changes to the mobile builds

Matt Thompson mathomp at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 08:48:41 PST 2020


Just installed on my OnePlus 5T running OxygenOS 10.0.0 (Android 10) and
Subsurface crashes on opening.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 10:03 AM Dirk Hohndel via subsurface <
subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:

>
> I did some fairly significant changes to the way we build the iOS and
> Android mobile apps.
> Those of you how are subscribed to our "closed" testing groups should have
> received notifications that updated apps (version 3.1.0) are available for
> testing.
> I'll push this into the "open" Android testing as well.
>
> What has changed?
>
> - we now build both iOS and Android apps from the same qmake configuration
> - because of that, the way some resources are bundled has changed --> I'd
> love to hear if all of the localizations are still working as intended,
> especially on iOS
> - we switched to some newer support libraries (I haven't switched iOS to
> Qt 5.15, yet - there just aren't enough hours in the day)
> - the Android build is now an app bundle and no longer an apk, following
> the current practices requested by Google
> - because of that pretty much everything about the Android build had to
> change. As mentioned, I switched it from cmake to qmake, I upgraded a lot
> of libraries, but also the way everything is assembled is fundamentally
> different
>
> Please test these new binaries. Test simple things (can you update cloud
> storage - do you see the updates on your desktop). Test things we often
> forget to test (can you get to the user manual? can you edit dives? can you
> run the GPS service? can you tap on dive locations and get a map?)
> And of course test downloading from various dive computers.
>
> Especially on Android this is maybe the most significant set of changes
> that I've made in over a year. I'd really love to not have our end users
> find all of the bugs that this is causing.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> /D
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