{"id":804,"date":"2015-07-01T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2015-07-01T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T18:39:20","slug":"new-app-inventor-2-companion-app-released-today-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2015\/07\/01\/new-app-inventor-2-companion-app-released-today-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"New App Inventor 2 &#8220;Companion&#8221; app released today; new features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes between nb143i and nb144 (June 30, 2015)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When a component is renamed in the designer, any related collapsed blocks will be properly renamed now.<\/li>\n<li>Screen1 now has properties that permit you to hide both the top \u201cStatus\u201d and \u201cTitle\u201d Bars<\/li>\n<li>The selected item in a ListView is now highlighted<\/li>\n<li>Activity Starter component now has a \u201cActivity Canceled\u201d event<\/li>\n<li>Fix to the Player Component so it doesn\u2019t spontaneously start playing after a phone call or other interruption<\/li>\n<li>Bugfix to Image Sprite rotation which had left screen artifacts on some devices<\/li>\n<li>Add Math blocks to convert between decimal, Hexidecimal and Binary representation<\/li>\n<li>Clock Component now permits you to format a date or time arbitrarily. You provide a \u201cformat string\u201d<\/li>\n<li>You can now have both a Background Image and a Background Color and the \u201cright thing\u201d happens<\/li>\n<li>TextToSpeech: The designer now uses dropdown menus to select Country and Language. Added blocks to fetch the supports countries and languages on a given device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/appinventor.mit.edu\/ai2\/ReleaseNotes.html\">Release Notes for MIT App Inventor 2 (Beta)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes between nb143i and nb144 (June 30, 2015) When a component is renamed in the designer, any related collapsed blocks will be properly renamed now. Screen1 now has properties that permit you to hide both the top \u201cStatus\u201d and \u201cTitle\u201d Bars The selected item in a ListView is now highlighted Activity Starter component now has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2015\/07\/01\/new-app-inventor-2-companion-app-released-today-new-features\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New App Inventor 2 &#8220;Companion&#8221; app released today; new features<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[19,22,28,62,74,130,172,173,176,190],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-inventor-news","category-components","tag-android","tag-app-inventor","tag-appinventor","tag-companion","tag-development","tag-mit-app-inventor","tag-smartphone","tag-smartphones","tag-software","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}