Glass Platform Release Notes

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XE22.0 - October 14, 2014

User features

  • Glass now supports Android notifications. For more information, see Notification Sync.

GDK

Changes to CardBuilder:

Other changes:

XE21.3 - September 24, 2014

GDK

XE21.0 - September 8, 2014

User features

  • Advanced developer settings are now available from the settings menu when debug mode is turned on.

GDK

XE20.1 - August 21, 2014

GDK

Fixed:

  • Issue #469: MediaStore.ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE intent does not use duration limit or size limit
  • Issue #289: Support ACTION_WEB_SEARCH intent to search using Glass UI
  • Issue #412: Expose the Volume widget / card
  • Issue #555: Tap to accept, is not working (MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE Intent)
  • Issue #578: MediaRecorder fails to capture video after update XE19.1.

Mirror API

Added new timezone setting to the Settings collection.

XE19.1 - July 15, 2014

GDK

Added support for USB webcam On-The-Go (OTG) on Glass. Known issues include:

  • Plug and play for the video node is not supported. Reboot Glass to detect attached webcam.
  • If the attached accessories have a microphone, contextual voice commands may not work.
  • Holding a partial wakelock is recommended to prevent the system from suspending access to attached webcam.

Check out the Google I/O 2014 Innovate with the Glass Platform session for more information.

XE18.1 - June 10, 2014

GDK

XE17.3 - June 3, 2014

GDK

XE17.1 - May 13, 2014

GDK

XE16.2 - April 29, 2014

GDK

XE16 - April 15, 2014

GDK

Changes to Card:

Changes to CardScrollView:

  • onPreActivate() and onPreDeactivate() are no longer overridable.
  • getItemForChildAt(int) is no longer supported.
  • isSettled() is no longer supported.
  • updateViews(boolean) is no longer supported, use BaseAdapter#notifyDataSetChanged() instead.

Changes to TimelineManager:

The TimelineManager class and support for static cards from the GDK have been removed.

Changes to LiveCard:

Changes to CardScrollAdapter:

  • findIdPosition() and findItemPosition() have been replaced by getPosition(java.lang.Object)
  • recycleView() and setItemOnCard() have been removed.

Other changes

Voice Triggers

Mirror

GET_MEDIA_INPUT is now a supported menu item action and lets you provide media payloads to Glassware from a menu item (currently, only transcribed text from voice input is supported).

XE12 - December 17, 2013

User features

See the new user features at support.google.com.

GDK

The following GDK changes were made in the XE12 platform release:

Changes to TimelineManager:

Changes to LiveCard:

Changes to Card:

Other changes:

Mirror

The following Mirror API fixes were made in the XE12 platform release:

XE11 - November 11, 2013

The following Mirror API changes were made in the XE11 platform release:

  • The VIEW_WEBSITE menu item is no longer available.

XE10 - October 7, 2013

The following Mirror API changes support new features in the XE10 platform release:

  • Timeline items that contain a URL in the text property now automatically provide the OPEN_URI feature.

  • The sharingFeatures property has been added to Contacts. It allows you to control the caption feature during the sharing flow. To enable captions, set it to ADD_CAPTION.

    {
  "displayName": "Chipotle Cat",
  "imageUrls": ["http://example.com/chipotle.jpg"],
  "sharingFeatures": ["ADD_CAPTION"]
}

Issues resolved:

  • #197 - Crashes related to sharing timeline items have been resolved.

XE9 - September 9, 2013

The following Mirror API changes support new features in the XE9 platform release:

  • Using video/vnd.google-glass.stream-url as an attachment's contentType is deprecated. To stream video, use the PLAY_VIDEO menu item action with the payload set to the streaming URL instead. See Attaching video for more information.
  • If you override a built-in menu item's displayName, then the default contextual voice command for the menu item is not functional.
  • The timeline resource's htmlPages property is no longer supported. See Paginating for the currently supported method.
  • VIEW_WEBSITE is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use OPEN_URI instead.

Issues resolved:

  • #164 - Video streaming now supports YouTube video URLs

XE8 - August 12, 2013

The following Mirror API changes support new features in the XE8 platform release:

Glassware specified voice menu commands

Improved HTML pagination

  • Manual and automatic pagination from within the timelineItem.html property.
  • timelineItem.htmlPages is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

New VIEW_WEBSITE menu item:

  • When activated from a timeline card, this opens the URL specified in menuItem.payload with the Glass web browser.

Issues resolved:

  • #6, #63 - Glassware can now register voice commands using the Mirror API
  • #91 - Video is now playable from an HTML card, and thumbnail URL can now be specified
  • #115 - Video playback is now handled by a menu item
  • #137 - New built-in action: VIEW_WEBSITE
  • #160 - Images with very long URLs now work

XE7 - July 7, 2013

Issues resolved:

  • #53 - Videos now preserve their aspect ratio

June 13, 2013

Share contacts no longer need to be enabled by users on MyGlass. All contacts are now enabled by default.

If your Glassware includes documentation that advises your user to enable a share contact (for example at the end of the authentication flow or as a welcome card) you should remove it.

XE6 - June 4, 2013

The following Mirror API changes support new features in the XE6 platform release:

  • Added video/vnd.google-glass.stream-url as a MIME type for timeline attachments. This MIME type allows you to specify a URL to stream video from.

    See Attaching video for more information.

  • Added the ability for users to add captions to shared images. The caption is stored in the timeline item's text property.

    See Captions for shared photos for more information.

Issues resolved:

  • #77 - htmlPages now work within threaded bundles

April 15, 2013

Initial release of the Mirror API.