LiveCode 9.6 Released

We are excited to announce today the release of LiveCode 9.6.0 stable. This release comes with more than 120 changes since the last stable release (9.5.1) including the following features and bug fixes…

Support for Storyboard launch images and backgrounds on iOS

In previous editions of LiveCode, you would have to add 20 perfectly sized splash screen images to support all the various iOS device launch screen sizes. Now with LiveCode 9.6 and Storyboard launch image support you just have to upload a centered image at 3 sizes and select the background color.

Support for using the flash as a torch in the Android Barcode Scanner

In low light conditions, you can now use the flash when scanning barcodes with the Android Barcode Scanner.

Ability to detect dark mode on MacOS, iOS and Android

You will be pleased to hear we have added the ability to detect dark mode on iOS, Mac, and Android. Turn off the lights on your app and it will still look beautiful in the dark and the light!

New text to speech library for iOS, Android and macOS (Indy/Business only)

Have the iPhone or Android device speak out content from your app with the new text to speech library in 9.6. You can choose from the system voices, altering the speech rate and pitch of the voice.

The new features don’t stop there…

• Support for building with Xcode 11.4, using the iOS 13.4 SDK
• New tsNet and mergExt builds, built with the iOS 13.4 SDK
• The mobile player control has been updated to use the AVKit framework on iOS. This fixes many existing bugs, including some new issues on iOS 13+ devices.
• The mobile browser control has been updated to use the WebKit framework on iOS. This provides better performance on iOS devices.
• The “open printing to pdf …” command can now be used to direct printing to a PDF output file on Android devices.
• New CEF build is included, which addresses rendering issues with the browser widget in some 32bit Windows devices.
• New “focusModes” and “focusMode” properties are implemented for the Android camera control.
• The ability to pass “detailed-utf8” to the files() and folders() function to preserve Unicode filenames.
• Support for merging activity attributes in the Android Manifest Merging mechanism
• Improved text rendering on Android
• Objective-C block support in LCB
• Improvements on mobilePickPhoto on Android, including support for the front camera
• Ability to highlight none of the icons in the navigation bar widget

LiveCode 9.6.0 also includes these notable Bug Fixes…

• Significant performance improvement when saving stacks on Windows
• Improvements in the Windows FFI in LCB
• Fixes to drag-drop on macOS and Windows
• Windows camera control now produces much higher quality output

You can read the full release notes here.

Get LiveCode 9.6 today from your account.

If you are new to LiveCode and have been impacted by the covid-19 outbreak, you can get access to LiveCode 9.6 Indy edition for whatever price you can afford to pay. Learn more here.