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title: "Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #551"
description: "Changelog for this Tuesday update :      - It's now possible to detach images and background colors in Detail pages (Settings API).   - Smarter display of large"
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lang: en
date: 2013-03-05
last_updated: 2017-06-14
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# Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #551

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# Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #551

Written by [Mathieu Poli](https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/author/mathieu-poli/)  on Tuesday 5 March 2013· Last update: Wednesday 14 June 2017

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Changelog for this Tuesday update :

- It's now possible to detach images and background colors in Detail pages (Settings API).
- Smarter display of large thumbnail in articles and videos : when the large thumbnail is not available, we use standard thumbnail.
- Two new methods in the Plugin section :
- setPreference for storing a variable in user preferences.
- getPreference for getting a variable stored in user preferences.
- iTunes outgoing links are now supported in Custom and Plugin sections.
- Bug fix : In the Plugin section, the gbViewWillAppear method is also called for main plugin view.
- Bug fix : In the Plugin section, the return type of the gbRequest's callback is now String instead of Data.
- Bug fix : Error fix in the gbRequest fail callback.
- Bug fix : when getPreference is called on a non-defined preference, the method returns an empty String instead of a null object.
- Bug fix : the artist name is now displayed correctly in SoundCloud lists.
- Bug fix : the banners in detail views ads are now clickable.
- Bug fix : the backgroung of the swipe menu is now displayed correctly.
- Bug fix : no download for some thumbnails is now fixed.
- Bug fix : Missing article (or video) in case of an odd number of items in template 3 is fixed.

Don't forget to re-build your app to apply these changes!

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About the author[Mathieu Poli](https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/author/mathieu-poli/)Head of Frontend Engineering

I'm am Head of Frontend Engineering at GoodBarber.

I oversee the teams that build the rendering engines at the core of our no-code platform: they're what bring our users' projects to life and turn them into native apps that are smooth and polished. Everything you see and interact with on screen passes through their hands.
A pioneer of mobile no-code, passionate about software architecture and product design, I also teach in universities and private schools.

Here, I write about frontend engineering, product design and AI — and everything that happens when those three worlds meet.

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