules
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with images not cashing as intended
- Fixed issue where user was unable to access purchase screen
- Fixed issue where it wasn’t possible to open another issue after login was aborted
- Fixed rare crash when opening horizontal page overview
- Fixed back text on dark theme article overview
- Fixed several minor bugs related to supplements
- Fixed several translation issues
- Fixed issue with Live Feed images not being shown properly if they have the same name
Release: iOS 3.18.02
Release date: 23. March 2018
New Features
- Added support for Universal Links
- Added option to use old article list
- Added option for simplified article list
Improvements
- Added option to show publisher name rather than publication name, in the supplements tab
- Increased number of teasers in the archive module as standard (amount is configurable)
- Added option to show spread view after closing an article
- Added option to set a limit in supplements module
Bug Fixes
- Fixed top of pages being cut off on iPhone X
Release: iOS 3.18.01
Release date: 20. February 2018
Improvements
- Improved visuals of successful login to be more obvious
- Added hint text to new search module
- Added highlight when selecting article tabs
- Supplements can now be shown after last page of main paper
- Added Privacy Policy data
Bug Fixes
- Fixed images disappearing from Youtube module if swiping while offline
- Fixed zoom issue in bookmarks
- Disabled picture in picture playback for Youtube module
- Fixed Chosen article in Article View not being remembered after opening a picture
- Fixed title disappearing in rare cases
- Fixed some Finnish translations
Release: iOS 3.17.11
Release date: 28. November 2017
New Features
- GDPR support
Improvements
- The app now knows when a webview is visible
- Updated help screen to include new navigation
- Added User-ID tagging as a Custom Dimension to Google Analytics
- Regionpicker button is now an icon on phones
- Minor improvements to the layout for Bookmarks
- Article Teaser module now supports half width
- Added configuration for header, body and subscript font size
- Minor improvements to accessibility with voiceover
- Improved performance when loading the app
- It’s now possible to configure a content tab to show content related to the region
Bug Fixes
- Fixed keyboard covering the password field on login screen
- Fixed online search results appearing as archive search
- Fixed search results not loading after scrolling
- Fixed Region picker appearing after update of app (it should only appear after a clean install)
- Fixed issue with bookmark opening the wrong publication
- Fixed issue with blank page on archive search
- Fixed back button on article view not returning you to where you came from
- Fixed issue where you were not able to swipe between content
- Fixed several translation errors
- Fixed issue with tint blur
- Fixed tab with related content scrolling to the top after load
- Fixed error on purchase screen, when pressing outside of the dialog box.
- Fixed issue with text on article teaser module disappearing when swiping back and forth
- Fixed tracking issue on newly installed apps
- Fixed issue with half modules next to each other and device rotating
Release: iOS 3.17.11
Release date: 28. November 2017
New Features
- GDPR support
Improvements
- The app now knows when a webview is visible
- Updated help screen to include new navigation
- Added User-ID tagging as a Custom Dimension to Google Analytics
- Regionpicker button is now an icon on phones
- Minor improvements to the layout for Bookmarks
- Article Teaser module now supports half width
- Added configuration for header, body and subscript font size
- Minor improvements to accessibility with voiceover
- Improved performance when loading the app
- It’s now possible to configure a content tab to show content related to the region
Bug Fixes
- Fixed keyboard covering the password field on login screen
- Fixed online search results appearing as archive search
- Fixed search results not loading after scrolling
- Fixed Region picker appearing after update of app (it should only appear after a clean install)
- Fixed issue with bookmark opening the wrong publication
- Fixed issue with blank page on archive search
- Fixed back button on article view not returning you to where you came from
- Fixed issue where you were not able to swipe between content
- Fixed several translation errors
- Fixed issue with tint blur
- Fixed tab with related content scrolling to the top after load
- Fixed error on purchase screen, when pressing outside of the dialog box.
- Fixed issue with text on article teaser module disappearing when swiping back and forth
- Fixed tracking issue on newly installed apps
- Fixed issue with half modules next to each other and device rotating
Release: iOS 3.17.10
Release date: 23. October 2017
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Release: iOS 2.17.05
Release date: 31. May 2017
Improvements
- Added keyboard shortcuts left/right arrow to navigate between spreads/articles on iPad
- Improved performance of pages with many clickable ads (now blinks entire page if more than 15 hitzones)
- Improved the visual effect of how clickable ads fade in and out
Bug Fixes
- Fixed pages with many clickable ads ruins tracking (note: Only the first 15 clickable ads on a page will be tracked now - More info here)
- Fixed archive search only returning a subset of results when it has more
- Fixed navigationbar title not updating after changing region
- Fixed dynamic splash not being scaled
- Fixed a rare case with search not searching through all relevant text
- Fixed German translation on help page
- Fixed issues with font size not getting saved properly
Release: iOS 2.17.03
Release date: 5. April 2017
New Features
- Added option to use custom autodelete intervals
- Added arrows on the right and left edges of the screen when zoomed all the way out
- Added setting to disable mobile network download warning
- Added crosswords support
Improvements
- Improved help text for archive search
- Improved how page overview is updated while the publication is still downloading
- Improved how the app handles removed regions
- Improved app started statistic events to include context info
Bug Fixes
- Fixed graphic bug when deleting an issue from library
- Fixed priority of interstitial image to best suit the device when images with different sizes are added (aspect ratio is first priority, image size is tiebreaker)
- Fixed wrong email header when sharing an article through email
- Fixed not displaying the 'No results found' message when searching in downloads
- Fixed not saving credentials after a failed login
- Fixed a missing Finnish translation
- Fixed various German translations
Release: iOS 2.17.01
Release date: 17. March 2017
Improvements & Changes
- Added support to enable/disable images in article list
- Added support to open links through Safari instead of inside the app, for increased security (this is now default behavior)
- Added support to disable tap-to-close on article view for new apps
- Added support to upload a login logo separate from the standard logo to differentiate between the two
- Added support for image/logo instead of name of a region
- Slightly improved the process of updating a publication
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with blank article in article view
Release: iOS 2.16.11
Release date: 8. December 2016
Improvements & Changes
- Optimized disk usage to reduce app size
- Implemented support for Apple Transport Security
- Added 15 min screen timeout (in addition to the default screen timeout)
- Improved the font size in article view to scale better on phone (also affect Android)
- Now uses native toolbars for better performance and integration in the platform (also affect Android)
- Added more styling options to fact boxes (also affect Android)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a visual issue in Life Feed where text was shown with a line through it
- Fixed an issue where you previously couldn’t remove a selection after selecting text in Article View
- Fixed sorting of sub-articles and fact boxes so they no longer appear in random order
- Fixed Splash Screen not displaying properly if uploaded through Publishing Hub
- Fixed a crash in Archive
- Fixed issue with picture disappearing from an article when the device is rotated (also affect Android)
- Fixed issue with fact-boxes disappearing from an article, after double rotation in article view (also affect Android)
- Fixed issue with text sizes switching between landscape and portrait mode on phone (also affect Android)
- Fixed issue with headline and date overlapping (also affect Android)
Release: iOS 2.16.09
Released on: 13.10.2016
Improvements & Changes
- Demo tab is no longer shown after login
- Push messages can now target individual titles in apps containing multiple titles (Guide)
- App openings triggered by autodownloads are no longer counted in TNS Gallup Norway. Norwegian apps with both autodownload and TNS tracking will get a more precise number of app opening events.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed not showing an error message if offline
- Fixed that the “More list” was displaying wrong color when the app was in dark theme
iOS 10 related fixes
- Fixed not being able to enlarge or reduce text size in article view and live feed
- Fixed displaying the wrong article when returning from article view or pictures in full screen
- Fixed not being able to open pictures in article view
- Fixed the live news section on the front page being to transparent
- Fixed search in article view to now include the active article
Release: iOS 2.16.06
Released on: 26.07.2016
Improvements & Changes
- Search results appearing when searching in My Newspapers are now sorted with newest date first
- The dimmed search highlight overlay now fades out proportionally to zoom level making it easy to at the same time seeing the highlight box and reading the text on the page
- We have added 3D touch shortcuts making it easy for the reader to open the newest issue or go to the My Newspapers view directly from their home screen. Works for devices with 3D touch
- Performing a search in the archive right after having displayed a result of a previous search would leave the old search result visible when performing the new search. The search result view is now cleared when performing a new search
- Page numbers added to page overview
- Minor improvements of accessibility labeling
- The TNS Gallup library (DK) has been updated to version 1.8.10
- We have added an option making it possible to carry user information through when the reader accesses a Web View in the app. This can be used for differentiating/targeting content shown in the web view
- In the article view the category (politics, foreign, local, football) of each individual article is now displayed instead of the general category of the page if present in the XML
Bug Fixes
- The "Deselect all" button in My Newspapers is no longer active when no issues are selected
- In rare cases buttons in the spread view could disappear
- Fixed a localisation issue in search mode, where not all buttons translated correctly
- Bookmarks: Search icon is now greyed out when there are no bookmarked articles
Release: iOS 2.16.06
Released on: 11.07.2016
Improvements & Changes
- We have added a generic help screen to use in the app for assisting the reader figuring out basic navigation
- We have added an option to show publication title in the list of search results when making an archive search
- It is now possible to enlarge pictures by pinch zooming in the image gallery in article view
- We have removed the "jiggling" icons option that would make publications jiggle making it possible to delete them in My Newspapers
- Subarticles/fact boxes attached to a mainarticle would appear as separate articles in the article list. This is now changed so they can be read in the right context
- Search queries of less than three characters are prevented when searching in archive or in a single issue. This is done because all one or two letter words are not present in the search index
- If no words are highlighted on a page actually containing search results, we now remove the dimmed search overlay. Please see THIS ARTICLE for full documentation of how archive search works
- When device is offline, the network dependent solr search is disabled
- When searching in a single issue, the reader now searches in the Solr index and not in the XML. This gives a bigger search base for potentially higher hitrate
- We have added adaptive white capabilities for True Tone displays. This means that the app will adjust brightness according to the level of light in the surroundings on devices with True Tone technology. Read more about it in THIS ARTICLE
- In some cases it was a disadvantage to automatically fetch product information from iTunes Connect and display it on buy buttons in the app (improvement introduced in iOS 2.16.05). Option now added to disable automatic duration naming on buy buttons
Bug Fixes
- The section overview on the start screen could some times overlap the coverflow
- When download of a publication was timed out due to lost internet connection, the download sometimes did not resume correctly
- Login popup box could appear in the top left corner
- When opening the article view by tapping an article in the spread would display a short glimpse of the previously displayed article before showing the right article
- Push messages did not appear in the app after there where opened from the notification center. As the messages might be shortened in the notification center, the reader risked not seeing the full message
Release: iOS 2.16.05
Released on: 06.06.2016
Improvements & Changes
- We have added a warning if more than 14 publication are downloaded to "My newspapers". The reader will from the dialog box be led to the settings menu for Autodelete. This is done to help readers, who are unaware that downloaded publications take up space on their device.
- We now fetch all product information dynamically so that price or duration changes of in-app subscriptions made in iTunes Connect are directly visible in the app. It is also possible to add a new subscription or product in iTunes Connect and make it available in the app without resubmitting the app.
Bug Fixes
- In some cases a push message could be shown twice.
- The keyboard covered the login button on some iPhones. Now all elements on the login screen are moved up when the keyboard is active.
Release: iOS 2.16.04
Released on: 13.05.2016
Improvements & Changes
- We have improved swiping between publication articles in the article view and news feed articles for a smoother and easier navigation. Furthermore, we have improved swiping between pages of the publication leaving the reader with much more control of the navigation.
- An opportunity to show the reader a message if an autodownloaded publication finishes downloading while the app is open has been added. The reader can dismiss the message or the reader can open the new issue directly.
- New Feature: Interstitials booking through Doubleclick for Publishers by Google. The Visiolink implementation of the DFP system allows for both interactive and static image interstitials.
- A major work-through of 7 main events in Google Analytics in order to completely align metrics on all platforms has been performed. This will impact metrics in your Google Analytics account by an increased number of Publication Openings. Read more here.
- Easier implementation of New Banner when a publication has been updated. This feature is suited for you if you regularly publish updated versions of the same issue and you want to make the reader aware that a new version is available.
- It is now possible to book the same interstitial to multiple titles or regions from the Visiolink Publishing Hub.
- It is now possible to add some information about an article when sharing it on email. In the subject, the header and the footer of the email, you can add headline of the article, date of the publication, title of the publication and name of the app.
- A setting allowing you to display the three most recently selected regions in top of the Region Picker is now available. The three most recently selected regions will be displayed separately in the top of the Region Picker - they will of course still be available from the usual list below the recently selected regions.
- One and three days added to the Autodelete menu as options for the interval of deleting downloaded publications.
- Text size in the Live News article list increased to match the article view list.
- A more general network error message is now displayed. Instead of "No internet connection" it now states "A network error occurred". This way it is not implied that the error is due to the reader's device.
Bug Fixes
- The download bar did not always show correctly.
- The message displayed when bookmarking an article was often cut off. Now we make sure to show the whole message.
- The app now checks for internet connection when reader enters a web view tab. This way the reader doesn't access online material when offline, optimizing the user experience.
Release: iOS 2.16.02
Released on: 31.03.2016
Improvements & Changes
- iOS 8 is now minimum required OS-version: The most important update of this release is that we have raised the minimum required OS-version from iOS 7 to iOS 8. Find more information here
- It has now been made easier to remove the keyboard while on login page on iPhone. Now the user can tap outside the keyboard in order to make it disappear.
- It is now possible to force a web view element on the starting page of the app to start up in full screen when tapped. This is useful if a video should be played in full screen instead of in the small web view window when the user taps it.
- Several texts and checkmarks in Search and Autodelete are now always black instead of the app key color, as they are always shown on a white background.
- TNS Gallup library for Danish apps updated to version 1.8.8
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug which could cause the Article Content feature on the Enriched Starting page to be blank if a publication with no article XML was shown in the coverflow.
- A publication that has been downloaded automatically could be displayed with no frontpage or with page two as a frontpage in the My Newspapers section of the app. This is now fixed making the Autodownload feature much more stable.
- Fixes concerning disappearing publications and non-visible buttons in the Semantic Zoom feature. As a consequence, we have removed the possibility to pinch zoom through timelines.
Release: iOS 2.16.01
Released on: 29.01.2016
Improvements & Changes
- Semantic Zoom for Archives: The until now experimental feature Semantic Zoom is now available for daily newspaper archives. By adding the feature, the reader can navigate the archive by zooming through decades, years, months and days of frontpages of archive newspapers.
- We have added the option to enable or disable teaser text in article list, so you can display the headline of the article only or headline plus two lines of article text.
- We have made it possible to only select years in Archive Date Picker, which is very usable for e.g. monthly magazines.
- Several texts and checkmarks in Search and Autodelete are now always black instead of the app key color, as they are always shown on a white background.
- Downloaded publications under "My Newspapers" now have two lines of text above them, making room for the new option of adding region (edition) name to the publication title.
- A popup message notifying the user about a new issue being available is now shown if an issue is ready for Autodownload whilst the app is open (previously nothing happened).
- Breakfast mode: The screen is now kept awake while an issue is open (either spread or article). This way, the reader can leave the paper open while getting a cup of coffee without having to log in to the device again to continue reading.
- The list of features in the "more" section now looks better: more space between features, removed separator lines.
- When Web View navigation buttons are enabled, a "home" button is now visible. The home button browses back to the starting page for the view.
Bug Fixes
- Interstitial count now resets when a new interstitial is booked. If an interstitial was booked for a period and on the same page (or both with a frequency) as an already active interstitial, the new interstitial would be shown to the reader until it was shown as many times as the previous. When the count was leveled, they would then start to show by turn.
- Receiving a push message on iOS 7 while the app is open no longer causes a crash.
- Search icon was missing from the bookmark list on phones, if the bookmark feature was embedded in the "more" section.
- The buttons in the pop over containing Date Picker were hard to hit on iPads. This is now easier.
- Subarticles relating to a main article - such as an info box - are now part of the main article and do not have separate entries anymore.
- Download Bar now disappears if the download completes while the publication is not open.
- Fixed a bug where "search" text could appear white on a white background on phones.
Release: iOS 2.15.11
Released on: 15.12.2015
Improvements & Changes
- Text now gets sharp while user pans around on the page. Until now, the text didn't get sharp before user let go of the screen.
- Implemented a Forgotten Password-feature linking to the customer's site for reset of password.
- You can now link out of the app from a button in the bottom tabbar. This is useful if would like to link to e.g. another app.
- It is now possible to link from a push message into a page or an article in a publication or to a website.
- The Adtech module now contains key values for folder and date. This means that it is possible to book interstitials in specific issues by date.
- Updated to newest versions of TNS Gallup Library and Adtech SDK.
Bug Fixes
- DYNAMIC: DYNAMIC toggle button was not shown after the app was forced closed
- DYNAMIC: Nothing happened when selecting a search result
- User was not redirected to login page when opening a validated Live Feed tab without being logged in
- The iPad Pro used a big amount of memory to draw the text on the publication pages. This could cause the app to work slowly
- If more coverflows were available in the same app, the app could get confused and mix publications from the two coverflows up
- Adtech: Banner with key value 'orientation = landscape' could show up in portrait
- No video was highlighted in the video list and no video was ready in the video player on first opening
- Videos would play on in the background when switching tab away from the video view
- Synchronization of bookmarks across devices and platforms now works flawlessly
- On iPhone the keyboard could show up in the wrong orientation when logging in
- Facebook and mail share dialog showed white buttons on a white background if the key color in the app is white
- In the Article View weekday names containing special characters could be displayed wrong
- When performing a search on iPhone, the user had to press first "Cancel" and then "Close" in order to leave the search dialog.
- When performing a search in the archive, the number of search total results was not shown before additional results (40 results are loaded at the time) were loaded
- When selecting a page in the page overview, the view could shift to next section if the user pressed on the edge of a page thumb. This would cause a page from the next or previous section to be selected
- Some picture galleries in the Article View were not possible to swipe through
- German date format above the coverflow was wrong
- In the overview of search results, the 's' in the word 'Seite' was not capitalized in German apps
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