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• #648 set foreground service behavior on API 31+
• Updated OkHttp to 4.12.0
• Updated Gradle to 8.1.1
• Updated Kotlin to 1.8.21

Added default proguard rules

Changelog

• Support for Android 14 (API 34)
• Updated OkHttp to 4.10.0
• Updated FTP module commons-net to 3.10.0

Special thanks to @kabirnayeem99 for the hints in #644

Changes:

• Android API 33 support (added uses-permission for POST_NOTIFICATIONS in the lib)
• Updated Gradle to 8.0 together with AGP
• Updated settings for Android Flamingo
• Updated demo apps and readme

• Support for Android 12 (thanks to @eugenemelnichek)
• Updated to Gradle 7.2

Library

• Stopped using jcenter
• Stopped using deprecated Kotlin Android Extensions in favor of new Kotlin parcelize
• Updated Kotlin to 1.4.32
• Updated AndroidX lifecycle to 2.3.1
• Updated AppCompat to 1.3.0

Demo Apps

• Stopped using jcenter
• Demo app is now 100% Kotlin
• Updated RecyclerAdapter to 2.10.1
• Updated Kotlin to 1.4.32
• Dropped unused custom file picker library
• Dropped ButterKnife
• Dropped Kotlin Android Extensions

Enhanced startUpload() runtime checks to prevent multiple calls on the same instance and starting multiple uploads with the same ID before the launch of the service. In both cases an IllegalStateException will be thrown with self explanatory descriptions.

removed WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission declared in the library to comply with Google's March 2021 Policy Update: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9934569?visit_id=637551604206515493-2373610866&rd=1

• Better strategy to avoid #549
• Implemented Maven Central publishing and dropped Bintray

Fix crash when service lifecycle is slow on some devices: https://github.com/gotev/android-upload-service/commit/e5b903233c3fefedf49bf99e4fc6af39234f13dc