Android agent release notesRSS

Improvements

• Retrofit compatibility - this release of the Android SDK adds support for the current beta version of the Retrofit library (2.0.0-beta2) and addresses a crash that may have occurred previously when making an HTTP request with this beta version.

Improvements

• This release adds a new API method withApplicationBuild(String build) which replaces the now deprecated method, withBuildIdentifier(String build). The functionality remains the same, allowing the application build to be set rather than relying on the versionCode. See Android API documentation for details.
• Log messages from the Android SDK have been updated to reflect updated New Relic support team contact information.

Fixes

• This release improves UI performance when an app has crashed and that crash is being sent to New Relic.
• The logic for sampling memory and CPU resources during an interaction trace was improved to limit the use of system resources.
• A crash was addressed in a rare instance when the Apache BasicHttpRequest library was used for networking purposes.

Fixes

• Fixes a crash that occurred when attempting to cast the result of OkHttpFactory.open() to a javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection, resulting in a java.lang.ClassCastException
• Resolves a crashing java.lang.NullPointerException when the app is brought from background to foreground in a specific scenario

Improvements

• The SDK now tracks the number and duration of network requests per interaction, which will be used in upcoming features.
• Deprecates the NewRelic.shutdown() method, which will be removed from the API in a future release.

Fixes

• Resolves a potential UI performance issue when experiencing low/no network connectivity.
• Addresses a crashing java.lang.RuntimeException thrown while determining the root cause of an app crash.
• Fixes a potential crash during trace collection resulting from a java.lang.ClassCastException.

Fixes

• Resolves an issue where the connection type used by the app may have been incorrectly reported.

Notes

• Resolves a compatibility issue that may occur when running apps on Android M preview.

Improvements

• The Android SDK will now collect an app build identifier when an app crashes, which will be displayed in parentheses beside the version number in the Crash Details page in RPM. This value defaults to the string versionCode that is specified in the app's AndroidManifest.xml. If versionCode is not specified the build identifier not be displayed.
• A new API method withBuildIdentifier(String) was added to allow specifying a custom app build identifier, overriding the default value pulled from versionCode.
•  Updates to unique ID management to improve accuracy of unique device counts.

Fixes

• Fixes a crash resulting from empty body responses when using version 1.9 of the Retrofit library.
• Corrects an internal issue with reserved attribute names. 'interactionDuration' is now a reserved attribute name.