Latest release of BearSDK brings many improvements and better practices to make your integration smoother.

General improvements:

• https support.
• removed the most part of external dependencies.
• reduced size of sdk approximately twice.
• optimized unloading resources.
• removed unnecessary debug logs.
• reworked sdk initialization process.

This section describes what steps you need to follow to update your application with the version 2.0 of the BearSDK.

Update dependency version

• Update your dependency manager file

Carthage example

before:

github "Alamofire/Alamofire" "4.5.1"
github "Hearst-DD/ObjectMapper" "3.0.0"
github "ReactiveX/RxSwift" "3.6.1"
github "Swinject/Swinject" "2.1.1"
github "Swinject/SwinjectStoryboard" "1.1.2"
github "marketplacer/keychain-swift" "9.0.2"
github "onevcat/Kingfisher" "4.1.0"
github "realm/realm-cocoa" "v2.10.2"

after:

github "Alamofire/Alamofire" "4.6.0"
github "ReactiveX/RxSwift" "4.1.1"

• update manually BearSDK.framework file and remove BearGL.framework from embedded binaries. Starting version 2.0 BearSDK and BearGL merged together to simplify integration process.

Embedded Binaries section after update:

Change your application Info.plist:

NSAllowsArbitaryLoads not mandatory starting version 2.0.

• Apple Transport Security (ATS).

By default BearSDK supports content only through https. Thats why you have to use only https in BEAR Frontend.

If you want to support http at your own risk – you are able to specify NSAllowsArbitaryLoads key to true in NSAppTransportSecurity.

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

AppDelegate class

The config1.1.data asset resource file is not used anymore. You have to use the secret key instead which is provided by BEAR (for development process you can use the sample application one). Use this secret key as parameter in the BearSDK.set(secretKey: String) method.

You only need to initialize the BearSDK in your AppDelegate class:

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
    // Override point for customization after application launch.
    try! BearSDK.set(secretKey: secretKey)
    return true
}

BearSDK class

The BearApp class renamed to BearSDK:

• added:
  • shared – Shared instance of BearSDK.
  • set(secretKey:) throws – Setup secret key to configure BearSDK.
  • destroy – Destroys all loaded BearSDK resources.
  • preload(_ bearDidLoad: (() -> Void)?) – Preloads BearSDK resources to reduce loading time of BearViewController.
  • isLoaded: – The status of BearSDK resources.
• changed:
  • registerDevice(_ deviceToken: Data?) to registerDevice(withDeviceToken token: Data)
  • getDeviceId to deviceId
• removed:
  • init?(withUserConfig:) – use shared instead.
  • getCameraViewController(onDismiss:, bearLoaded:) – use BearViewController instead.
  • getHandler: – use handler property of BearViewController instead.
  • setMarkerCallback(_ callback:) – use delegate property of BearViewController instead.

BearConfigProtocol

The BearConfigProtocol does not exist anymore, to setup timeToPause and scannerColor you have to use the same properties in BearViewController.

CameraViewController class

Since BearApp was removed and hense getCameraViewCotnroller method too, you are able to create BearViewController the way you want. You are able to create instances of BearViewController subclasses programmaticaly or using Interface Builder and use those objects to provide the specific behaviors and visual appearances that you need.

• Note: You are able to create multiple instances of BearViewController or it subclasses, but you are not able to show them simultaneously. And keep in mind that every instance of BearViewController or it subclass uses the same view for render. Be careful with view states.

MarkerCallback

The delegate of BearSDK moved from BearApp class to BearViewController. Since version 2.0 it is acceptable using delegate property of BearViewController.

MarkerCallback has been renamed to BearDelegate.

• added:
  • assetClicked(with assetId:) – Function will be executed on click of any asset.
  • scannerStateChanged(_ state:) – Function will be executed when BearSDK Scanner has changed state.
  • reachabilityStatusChanged(_ reachable:) – Function will be executed on change of reachability status.
  • didFail(withError error:) – Function will be executed when an error occurs while the BearSDK is loading content.
• changed noMarkerFound to markerNotRecognized.

BearHandlerProtocol

The handler of BearSDK features moved from BearApp class to BearViewController. Since version 2.0 it is acceptable using handler property of BearViewController.

Changed BearHandlerProtocol:

• added:
  • scannerState
  • resumeCamera(animated:)
  • pauseCamera(animated:)
  • isFlashEnabled
  • isNetworkReachable
• changed:
  • showShare(fromRect rect: CGRect) to takeScreenshot – now this function takes screenshot of camera view, ignoring any overlapping UI elements.
  • startScan to startScanning.
  • stopScan to stopScanning.
  • showMarkerInFreezedMode(id:) to showARSceneWithoutTracking(withMarkerId id:).
• removed:
  • dismiss – use native dismiss functions instead.
  • clearView – use cleanView instead.
  • showMarkerInFreezedMode(targetId:) – use showARSceneWithoutTracking(withMarkerId id:) instead.

New classes

• BearError exposes short description, type and in some cases reason of occured error.
  • type
  • shortDescription
  • reason
• BearErrorType describes type of occured error.
  • invalidSecretKey
  • network
  • decoding
  • backend
  • specific
  • unknown
• BearScannerState is used to describe possible BearSDK scanner states.
  • idle
  • scanning
  • processing
  • rendering
• BearViewController provides a infrastructure for your application to manage BearScanner.
  • timeToPause time after that scanner will be paused.
  • scannerColor scanning line color.
  • disableCameraAutoHandling disables automatic camera handling.
  • handler object to control Bear scanner features.
  • delegate used to receive scanning callbacks.
• BearViewControllerObjc the same as BearViewController for Objective-C support. Because swift forbids subclasses from swift classes.