Release Note - API Level 2¶

Robotic configuration becomes useless¶

A robotic configuration is no longer needed to deploy/install/run apks.

QiChat completely redesigned¶

The first version of QiChat Player has been deprecated. The new QiChat language has been completely redesigned and fully integrated.

A specific focus life cycle for the robot¶

Robot focus life cycle has been detached from Android’s Activity lifecycle.

For further details, see: Mastering Focus & Robot lifecycle.

Chaining operations¶

Use an improved mechanism to chain Futures.

Example:

Say say = ...;
Future<Void> sayFuture = say.async().run();
Future<Void> returnedOperation = sayFuture.andThenCompose(new Function<Void, Future<Void>>() {
    @Override
    public Future<Void> execute(Void ignore) throws Throwable {
        Animate animate = ...;
        Future<Void> animateFuture = animate.async().run();
        return animateFuture;
    }
});

For more details, see Chaining operations.

Events raised on variable update in QiChat¶

Updating the value of a variable $myVar (from QiChat or other sources) now raises an event that can be caught using e:myVar.

For further details, see: Robot events: e:eventName and Variable: $.

Recommendations¶

The Discuss action now provides methods to know the possible utterances for different scopes (global, currently focused topic, and local scope).

Listening status¶

The listening property gives the current listening status for the Discuss action.

GoToBookmark cancellation¶

Cancelling the asynchronous execution of Discuss.goToBookmarkedOutputUtterance() and goToBookmarkedOutputUtteranceIfBookmarkIsReachable() will now stop the corresponding robot utterance.

^pick, ^concatenate and pronunciation¶

The QiChat function ^concatenate and ^pick, as well as the rule type pronunciation were added.

User defined functions¶

Users can now define functions in QiChat.

For further details, see def: and ^user_defined_function.