Salesforce Mobile SDK 8.0

What’s New

• Biometric unlock.

• Full content notification support.

• Dark theme support, demonstrated in updated templates
  and sample apps.

• New classes for batch and composite requests. See

  • BatchRequest

  • BatchResponse

  • CompositeRequest

  • CompositeResponse

• Encrypted profile photos.

Version Updates

• Android Studio: 3.5.3

• Minimum SDK: Android Marshmallow (API 23)

• Target SDK: Android 10 (API 29)

• React Native version: 0.61.3

• Cordova Android: 8.1.0

SmartStore Enhancements

• Queries can return either a JSON object (best choice for native) or a String (best choice for hybrid and RN).

• Swift extensions for iOS 12 and iOS 13 (publishers for Combine
  and SwiftUI)

• Validation tool for JSON configuration files.

Mobile Sync Enhancements

• Sync up by external ID: For locally created, updated, or deleted SmartStore records that specify an external ID field and provide its value, Mobile SDK performs an upsert instead of an update. However, if the record also contains a Salesforce ID, Mobile Sync performs an update.

• Swift extensions for iOS 12 and iOS 13 (publishers for Combine
  and SwiftUI).

• Validation tool for JSON configuration files.

Deprecations

Check your compiler warnings, or see Android Current Deprecations.