Releases

Alpha 0.3.06 (April 2023)

Summary

For the April 2023 release, we’ve focused on resolving performance and usability issues. While many of these changes will not be directly apparent to many users, there are a few UI usability features and improvements that will streamline and improve the user experience when importing UI component packages while using the Relay plugin. The most significant change of note for users is that we now require Compose to be at least version 1.2, which allows us to align the interpretation of line height between Figma and Compose.
Feature Highlights
- We’ve updated the playground file in the Relay plugin for Figma with new exercises and examples to aid designers in familiarizing themselves with using Relay.
Notes
- The new minimum version of Compose is now v1.2
Bug Fixes
- Reduced incongruity of layouts between Figma and Compose due to different interpretations of line height between the two applications.
  - Relay now requires Compose 1.2 to apply this fix.
- “Fix it” button on the Figma plugin is now properly positioned.
- The Figma plugin now only checks for duplicate package names on the current page, not the entire Figma file.
- Resolved issue in Figma plugin where focus does not move to the first element in the application on launch.
- Improved tooltip accessibility for screen reader and keyboard users when importing UI packages with the Android Studio plugin.
- Improved launch speed of Figma plugin.
- Resolved issue with the Figma plugin’s “Fix It” feature not properly addressing solid fill areas. It now takes the first color of the gradient or alternatively, black, as fallback.
- Resolved issue where The "Import UI packages" text was not passed to screen readers.
- Fixed edge case that caused spurious "file not found" errors during UI package import using the Android Studio plugin.
- Fixed issue where build warnings were not displayed properly in Android Studio.

Alpha 0.3.05 (March 2023)

New Features
- Generate mapping files
  - Developers can now right-click a UI package in Android Studio and select "Generate mapping file" to create a default mapping file. This file is a starting point which the user can edit to set up their own custom component mapping. A README.md file is also generated with instructions for how to use mapping files. If a mapping file already exists for a UI package then the context menu instead says "Open mapping file".
  - Three new custom parameter types have been added to allow mapped components to report when values change.
- From the Issues page in the Figma plugin, designers can apply one-click fixes to a packaged component for seamless issue resolution. This release offers solutions to the following three distinct problems:
  - Replace unsupported gradients in fills with a solid fill.
  - Replace unsupported gradients in strokes with a solid fill.
  - Remove unsupported image in fill.
Bug Fixes
- Generated code and translation issues
  - Fixed cases where Figma auto layout frames with positioned children that have opaque or translucent backgrounds would have double backgrounds.
  - Fixed issue with boolean (show/hide) component properties not being translated on component instance layers.
  - Fixed issue where tap handers would respond slowly in generated code.
  - Fixed issue where interaction handlers in nested Figma components were not properly translated.
  - Fixed issue with nested components not receiving the correct layout-related and tap handler values.
  - Fixed issue with using tap callbacks on multiple Relay components where some callbacks would be invoked with the wrong arguments.
- Android Studio experience
  - When changes are made in styles translation files, Android Studio now rebuilds all UI packages.
  - Fixed issue where import could fail due to a missing preview image, such as when a network error occurred.
  - Relay now ignores empty ui-packages subfolders during builds.
  - Added the ui-package-resources folder to Android Studio's Android view.
- Figma and Figma plugin experience
  - Fixed issue with components with design variants where custom parameters were not reliably be exposed.
  - Fixed issue where removing packaging in Figma plugin from components did not remove all Relay metadata.
  - Fixed issue where Figma component properties of unpackaged components were automatically shown in parent component when added to the parent component.
- A11y improvements
  - Fixed issue where "Fetching UI Components" message during import in Android Studio was not visible to screen readers.
  - "Set Figma Access Token" dialog now returns list items when using VoiceOver.
  - Read-only input fields in the Figma plugin now have not-allowed cursors to indicate that it's non-editable.
Improvements
- Android Studio plugin now remembers theme and style transition information, so this doesn't need to be specified on every import.
- Improved readability of the Gradle output by outputting all messages associated with one operation together; previously, they could be interleaved with messages from other operations. In addition, the default logging level is now INFO instead of LIFECYCLE.
- Generated composable functions now contain default values for all parameters.

Alpha 0.3.04 (February 2023)

New Features
- The "Share with developer" page in Figma plugin was revamped to allow you to search for any blocking issues on your packaged components. If everything checks out, then you can save a new entry in the version history from the plugin UI without any hassle! See the Share UI Packages page for more details
- Relay now supports Figma component properties. Figma component properties are very similar to Relay parameters; Relay now recognizes component properties as their parameter equivalent where applicable, and has expanded support for component properties for cases where no equivalent parameter exists. See our Figma component properties documentation for more details.
- Conflicting imports in Relay's implementation are now resolved, so Jetpack Compose applications can now use both Relay and Material 3 in the same project.
Bug Fixes
- Improved the performance of the Figma for Relay plugin on large Figma documents.
- Long layer names correctly wraps in the Relay for Figma plugin.
- Several accessibility fixes have been applied to the Android Studio plugin:
- Persistent labels are now added to Android Studio import dialog.
- A11y labels have been added to banner and component images in the Android Studio import dialog.
- Fixed the translation of text content containing dollar signs. Previously, this would cause a build error.
- Fixed an issue with fetching a remote component without a named version: If a remote component has no named version, the latest remote component is fetched.
- Fixed the translation of components whose top-level layers are set to auto layout with an absolute positioned child. This would previously cause import or build errors.
- Custom parameters allows "Type" to be edited instead of "Properties" (since custom parameters are not associated with a layer property).
- Fixed issue in Figma UI representing deeply nested components with children parameters.
- Fixed issue where deeply nested components with children parameters may fail to import.

Alpha 0.3.02 (December 2022)

Bug fixes:
- Autolayout frames with positioned children are now handled correctly when set to "hug".
- Autolayout frames with positioned children are now handled correctly at the root of a component.

Alpha 0.3.01 (November 2022)

Android Studio plugin is now supported on Android Studio Electric Eel.
Bug fixes:
- Windows: style mapping files can now be located on different drives than Android Studio. This previously blocked the import operation.
- The Create UI Package button is now only enabled when a single valid UI package is selected in the Figma plugin.
- Users using larger font sizes (For example, 16+ in AppleSystemUIFont) now no longer see text that is cut off in the Settings dialog of the Android Studio plugin.
- The Import UI Packages menu item in Android Studio is now always enabled, unless your project has more than one module and either no file is selected or the selected file is not in any module.
- The Figma plugin now correctly handles adding parameters to a component that uses variants and contains multiple instances of child components.

Alpha 0.3.00 (October 2022)

Android Developer Summit Alpha launch