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ASE r22 Released

So, what's new?

Features:
  • Wake lock support added. It's now possible to have your scripts continue running when the phone tries to sleep.
  • Location APIs now return location data from all available providers (i.e. network, gps, etc.)
  • Wifi APIs added for scanning and retrieving access points.
  • Added API for getting a list of all applications that are launchable via the launch API.
  • Added support for launching scripts in the background from Locale.
  • Changed callNumber API to automatically URL encode numbers (i.e. now it should "just work" ™)
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed general bugginess of Bluetooth support.
    • No more deadlocks.
    • Bigger rows in device listing.
  • Fixed occasional activity hangs when network connections are poor.
  • Fixed missing id field in error results.
  • Fixed list results being returned as strings.
  • Fixed Locale plugin.
  • Fixed broken TTS support.
  • Fixed broken sendEmail API.
  • Fixed crash when importing incorrectly formatted scripts via QR code.
  • Fixed race condition that occasionally caused dialog APIs to fail.
Under the covers:
  • Significantly improved result serialization which now works for nested result types.
  • Replaced FutureIntent with the more flexible FutureResult.
In the works:
  • Improved Perl support.
  • Still working on distributing interpreters as APKs separately from ASE.
Visit the ASE project page to download the latest APK.
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