Xamarin.Essentials 1.4 release notes

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What's New in this Release

• GH-923 Detect Device Theme PR-927

AppTheme theme = AppInfo.RequestedTheme;

public enum AppTheme
{
    Unspecified,
    Light,
    Dark
}

• GH-949 Permissions API

public enum PermissionStatus
{
    Unknown,
    Denied,
    Disabled,
    Granted,
    Restricted
}

PermissionStatus status = await Permissions.CheckStatusAsync<Permissions.LocationWhenInUse>();
if(status != PermissionStatus.Granted)
{
    status = await Permissions.RequestAsync<Permissions.LocationWhenInUse>();
}

Available permissions:

• Battery

• CalendarRead

• CalendarWrite

• Camera

• ContactsRead

• ContactsWrite

• Flashlight

• LaunchApp

• LocationWhenInUse

• LocationAlways

• Maps

• Media

• Microphone

• NetworkState

• Phone

• Reminders

• Sms

• Speech

• StorageRead

• StorageWrite

• Vibrate

• GH-957 Get complementary color extension (via @mrlacey)

var complement = color.GetComplementary();

• GH-978 New weight converters kilograms, stones, pounds. (via @munkii)
• GH-935 New meters to feet converters (via qmark)

var pounds = UnitConverters.KilogramsToPounds(79.2);
var kilograms = UnitConverters.PoundsToKilograms(174.6061);
var pounds = UnitConverters.StonesToPounds(5);
var stones = UnitConverters.PoundsToStones(70);
var feet = UnitConverters.MetersToInternationalFeet(3048);
var meters = UnitConverters.InternationalFeetToMeters(10000);

• GH-969 Cliboard changed event (via @Mrnikbobjeff)
• GH-1002 Add share source position for iOS when using share API
• GH-997 Add Platform Extensions for Activity & UIViewController

Release History

• Thursday, February 20, 2020 - Xamarin.Essentials 1.4.0
• Friday, January 10, 2020 - Xamarin.Essentials 1.4.0-pre2 (1.4.0 Pre Release 2)
• Monday, January 6, 2020 - Xamarin.Essentials 1.4.0-pre (1.4.0 Pre Release 1)

Xamarin.Essentials 1.4.0 (1.4.0)

Issues Fixed

• GH-946 URL encode phone number on android
• GH-1036 Cache Idiom on UWP so crash on background doesn't occur
• GH-1028 Ensure Android returns phone on devices with TV flag
• GH-1021 Fix crash on UWP when checking mainthread on startup
• GH-988 Align iOS Orientation sensor with fixed refernce frame
• GH-969 Fix conversion error on AtmosphersToPascals & PascalsToAtmospheres
• GH-926 Fix wrong network state on some older android devices
• GH-925 Properly cleanup of some javacasts in code
• GH-1019 Cleanup boxing code in IEquatable
• GH-1034 On iOS ensure that app has network access via settings when checking
• GH-1088 More exception handling in Connectivity for UWP
• GH-1087 More exception handling in DeviceInfo for UWP
• GH-1071 Fix for mock provider on older Android devices.

Breaking Changes

• None

Blogs

Xamarin Blogs

Thank you

Thank you to our community for helping to make Xamarin.Essentials even better!

This release, we received amazing contributions from these individuals. Give them a big round of applause!

Author	Description	PR
Janus Weil (@janusw)	Fix iOS OrientationSensor	#988
Patrick Long (@munkii)	Add Weight Converstions	#983
Bob Whitten (@bobwhitten)	Start Pop Over iOS Implementation	#980
Matt Lacey (@mrlacey)	Add get complement for color	#970
Pedro Jesus (@pictos)	Add Atmospheres & Pascals Conversions	#969
Vũ Đức Tuyến (@tuyen-vuduc)	Start of opening activity/viewcontroller	#954
Manish Kungwani (@manishkungwani)	Fix phone number encoding on Android	#946
qmark (@qmark)	Add more unit converters	#935
Niklas Schilli (@Mrnikbobjeff)	Add Clipboard Changed events	#720

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Open Source

Xamarin.Essentials 1.4.0 is based on the open-source Xamarin.Essentials repository:

• Xamarin.Essentials