New Features

• Stories Module

  Stories experience has been integrated:

  • Story Creation: Capture stories via the Camera Tool or select media through Gallery upload.
  • Feed Support: Stories are now displayed at the top of the main feed with autoplay and swipe support.
  • Discover Integration: A dedicated section for exploring trending and curated stories is now available in the Discover screen.

• Background Content Publishing with Notification Feedback

  To improve user flow and responsiveness:

  • Publishing now occurs asynchronously in the background.
  • Users are notified with Toast and Push Notifications upon successful content publishing

Technical Enhancements

• Enhanced Camera Tool

  • Refactored the Camera module for better performance and reduced cold start latency.
  • Improved video recording stability and media encoding on a wide range of Android devices.
  • Better support for dynamic permissions and edge-case handling during media capture.

• Widget Metadata Conversion

  • Internal refactor:Widget Details (including MicroCommunity) via SDK Low Code, added support for String response.

Bug Fixes

• Feed analytics events:

  • Fixed inconsistent logging of feed-related analytics events

• Profile username issue with special characters:

  • Resolved display and loading issues for usernames containing special characters.
  • Updated input handling and rendering logic across profile-related components.

New Features

• User Verified Badge

  • Introduced a verified badge system to distinguish authentic creators and trusted users across the platform. This visual indicator enhances trust and credibility within the community.

• Dynamic CTA on Feed

  • Integrated dynamic call-to-action (CTA) capabilities, enabling personalised and context-aware user call to actions. This allows for more engaging and adaptive in-app user journeys.

  Unified Feed Across Multiple Entry Points

  • Launched a unified content feed architecture that provides consistent discovery and consumption experience across different touch-points. Whether users enter via Carousels or Home page, they now access a seamlessly synchronised feed.

Improvements

Technical Upgrades

• Koin Dependency Injection Upgrade
  • Upgraded Koin from previous versions to v3.5.6. This update includes improved startup performance, better modularization support, and compatibility enhancements for the latest Kotlin versions.
• Downloader Upgrade
  • Upgraded Downloader to v1.0.2, which brings improved download stability, bug fixes, and better support for downloads.

Bug Fixes

• SDK
  • Improved SDK initialization flow
• UGC & Discovery
  • App crash resolved when UGC is disabled and search is attempted in Discovery section.
• Drafting & Posting Issues
  • Fixed issue where drafts were deleted upon navigating away and returning to Shorts Profile.
  • Prevented drafting of the same video multiple times.
  • Crash resolved when adding text or stickers while posting content.
• UI/UX & Navigation
  • Improved scroll-up behavior on the Profile page for better user experience.
  • Corrected character input limit mismatch for username (now allows 15 characters).
  • Fixed back-navigation flow when choosing profile photo from gallery.
  • Device Specific - Timer truncation during recording has been fixed.
• Cross-Platform Issues
  • Terms & Conditions are now consistently clickable across Android and iOS while reposting.
  • Handle default Profile images in notifications when no profile image is set.
• Recording & Upload
  • Android 14 - OS Specific - Fixed Random crash while recording content on Android 14 devices.
• Console Upload Handling
  • Like, Comment, and Share default values sync on multiple feed entry points when content is uploaded from the console.
• Connectivity Feedback
  • "No Internet" message now displays properly on the player screen for better user awareness

Bug Fixes

• Fixed double tap not working issue for micro community feature on player screen
• Hide the share option from hashtag detail & challenge detail toolbar

New Features

Micro Community - Text & Card Content Support on Camera Tool

• Users can now create and share text-based and card-based content directly from the camera tool within the micro-community feature.

Unified Feed & Sub Feed

• Introduced a unified feed experience, enabling seamless navigation between the main feed and sub-feeds for better content discovery.

Shimmer Effect for Improved Loading Experience

• Implemented a shimmer loading effect on the feed, providing a more polished and visually appealing experience while content loads.

Verified User Badge

Added a Verified Badge for distinguished users, helping identify authentic and notable accounts within the platform.

Improved User Journey Across Entry Points

Improvements

• Implemented unified dimen, style and color files
• Card Build Change content type in upload api to support micro community feature
• Refactored SDK callbacks
• Discover Interactor : Added capability to get the response in string along with Object
• Remove thumbnail from Player screen and Show loader when there video is getting loaded
• Synced Card based UI as per approved designs
• Added meta keys & profile picture field in User Auto SignIn mechanism
• Implemented Unified launch method for creator and SDK launch
• Handling of dynamic Terms & Condition visibility based on console settings

Bug Fixes

• Fix challenge details leaderboard button color
• Implemented formatInKMGTPE in count
• Fix Double hashtag show issue on feed
• Fixed user stuck on video edit screen in case of FFMPEG command failure
• Fixed camera access issue for invite only creator
• Fixed Seekbar not playing on the content displaying on feed/subfeed
• Fix video resume issue
• Fixed issue While blocking the account then the data still displaying on profile detail screen
• Fixed SDK not reset issue when there is a change in API & Secret keys used in last session
• Fixed App crash issue due to API failure in sound detail screen
• Fixed selected sound not playing issue during shooting the video

• Enhancements in Micro Community Feature
  • Introduction of Rules in Leaderboard
  • Filter implementation in Leaderboard
• Bug fixes & improvements

• Implementation of Micro Community Feature
  The Micro Community feature of the GluedIn SDK can be plugged-in into any page within an existing business application. It facilitates users to create & upload content related to a particular offering. The system also incentivises user participation through a reward mechanism and encourages healthy competition with a leaderboard highlighting the top contributors. The goal is to enhance user engagement and drive business growth. Refer the link for detailed integration steps.
• Refactor of existing GluedInSDKCallBack callbacks into GIInitCallback & GISdkCallback
  • GIInitCallback : for the SDK lifecycle related events. Use the setSdkInitCallback method of GluedInConfiguration to set the callback object.
    onSDKLifecycle() method of the callback returns SDKInitStatus (SDK_INIT, SDK_EXIT & SDK_AUTH) to consume and handle SDK lifecycles properly.
• GISdkCallback : for the user actions performed in SDK. Use the setSdkCallback method of GluedInConfiguration to set the callback object. Below are the method to be called on respective user action.

fun onUserAuthStatus(userAuthStatus:UserAuthStatus,currentVideo: VideoInfo?)
fun onShareAction(shareData: ShareData)
fun onProductClick(assetId: String, eventRefId: Int)
fun onUserProfileClick(userId: String)
fun onAdsRequest(adsType: AdsType, adsRequestParams: AdsRequestParams): Fragment?
fun onRewardClick()

• Removed Media3 library to ExoPlayer (v2.19.1)
• Implemented Edit and Delete Content feature via Profile
• Improved card build design
• Inject Ads functionality into SDK
• Bug fixes & improvements

• Removed external third party libraries from SDK to reduce library conflicts. Below are the libraries removed:
  • Firebase Analytics, Messaging & Dynamic Links
  • Facebook Login & Share
  • Google Login

• Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Migrated ExoPlayer to Media3 library
• Enhanced creator tool:
  • Text & Sticker on video
• Sound detail on feed
• Flexibility to control like/share/comment on feed option
• Hide comment replies feature in comment box
• Allow content repost feature via content feed
• Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Added mechanism to submit product click events. Exposed method onProductCTAClicked(assetId: String, eventRefId: Int)to listen the product clicks callback. Use FeedInteractor().productConversion(eventRefId, assetId) method to submit the product click event.
• Fixed record microphone permission issue for Android T & above.

• Enhanced analytics
• Bug fixes & improvements

• Exposed “disableDefaultShare(boolean)" method in GluedIn Initializer to disable the default share feature. If enabled, user will receive the callback of “onGluedInShareAction(ShareData)"method whenever end user tries to share any content/hashtag etc.
• Bug fixes & improvements

• Offline feed support in Vertical Format.
• New design of Profile and Hashtag details screen.

• Handle media permissions for android 13
• Bug Fixes and Improvements
• Improved Logging

• Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Added Auto Sign-in & SDK Auto Validation feature via custom user defined values. Use the setAutoSDKValidation method of the GluedIn Configuration class.

  
  	setAutoSDKValidation(GluedInAutoValidation(p1,p2,p3.... etc))
  
  ----- Sample GluedInAutoValidation class ------
  
  GluedInAutoValidation(
          Data(
               userinfo = Userinfo(
               userId = "user_id",
               fullName = "full_name",
               userName = "user_name",
               email = "email@email.com",
               profileImageUrl = "https://www.sampleimage.com/abc.png",
               creator = true
              ),
         userValidation = UserValidation(
              closedCommunity = false,
              privacyPolicy = "https://www.google.com/",
              aboutUs = "https://www.google.com/",
              termsAndConditions = "https://www.google.com/",
              userAccessToken = "user_access_token",
              userRefreshToken = "user_refresh_token",
              guestRefreshToken = "guest_user_refresh_token",
              guestAccessToken = "guest_user_access_token",
              clientId = "client_id"
                  )
              )
          )
  

• Bug fix related to invalid access token

• Improved Facebook integration to avoid conflicts with parent app settings
• Added GIF support in card based Feed
• Fixed app permissions issue for Android 13 and above
• Exposed setVideoResizeModeForVerticalPlayer method for Vertical Feed to set the Aspect Ration as per need
• Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Bug Fixes