Android Mono For Android 4

Mono For Android 4.4

Installation

Visual Studio Users: You should be prompted with this update when you open a Mono for Android project. You can also check manually in Tools > Options > Mono for Android.

MonoDevelop Users: You should be prompted to upgrade next time you open MonoDevelop, or you can use Help > Check for Updates. IDE support requires MonoDevelop 3.0. Layout Designer fixes require MonoDevelop 3.0.4.

New Features

  • Fixed an issue with the license check dialog during installation.
  • Provides preliminary API 17 (JellyBean 4.2) support.
  • armeabi-v7a is the default ABI for Release builds.
  • Debug .apk files include all ABIs by default.
  • Add ActivityAttribute.ParentActivity property.
  • Add ServiceAttribute.IsolatedProcess property.
  • Add PermissionAttribute, PermissionGroupAttribute, and PermissionTreeAttribute custom attributes.
  • Now string literals in attributes (ActivityAttribute, UsesPermissionAttribute etc.) are scanned and @PACKAGE_NAME@ is replaced with the actual package name at packaging time. (see bug #7687)
  • Binding Projects now embed the bound .jar into the binding assembly. (EmbeddedJar and EmbeddedReferenceJar build actions)
  • Library Projects can now contain Android Resources.

4.4.50 Fixes

  • Activation fix for Windows XP
  • Profiler support. (Beta!)
  • Removal of the dreaded UnhandledException handler from Visual Studio
  • .stamp files not being properly closed, leading to FileShare exceptions
  • UI designer improvements in the support for alternative layouts.
  • 7871: Saving a .axml file in a resource folder with qualifiers
  • 8625: Color preview in Project Resources window showing wrong colours
  • 8781: Fix Publish Android Application to pickup the correct PackageName

4.4.54 Fixes

  • Additional activation fix for users running on Windows XP with a wireless-only network connection.

Bug fixes

  • Theoretical GC bug involving a race condition between Mono & Android GC's. Note: we've never seen this in the wild, and have no repro.
  • GC weak reference fix.
  • .jar binding: do not generate overrides when it shouldn't for method variant property.
  • .jar binding: improve obfuscated .jar handling
  • .jar binding: improved Annoation support.
  • Improve product activation on Windows.
  • Throw TypeLoadException if a Type can't be loaded instead of throwing a NullReferenceException.
  • WSDL import.
  • Improved WCF serialization support for collection types
  • Fix binding of OverlayItem.GetMarker() and MapActivity.OnGetMapDataSource() (reported by Goncalo Oliveira).
  • Remove [DebuggerDisplay] attribute from KeyValuePair and DictionaryEntry.
  • Support [OnSerializing] in System.Runtime.Serialization.Json
  • 3276: Mono implementation of HttpWebRequest eats the body of a DELETE request
  • 5948: No color syntax for axml files in Designer/Source view in Visual Studio 2010
  • 6249: Assets not included in package when IntermediateOutputPath is specified to an absolute path.
  • 6329: Null refrence in WebConnectStream Ctor
  • 6860: Inspecting properties results wrong value
  • 7013#c15: Add native libraries to .apks in the right order to improve support for Android 4.0-4.0.3.
  • 7258: WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy with credentials fails
  • 7309: Resources.GetXml - XmlReader.Name property Hangs without exception
  • 7564: mono_aot_find_jit_info () is not signal safe (workaround)
  • 7599: HttpWebRequest returns 404 because it reuses an old connection to a previous server
  • 7637: HttpWebRequest::BeginGetResponse hangs when send request stream is empty
  • 7686: Need a custom attribute [Permission] to generate <permission ... /> in AndroidManifest.xml
  • 7687: Substitute package name in string literals
  • 7837: Generate the //provider/@android:authorities attribute
  • 7934: In MfA 4.2.8, Application.OnCreate doesn't get called anymore
  • 7948: Add support for EmbeddedReferenceJar
  • 7957: System.Xml.XmlException : 'Text' is an invalid node type
  • 7966: TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById returns null
  • 8072: Avoid throwing exceptions from WeakReference.IsAlive after finalization when the underlying GCHandle is already finalized.
  • 8104: Fix Notification.LedARGB to be of int type.
  • 8134: JavaList needs to provide java.util.List methods to make it valid to derive from ArrayList
  • 8312: SSL POST GetRequestStream gets exception 'authentication or decryption has failed'
  • 8320: Runtime metadata bug with RX
  • 8339: Remove Compiler Warnings in Resource.designer.cs
  • 8405: OS X installer should not say "Activation Successful" if activation was not successful.
  • 8406: Fix error messages generated by OS X installer.
  • 8553: SSL Validation Issues
  • 8559: TaskScheduler passed with parallel options to Parallel.ForEach not used correctly

API Changes

Warnings

Warning: Samsung shipped a broken kernel with Android 2.1, which is not able to support JIT compilation. If you possess a Galaxy-class device with Android 2.1, you will get unexpected results, this is caused by a kernel bug that breaks cache coherency, rendering any engine doing JIT compilation useless. Check with your manufacturer/carrier for an Android 2.2 update.

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