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Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #685

Head of Frontend Engineering

  Updated   2 min read

Changelog for this Tuesday update :  

- The progress bar on the status bar is removed temporarily
- Add of a red bubble indicating the number of comments in detail page of Article section
- It's now possible to add a custom CSS in detail page of Sound / Podcast section (Settings API)
- Bug fix : The dates are now displayed correctly in iOS5
- Bug fix : Crash fix when a wrong type is returned in loadMore download
- Bug fix : Encoding error fix on the data past in gbRequestDidSuccess function
- Bug fix : Graphic adjustment in plugins
- Bug fix : Visual bug fix on download button in Sound / Podcast sections
- Bug fix : Downloaded podcasts are now correctly played
- Bug fix : Podcasts from iTunes are now played correctly
- Bug fix : Text and photos submissions are now sent correctly
- Bug fix : The Off page of Live radio sections is now scrollable
- Bug fix : InApp web browser no longer opens when you click on an outgoing link (iTunes, maps, ...)
- Bug fix : The detail page size of Sound / Podcast section is now fixed
- Bug fix : The Youtube videos in Facebook sections are now played correctly
- Bug fix : The text size bug in Facebook section is now fixed
- Bug fix : The callback error in photo submission is now fixed
 
Don't forget to re-build your app to apply these changes!

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