This update includes the following features and improvements:
- Universal app with iPad support
- Improved privacy:
● Guarded access to resources/services like Contacts or Photos on per action basis
● Consent to launch actions imported from other apps or downloaded from the Internet
- Logging to simplify action's debugging
- Control-flow:
● IF/ELSE, WHILE, FOR EACH, BREAK and STOP tasks
● D&D workflow editor
● Highlight matching braces
- Greatly improved Code Complete
- Greatly improved action's sharing and importing
- New Internet tasks:
● HTTPRequest
● xPath Query
● Make Absolute URLs
- New Contact Tasks:
● Find Contacts
● Load Contacts
- New Event/Reminder Tasks:
● Find Event/Reminders
● Load Event/Reminders
● Update Event/Reminder
- New "Include Action" task to include other action's tasks to workflow
- New "Launch Action" task to launch an action from workflow
- Improved Choice task to support Files, Buttons and Actions presentation style
- Improved "Edit List Task" to include Actions support
- New Contact action
- New Event Directions action
- New Samples actions
- small fixes and improvements
Please check the Alloy Getting Started Guide to learn basics of Alloy!
Also do not miss the features and improvements introduced in v1.1:
- Action Editor:
● new front-end
● token fields for action's input, tags and family
● improved handling of Initialization and Runtime workflows
- SMS and Email Groups support:
● ability to choose groups as recipients for SMS and Email tasks
● new actions for group SMS and email
● dedicated actions for SMS and email group maintenance
- token fields for To, Cc, and Bcc fields of SMS and Email tasks
- share and import of multiple actions
- ability to use any photo as action's icon
- new Edit List Task with support of locations, contacts, email and phone groups
- new action for locations maintenance
- new Transform Array task
- multiple initialization statements for Initialize Variables task
- small fixes and improvements