2.3.0

[mickael-menu]

Resources

• Migration guide
• API Reference

Changelog

Added

Shared

• Extract the raw content (text, images, etc.) of a publication. Take a look at the user guide.
• Add support for unsafe HTTP redirections with DefaultHttpClient.
  • You will need to opt-in explicitly by implementing DefaultHttpClient.Callback.onFollowUnsafeRedirect.

Navigator

• Improved Javascript support in the EPUB navigator:
  • Register custom JavascriptInterface objects to inject native Kotlin code in the EPUB web views.

    EpubNavigatorFragment.createFactory(
        publication = publication,
        …,
        config = EpubNavigatorFragment.Configuration().apply {
            registerJavascriptInterface("customInterface") { link ->
                MyCustomApi(link)
            }
        }
    )
    
    class MyCustomApi(val link: Link) {
        @JavascriptInterface
        fun api(arg: String): String {
            return "API called from the resource ${link.href} with argument $arg")
        }
    }

  • Evaluate JavaScript on the currently visible HTML resource with EpubNavigatorFragment.evaluateJavascript().

    val result = navigator.evaluateJavascript("customInterface.api('argument')")

• New PSPDFKit adapter for rendering PDF documents. Take a look at the user guide.
• A brand new text-to-speech implementation.
• Support for custom fonts with the EPUB navigator.
• New EPUB user preferences, as part of the revamped Settings API:
  • backgroundColor - Default page background color.
  • fontWeight - Base text font weight.
  • textColor - Default page text color.
  • textNormalization - Normalize font style, weight and variants, which improves accessibility.
  • imageFilter - Filter applied to images in dark theme (darken, invert colors)
  • language - Language of the publication content.
  • readingProgression - Direction of the reading progression across resources, e.g. RTL.
  • typeScale - Scale applied to all element font sizes.
  • paragraphIndent - Text indentation for paragraphs.
  • paragraphSpacing - Vertical margins for paragraphs.
  • hyphens - Enable hyphenation.
  • ligatures - Enable ligatures in Arabic.
• Fixed scroll inertia when scrolling an EPUB.
• EPUB decorations can now be attached to Locator objects containing only an HTML ID (locations.fragments) or a CSS selector (locations.cssSelector).

Changed

Shared

• TransformingResource now caches its content by default, as it is the correct behavior in most cases. Set cacheBytes = false explicitly to revert to the previous behavior.
• The previous PDF navigator was extracted in its own package to support third-party PDF engines. This is a breaking change if your app supported PDF, take a look at the migration guide.

Navigator

• The EPUB and PDF user preferences API got revamped. Take a look at the user guide and the migration guide to learn how to use it.
• Decoration.extras is now a Map<String, Any> instead of Bundle. You will need to update your app if you were storing custom data in extras, for example:

  val decoration = Decoration(...,
      extras = mapOf("id" to id)
  )
  
  val id = decoration.extras["id"] as? Long

Deprecated

Streamer

• The local HTTP server is not needed anymore to render EPUB publications. Take a look at the migration guide.

Fixed

Streamer

• Fixed parsing the table of contents of an EPUB 3 using NCX instead of a Navigation Document.

Navigator

• swift-toolkit#61 Fixed serving EPUB resources when the HREF contains an anchor or query parameters.
• Fixed emitting currentLocator with fixed layout EPUBs.
• Prevent refreshing an already loaded EPUB resource when jumping to a Locator in it.
• #86 Fixed page swipes while selecting text in an EPUB resource.
• The onTap event is not sent when an EPUB text selection is active anymore, to prevent showing the app bar while dismissing a selection.
• #76 Fixed EPUB fixed layout font size affected by device settings.
• Decoration objects are now properly comparable with equals().
• #292 Fix broken pagination when an EPUB uses overflow-x: hidden.

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This discussion was created from the release 2.3.0.