Android

[6.9.1] - 29 Nov 2024

Changed

• TensorFlow Lite library dependency has been updated to v2.16.1-sentiance.1, which is a Sentiance-built artifact that patches the issue described here.

Fixed

• Occasional SQLiteFullException that was causing the enclosing app to crash.

• Native crash originating in the TensorFlow Lite library v2.16.1.

Removed

• FOREGROUND_SERVICE_HEALTH permission from the SDK's manifest, to address app rejection issues on Google Play.

Security

• <receiver> manifest declarations have been updated to disable being exported.

[6.9.0] - 4 Oct 2024

Changed

• Improved the detection of public transport modes, with the help of public transport route information (e.g. train and bus routes), which gets stored on the device and utilized offline.

• Updated TensorFlowLiteC dependency to v2.16.1. If you have defined an explicit dependency on TensorFlow Lite in your app, please make sure to either update its version to v2.16.1, or remove it.

• Update to the dependency libraries related to the lifestyle insights feature (e.g. user segments, venue-type identification). These are now built against Kotlin v1.8.22.

Fixed

• Stability improvements to the disk storage monitoring component of the SDK.

• Stability improvements to the speed limit data cleanup in the SDK.

[6.8.6] - 12 Sep 2024

Fixed

• IllegalArgumentException when uploading payloads to the Sentiance platform, caused by an interrupted network connection. A fix was previously attempted in v6.8.5, but had not addressed the root cause.

[6.8.5] - 29 Aug 2024

Added

• Support for remotely tuning the overall safe driving score.

Fixed

• IllegalArgumentException when uploading payloads to the Sentiance platform, caused by an interrupted network connection.

[6.8.4] - 9 Aug 2024

Fixed

• Resolved a minor issue related to SDK database resource usage.

[6.8.3] - 2 Aug 2024

Changed

• Unified the Driving Insights "overall safety score" formula across all transport types.

Fixed

• Failure to persist and report transport and stationary timeline events, due to an internal database inconsistency, when updating directly from SDK v6.4.0 to v6.7.0 or later.

[6.8.2] - 26 Jul 2024

Fixed

• Failure to invoke the Driving Insights listener that is set using setDrivingInsightsReadyListener.

• A rare crash caused by recursive calls during payload submission.

[6.8.1] - 15 Jul 2024

Fixed

• A rare issue where the termination of a phone call during a transport is not properly registered, thereby negatively impacting the transport's call-while-moving score.

[6.8.0] - 5 Jul 2024

Added

• Smart Geofences feature. You can use Smart Geofences to monitor points of interest, and get notified of entries and exits. See here about the feature and its build dependencies, and here for some sample code.

• The Kotlin standard library is now a dependency of the core Sentiance SDK library.

Changed

• Improvements to the transport classification of public transport modes.

• The Driving Insights feature has been updated to remove its (undocumented) dependency on the user-context artifact, which was necessary for legal score computation. This dependency is no longer needed.

• The SDK's Kotlin dependency has been update to v1.8.22.

• Several Kotlin related dependencies have been updated: kotlinx-datetime to v0.4.1; kotlinx-serialization to v1.5.1; kermit to v1.2.2; stately to v1.2.5. For more details, see here.

Fixed

• A rare issue that resulted in an ongoing foreground service notification, after the SDK had been reset and a user recreated.

[6.7.4] - 21 May 2024

Fixed

• An occasional runtime exception occurring while upgrading ML models.

[6.7.3] - 24 Apr 2024

Fixed

• An occasional IndexOutOfBoundsException, when processing sensor data during detections.

[6.7.2] - 23 Apr 2024

Fixed

• An occasional SocketTimeoutException, when parsing a response from the server.

[6.6.6] - 23 Apr 2024

Fixed

• An occasional SocketTimeoutException, when parsing a response from the server.

[6.7.1] - 15 Apr 2024

Changed

• Reduced the SDK's usage of PendingIntents for geofencing purposes, from 2 to 1. Please check this page for additional information.

• Improved vehicle crash detection for motorcycles. Benefiting from this improvement requires an SDK configuration change for your app. For more information, reach out to the Sentiance support team.

[6.7.0] - 5 Apr 2024

Added

• A new API method for controlling whether the SDK is allowed to use mobile data for uploading/downloading configuration and detection data.

Changed

• Improved the runtime performance of the following sensor processing features: crash detection, transport classification, harsh driving detection, and phone usage detection.

Fixed

• Updated isLocationAvailable to more accurately reflect the SDK's view of accurate location availably.

• A rare occurrence of ConcurrentModificationException when resetting the SDK.

[6.6.5] - 25 Mar 2024

Changed

• Updated the kotlinx-datetime library dependency of the venue-mapper SDK module to v0.3.1.

Fixed

• A crash caused by ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in the venue-mapper SDK module, when the desugar_jdk_libs library is used.

• Stability improvements to the venue and speed limit tile downloading components.

[6.6.4] - 18 Mar 2024

Added

• Proguard rule to prevent stripping of runtime SDK class annotations, in R8 full mode.

Changed

• Increased the capacity for storing downloaded speed limit data.

Fixed

• Initialization failure on Oreo or lower, due to null app process name.

• Initialization failure due to missing @InjectUsing annotation, addressed by the Proguard rule addition.

• An issue that caused a small gap in the collected sensor data during the initial phase of a trip.

[6.6.3] - 5 Mar 2024

Fixed

• Transport mode detection for short transports.

• Computation of the various safety scores for short transports.

[6.6.2] - 23 Feb 2024

Fixed

• Improved transport classification for certain app configurations.

[6.6.1] - 2 Feb 2024

Fixed

• Improved detection of car and motorcycle transport modes, for certain app configurations.

• Improved harsh driving detection for motorcycles.

• Fixed an inconsistency between the SDK's canDetect state and the rest of the SdkStatus properties.

Security

• Removed the use of Amazon AWS credentials.

[6.6.0] - 5 Jan 2024

Added

• A new Event Timeline API for querying historic events and subscribing for real time updates. See the how-to guide here.

• Support for syncing on-device transports and driving insights with the Sentiance Cloud Platform.

Changed

• SDK initialization is now restricted to the app's main process. Initialization in a different process will fail.

• Driving insights: updated the minimal transport distance and duration requirements for safety score calculation, to 500 meters and 3 minutes respectively.

Fixed

• A rare IllegalStateException thrown in v6.5.0, when refreshing venue/speed-limit information in the background.

[6.5.0] - 13 Oct 2023

Added

• Call-while-moving safety score, which is computed using phone calls that are detected during vehicular transports. Corresponding call-while-moving events can be retrieved via the Driving Insights API.

• Legal driving safety score, which is computed using the traveled speed information during vehicular transports, in addition to the use of speed limit information that is downloaded and stored offline by the SDK. Corresponding speeding events can be retrieved via the Driving Insights API.

• Overall safety score, which is computed using the other safe driving scores.

• Support for targeting Android 14 (API level 34) at the app level. With this update, the manifest file of the core Sentiance SDK now specifies some foreground service types that are only available when compiling against API level 34. Therefore, to avoid compile time errors, you need to update your app's compileSdk to 34. An alternative (but not recommended) workaround can be found here.

• FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION and FOREGROUND_SERVICE_HEALTH manifest permisisons to support Android 14.

Changed

• The smooth driving score has been recalibrated to be more lenient.

• Kotlin 1.6.21 is now the minimum required version for on-device functionality (applicable if you have a dependency on non-core SDK libraries).

[6.4.2] - 23 Aug 2023

Changed

• The features "stationary venue-type mapping" and "user segment detection" have been disabled on Android versions 7 and lower, due to missing runtime dependencies.

Fixed

• Runtime exception on Android versions 7 and lower, caused by missing LocalDateTime java class.

[6.4.1] - 14 Jul 2023

Fixed

• On certain devices, the venue type of stationary events returned by the user context API is always set to unknown.

[6.4.0] - 10 Jul 2023

Production Readiness Update

In this release, the following features have been promoted from Early Access to Production Ready:

• Transport classification

• Home & work detection

• User segment detection

• User's current context information

See our On-Device Features page for more information about these features. Detailed overview of feature production readiness can be found on this page.

This version includes breaking changes for some Early Access features.

Breaking

• HarshDrivingEvent now provides separate start and end dates, instead of a single event date.

Added

• Phone usage detection during vehicular transports. This feature is part of the on-device Driving Insights feature. It uses a custom machine learning model to accurately detect phone usages. The detected events can be obtained using the getPhoneUsageEvents.

• Focused driving safety score, which is calculated by taking into account the detected phone usage events during vehicular transports. See SafetyScore.

Fixed

• Improvements to the on-device home and work location detection.

• Incorrect user semantic time when querying the user's context.

• Potentially lingering SDK foreground service, when a user gets deactivated.

[6.3.4] - 21 Jun 2023

Fixed

• Stability fixes to the home/work detection and venue-type mapping features.

[6.3.3] - 23 May 2023

Fixed

• Excessive battery usage while detections are disabled, caused by an unterminated Android job.

[6.3.2] - 8 May 2023

Fixed

• Runtime exception caused by stack overflow during stationary venue-type mapping.

• Stability improvements to home and work venue detection.

[6.3.1] - 19 Apr 2023

Fixed

• Runtime exception when using the TransportSession feature.

[6.3.0] - 7 Apr 2023

This version includes breaking changes for some Early Access features.

Added

• A new Driving Insights feature, which provides information about a user's driving behaviour. In this first version, the SDK detects harsh driving events (e.g. acceleration, braking, and turning), which are then used to compute a vehicular transport's smooth driving score. This data is available via the new DrivingInsightsApi, which allows the subscription to, and retrieval of DrivingInsights and HarshDrivingEvents. This feature is accessible via the sdk-driving-insights artifact, and must be enabled by Sentiance before use.

• A new TransportSession API, which allows the subscription to, and retrieval of TransportSessions. A transport session corresponds to a transport that was detected by the SDK, and includes information such as the mode of transport, and the raw sensor data that was used to classify it. This API is primarily intended to be used for accessing the raw sensor data. To simply be notified of new transports, it's more efficient to utilize the UserContextApi.

• A short history of locations inside VehicleCrashEvent, which represent the preceding locations leading up to the crash event.

Fixed

• Rare issue that causes the incorrect determination of the end of a stationary.

Removed

• BREAKING: a number of user segments that are no longer supported.

[6.2.3] - 16 Feb 2023

Fixed

• Runtime exception when retrieving historic app exit reasons, as a result of buggy Android framework code on some Samsung devices.

[6.1.1] - 3 Feb 2023

This patched version should be used only if you intend to remain on version 6.1. Otherwise, it is recommended to use the latest 6.2 version instead.

Fixed

• A stability issue in v6.1.0 impacting http requests.

[6.2.2] - 31 Jan 2023

Added

• Proguard rules for Google Play Service Location library classes, which are required since SDK v6.2.1.

[6.2.1] - 19 Jan 2023

Fixed

• Runtime exception when targeting Google Play Services Location library v21.

[6.2.0] - 9 Jan 2023

This version includes breaking changes for some Early Access features.

Added

• Transport waypoint and distance information to TransportEvent, which is part of the event list returned in UserContext. Both waypoints and distance are based on unprocessed (i.e. raw) location data.

• User's current semantic time info to UserContext (e.g. morning, lunch, evening). See SemanticTime.

• Support for uploading additional SDK status information to the Sentiance Cloud Platform.

• New SDK dependencies. See dependencies.

Changed

• Stationary venue mapping has been update to an improved version, but that is limited to venue-type mapping. i.e. a stationary will no longer reference a specific venue, but a venue type instead.

• Improved support for on-device user segment detection.

• The Android target and compile API versions have been updated to 33.

• Improved detection of delayed SDK initialization.

Fixed

• IllegalArgumentException caused by inconsistency during sorting a collection.

• ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException when starting a service in the background.

• NullPointerException when uploading logs to the Sentiance Cloud Platform.

Removed

• BREAKING: UserContextUpdateCriteria.ACTIVE_MOMENTS.

• BREAKING: The Moment class. UserContext no longer returns moments.

• BREAKING: venueSignificance is removed from StationaryEvent, and moved to the Venue class. StationaryEvent now references a Venue.

• BREAKING: VenueCandidates and Visit classes are removed. venueCandidates has been removed from StationaryEvent.

• BREAKING: Venue now has a nullable location, which previously was not nullable. The location can be null when it's unknown, such as when a stationary has a venue significance of "point of interest". In this case, only the venue type is known, but not its exact location.

• BREAKING: Venue no longer has venue name or labels.

[6.1.0] - 30 Sep 2022 (Unpublished. Use 6.1.1)

This version includes breaking changes for some Early Access features.

Added

• Diagnostic API for monitoring vehicle crash detection. See setVehicleCrashDiagnosticListener.

• App-configurable rules to control SDK data transmission to the Sentiance Cloud Platform. The app can specify which of the following data types are allowed to be transmitted to the Sentiance platform: vehicle crash data, SDK and device info, general detection data, all data. See setTransmittableDataTypes.

• Support for car, bus, train, and tram/metro transport mode detection, part of the user's current context information.

• Internal support in the SDK to notify the Sentiance Cloud Platform that the SDK has been reset.

Changed

• Improved the detection of user device interaction during trips.

• Improved the error details that is returned to the app during failed user creation.

Fixed

• Detection of vehicle crashes that occur towards the end of a trip.

Removed

• BREAKING: vehicle and rail transport modes from the user's current context information.

[6.0.2] - 30 Aug 2022

Changed

• Improved the vehicle crash detection algorithm.

[4.22.2] - 30 Aug 2022

Changed

• Improved the vehicle crash detection algorithm.

[6.0.1] - 16 Aug 2022

Fixed

• Failure to reset the SDK, when the SDK hasn't been initialized yet.

• Invalid SDK state, when user creation is interrupted by app termination or unfinished user linking, requiring an SDK reset to be able to complete user creation.

[6.0.0] - 1 Aug 2022

Breaking Changes

Version 6.0 is a major release and includes multiple deprecations and breaking changes. Please read our migration guide to learn how to upgrade to this version.

Given the significance of the changes in this version, we recommend testing your app carefully, before making it available to your wider audience.

Added

• A Sentiance user creation method that supports the existing user-linking flow, and a new authentication-code based flow. The new flow is the recommended approach for future integrations.

• A dedicated SDK initializer that does not create a Sentiance user. To be used in combination with the user creation method.

• Improved versions of asynchronous SDK methods that return PendingOperation as a result (akin to a Java Future), instead of accepting success/failure callbacks, offering more flexibility and Kotlin friendliness.

• Detection enabling and disabling methods that are persistent across app restarts, and that replace the SDK's start and stop methods.

• CrashDetectionApi for accessing and subscribing for vehicle crash detection info. This class is in the newly added com.sentiance.sdk-crash-detection artifact.

• User Context information, which can be requested or subscribed for, and which includes a user's recent timeline events, the home and work locations (if detected), and a user's segments (if detected). This feature is released as Early Access and must be enabled by Sentiance first. For more information about it, see our On-Device Features page.

• On-device user event timeline generation, with support for real-time transport classification using Sentiance's ML-based transport classifier. This feature is released as Early Access and must be enabled by Sentiance first. The timeline is made available via the UserContextApi class.

• On-device venue mapping of stationary locations, using Sentiance's ML-based classifier. This feature uses venue data that is downloaded and stored offline. It is released as Early Access. The venue information is made available via the UserContextApi class. For more information about this feature, see our On-Device Features page.

• On-device segment detection. This feature is released as Early Access and must be enabled by Sentiance first. The segment data is made available via the UserContextApi class. For more information about this feature, see our On-Device Features page.

• Ability to capture mini-dumps of native process crashes.

• Ability to capture ANR data for troubleshooting on Android 11+.

• Limited support for running detections when the location permission is while-in-use, and when the app is in the foreground.

• Support for collecting various sensor data when the app is in the foreground.

• Nullability annotations for all public methods and classes.

• SdkStatus.userExists and SdkStatus.detectionStatus

• userExists and isUserLinked methods in the Sentiance class, accessible without initializing the SDK.

Changed

• Bumped the minimum support Android version to 6.0.

• Required target Java language level is Java 8.

• Switched to the R8 obfuscator/shrinker.

• Switched to a modular artifact architecture. Some features are not extracted to their own modules. e.g. Crash detection is now in the com.sentiance:sdk-crash-detection artifact, which must be added separately to your app.

• Vehicle crash detection functionality has been moved to the artifact com.sentiance:sdk-crash-detection. Related methods and classes have been moved to a different package.

• MetaUserLinker is renamed to UserLinker.

• MetaUserLinkerAsync is renamed to UserLinkerAsync.

• MetaUserLinkerCallback is renamed to UserLinkerCallback.

• SdkConfig.Builder.setMetaUserLinker() is renamed to SdkConfig.Builder.setUserLinker()

• Moved the following methods and classes to new package: invokeDummyVehicleCrash, setVehicleCrashListener, isVehicleCrashDetectionSupported, VehicleCrashEvent, VehicleCrashListener

Deprecated

• init(SdkConfig, OnInitCallback)

• reset(ResetCallback)

• start(OnStartFinishedHandler), start(Date, OnStartFinishedHandler) and stop()

• getUserAccessToken(TokenResultCallback)

• startTrip(Map<String, String>,TransportMode, StartTripCallback) and stopTrip(StopTripCallback)

• submitDetections(SubmitDetectionsCallback)

• SdkStatus.startStatus and SdkStatus.locationPermission

Fixed

• Occasional ANR events caused by the SDK during start.

Removed

• Proguard rule -keepattributes SourceFile, LineNumberTable

• setCrashCallback(CrashCallback) and CrashCallback

• isInitialized()

• SdkConfig.isForegroundEnabled()

• TripProfileConfig, TripProfileListener, setTripProfileListener(TripProfileListener), and updateTripProfileConfig(TripProfileConfig)

• SdkStatus.isLocationPermGranted

[4.22.1] - 04 July 2022

Changed

• Improved the vehicle crash detection algorithm.

[4.22.0] - 30 May 2022

This release updates the SDK's TensorFlow Lite dependency version to 2.7.0. If your app depends on a different version of TensorFlow Lite, make sure to test it for compatibility before updating.

Changed

• Updated the TensorFlow Lite dependency to v2.7.0.

• Updated the vehicle crash detection ML model for TensorFlow Lite v2.7.0 compatibility.

[4.21.3] - 27 Apr 2022

Changed

• Improved the vehicle crash detection algorithm.

[4.21.2] - 25 Mar 2022

Fixed

• A minor bug in the cash detector related to processing negative longitude and latitude coordinates.

[4.21.0] - 3 Feb 2022

Added

• Step count tracking (disabled by default).

Changed

• Improved the vehicle crash detection algorithm.

• Added support for vehicle crash detection when activity recognition permission is not granted.

• Improved trip detection under certain inaccurate location conditions.

• Added more leniency towards short interruptions to the SDK detections that are caused by toggled airplane mode, or changing of available location providers (usually a result of OS power saving optimizations).

• Limited foregrounding SDK services when the debugger is attached, to prevent potential ANRs.

Deprecated

• Legacy on-device trip profiling. This feature will be removed in the next major release.

Fixed

• Incompatible machine learning model usage when the SDK is downgraded.

• SecurityException on Android 5 when the READ_PHONE_STATE permission is missing.

Security

• Avoid logging credentials in the SDK's private log files.

[4.20.0] - 7 Dec 2021

This version targets API level 31, adding Android 12 support.

If you app supports Android 5, you must add the READ_PHONE_STATE permission in your app's manifest in order to allow the Sentiance SDK to detect phone calls. You can limit this permission to API level 22 by specifying android:maxSdkVersion="22".

Note: the absence of READ_PHONE_STATE in your app's manifest will cause the application to crash on Android 5. This is a bug that will be fixed in the next SDK version.

Added

• Support for targeting Android 12 in the host app.

• HIGH_SAMPLING_RATE_SENSORS manifest permission for Android 12.

• SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM manifest permission for Android 12.

• ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION manifest permission for Android 12.

Changed

• Improved crash detection with an update to the internal crash detection model.

• Exported all manifest components that define intent filters.

• Specified mutability for internal Pending Intents.

• Updated mobile call detection to work without requiring the READ_PHONE_STATE permission (on Android 6 and above).

• Modified foreground service usage to support the new Android 12 restriction.

• Handled the absence of the precise location permission. The SDK will stop detections if this permission (ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) is not granted. A new status indicator called isPreciseLocationPermGranted has been added to the SdkStatus for this purpose.

• Reduced the number of Android notifications that appear during stationary.

Fixed

• NullPointerException caused by JobScheduler.getAllPendingJobs() returning null in some instances.

• Memory leak cause by holding a strong reference to an SDK service instance.

Removed

• The READ_PHONE_STATE permission has been removed from SDK library manifest. This permission was previously capped at API level 22, using the maxSdkVersion attribute.

[4.19.3] - 14 Sep 2021

Fixed

• Occasional SecurityException when accessing the ConnectivityManager on Android 11+ devices.

• Failure to detect some phone calls during trips.

• A rare occurrence of a NullPointerException during internal SDK message handling.

[4.19.2] - 1 Jul 2021

Fixed

• Failure to initialize the SDK on some emulator images due to a divide by zero error.

[4.19.1] - 9 Jun 2021

Fixed

• Failure to run crash detection immediately after resetting the SDK.

[4.19.0] - 14 Apr 2021

Added

• Support for tracking app foreground and background state changes.

• Support for collecting accelerometer range and max supported frequency.

• Improve detection of tablet devices by taking the device's smallest screen width into account.

Changed

• Use existing authentication token when submitting a token refresh request.

• Add fail-fast mechanism during third party user linking if linking has not been completed.

Fixed

• Improve handling of out of order sensor data

• Fix skipped events in some rare cases.

[4.18.1] - 8 Feb 2021

Fixed

• Stability improvements to the user authentication and sensor data collection.

[4.18.0] - 14 Jan 2021

Added

• An improved and a more accurate vehicle crash detection, backed by a machine learning model. You must switch to using the new Sentiance API method setVehicleCrashListener(VehicleCrashListener) to activate it.

• A new method to help test your crash detection integration. See invokeDummyCrash().

• A new method to check if crash detection is supported on the device for a specific trip type. See isCrashDetectionSupported(TripType).

Changed

• Points of interest data is no longer provided in the StationaryInfo object (returned by getStationaryInfo()) by default. If you use this data, please reach out to us before updating to this SDK version.

• On Android 9 and above, when background execution is restricted for your app (by the user or an OS power saving feature), SDK detections will no longer run. An SdkStatus update will be delivered to your app, with startStatus set to PENDING and isBackgroundProcessingRestricted set to true so that you can take the appropriate action.

• Library dependency changes:

  • Removed compile-time dependency on com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305

  • Added runtime dependency on org.tensorflow:tensorflow-lite:2.2.0. This dependency adds native libraries to your app. To limit their architectures, see here.

Deprecated

• setCrashCallback(CrashCallback) is now deprecated. Use setVehicleCrashListener(VehicleCrashListener) instead.

Fixed

• Minor stability and timeline quality improvements.

[4.16.2] - 2 Jul 2020

Fixed

• Fatal exception when aborting service start-up due to uninitialized SDK.

[4.16.1] - 19 Jun 2020

Fixed

• Stability improvement in the SDK logging subsystem.

[4.16.0] - 3 Jun 2020

Starting from 4.16.0, SDK detections will no longer be supported on Android 4.4 and lower. When initializing the SDK, onInitFailure will return INITIALIZATION_ERROR with an accompanying SdkException containing the message "Unsupported OS version."

This change does not impact the SDK's minimum supported API level (i.e. minSdkVersion).

Added

• Support for on-device trip profiling and hard event detection. This feature is not enabled by default.

• Support for remotely enabling "controlled trips only" detection mode.

Changed

• Disabled Proguard method synchronization optimization (method/marking/synchronized) due to incorrect removal of synchronized method markings. This change is also carried over to any application code when using Proguard. If you're using R8, it will have no impact on your code.

Removed

• Detection support for Android 4.4. and lower is now disabled.

• The WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission is no longer requested by the SDK. Previously, this permission was requested up to API level 18. If you rely on the presence of this permission in the final manifest, please add it manually to your app's manifest instead.

Fixed

• Issues related to ANR and failed foregrounding of SDK services.

• Properly reflect on the users timeline any SDK termination during trips.

• Ensure long trips are split to no more than 4 hour durations.

• Rare issue causing sensor timestamp misalignment.

[4.14.0] - 31 Jan 2020

Added

• Support resetting the SDK to a "never initialized" state, clearing all SDK user data and allowing the creation of a new Sentiance user. See reset(ResetCallback).

• Improve the detection of granting the background location access permission on Android 10+.

Changed

• Update and replace the use of deprecated Google Play Services APIs.

Fixed

• Motion activity detection issue during trips.

• A rare token refresh issue that causes an unreleased wakelock.

• Other minor bugs.

[4.13.0] - 6 Jan 2020

Starting from 4.13.0, we are no longer releasing the -R variant of the Sentiance SDK. If you are currently using the -R version, please update to the regular version. This change will not have any impact on your integration or user data.

Changed

• The WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE manifest permission is now limited to API level 18 and lower.

Fixed

• Stop the internal heartbeat task when the SDK is stopped.

• Fix an occasional NullPointerException that occurs during detections.

[4.12.0] - 4 Oct 2019

Removed

• The ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission is now removed from the SDK's manifest. If you are targeting API level 29+, please add this permission to your app's manifest instead. The inclusion of this permission affected apps targeting API level 28 or lower. For more information about this change, please see here.

[4.11.0] - 23 Sep 2019

This version targets API level 29, adding Android 10 support.

Added

• Android 10 permission support.

  • The ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission has been added to the SDK's manifest. Background location access is mandatory to support proper detections. See Location Permission.

  • The android.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION permission is required on Android 10 and above to prevent degradation in the detection quality. See Activity Recognition Permission.

• Ability to obtain a user's nearby points of interest during stationary. You can now obtain a list of POIs and their type directly from the SDK instead of querying the Sentiance API. See getPointsOfInterest().

• Report the app's notification setting (enabled/disabled) to the Sentiance Platform.

• Report the device's Google Play Services version to the Sentiance Platform.

• Keep a metadata journal to prevent sending duplicate user metadata requests.

Changed

• Target API level is now 29.

• Use Android's network capability API on Android 10.

• The return type of StationaryInfo.getLocation() is no longer nullable. A stationary activity is guaranteed to have a proper location.

Fixed

• Rare crash caused by a null pointer exception during call detection.

• Rare crash caused by concurrent modification exception.

• Properly capture unhandled exceptions (reported to the Sentiance Platform).

• Incorrect user activity type reported during SDK startup.

Security

• The Sentiance app secret is no longer stored by the SDK.

[4.10.1] - 26 Aug 2019

Added

• Improved stationary detection.

• Faster detection of location permission grant.

Changed

• Decrease the number of notifications shown during stationary.

• Explicitly set the uses-feature "android.hardware.location.gps" required attribute to false.

Fixed

• Add missing fields to toString() and equals() methods of the SdkStatus class.

• Properly detect and end ongoing (internal) SDK trips with poor location accuracy.

[4.10.0] - 24 Jun 2019

Added

• Support automatic stopping of detections by specifying an expiry date when calling start(). The expired detection will cause the StartStatus to become START_EXPIRED.

• Support additional fine-tuning of the SDK's disk usage quota.

Fixed

• Rare crash caused by a NullPointerException in the ContinuousSensorStreamService class.

[4.9.1] - 6 Jun 2019

Added

• Remotely configurable sensor collection rate for non -R SDK versions.

Changed

• Relax the high accuracy location mode requirement. Detections will also work with battery saving mode.

Fixed

• Occasional excessive wake-ups on Samsung devices.

• Rare issue where duplicate detection payloads are uploaded to the server.

• Rare issue where an invalid waypoint is added to a trip.

[4.9.0] - 21 May 2019

Added

• Support adding trip metadata during an ongoing trip. See addTripMetadata().

• Support asynchronous user linking. See setMetaUserLinker().

• Send user-agent info to API calls.

Changed

• Internal changes to user linking, sdk configuration updates, and SDK heartbeat data.

Fixed

• Issue related to incorrectly timed activity transition events supplied by play services.

[4.8.0] - 24 Apr 2019

Added

• Batched payload submission.

• Voip call detection.

Changed

• Improved trip detection.

Fixed

• Screen on/off detection during trips.

[4.7.1] - 3 Apr 2019

Fixed

• Deobfuscate TripInfo and StationaryInfo classes used with UserActivity.

• Fix crash when targeting a pre-12.0.1 version of Google Play Location Services.

• Minor internal bug fixes and improvements.

[4.7.0] - 25 Mar 2019

Added

• Support updating the SDK notification at runtime with updateSdkNotification(Notification).

• Ability to register for user activity updates (trips and stationary moments) with setUserActivityListener(UserActivityListener).

Fixed

• Fixed a rare issue where the location availability sdk status value is incorrect.

• Other minor bugs.

[4.6.0] - 13 Mar 2019

Added

• Support overwriting the Sentiance API URL with SdkConfig.Builder.baseURL(String).

• App version code in the device info payload.

Fixed

• Prevent creating very long stationaries when the device has been offline (no location updates or powered off).

[4.5.2] - 4 Mar 2019

Changed

• Include geofence exit triggering locations in trips.

• Drop payloads when the API responds with 413 (payload too large).

• Reschedule SDK tasks with changed criteria.

Fixed

• Rare crash caused by shared SimpleDateFormat instance.

• Prevent stopping of incoming location fixes during trips caused by high frequency requests (1 per 10 secs or higher).

[4.5.1] - 20 Feb 2019

Added

• Capture unexpected exceptions and errors during SDK init, and fail with reason InitIssue.INITIALIZATION_ERROR.

• Minor detection improvement.

Changed

• OnInitCallback.onInitFailure() now passes a Throwable as an additional parameter in case of the aforementioned InitIssue.INITIALIZATION_ERROR .

Fixed

• Stuck stationary issue.

• Alarms not triggering on Samsung.

[4.5.0] - 11 Feb 2019

Added

• Upload device location-mode, battery-saving state, and battery optimization config to the Sentiance platform.

• Capture hourly heartbeat events to track SDK runtime.

• Support uploading select SDK events (e.g. heartbeat) to the Sentiance platform over mobile data.

Fixed

• TransportMode enum obfuscation issue.

[4.4.0] - 17 Jan 2019

Added

• Support for uploading SDK logs over mobile data.

• Detection improvements to some Samsung and Huawei devices.

Changed

• Prevent Sentiance credentials change for an already authenticated user (init will fail with CHANGED_CREDENTIALS).

• Prevent premature user access token refreshes.

Deprecated

• Sentiance.isInitialized() is now deprecated. Use Sentiance.getInitState() instead, which returns an InitState enum.

Fixed

• Minor bug fixes.

[4.3.0] - 9 Jan 2019

Added

• Ability to disable battery optimization for improved detections (see here).

• New SdkStatus fields.

  • isBatteryOptimizationEnabled

  • isBatterySavingEnabled

  • isBackgroundProcessingRestricted

Changed

• Updated min required Google Play Location Services version to 12.0.1.

• Improved detections.

Fixed

• Minor bug fixes.

[4.2.9] - 18 Dec 2018

Added

• android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE permission required for Android 9.

Changed

• Updated target API to 28.

Fixed

• Bug fixes.

[4.2.8] - 21 Nov 2018

Changed

• Improved detection algorithm.

[4.2.7] - 15 Nov 2018

Fixed

• Bug fixes.

[4.2.6] - 12 Nov 2018

Added

• Support for sending mocked locations.

Changed

• Improved detection algorithm.

Fixed

• Minor bug fixes.

[4.2.5] - 22 Oct 2018

Added

• Provide the ability to set the SDK's notification ID.

Changed

• Improve stationary detection.

Fixed

• Fix google play console warning related to AWS credentials.

[4.2.4] - 8 Oct 2018

Changed

• Disable SDK notifications for triggered trips flavor when no trip is ongoing.

Fixed

• Prevent LocationService from crashing during startup.

[4.2.3] - 2 Oct 2018

Changed

• Stationary detection improvement.

[4.2.1] - 24 Sep 2018

Added

• More SDK logging.

Changed

• Removed explicit allowBackup param from manifest.

Fixed

• Wakelock prevention and other minor fixes.

[4.2.0] - 27 Aug 2018

Added

• Support for meta users.

• Remotely configurable required location providers.

[4.1.22] - 23 Aug 2018

Fixed

• Prevent automatic detections in triggered trips mode.

[4.1.21] - 21 Aug 2018

Changed

• Location parameter of CrashCallback.onCrash() is now nullable.

• Vehicle crash detection algorithm update.

Fixed

• Various bug fixes.