Reading App Builder 5.6 released

Reading App Builder 5.6

Release date: 05 July 2019

New Features and Improvements:

  • Firebase configuration:

    • Improved configuration screen, App > Firebase, with a link to the Firebase console.
  • Registration screen:

    • You can define a registration screen to be shown when a user launches the app for the first time.
    • See App > Security > Require each user to register with their details, and the Configure Registration button.
  • Fonts:

    • Awami Nastaliq font updated to version 2.000.

Bugs Fixed:

In the Android app:

  • If you wanted a splash screen together with one of the restricted user security modes, the app would crash on start-up.

In the app builder:

  • Building the Android app failed with errors if including Firebase Crashlytics.
  • If using Word documents (docx), custom footnote callers such as asterisks were repeated when converted to SFM files.
  • Right-click popup menus were missing from several tables, i.e. for Edit and Delete actions.
  • Allow use of Zulu OpenJDK from Azul Systems as the JDK.