GeneXus 15 Upgrade 9

This article is an overview of GeneXus 15 Upgrade 9 features (compared to GeneXus 15 Upgrade 8) and what needs to be taken into account to adopt it.

Upgrade 9 has been released on March 6th, 2018.

Overview

Upgrade 9 provides several important features, improvements, and fixes on different aspects, new capabilities for smart devices UX/UI design, new and improved APIs for integration with several services.

General

• New GetURI method of File data type added for cases when working with files returned by Storage Provider API methods.

Smart Devices

• New ChooseImages method for PhotoLibrary.
• Android 8.0 (Oreo, API 26) compatibility added. Internal improvements were done associated to this.
• iOS: Text-mode reports printing support added

Integration

• Stripe online payment platform SDK. See: GeneXus SDK for Stripe

GAM

• GAM is supported when working with Oracle 9 to 11
• GAM Deploy Tool for Unix / Linux-like environments added
• Security Update required to support Strict Mode for Redirect URIs in Facebook applications using GAM

GXflow

• Import / Export users in GXflow's client

Compatibility

• The consistency of GetPath, GetName and GetAbsolute methods of File data type have been improved (Results differ respect to previous versions when working with files returned by Storage Provider API methods).
• For iOS offline apps, the empty value for Dates changes from 1970-01-01 to 01-01-01. In such case, if the developer uses empty value for displaying data, those records with the old empty date value (1970-01-01) will start to be displayed. The following offline Procedure script will fix the problem in the Offline Database:

  &oldEmptyDate = ymdtod(1970,1,1)
  for each
  where InfoDate = &oldEmptyDate
     InfoDate.SetEmpty()
  endfor
  commit

Adoption

• iOS
  • CocoaPods is required for building iOS apps. Refer to Apple Requirements for more information.
• Android
  • Android SDK has to be updated, check Android Requirements for more information.
  • Android's Gradle Options has daemon disabled by default. 
  • The Android/MavenRepositories directory is no longer available. Those custom User Controls located in <Genexus_RC_U8>\Android\MavenRepositories\thirdpartiesRepository (lower upgrades) must be copied to <Genexus_U9>\Android\m2Repository. Check this document for more information about the structure of this new directory.
  • Before generating Android applications with this upgrade, delete the <Knowledge Base Target Environment>/mobile/Android folder to avoid compilation issues. This is required due to some internal refactoring and update to Gradle/AGP 3.0. If not, you may get the following compilation error:

error: A problem occurred evaluating project ':GMS2_0'.
error: > Failed to apply plugin [id 'com.android.application']
error:    > Minimum supported Gradle version is 4.1. Current version is 2.13. If using the gradle wrapper, try editing the distributionUrl in C:\Model\Salto\RGISMobile\GMSMobileAndroidProducao\mobile\android\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.properties to gradle-4.1-all.zip

Preview Details (Features, Compatibility aspects, Issues)

Please check these links for further features, compatibility aspects, issues and details of the already mentioned. 

GeneXus: https://www.genexus.com/developers/RN?,0,,0;4;V15;8;9;;

GXserver: https://www.genexus.com/developers/RN?,0,,0;6;V15;8;9;; 

GXflow: https://www.genexus.com/developers/RN?,0,,0;3;V15;8;9;;

Download

https://www.genexus.com/en/developers/downloadcenter?data=5478;;