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apollo-android v2.4.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-09-22 // over 3 years ago

  • 🔖 Version 2.4.0 brings multiple new features and bugfixes. Read below for the most important changes and full changelog

    👍 Experimental Multi-Modules support

    🔖 Version 2.4.0 brings Multi-Modules support. With Multi-Modules, you can reuse GraphQL fragments from different Gradle modules for better separation of concerns and improved build speed.

    📇 Configure your parent module to generate Apollo metadata:

    // parent/build.gradle.ktsapollo { generateApolloMetadata.set(true) }

    And declare your parent module as a dependency of your feature module:

    // feature/build.gradle.ktsdependencies { implementation("com.apollographql.apollo:apollo-runtime:xyz") // more regular dependencies// Apollo dependencies apolloMetadata(project(":parent")) // You still need to declare the parent module as a regular dependency implementation(project(":parent")) }

    📚 For more information, read the official documentation

    🍱 ⚠️ Multi-Modules is currently experimental and we'd love to hear how it worked (or not worked) for you. We welcome issues/feedback through the Github Issues

    SDL schemas improvements

    🔖 Version 2.4.0 brings even more fixes and tools to work with SDL schemas. SDL schemas are a more concise and readable way to work with GraphQL schemas. To use them, replace schema.json with your SDL schema schema.sdl. You can get a SDL schema from your GraphQL Playground if your endpoint has an associated Playground instance. If you don't have a playground instance or another way to download a SDL file, version 2.4.0 can make an introspection query and save it in SDL format. The schema will be saves as Json or SDL depending on the filename extension:

    ./gradlew downloadApolloSchema --endpoint https://your.graphql/endpoint --schema src/main/graphql/com/example/schema.sdl

    Coroutines

    🚚 If you're using apollo-coroutines-support, version 2.4.0 brings apolloCall.await() (#2574). It is more concise than the previous apolloCall.toDeferred().await() and also respects structured concurrency. We strongely encourage to move to .await(). Many thanks to @R4md4c for adding this!

    Kotlin 1.4.10

    ✅ The Kotlin 1.4.10 ecosystem is moving forward and we bumped a few dependencies (sqldeligh, okio, kotlin-compile-testing, coroutines and obviously kotlin).

    👀 The Gradle plugin is also compiled against Kotlin 1.4.10 despite Gradle forcing Kotlin 1.3.72 at runtime. We compile with apiVersion = "1.3" and our tests do not show any issue but please let us know if you see any weird Gradle behaviour.

    FileUpload

    🔖 Version 2.4.0 fixes how files were written in variables (#2566) and allows to subclass FileUpload to make it work without a File. With Android 11 and scoped storage out of the door, this will allow to upload from a content uri or any other data source. The API was inspired by OkHttp RequestBody. If you ever used OkHttp before, you shouldn't be disoriented:

      object upload : FileUpload(mimetype) {
    override fun contentLength(): Long {
      TODO("return contentLength here")
    }
    override fun fileName(): String? {
      TODO("return fileName to use in the multipart request here")
    }
    override fun writeTo(sink: BufferedSink) {
      TODO("write the data here")
    }
  }

    Full Changelog

    🍱 ✨ New

    • 👍 Multi-module support (#2514)
    • 🔌 [Plugin] Allow to download SDL schemas (#2586)
    • 🗄 [Plugin] Add an option to fail on deprecated usages (#2575)
    • [FileUpload] allow to sub class FileUpload (#2569)
    • [FileUpload] Allow to encode custom scalar types as null and use it for file uploads (#2566)
    • 👍 [Coroutines] Add ApolloCall.await with better structured concurrency support. (#2574)

    👷 👷‍♂️ Fixes

    • [RxJava] fix retry() (#2587)
    • [SDL] Fix a scalar definition after a union defintion (#2559)
    • [Compiler] fix optional Int properties with an uppercase name (#2543)
    • [SQLNormalizedCache] fix watcher not called on initial cache write (#2538)

    🍱 ⚙️ Internal

    • ⚡️ Update CI to use main instead of master (#2594)
    • ⚡️ Update LICENSE with new organization name (#2584)
    • ➕ Add Kotlin as language for the codeblock (#2580)
    • ⬆️ Bump Kotlin to 1.4.10 (#2578)
    • ⬆️ Bump sql delight version to 1.4.3 (#2564)
    • Compile Kotlin against stdlib 1.3 (#2555)
    • Put the location of the .xcodeproj file for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile integration in Android Studio (#2554)
    • 🔌 [Plugin] allow running the plugin on Gradle 5.6 (#2539)
    • ⬆️ Bump kotlin compile testing (#2547)

    🍱 ❤️ External contributors

    📚 Many thanks to @R4md4c, @dush1729, @jaggs6 for their awesome work on coroutines, documentation and keeping the project in good shape in general!