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Moodle App 4.4.0 release notes
Moodle App 4.4.0
Moodle App
Release notes

Release date: 28 June 2024

New features and improvements

  • Blog entries edition support
  • Sites policies can be now we accepted via the app
  • New privacy and policies section in the user menu
  • Users avatars do not show a default image anymore
  • Support for partial grades in quiz
  • Improved the visualisation of attempts in quiz
  • Support for the new ordering question type
  • Course activity icons redesign
  • Integration with external communication tools
  • Improvements in the visualisation of videos in different formats
  • Accessibility improvements

New requirements

  • Minimum Android Version: Updated to 7 (from 5.1)
  • Minimum iOS Version: Updated to 13 (from 11); although it will be only tested in versions iOS 14 onward
  • Note: Android 5 and 6 users can still use version 4.3 but won't receive new updates.

For developers

  • The app now uses Ionic 7 and Angular 17
  • Custom language strings using the old format (those starting with mm. or MMA) won't be supported any more. The new string identifiers can be found here

Complete list of issues

Task

  • MOBILE-3947 - Upgrade to Ionic 7 and to Angular 17
  • MOBILE-4357 - Upgrade Cordova, cordova-android to 12 and cordova-ios to 7
  • MOBILE-4449 - Use Android photo picker to avoid using READ_MEDIA_IMAGES and READ_MEDIA_VIDEO
  • MOBILE-4465 - Remove deprecated 4.0 code
  • MOBILE-4492 - Upgrade cordova-plugin-file to 8.0.1, cordova-plugin-media-capture and use cordova-plugin-camera

New feature

  • MOBILE-4219 - Create, delete and update blog entries
  • MOBILE-4329 - Add "Privacy and policies" section in the app to comply with app stores policies (delete account)
  • MOBILE-4457 - Add the Ordering question type (qtype_ordering) into the core Moodle code
  • MOBILE-4460 - Prevent links to the Moodle site (outlinks) to be displayed on the app
  • MOBILE-4463 - Implement option in app settings to clear cache
  • MOBILE-4573 - Forum search icon shouldn't appear with disabled search
  • MOBILE-4577 - Missing link handler for new section page

Improvement

  • MOBILE-2823 - Remove coreToLocaleString Pipe
  • MOBILE-3403 - Avoid rendering external assets before core-external-content is applied
  • MOBILE-3862 - Improve mobile plugins documentation
  • MOBILE-4173 - iframe containing a pdf doesn't display in moodle mobile app
  • MOBILE-4243 - Communication tools integration (matrix link in mobile app)
  • MOBILE-4266 - Add theme class to the html
  • MOBILE-4268 - Design System - Error Accordion component
  • MOBILE-4272 - Decouple workshop code from initial bundle
  • MOBILE-4313 - Check Android notification and reminder settings, and let user enable them if disabled
  • MOBILE-4339 - Add a warning if quiz is being submitted with unanswered questions (follow-up of MDL-74996)
  • MOBILE-4446 - Add log assertions in Behat
  • MOBILE-4451 - Improve debugging tracker for tracking unexpected errors
  • MOBILE-4456 - Activity icons redesign
  • MOBILE-4459 - New demo mode for custom apps
  • MOBILE-4464 - Improve identification of types in site plugins
  • MOBILE-4469 - Refactor CoreSite class
  • MOBILE-4479 - Let site plugins use core-course-module-info
  • MOBILE-4483 - Support the new completion field "isoverallcomplete" (LMS 4.4 onward)
  • MOBILE-4485 - Improve the experience when attempting connecting to a site which doesn't support the app
  • MOBILE-4487 - Pass plugin "args" to the JavaScript of the plugin
  • MOBILE-4501 - Remove unnecessary permissions declaration (iOS and Android) added by cordova-diagnostic-plugin
  • MOBILE-4508 - Update H5P library to 1.26
  • MOBILE-4522 - After opening a course, the WS mod_forum_get_forums_by_courses is called even if there are no forums with tracking enabled
  • MOBILE-4524 - Avoid calling the WS core_search_get_search_areas_list after login
  • MOBILE-4525 - Optimise retrieving the course categories filter as it is called per category
  • MOBILE-4526 - Use new WebService to obtain filter overrides
  • MOBILE-4528 - Decouple mod_chat code from initial bundle
  • MOBILE-4529 - Decouple mod_survey code from initial bundle
  • MOBILE-4531 - Disable remotely the new functionality included in 4.4 (policies and privacy)
  • MOBILE-4539 - Avoid calling isDownloadable in course page
  • MOBILE-4540 - Avoid calling core_course_get_contents to get URL contents in course page
  • MOBILE-4543 - Remove open course/activity in browser from the course/activity info modal for students only
  • MOBILE-4550 - Apply changes in quiz in attempts summary (review) as well as on the summary of your previous attempts (MDL-80900 and MDL-80880)
  • MOBILE-4551 - Synchronise now (in the user preferences) should display a toast/message when the process has completed
  • MOBILE-4553 - Apply multiple total grades in quiz (MDL-74610)
  • MOBILE-4565 - Accessibility improvements for version 4.4
  • MOBILE-4579 - Improvements for user avatars
  • MOBILE-4600 - Adapt new default templates of databases

Bug

  • MOBILE-2768 - "Optional acceptance" policies cannot be accepted via the app
  • MOBILE-3622 - Customize H5P styles via Moodle theme doesn't work in the app
  • MOBILE-3790 - Text size does not change in iOS when using the existing app setting
  • MOBILE-4026 - Android: sometimes videos don't load
  • MOBILE-4304 - WebSQL Deprecation
  • MOBILE-4350 - Quiz with sequential navigation doesn't work properly
  • MOBILE-4400 - Signup: Invalid parameter value if username contains spaces
  • MOBILE-4404 - Android multiple audio files in page breaks
  • MOBILE-4430 - Course Progress bar inconsistency
  • MOBILE-4437 - Incorrect purpose color for activity module plugins
  • MOBILE-4467 - Teachers feedback for annotated assignment submissions display files that should be ignored
  • MOBILE-4478 - Some encoded links are not working properly on iOS
  • MOBILE-4481 - Use mime type of the requested file to set file extension
  • MOBILE-4490 - Fix crash in Android 5.1 and 6 due to StatusBar plugin
  • MOBILE-4491 - Fix BBB behats to work with the new "require registration" behaviour
  • MOBILE-4497 - REST exception handler: Competencies are not enabled.
  • MOBILE-4498 - Completion, comments and tags advanced features settings are not used to check the functionality availability
  • MOBILE-4499 - Local calendar events are not deleted when the user deletes a site
  • MOBILE-4502 - Font awesome icons created via editor do not display in app
  • MOBILE-4510 - H5P: wrong value stored instead of hash in the cached assets DB table
  • MOBILE-4521 - iOS: SCORM sometimes show a blank page when changing the SCO
  • MOBILE-4527 - Site Plugins don't work with AOT enabled
  • MOBILE-4530 - Fix branded attribute on event page (MDL-81089)
  • MOBILE-4544 - Hidden timer in quiz follow-ups (MDL-80630)
  • MOBILE-4560 - Question partial credit display on quiz
  • MOBILE-4563 - Update cordova-ios to 7.1.0 and Firebase iOS to 10.23.0 to comply Apple policy
  • MOBILE-4566 - VideoJS not playing .ogv files in Android devices (follow up MDL-81393)
  • MOBILE-4569 - Grade analysis opens a localhost (user teacher)
  • MOBILE-4572 - Android: Race condition when using SSO login in browser and a fixed site
  • MOBILE-4589 - Quiz - Matching question - Answer field - '<' and '>' symbols displaying as &lt; &gt;
  • MOBILE-4604 - Non-partitioned cookies are set when retrieving the site logo breaking session when trying to embed iframes