Version 4.19.5 (07.08.2024)

System Requirements: Android 8 / iOS 14

Bugfix:

• Issues with in-app purchases on Android 14 & 15
  Devices running the new Android versions 14 and 15 encountered problems, including app crashes, when completing in-app purchases. This issue was resolved by updating the integrated payment library. For security reasons, this upgrade was also applied to iOS.

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Version 4.19.4 (12.07.2024)

System Requirements: Android 8 / iOS 14

Bugfix:

• Duplicate links in the menu
  In apps updated from an older version to 4.19.4, all web links in the menu (website, Facebook, etc.) were displayed twice.

Adjustment:

• Increased Android API level to version 34.

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Version 4.19.3 (13.06.2024)

System Requirements: Android 8 / iOS 14

Adjustments:

• PressMatrix Multi-Kiosk (Showcase App)
  When adding a new publication, a name can now be assigned.
  
  The app now always uses the last saved app design from the App Builder in the open publication, regardless of whether it’s the design of the live app or a completely new one.
  
  
• Updated integrated Firebase SDKs.

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Version 4.19.2 (03.05.2024)

System Requirements: Android 8 / iOS 14

Neue Features:

• Using the native browser to open all web links

  All web links in the app (from menu, issues, articles, web view tab, etc.) now open in the standard web view of the operating systems. These views come with options to share, reload, or open the page in an external browser.

  This change should also fix all display issues, especially those related to cookie banners and other overlays.

  
  
  
  

• “My Account” with logout, email, and password change

  Users can now change their email address and password directly in the app via the new “My Account” section. These functions are unavailable if your app uses external authentication (e.g., Plenigo, DPV, etc.).

  
  
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Adjustments:

• Separate disclaimer texts for single and subscription purchases

  You can now add a separate disclaimer text for single issue and subscription purchases in the Workbench.

  
  
  
  

• Operating system support adjustment

  To continue offering our app to a broad user base and maximize your titles’ digital reach, we are raising the minimum requirements as follows:

  • Android 8 (previously 6)

  • iOS 14 (previously 11)

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Version 4.19.1 (22.03.2024)

System Requirements: Android 6 / iOS 11

Bugfix:

• Promotion banners not rotating automatically
  This issue has been fixed.

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Version 4.19.0 (19.01.2024)

System Requirements: Android 6 / iOS 11

Adjustments:

• Replaced the library used to render PDFs of magazine pages in the Android app.
• Successful login or logout now also triggers a refresh of all app content, ensuring correct display of segmented promotion banners, such as those meant only for logged-in users.

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Version 4.18.3 (01.12.2023)

System Requirements: Android 6 / iOS 11

New Feature:

• Highlight banners for article & download categories
  Highlight banners can now link to categories in the articles or downloads section. When setting up a new highlight banner in the Workbench, simply select the desired category.

• New icon for text-to-speech/reading feature

  Icons for increasing/decreasing text size and the text-to-speech icon have been replaced. They appear in article reading mode and in the text widgets of issues.

  
  
  
  

 

Bugfix:

• Android devices on version 10 or older had issues loading highlight banners and small thumbnails in the issue page overview. These now function properly.

• Links from promotion banners to the app store now work again.

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Version 4.18.2 (01.08.2023)

System Requirements: Android 5 / iOS 11

New Feature:

• Expanded pull-to-refresh gesture
  The pull-to-refresh gesture now triggers the update of all app content. Previously, only new content in the current tab was requested from the server, but now all changes like
  • app design & branding,
  • translations & labels,
  • articles,
  • magazines, and
  • promotion banners are refreshed.

• Google Play Billing Library version update

  As of August 2023, all submissions must support Google Play Billing Library version 5. This version includes an update to the cross-platform library Plugin.InAppBilling, which internally already uses Google Billing Library version 6.

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Version 4.18.1 (21.07.2023)

System Requirements: Android 6 / iOS 11

Hotfix:

• Tabs without at least one created category would not load content. This bug has been fixed.

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Version 4.18.0 (20.07.2023)

New Feature:

• Categories in the Files tab
  In addition to individual articles and magazine issues, the app and browser client can now offer downloadable files (manuals, patterns, recipes, multimedia files, job postings, etc.). These files can be categorized for easier access.

• Promotion banner linking to file categories

  New categories for files can now be targeted with an interaction from a promotion banner.
  
  

• Deeplink support for categories

  Deeplinks can now be generated for file and article categories.

• Remote translations without app update

  Labels and their translations can now be managed remotely without needing an app update submission.

  
  

• Android target level 33 (Android 13)

  Starting in August 2023, all newly submitted Android apps, and starting in November 2023, all Android app updates must support target level 33 (Android 13).

  
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Version 4.17.3 (30.05.2023)

New Features:

• Promotion banners can now also link to article categories.

• The small thumbnail created and saved for a bookmark now shows the top section of the page, instead of the middle, making it easier for readers to recognize relevant elements like cover images or headlines.

  
  

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Version 4.17.2 (22.02.2023)

Hotfix:

• A small UI bug on iOS has been fixed, where the bottom edge of the payment button was visible when system font size was increased.

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Version 4.17.1 (16.02.2023)

Hotfix:

• This version fixes an issue on iOS that prevented push notifications from being received if the iOS app was only started once.

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Version 4.17.0 (01.02.2023)

Neue Features:

New Features:

• Remote image and remote video widgets
  In the Pegasus Editor, remote image and remote video widget types have been added. These widgets are based on a URL, which provides the content on-the-fly, and are not downloaded during issue downloads. Hence, they are not supported in offline mode.

 

Version 4.16.2 (04.11.2022)

Hotfix:

• Opening the text reading mode multiple times could cause the wrong text (from the first page of the issue) to be displayed instead of the selected text. This issue has been resolved.

 

Version 4.16.1 (01.11.2022)

Hotfix:

• This release fixes a bug in the client that appeared in outputs containing a merged image widget spanning multiple pages.

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Version 4.16.0 (11.10.2022)

New Features:

• Offline Support for Images in Text Widgets:
  This version of the client now supports images in text reading mode, even when the user is using the app in offline mode. During the output download, images from text widgets are now downloaded separately and loaded from the local source into the WebView when opening the text reading mode.
  An image can be added in the Pegasus Editor in two different ways:
  
  
  • Enable the source code function of the WYSIWYG editor, add the image as an <img> tag (<img src="https://url.to/image.jpg"/>), and press save.

• • In merge mode, images can now also be combined with texts.

Bugfixes:

• When using a very large font size on a device, UI errors occurred in the left kiosk menu.
• When the dark mode setting was disabled in the app builder, there was a UI bug in the app settings of the iOS client.

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Version 4.15.2 (27.09.2022)

 

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Version 4.15.1 (15.09.2022)

Hotfix:

• As of August 2022, all initial submissions must support Google Play Billing Library Version 4, and as of November 2022, all app updates must also support it. See Google Play Billing Library deprecation FAQ.
  
  This hotfix includes the update of the Crossplatform-Library Plugin.InAppBilling to version 5.4.0, which internally uses Billing Library Version 4, allowing Android apps to be resubmitted to the Play Store.

Bugfixes:

• After redeeming an activation code, the loading spinner was displayed indefinitely.
• If a user deleted their account via the help section in an app with login-first enabled, the registration button was not displayed in the subsequent login view.
• In the image gallery in the reader, the text of an expanded caption was displayed below instead of above the image.
• The dark mode switch was moved from the reader section to the general section in the app settings.
• If an expected color was not included in the live response, the color from the build process was used instead of throwing an error → relates to the issue where a profile could not be loaded on the first app start, leaving the kiosk empty.

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Version 4.15.0 (08.08.2022)

New Features:

• New Tab ‘File Downloads’:
  The kiosk can now be extended with a new ‘File Downloads’ tab, allowing users to make independent files available for download in the client. This includes file types such as PDF, audio, video, images, text, or zip archives.

Bugfixes:

• Push notifications on Android.
• Background color of the tab bar now adapts to the dark mode feature.
• Highlight history no longer darkens on iOS.

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Version 4.14.0 (12.07.2022)

New Features:

• Button to Manage/Cancel Subscriptions:
  In the subscription view in the client, there is now a button that allows the user to manage or cancel their subscriptions. The button is displayed as soon as any kind of subscriptions are enabled for this publication.

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Version 4.13.0 (01.06.2022)

New Features:

• Delete Account:
  In the help section, there is now a button under the Public ID display that allows the user to delete their current account. The functionality is similar to that of a logout, meaning the user is assigned a new anonymous account, and all downloaded issues on the device are deleted.
  
  
• Android Target Level 31 (Android 12):
  Starting August 2022, all newly submitted Android apps and from November 2022, all Android app updates must support Target Level 31 (Android 12), which is the case with this version.

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Version 4.12.0 (27.04.2022)

New Features:

• Extended Color Mode in the App Builder
• Tabs in Uppercase
• Extended mailto URL Function:
  For links with the mailto: schema, various parameters (subject, body, to, cc, bcc) can be added so that these are used when opening the mail app. For example, the link mailto:test@mail.com?subject=Hello will open the mail app with the recipient test@mail.com and the subject Hello.

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Version 4.11.6 (19.04.2022)

Hotfix:

• When restoring a single or subscription purchase, the Android client did not previously transmit the transaction date to the server. This could result in an incorrect expiration date being displayed in the Android client for a restored subscription. The date is now transmitted with this version, and the issue will no longer occur.

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Version 4.11.5 (12.04.2022)

Hotfix:

• Changes on Firebase’s side caused the deeplink feature of the client to no longer work correctly on both platforms. Updating the relevant libraries and making small adjustments has restored this functionality with this release.

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Version 4.11.4 (23.03.2022)

Hotfix:

• This hotfix ensures that the views for login, activation code, and external links in the iOS client are now scrollable if the page content is too large for the screen, making the buttons at the bottom reachable again, such as when the description text for the activation code is very long.

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Version 4.11.3 (02.03.2022)

Hotfix:

• This version fixed the issue where a video widget opened in landscape mode on Android devices was displayed distorted.

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Version 4.11.2 (09.02.2022)

Hotfix:

• In the Android client, the deeplink sharing button for sharing a page in the reader was visible even when the deeplink feature was not enabled.
• The tracking of reading times for individual articles was faulty and has been fixed.

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Version 4.11.1 (22.12.2021)

Hotfix:

• After deactivating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 by ReadMatrix, all Android clients with version 4.9.0 or higher were no longer able to load ReadMatrix articles (stories). This hotfix resolves this issue.

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Version 4.11.0 (21.12.2021)

New Feature:

• Webview Tab:
  All customers now have the option to extend the kiosk with another tab that includes a webview. This tab displays the content of a URL stored in the app builder in the apps. Whether links clicked by the user should open directly in the tab, in an internal browser, or in the device’s external browser can also be defined by the customer in the app builder.

Bugfix:

• Fixed crash when opening an issue on certain Android devices (e.g., Huawei P30 Pro).

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Version 4.10.0 (26.11.2021)

New Feature:

• Deeplink Sharing:
  Users now have the option to share app content with friends and acquaintances using a self-generated deeplink. When the user presses one of the share buttons (see image), the app creates a deeplink, which the user can send to another person via a messaging app (e.g., WhatsApp). When this person opens the deeplink, they are taken directly to the shared content.

 

Bugfix:

• The custom font is now also used in the webviews of static menu items (e.g., imprint or privacy policy).
• When an iPhone was rotated to landscape mode during search, the back button and part of the search field disappeared.
• In the login view on Android, the icons for password display and error overlapped.

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Version 4.9.0 (06.10.2021)

New Feature:

• Images in Push Notifications:
  Push notifications can now be enriched with an image. This happens automatically when a push notification with a deeplink to an article or issue is sent.
  
  
• Custom Fonts:
  The app can now be equipped with a custom font. The custom font must be uploaded by the service team in the app builder. The font is used in the app for all visible texts.

Bugfix:

• Categories for issues and articles are now explicitly sorted by their position in the workbench.
• When Android’s TalkBack accessibility feature was enabled, widgets on a page in the reader could not be focused and thus not opened.

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Version 4.8.0 (31.08.2021)

Improvements:

• This version is compatible with iOS 15.
• Request timeout has been increased from 15 to 30 seconds.
• Reading time is now tracked differently and should lead to more complete data.

 

Bugfix:

• The automatic rotation of promotion banners stopped at the last banner and did not start again from the beginning.
• On devices with iOS 15, a letter was displayed

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Version 4.6.5:

 

• Remove edition files automatically if update request returns 404
• Hide subscription buttons when edition is singlePurchaseRequired
• Keep audio playing when device gets locked

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Version 4.6.4:

• Optimisation of the display of the PDF text on larger iPads.
• ighlights are now sorted by position.

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Version 4.6.3:

• BUGFIX: Prevents potential crash after app launch on Android.

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Version 4.6.0:

The following functions are now available:

• Forgotten password
• "Show password" icon in the password text field of the Login View
• Deeplinks in push messages

Bugfixes:

• Widget Download
• Height of highlight items
• Email composer opens email app in text reading mode

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Version 4.5.0:

• The app is now even more accessible through VoiceOver function.
• Subscriptions are now sorted by validity for a better overview.
• In the future, there will be a new overview of purchased issues (My Issues).
• There is now an app user guide in the in-app menu.
• Links in the issue cover info pop-up are now clickable.
• Items can be played individually on Android devices.

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Version 4.4.9:  

• After entering a voucher code, the app no longer has to be restarted for content access to be granted.
• App store and voucher code subscriptions are now displayed separately in the subscription overview. 

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Version 4.3.7:

• Image gallery zoom

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Version 4.3.5:

• Alternative image option for loading screen icon

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Version 4.3.4:

• Language filter 

 

Advantages of the New App Version 4.x:

- Improved usability and user experience

- More stable client

- Push notifications with notification badge on app

- Readers can send feedback directly from the app

- Covers displayed in the original formatting

- Possibility to save the Android app on external storage

- Audio/video native player (increased stability and ease of use)