Agora Chat Release Notes

This page provides release notes for the Agora Chat Android SDK.

v1.0.7

v1.0.7 was released on September 7, 2022.

New features

• Adds the isDisabled() attribute to Group to indicate whether a group is disabled. This attribute needs to be set by developers at the server side. This attribute is returned when you call the getGroupFromServer() method in GroupManager to get group details.
• Adds custom error information to the error information returned to the message sender when the pre-sending callback service declines to send the message.
• Adds the error code 1101 (PRESENCE_CANNOT_SUBSCRIBE_YOURSELF) in Error to indicate users cannot subscribe to their own presence.
• Adds ChatLogListener to implement SDK running log callbacks.

Improvements

• Optimized the login process for quicker login.
• Optimized the access point update policy that is used in the case of a connection failure, in order to improve the availability.
• Upgraded the message encryption algorithm from CBC to GCM.
• Supported TLS 1.3 for SDK-related HTTP requests.
• Upgraded OpenSSL, a dependency of libcipherdb, to 1.1.1q.
• Optimized the display of parameters in the methods in the SDK.

Fixed issues

• Data deduplication was not implemented for the getAllMessage method in Conversation.
• Occasional crashes during login with user IDs and passwords.
• Once the fetchHistoryMessages() method in ChatManager was called, the method was repeatedly called to get messages from the server.

v1.0.6

v1.0.6 was released on Jul 22, 2022.

New features

• Supports marking whether a message is an online message by using the isOnlineState member in ChatMessage.
• Adds an error code 509 MESSAGE_CURRENT_LIMITING in Error, which means that the chat group message has exceeded the concurrent limit.
• Adds an onSpecificationChanged callback in GroupChangeListener, which occurs when the state specification updates.
• Adds a bindDeviceToken method in PushManager, which binds the device token.

Improvements

• Improved thread-related methods and classes. Compared with 1.0.4, this release used ChatThread to replace ChatThreadInfo.
• Assigned a value to groupName in the onInvitationReceived callback.
• Removed the CBC and EBC encryption algorithm in the Android layer.
• Upgraded the network link library.
• Supported sending messages with a remote address as the attachment.

Issues fixed

• The retrieved reaction object was empty.
• Devices running earlier Android versions failed to load the database.

v1.0.4

v1.0.4 was released on May 17, 2022.

New features

• Supports reaction, which enables users to add reaction emojis to the specified message.
• Supports content moderation with the reportMessage method.
• Supports message push configuration, which enables users to configure various push settings.

Improvements

• Enhanced DNS configuration for retrieving the server access point.
• Improved data reports.
• Changed the file name of libsqlcipher to avoid conflict when using the official AAR.
• Added support for double and float data types for the ext attribute in ChatMessage.
• Changed openssl to boringssl.
• Changed the minimum API level to 21 (Android 5.0).

Issues fixed

• Issues reported when uploading the app to Google Play caused by encryption algorithm.
• The translation API did not take effect.

v1.0.3.1

v1.0.3.1 was released on April 27, 2022. This release fixed the occasional issue of not being to display the retrieved historical messages.

v1.0.3

v1.0.3 was released on April 19, 2022.

New features

Supports the presence feature, which indicates the online status of the user.

Improvements

• Shortened the time out for sending messages.
• Enhanced the request success rate.
• Supported the upgraded OPPO push (from 2.1.0 to 3.0.0) and VIVO push (from 2.3.1 to 3.is 0.0.4_484).

Issues fixed

Fixed PendingIntent, which caused warnings when uploading apps to Google Play.

v1.0.2

v1.0.2 was released on Feb 22, 2022.

New features

• Supports deleting conversations on the server by calling deleteConversationFromServer.
• Supports customizing messages using extension fields, badges, CMD messages for message push.
• Adds an error code 221 USER_NOT_ON_ROSTER which is reported when the user sends a message to another user that is not a contact.
• Supports recalling messages using the RESTful API.

Improvements

Reduced the time for preparing to send messages under poor network conditions.

Issues fixed

• The message re-sending was interrupted by the connection success event.
• Memory leak.
• Crashes caused by incorrect time calculation.

v1.0.1.1

v1.0.1.1 was released on December 30, 2021.

This release fixed an issue where the database failed to load under extreme conditions.

v1.0.1

v1.0.1 was released on December 27, 2021.

New features

v1.0.1 adds the following features:

• Supports setting the building name when creating a location message.
• Supports deleting local messages before a specific time.
• Supports getting the count of messages in one conversation.

Fixed issues

This release fixed the following issues:

• Some crash issues occurred.
• An issue occurred in the database encryption.

API changes

v1.0.1 adds the following APIs:

• createLocationSendMessage [1/2]
• deleteMessagesBeforeTimestamp
• getAllMsgCount

v1.0.0

v1.0.0 was released on December 6, 2021.

New features

This release supports getting the users' login status through the isLoggedIn and isLoggedInBefore methods.

Improvements

This release makes the following improvements:

• Optimizes the logic of renewing push tokens, reducing server request times.
• Improves the login speed.
• Uses only HTTPS for REST operations by default.
• Optimizes the logic of token expiration.

Fixed issues

This release fixed the following issues:

• The fetched history messages were incomplete.
• Crashes occurred in certain scenarios.
• An issue occurred in displaying the unread status of messages.