iOS: SDK and Matrix Console 0.2.2 released

A new release of the iOS SDK and the iOS Matrix Console app is available on GitHub: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-ios-sdk.

If you use CocoaPods to manage your application dependencies, note that the Matrix SDK pod has been updated too.

The changes since the last release are:

SDK

Improvements:

• MXFileStore stores data on a separated thread to avoid blocking the UI thread.
• MXRestClient: Callback blocks in all MXRestClient methods are now optional.
• MXEvent: Cleaned up exposed properties and added a description for each of them.

Features:

• Added API for registering for push notifications.
• Added generic API methods to make any kind of registration or login flow.
• Added Identity server API: lookup3pid, requestEmailValidation, validateEmail and bind3PID.
• Management of event redaction: there is a new method in the SDK to redact an event and the SDK updates its data on redaction event.

Bug fixes:

• SYIOS-5 - Expose registration API
• SYIOS-44 - Credentials persist across logout
• SYIOS-54 - Matrix Console app slightly freezes when receiving a message
• SYIOS-59 - Infinite loop in case of back pagination on new created room
• MXRoom: Fixed [MXRoom sendTextMessage]

Matrix Console

Improvements:

• When long pressing on a message, the app shows the JSON string of the Matrix event.
• On this screen, the user can redact the event - if he has enough power level.
• Use home server media repository facilities to use lower image size for thumbnails and avatars
• Settings screen: show build version with the app version.
• Settings screen: added an option to hide information related to redacted event.
• Settings screen: added an option to enable reading of local phonebook. The country is required to internationalise phone numbers.

Features:

• Push notifications.
• Added a contacts screen that displays Matrix users the user had interactions with and contacts from the device phonebook.
• Contacts from the device phonebook who have an email linked to a Matrix user id are automatically recognised.

Bug fixes:

• SYIOS-53 - multilines text input that expands as you type mutiplines would be nice
• SYIOS-45 - Need to check the thumbnail params requested by iOS
• SYIOS-55 - High resolution avatars create memory pressure
• SYIOS-57 - Back pagination does not work well for self chat
• SYIOS-56 - add cache size handling in settings
• SYIOS-60 - In a self chat, Console takes ages to paginate back even if messages are in cache
• SYIOS-61 - Chat room : cannot scroll to bottom when keyboard is opened whereas the growing textview contains multi-lines text.
• SYIOS-63 - calculate room names for 3+ members if no room name/alias
• SYIOS-44 - Credentials persist across logout
• SYIOS-64 - Chat room : unexpected blank lines are added into history when user types in growing textview
• SYIOS-65 - IOS8 : in case of search in recents, keyboard is not dismisssed when user selects a room.
• SYIOS-16 Add option in Console to join room thanks to its alias