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Product Release – 1.6

11 March 2022
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Lucy Penn

Sales & Marketing Director

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Release notes:

  • Live article search (filters and multi-publication search complete)
  • Update to Flutter version 2.23 (significant performance improvements)
  • Improved sharing experience
  • Make status bar visible on iOS
  • Support for the Google Admob SDK
  • Navbar behaviour on article view
  • Fix for Apple’s Private Relay beta feature
  • Google Play App bundles, App signing, Billing Library and Target SDK

Live article search
We are now indexing articles from the live feeds alongside pages from the replica. When enabled in the apps there are filters present so that the user can select Articles or Pages, and also choose a date range from which to return the results.

Update to Flutter version 2.23
Significant performance improvements to loading of articles and app responsiveness

Improved sharing experience
App now allows for a richer text description and a promotional subscription link
Applies to email, whatsapp, text messaging and other messaging applications
Social Media sharing will continue to share image and headline

Make status bar visible on iOS

Support for the Google Admob SDK

Navbar behaviour on article view
Navbar at the top of the article view will now move out of view when the user is reading an article, then return when swiping up. This applies to both the live article view and the e-edition article view

Fix for Apple’s Private Relay beta feature

Google Play App bundles, App signing, Billing Library and Target SDK