v2024.1: iOS Support is Back in the Game!

New Features and Improvements

iOS Support Re-enabled

• Rework of clay_app Macro: Fully revamped iOS support for the clay_app macro. This update covers all steps necessary to complete the app build from within Qt Creator, including the packaging of Info.plist, asset catalogue, and localizations.
• Default Configuration for Demo Apps: Demo applications now use a default configuration, providing them with a recognizable Clayground app icon.
• New CMake Options: Introduced new CMake options to enable or disable the building of Clayground with tools and/or examples, offering greater flexibility in the build process.

CMake Configuration

• Simplified Top-Level CMake Config: The top-level CMake configuration has been cleaned up for better accessibility and ease of understanding.

Plugin Enhancements

• clay_plugin Macro Updates: The clay_plugin macro is now compatible with iOS using Qt6, allowing for a more compact configuration that encompasses more functionalities within the plugin.
• Dedicated clay_ios Plugin: Introduction of a dedicated clay_ios plugin. This plugin supports in-app triggered app reviews, including a configurable component to determine when the review prompt should appear.

QML Improvements

• Streamlined QML Imports: All QML imports are now streamlined by using version-less variants, simplifying the import process.

v2023.1

What's Changed

This release integrates QtQuick3D, comes with improved HTTP client and adds some minor bugfixes/improvements.

Introduction of ClayWorld3d (by @MisterGC in #86)

• Introduce ClayWorld3d that utilises QtQuick3D + QtQuick3DPhysics and supports SVG based scene loading
• Extract common 2D, 3D functionality to avoid redundancy
• Topdown demo supports toggling between 2D and 3D at runtime

Improved web access (by @MisterGC in #84)

• Refined C++ class focusing on GET/POST methods, with bearerToken as the sole authentication method
• Introduces ClayHttpClient.qml: A wrapper for C++ web access, enabling HTTP API declarations and JavaScript client generation (at runtime)
• Added a sandbox environment for testing HTTP services, including integration with OpenAI chat

Fixes for issues I stumbled upon when using Qt 6.4 (by @MisterGC in #83)

• Fix some clang-tidy, clazy, CppCheck based warnings.
• common: No longer use 'file:///' prefix as Qt seems to
• liveloader: Allow usage of new debug enabler if available.

Additional fixes and improvements

• Cleaner info messages (leave the source context to debug messages only)
• Cleaner output of file observer (use relative paths when informing about observed files)

Full Changelog: 2022.1...v2023.1

2022.1

Features:

• Introduction of the Clayground.Text plugin which provides JSONata (querying and transformation of JSON), CSV (read/write, visualize, filter), regular expression based text highlighter
• Enhanced Android build configuration allows building/deploying of demos
• Clayground.Network gets a WebAccess component (simple HTTP_GET requests at the moment only)

Fixes/Improvements:

• Canvas exposes 'interactive' flag (gives more control when working with other layers that process mouse events)
• Fixed non-working onLeft signal of CollionsTracker
• Generation of main.cpp for examples via CMake works also if clayground is not the top-level projection
• Platformer and TopDown examples use touch input on iOS and Android

Hint: This release needs at least Qt 6.3 because of the new CMake functionality which eases build/deployment for Android targets

Qt5 Compatibility

This release is for users who want to stay with Qt5.
Required version: Qt5.15.x

2021.2

Merge pull request #65 from MisterGC/release/2021.2

Release/2021.2