Hello everyone,
Today we are releasing iOS version 0.9 (build 8) to TestFlight. This version contains the following features and bug fixes:
- Add preliminary support for dictionaries
- Fix infinite loop in the text split block
- Fix issue where audio sessions died after stopping recording
- Fix crash due to bad number to string cast
- Implement automatic milliseconds to instants conversion
- Fix crash when using Spinner component on iPad
- Make visibility check recursive to fix some layout issues
- Fix some malformed error message strings
- Notify users when landscape mode is required
- Fix an issue where textbox backgrounds disappear
- Add support for assets to be accessed with the Files app
- Fix a bug that resulted in map features being duplicated
- Fix a memory issue in error reporting causing a crash
- Fix some improperly annotated blocks
Thank you to all of those who reported issues in the last release. Please continue to report any issues via our webform.
Regards,
Evan W. Patton, Ph.D.
Lead Software Engineer, MIT App Inventor
On behalf of the MIT App Inventor team