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Added Scroll Behavior property to objects, allowing to define the positioning of objects when the page is being scrolled by the end-user.

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Added Blend Mode property to objects, allowing to apply blending graphics effects such as multiply, screen, overlay, darken, lighten, color dodge, color burn, difference, exclusion, hue, saturation, color, luminosity(on Android devices, this requires Android 5.0 or later).

PubCoder has seen a lot of additions and improvements in the authoring area in the last 6 months, here’s the biggest ones: For example, adding an “Alternative Text” to an image will make it a content image that will be spoken by the screen reading system, otherwise it will be considered a layout image and it won’t be spoken anymore. We also worked to improve how the output is built, in a way that it is more transparent and optimized for screen reading technologies. Accessibility Improvementsĭuring these months, we’ve been working even harder with selected partners to improve support for assistive and accessibility technologies, particularly focusing on-screen reading tools like Apple’s VoiceOver and Google’s TalkBack, which are now fully supported on XPUB2 outputs. We plan to drop support for XPUB 1.0 in 2020. Native iOS / Android apps, instead, will always use XPUB 2.

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While your new projects will automatically use XPUB 2, older projects will still use XPUB 1.0 for compatibility, but you can switch to XPUB 2 at any time in project settings to use the new reader technology on PubReader and Shelf, and everything should work fine (unless you are heavily using custom code, making assumptions on how the page is built, in which case you may need to update your code).

July 2019 - PubCoder 3.6: Android app export is now based on XPUB 2 as well.

April 2019 - PubCoder 3.5 now uses XPUB 2 as the default format for new projects iOS app export is now based on XPUB 2.

December 2018 - PubCoder 3.3 quietly introduces XPUB 2 as an experimental feature.

We started transitioning to XPUB 2 in December 2018 and just completed the transition with PubCoder 3.6:

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For the moment, you can already enjoy better performance and stability, full compatibility with the latest requirements from Google Play Console (64-bit support, Target API 28) and App Store ( WKWebView, Xcode 10.2, iOS 12 SDK, CFBundleDisplayName key), full VoiceOver / TalkBack support.Īlso, you can enjoy faster setup and app export time for Android, since building the new Android app-reader is now up to 2x faster than before and does not require to install and configure Android SDK anymore. This will enable easier maintenance and allow us to add even more features quickly to our ecosystem. The new reader finds place in PubCoder’s native iOS/Android app exports, our free PubReader companion app ( App Store / Google Play) and our white-label Shelf solution.

The XPUB 2 reader is based on cross-platform technologies, and shares up to 90% of the code between iOS and Android versions while still being fully-native. XPUB 2 is an evolution of our proprietary XPUB format for distribution of fixed-layout digital publications supporting interactivity and multiple languages/renditions, and is directly linked to our new native reader technology, that allows to reproduce the contents of the XPUB on iOS and Android devices.