Release Notes

[License Plate] This release improves the overall accuracy of the license plate identifier and state information on US license plates.

[License Plate] This release adds the possibility to scan the Visual Inspection Sticker (VIS/"TÜV Plakette") on german license plates.

[Japanese Landing Permission] This release fixes an issue where scanning Japanese Landing Permission slips would show a displacement of the visual feedback.

[Breaking] We’ve made changes to the package structure by moving/refactoring several classes, including:

Functionality has been added that allows validation of ScanView configurations. We highly recommend adding instrumented tests to your application to ensure that you have a valid configuration for the ScanView, even at build time. You can find an example in our GitHub examples.

[Vehicle Registration Certificate] This release fixes a crash, that sometimes happens during scanning.

[General] Technical improvement for handling network connections, such that bad internet connectivity does not impact the UI when scanning.

[General] This release fixes an issue where bad internet connectivity would lead to freezes and occasional crashes when finishing a scan.

[Japanese Landing Permissions] This release fixes an issue where parts of previous results show up in later results.

[Tire] This release improves the overall accuracy of the Tire Identification Number (DOT) Scanner. This is especially targeting tire numbers with wider spaces (e.g. some Yokohama tires) between individual parts.

[Barcode] This release improves the reliability of scanning torn or broken barcodes with the advanced barcode reader.

[Barcode] Occasionally devices with less capable cameras struggled with dense barcodes. We have improved the accuracy on those cameras.

[Breaking] The UI Feedback preset tin_custom_v1 has been replaced by tin_with_instruction_overlay_image_text_sound_feedback, which includes additional attributes. If you are currently using the tin_custom_v1 preset, please make sure you follow its correct usage.

[Barcode] Sometimes coordinates reported by the advanced barcode reader were inaccurate. The SDK now reports barcode coordinates more reliably.

To improve the integrity of checksums implemented internally within the SDK, usage of MD5 hash algorithms has been replaced with SHA-512. This change does not have any visible impact to customers or integrators, however represents an increase in security of the SDK overall.

Resolved an issue that prevented UI Feedback elements from being positioned correctly when binding the ScanView lifecycle to the CameraController lifecycle.

Resolved an issue that caused a crash when terminating the Anyline scanning process.

Functionality has been added that allows Anyline’s cross-platform solutions to attach plugin-related information to the data reported. This functionality has no impact on the usage of the Mobile SDKs on native platforms.

New default images are available to be used with the "tin_custom_v1" UI Feedback functionality.

Prior to this release, the Tire Identification Number (TIN) scanner couldn’t scan TINs without a valid production date by default due to an internal validation check. We have changed the default behavior, allowing users to scan TINs without a valid production date.

Prior to this release, the Commercial Tire ID scanner couldn’t scan some tire IDs because our default validation regex was too strict. We made the regex less strict, so now users can scan a wider range of commercial tire IDs. Users will also notice an improved accuracy on all commercial tire IDs.

Prior to this release, some specialized devices (e.g. Payment Terminals) using the front camera were unable to scan with the correct orientation. This restriction has now been lifted.

Resolved an issue that caused an unresponsive scanning experience in very specific situations, particularly related to composite scanning. This bug was exclusive to the previous version and has been successfully addressed.

Improvements to resolve possible memory leaks on Android 14 devices.

Added new UIFeedback Config feature and TIN preset to be used together with the TIN/DOT plugin. For more information see UIFeedback config.

To ensure uninterrupted access to the Mobile SDK for Android dependency, please update the SDK URL in your build.gradle files. Specifically, you need to replace the existing Maven repository URL:

Fixed a bug where the cutout was not drawn during the first use of the scanner.

Added new United Kingdom driver’s license (layout 11002) to the Universal ID scanner. This allows you to scan UK driver’s licenses that have been issued post-Brexit.

[Breaking] On Android, we’ve made changes to the package structure by moving several classes from the old io.anyline package to the new io.anyline2 package. This includes:

The camera.CameraView.enableBarcodeDetection method has been removed. Please use camera.CameraView.addNativeBarcodeReceivedEventListener instead.

The camera.CameraView.disableBarcodeDetection method has been removed. Please use camera.CameraView.removeNativeBarcodeReceivedEventListener instead.

Fixed a bug that prevented auto flash (Flash.MODE: AUTO) from working with the Advanced Barcode scanner.

[Tire] Improved support for wide space TINs

[Commercial Tire ID] Improved accuracy

[Tire] Changed tireAgeInYearsRoundedDown type from string to int

Improved network connection handling in low bandwidth environments

[Meter] Fixed a bug that resulted in the MULTI_FIELD_DIGITAL_METER scan mode to return empty positions and values

Remap “DCT” (customerGivenNames) keyword to firstName and middleName fields in AAMVA PDF417 result

Improved support for damaged CODE-128 barcodes

Fixed bug preventing validationRegex to work for European License Plate Scanner.

Fixed crashes on Samsung A13 and potentially other phones in Universal Serial Number, Container, and other scanners.

[ID] Changed plugin config property scanOption in "universalIdField" to string type enum

[Vehicle Registration Certificate] Changed plugin config property scanOption in "vehicleRegistrationCertificateField" to string type enum

[Japanese Landing Permission] Changed plugin config property scanOption in "japaneseLandingPermissionConfigFieldOption" to string type enum

Improved HTTP/SSL connection handling

Removed old unused files

Removed camera 2 API

[Breaking] The targetSdk version has been increased to API level 33 (Android 13). Please make sure that your app’s targetSdk version is at least 33.

[Breaking] Face Detection feature for ID and MRZ is now optional. To turn on this feature, refer to the faceDetectionEnabled plugin config parameter of universalIdConfig or mrzConfig.

Wrong alignment of the Cutout when ScanView did not fill the whole device screen.

[ID] Added plugin config parameter to enable face detection

[MRZ] Added plugin config parameter to enable face detection

[Odometer] Added new Odometer scanner

[Meter] Added validation regex interface

Added overloaded method for initialising SDK with additional parameter for custom asset path

OCR custom assets can be added to a subdirectory inside of assets now

[Barcode] Crash if no barcodes found

[License Plate] fix for brightness controlled auto-flash mode

The feedback styles contour_line and contour_point of scanFeedbackConfig.style have been deprecated and fall back to contour_rect

Flash turns off when zooming in or out.

After reinitialising the ScanView with a ScanPlugin with a different id, the cutout of the old ScanPlugin would remain visible.

Wrong position of visual feedback in some screen resolutions.

Render skewed barcodes correctly.

[License Plate] Fixed a bug that prevented license plates from Ireland from scanning

[Barcode] Fixes a bug where barcode was not able to handle some unicode symbols

[License Plate] Fixed a bug where an exception would be thrown when a country was scanned which was not part of the country list of result schema

[Tire] Default upsideDown value is now AUTO (Tire Identification Number, Tire Size, Tire Make, Commercial Tire ID)

[Tire] Improved the scanning experience of the Tire Make scanner

[ID] default minimum confidence for fields is now set to 60

[ID] Improved lower-case field recognition

[ID] Improved scan robustness for AT and DE DVL layouts

[License Plate] Removed list of European countries from result schema

[Tire] Added new Tire Make scanner supporting 49 manufacturers

[Universal ID] Added new templates for Latin script:

[Meter] Added functionality to define a maximum number of decimal digits for the AUTO_ANALOG_DIGITAL_METER scan mode

Composite scanning receiving more than one result for the same ScanPlugin id.

[Universal ID] Modified templates for Latin script:

[Tire] Improved accuracy and smaller SDK size for Universal TIN

[OCR] ocrConfig now uses models instead of model and can set an array of models instead of one model specifically

[Tire] Removed DOT_STRICT scan mode from Tire Identification Number (DOT) technical capability

When calling ScanView.init() to apply new view configs with a running ScanViewPlugin (simple or composite), the old ScanViewPlugin kept receiving and processing images what could lead to an unexpected result.

Wrong position of the CameraView and Cutout when ScanView did not fill the whole device screen.

When cancelOnResult was set to true for a plugin of type ID, the ScanViewPlugin.resultReceived could be called more than once due to FaceDetection process.

[Tire] Validation regex is now configurable from pluginConfig

New composite processing mode: parallelFirstScan which works like parallel but stops after the first result.

[Barcode] Added base64value to barcode object in the barcode result

[Tire] Added productionDate, tireAgeInYearsRoundedDown, resultPrettified to TIN result

[Tire] Added option to disable production date validation for TIN

[ID] Added the following layouts for american ID cards

[ID] Fixed a bug where the MRZ scanner would not recognize 'H' on mexican ID’s

[Barcode] The coordinates in the barcode result are now relative to the full image instead of the scanned region

[Tire] Improved the accuracy for TIN/DOT recognition & detection

[ID] Improved the performance for ID scanning

[ID] Improved the accuracy of Turkish IDs

[Barcode] Removed isBase64 from barcode object in the barcode result

New event ScanView.onCutoutChanged that notifies the client when the cutout changed

Support for full frame scanning

ID results also return face image, if one is available

Watermark is displayed in the corner when using composite plugins

Watermark is now correctly shown below the cutout when not using composite plugins

Feedback style animated_rect also supports center alignment for the cutout

Corrected wrong position of cutout for animated_rect

When reducing SDK size, the assets are now copied correctly to internal storage

Added PluginResult for describing result data

[Tire] Added tire size specification fields to the result

[Barcode] Added AAMVA parsing for PDF417 codes on driving licenses

[ID] Restructured ID results in a way that every field can contain date- & multi-language information

Changed the SDK architecture from one using inheritance & generics to a composition-based approach

Changed the structure of how scanning use-cases are constructed through JSON

Introduced configuration types for every scanning use-case with a corresponding result type

Because of the fundamental nature of changes, there are no deprecations to list for this version.