What's new in Bolt Android 4.0?
Written by Benji Weiser
Updated at August 16th, 2024
Table of Contents
Release dates
Bolt Android 4.0.20 - 2024-08-15
Major changes
New Android API
Useful for: Your product team
Bolt Android 4.0 targets API level 34 (Android 14), this is a requirement for app submissions after 31/8/2024. We update this every year as a matter of course, conducting a full regression pass of the platform as part of this, so 4.0 also fixes a lot of smaller bugs we came across during this testing.
Who's affected: All Bolt customers with and Android app.
What you need to do: Nothing specific, your next app update will be on 4.0 or higher.
Improvements to the underlying navigation framework of the app
Useful for: Your product team
Bolt Android 4.0 changes the underlying navigation framework of the app. This is where we've adopted Android's latest technologies, and in many cases this simply brings Bolt Android closer to Bolt iOS.
As a whole these changes should result in a smoother, more intuitive app experience, albeit one that presents itself subtly. Bolt Android should now behave more like Google's own apps and best practices.
Further details on these changes.
Who's affected: All Bolt customers with and Android app.
What you need to do: Nothing specific, your next app update will be on 4.0 or higher and will receive all benefits.
Enhanced user control over notifications
Useful for: Your product and audience teams
We've created a new preference centre for your users to highlight the topics that they're most interested in. Users who opt in to specific topics will have a tag assigned to them in your push provider dashboard, allowing you to send targeted and curated pushes to particular audiences and improve your push engagement.
While the new preference centre is currently only available for OneSignal customers, we plan to expand it to other providers soon.
Who's affected: Bolt customers using OneSignal as their push provider.
What you need to do: Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to update your Bolt product to Android 4.0 and to configure your push preference centre for you.
Choose how you read
Who's affected: All Bolt customers with double page edition content.
What you need to do: Update your app to Android 4.0 and let us know if you would like to add this setting item for you.
Additional changes
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements as part of our Android 14 regression testing.
- Optimised background downloading for editions including better download metrics and logging.
- Tab bar can now optionally persist when inside an article.
- Added optional alternative method of tracking for Chartbeat analytics, using URL rather than view id.
- Added the ability to create Android builds without any Google services, which can be submitted in locations such as China.
- Applied voucher codes can now be cleared from the hidden menu.
- Removed support for custom app icons.
- Removed support for Omniture.
- Removed support for Branch.
- SDK updates -
- Firebase 32.8.1
- Airship 17.8.0
- Onesignal 5.1.13
- Pushly 1.2.5
- Mixpanel 7.5.2
- Onetrust 202402.1.0.0
- Google Services 4.4.1
- Google Ad Services 22.6.0
- Google app store 6.1.0
- Amazon app store 3.0.4
- Adobe 2.9.3