APL-CORE: July 2021 Release of APL 1.7 compilant core engine (1.7.0)

For more details on this release refer to CHANGELOG.md

To learn about APL see: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/alexa-presentation-language/understand-apl.html

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,32 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.7.0]
+
+This release adds support for version 1.7 of the APL specification.
+
+## Added
+
+- Added new position sticky for children containers
+- Support specifying layout direction for components as well as the entire document
+- Support for document level language 
+- Extended swipe away gesture to support forward and backward directions
+- Added support for \<span\> text markup
+- Added start*, end* and padding variants to override left* and right* variants depending on layoutDirection
+- Data-binding definitions now support Array and Maps
+- Alpha feature: Improved extension message builder API
+- Alpha feature: Extension client now supports modification of non-defined LiveMap members
+- Alpha feature: APL Audio Player Extension. The Audio Player Extension extends APL capabilities providing a custom audio player extension
+
+## Changed
+
+- Data grammar now translates to byte code
+- Performance improvements during the inflation process
+- Component properties shadowColor, shadowHorizonalOffset, shadowRadius and shadowVerticalOffset are now also styled and dynamic
+- Pager navigation and pageDirection properties are now also dynamic
+- Updated reported APL version to 1.7
+- Other bug fixes
+- Build improvements
+
 ## [1.6.2]
 
 ### Changed
@@ -26,7 +53,7 @@ This release adds support for version 1.6 of the APL specification.
 - Reinflation support for viewport size and orientation changes
 - Add handlePageMove property to Pager to allow custom transitions 
 - Add pageDirection to support vertical pagers
-- Added support for <nobr> text markup
+- Added support for \<nobr\> text markup
 - New Math functions: Math.int and Math.float
 - New API to expose visible children of a component
 - Support bound values in layouts

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
 # You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

Dockerfile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
 # You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

README.md

@@ -228,10 +228,10 @@ For more info on installing and configuring Docker, see:
     https://www.docker.com/get-started
 
 # Global configuration
-## Telemetry
-In order to compile core telemetry support use TELEMETRY cmake parameter:
+## Tracing
+In order to compile core tracing support use TRACING cmake parameter:
 ```
-$ cmake -DTELEMETRY=ON
+$ cmake -DTRACING=ON
 ```
 
 ## Memory debugging

apl-dev-env.sh

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
 # You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -244,10 +244,12 @@ function apl-config-android { # Run cmake for Android
         mkdir -p android-build
         cd android-build
         echo "Running $CMAKE"
-        $CMAKE -DANDROID_ABI="x86" \
+        $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+               -DANDROID_ABI="armeabi-v7a" \
                -DANDROID_PLATFORM=android-24 \
                -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$TOOLCHAIN_FILE \
-               -DAPL_JNI=ON ..
+               -DAPL_JNI=ON \
+               -DBUILD_TESTS=ON ..
     )
 }
 
@@ -290,7 +292,7 @@ function apl-config-wasm {  # Run cmake in the wasm build
         cd $APL_DIR
         mkdir -p wasm-build
         cd wasm-build
-        emcmake cmake -DEMSCRIPTEN=ON -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DEMSCRIPTEN_SOURCEMAPS=ON -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF ..
+        emcmake cmake -DEMSCRIPTEN=ON -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DEMSCRIPTEN_SOURCEMAPS=ON ..
     )
 }
 

aplcore/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ add_subdirectory(src/extension)
 add_subdirectory(src/focus)
 add_subdirectory(src/graphic)
 add_subdirectory(src/livedata)
+add_subdirectory(src/media)
 add_subdirectory(src/primitives)
 add_subdirectory(src/scaling)
 add_subdirectory(src/time)

aplcore/include/apl/action/arrayaction.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

aplcore/include/apl/action/documentaction.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

aplcore/include/apl/action/extensioneventaction.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

aplcore/include/apl/action/openurlaction.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

aplcore/include/apl/action/scrolltoaction.h

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class ScrollToAction : public AnimatedScrollAction {
      */
     static std::shared_ptr<ScrollToAction> make(const TimersPtr& timers,
                                                 const std::shared_ptr<CoreCommand>& command,
-                                                const ComponentPtr& target = nullptr);
+                                                const CoreComponentPtr& target = nullptr);
     /**
      * Called from SpeakItem during line highlight mode.
      * @param timers Timer reference.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class ScrollToAction : public AnimatedScrollAction {
     static std::shared_ptr<ScrollToAction> make(const TimersPtr& timers,
                                                 const std::shared_ptr<CoreCommand>& command,
                                                 const Rect& subBounds,
-                                                const ComponentPtr& target = nullptr);
+                                                const CoreComponentPtr& target = nullptr);
 
 
     /**
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class ScrollToAction : public AnimatedScrollAction {
                                                 const CommandScrollAlign& align,
                                                 const Rect& subBounds,
                                                 const ContextPtr& context,
-                                                const ComponentPtr& target = nullptr);
+                                                const CoreComponentPtr& target = nullptr);
 
     /**
      * Called in order to bring child into view, utilizing snap setting if exists.
@@ -82,15 +82,15 @@ class ScrollToAction : public AnimatedScrollAction {
      * @return
      */
     static std::shared_ptr<ScrollToAction> makeUsingSnap(const TimersPtr& timers,
-                                                         const ComponentPtr& target,
+                                                         const CoreComponentPtr& target,
                                                          apl_duration_t duration);
 
     ScrollToAction(const TimersPtr& timers,
                    const CommandScrollAlign& align,
                    const Rect& subBounds,
                    const ContextPtr& context,
                    bool scrollToSubBounds,
-                   const ComponentPtr& target,
+                   const CoreComponentPtr& target,
                    const CoreComponentPtr& scrollableParent,
                    apl_duration_t duration);
 
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class ScrollToAction : public AnimatedScrollAction {
                                                 const Rect& subBounds,
                                                 const ContextPtr& context,
                                                 bool scrollToSubBounds,
-                                                const ComponentPtr& target = nullptr,
+                                                const CoreComponentPtr& target = nullptr,
                                                 apl_duration_t duration = 0,
                                                 bool useSnap = false);
 
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ class ScrollToAction : public AnimatedScrollAction {
     CommandScrollAlign mAlign;
     Rect mSubBounds;
     bool mScrollToSubBounds;
-    ComponentPtr mTarget;
+    CoreComponentPtr mTarget;
 };
 
 

aplcore/include/apl/action/sequentialaction.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

aplcore/include/apl/action/setpageaction.h

@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ class SetPageAction : public ResourceHoldingAction {
 
     SetPageAction(const TimersPtr& timers,
                   const std::shared_ptr<CoreCommand>& command,
-                  const ComponentPtr& target);
+                  const CoreComponentPtr& target);
 
 private:
     void start();
 
 private:
     std::shared_ptr<CoreCommand> mCommand;
-    ComponentPtr mTarget;
+    CoreComponentPtr mTarget;
 };
 
 } // namespace apl

aplcore/include/apl/action/speaklistaction.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

aplcore/include/apl/apl.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
 #include "apl/graphic/graphicpattern.h"
 #include "apl/livedata/livearray.h"
 #include "apl/livedata/livemap.h"
+#include "apl/media/mediamanager.h"
+#include "apl/media/mediaobject.h"
 #include "apl/primitives/accessibilityaction.h"
 #include "apl/primitives/dimension.h"
 #include "apl/primitives/filter.h"
@@ -62,7 +64,6 @@
 #include "apl/utils/localemethods.h"
 #include "apl/utils/log.h"
 #include "apl/utils/session.h"
-#include "apl/utils/telemetry.h"
 
 #ifdef ALEXAEXTENSIONS
 #include "apl/extension/extensionmediator.h"

aplcore/include/apl/colorgrammar/colorfunctions.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

aplcore/include/apl/colorgrammar/colorgrammar.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

aplcore/include/apl/common.h

@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ class GraphicPattern;
 class LiveArray;
 class LiveMap;
 class LiveObject;
+class MediaManager;
+class MediaObject;
 class Package;
 class RootConfig;
 class RootContext;
@@ -93,6 +95,8 @@ using GraphicPatternPtr = std::shared_ptr<GraphicPattern>;
 using LiveArrayPtr = std::shared_ptr<LiveArray>;
 using LiveMapPtr = std::shared_ptr<LiveMap>;
 using LiveObjectPtr = std::shared_ptr<LiveObject>;
+using MediaManagerPtr = std::shared_ptr<MediaManager>;
+using MediaObjectPtr = std::shared_ptr<MediaObject>;
 using PackagePtr = std::shared_ptr<Package>;
 using RootConfigPtr = std::shared_ptr<RootConfig>;
 using RootContextPtr = std::shared_ptr<RootContext>;

aplcore/include/apl/component/actionablecomponent.h

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ class ActionableComponent : public CoreComponent {
     const ComponentPropDefSet& propDefSet() const override;
     void release() override;
 
-    ActionableComponent(const ContextPtr& context, Properties&& properties, const std::string& path) :
+    ActionableComponent(const ContextPtr& context, Properties&& properties, const Path& path) :
             CoreComponent(context, std::move(properties), path), mGesturesDisabled(false) {}
 
     bool processGestures(const PointerEvent& event, apl_time_t timestamp) override;

aplcore/include/apl/component/component.h

@@ -338,9 +338,9 @@ class Component : public Counter<Component>,
     /**
      * Call this to ensure that the component has a layout.  This method must be used by
      * children of a sequence to before retrieving the layout bounds.
-     * @deprecated This method still works but not required to be used.
+     * @deprecated Should not be used. No-op.
      */
-    virtual void ensureLayout(bool useDirtyFlag = false) = 0;
+    virtual void ensureLayout(bool useDirtyFlag = false) {}
 
     /**
      * The bounds of this component within an ancestor.
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ class Component : public Counter<Component>,
      * @param point The requested point.
      * @return A valid point to scroll to.
      */
-    virtual Point trimScroll(const Point& point) const { return Point(); }
+    virtual Point trimScroll(const Point& point) { return Point(); }
 
     /**
      * @return The valid directions that can be paged from the current page. This depends on the navigation setting.
@@ -382,6 +382,16 @@ class Component : public Counter<Component>,
      */
     virtual int pagePosition() const { return 0; }
 
+    /**
+     * @return true if component like Pager or Scrollable can move forward.
+     */
+    virtual bool allowForward() const { return false; }
+
+    /**
+     * @return true if component like Pager or Scrollable can move backwards.
+     */
+    virtual bool allowBackwards() const { return false; }
+
     /**
      * The component hierarchy signature is a unique text string that represents the type
      * of this component and all of the components below it in the hierarchy.  This signature
@@ -471,6 +481,16 @@ class Component : public Counter<Component>,
      */
     ComponentPtr inflateChildAt(const rapidjson::Value& component, size_t index);
 
+    /**
+     * @return true if component could be focused with input focus.
+     */
+    virtual bool isFocusable() const { return false; }
+
+    /**
+     * @return true if component should participate be reported to the accessibility system.
+     */
+    virtual bool isAccessible() const { return false; }
+
 protected:
     Component(const ContextPtr& context, const std::string& id);
 

aplcore/include/apl/component/componentpropdef.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
  * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.