BVSDK 4.2.0 (Location Release)

NEW Location

This release provides a new module for adding location awareness to your app. This module facilitates knowing when your shoppers are entering and exiting your physical retail locations. You will be provided a very valuable opportunity to present a shopper with your location aware content. Perhaps you have a simple greeting or coupon? Aside from the value you add within your mobile experience, Bazaarvoice can use this location context to enhance our existing products. Rating and Reviews filtered down to the city level, recommended products for nearby people like you, local social media content (Curations), and more are all possible by using the Location module.

For more information, please refer to the location documentation: https://bazaarvoice.github.io/bv-android-sdk/location.html

BVSDK 4.1.4 (Conversations API visibility fix)

Conversations

• Fixed visibility of methods that should be public

BVSDK 4.1.3 (Conversations NPE Fix)

Conversations

• Fixed NPE in ConversationsAnalyticsManager for response with no products

BVSDK 4.1.2 (Conversations API Visiblity Update)

Conversations

• Fixed AnswerOptions.Sort visibility from package-private to public

BVSDK 4.1.1 (Conversations Parse Fix)

Conversations

• Fixed Review response parsing, and updated unit tests to cover all expected response parsing
• Added unit tests to cover the parsing of all expected models

BVSDK 4.1.0 (Conversations Refresh)

Conversations

Conversations Revamped

This release provides a vast improvement over the current display and submission API for Conversations.
The following improvements will:

• decrease implementation time
• provide deserialized responses returned in P.O.J.O (plain old java objects), as opposed to returning
  a raw json response string
• make error handling much simpler, (e.g. wrapping legacy conversations API implementation details so
  you don't have to worry about it
• provide View container objects, which makes ROI reporting much simpler

We have deprecated the BazaarRequest class as well as any related classes to implement
Conversation the old way. For any clients migrating from the BazaarRequest API, please refer to
the upgrade guide: https://bazaarvoice.github.io/bv-android-sdk/upgrading_conversations.html

Other Conversations Changes

• Fixed the implementation of the DisplayParams#addLimitOnIncludedType(type, limitVal) method to
  correctly add the type to the limitType list

General

• Updated root dependencies.gradle to distinguish BVSDK artifact depndencies versus Demo App dependencies

BVSDK 4.0.5 (Remove User Polling and Enforce Singleton)

Common

• Fix BVSDK to enforce singleton pattern
• Remove Scheduled Profile updates

BVSDK 4.0.4 (Update recs analytics and AdId)

Common

• Fix version number sending for Analytics
• Sending Embedded-Pageview with prod/category id

Product Recommendations

• No more pending for advertising id in Recommendations requests

General

• Updated Robolectric and relevant tests

BVSDK 4.0.3 (Sample Apps Update)

Common

• Added BVProduct#getPrice()
• Expose the Profile class
• Expose the ShopperProfile class which contains a Profile object

Curations

• Expose the CurationsFeedResponse class
• Added CurationsProduct#getId()

General

• Added AndroidManifest.xml to each module with the android.permission.INTERNET
  permission, so gradle manifest merger should handle implicitly requesting it for
  users instead of needing to explicitly request it
• Updated docs with instructions for the new Demo App for best practices, as well as
  the Code Example App. Also updated typos, etc.

BVSDK 4.0.0 (Ads Update)

Advertising

• New changes to the BVAds class that require some minor code changes to migrate from 3.x to 4.x
  • Ads interface removed, instead simply use the BVAds class directly
  • Map<String, String> getCustomTargeting() is the only method available now through BVAds.getCustomTargeting()\
  • The methods creating Google DFP ad objects can now just be called by directly invoking the Google DFP API,
    e.g. getTargetedInterstitialAd(Context context, String adUnitId) becomes PublisherInterstitialAd interstitialAd = new PublisherInterstitialAd(context); interstitialAd.setAdUnitId(adUnitId);
• New Support for Bazaarvoice Curations: Ability to display custom social media feeds and post photos from your mobile app. Checkout the example project
• New BVPixel - Analytics for tracking purchase and non-transaction events for ROI reporting and omnichannel profile
• Added usage pattern for BVRecommendations for fetching and displaying product recommendations
• Removed SDK dependency on Google DFP SDK. Existing clients can now more easily add 1st party data to DFP add requests.