Version 0.3.1

This release is a patch release with a major feature support added by the Microsoft team

• Packing translations of multiple locales together in same .pack file
• Fallback to a different locale if a translation is not available in desired locale
• Locales with Regions, for example, zh-TW

Note: Please follow the README.md to setup your project to take advantage of these features.

Version 0.3.0

This release fixes some major bugs and also adds lots of improvements.

Breaking changes: -

• Updated StringPackIds.java and StringPackIds.kt template to support large set of strings in a project
• Changed the behavior of original_resources_directories and removed packable_strings_directory property from config.json. Now, each entry in original_resources_directories will have its own string-packs folder making it more modularized. Please copy the latest scripts folder and pack.gradle into your project.
• No need to wrap Application's baseContext in StringPackContext. Instead override getResources() method as shown in README.md

Note: Please follow README.md to update your project.

Other support/improvements added are: -

• Improved performance in fetching strings from .pack files by enabling Mmaping feature.
• Added support for large projects with > 8k strings
• Compatibility with API 30
• APK size reduction
• Modularized string-packs folders
• Ability to create .pack files at the build time instead of creating them upfront. Follow the steps in README.md to enable this functionality
• Fixed an issue, reported by Microsoft, when switching language from any non-US English language to en-US

Improvements on sample app: -

• Support for changing Device language without killing app's process

Version 0.2.1

This release is a patch release with some major bug fixes and new support: -

• Fixed crash, brought up by Microsoft, with adding WebView programmatically using Application Context.
• Added compatibility with androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0 (current stable release)

Version 0.2.0

Release notes

This release mainly has various optimizations being done so far in the library

• Improved sample app to provide multiple language selection to see StringPacks in action
• Various performance improvement
• Various memory usage optimizations
• Robolectric unit tests
• Added support for apps to pull the library from maven instead of copying the entire library/ folder. You still have to copy scripts/ and pack.gradle from library/ folder as specified in README.md

Version 0.1.0

StringPacks is a library to store translation strings in a more efficient binary format for Android applications, so that it reduces the Android APK size.

This is the initial public release of StringPacks, the project contains:

• Java library to load .pack file at runtime
• Python3 script to assemble Android resources into .pack files
• Sample app that include StringPacks library as dependency