Shopping App Android Core Updates

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  • Updated on Oct 21, 2025
  • Published on Mar 17, 2025
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Release v1.142.0

Release date: October 14th, 2025

This release focuses on modernizing our tech stack, improving analytics coverage, and enhancing compatibility with the latest Google Play requirements — helping your Shopping Apps stay secure, efficient, and ready for future growth.

New features 🎉

Enhanced Emarsys Integration

SAP Emarsys is a marketing automation and omnichannel customer engagement platform. It enables personalized marketing campaigns across channels like email, push notifications, SMS, and in-app messaging.

In-App Messages

Added support for In-App Messages. In-app messages are notifications that appear within a mobile app while it is being used. This enables more dynamic and context-aware user engagement directly within the Shopping App. Currently, Overlay In-App Messages are supported.

Interaction types supported:

  • Copy to clipboard

  • Deeplink

  • External URL

  • Dismiss

Multi-Contact ID support

Allows brands using Emarsys Predict with email-based identifiers on web to use a secure, non-PII customer ID in our mobile SDK. This ensures consistent user tracking across channels while maintaining privacy compliance.

Push notifications deep link actions

Important

Functionality is currently under review and is not fully functional at the moment. We will share an update as soon as it is ready to be used.

Push notifications now support multiple deeplink action-typed buttons. Users can navigate directly to specific in-app destinations for a more personalized journey.

Improvements 💪

Analytics & Event Tracking

Improved analytics test coverage

Expanded analytics test coverage for stronger data reliability.

Enhanced checkout tracking for web checkout

Added missing triggers for eventCheckoutSucceeded and eventCheckoutTransactionCompleted. This improves visibility into external and web-based checkout flows.

Technical & dependency upgrades

Kotlin 2.2.0

Upgraded to the latest Kotlin version, improving compile-time performance and enabling smoother integration with modern SDKs.

Updated libraries

Updated Sentry, Firebase, and Lottie.

Google Play compliance

Updated to meet Google Play’s 16KB page size requirements. This ensures ongoing compliance with Play Store standards.vcv

Release v1.141.0

Release date: August 10th, 2025

This release introduces accessibility improvements, onboarding improvements, and more behind-the-scenes enhancements to keep your apps running smoothly.

New features 🎉

Accessibility Improvements

Multiple improvements were made across the user experience to ensure even higher accessibility standards:

  • Gallery scroll indicators on the Product Detail Views are now tappable, making navigation easier for everyone.

  • Improved validation errors are shown directly in forms, so users immediately know exactly what went wrong.

Improvements 💪

Accessibility tracking

Added a new accessibility_properties event to our analytics to understand which accessibility features are being enabled, guiding future improvements in inclusivity.

Repeat onboarding screens

In version 1.138.0, the Repeat Onboarding Screens functionality was introduced for newly downloaded apps. Now, onboarding screens can be re-displayed for any users with your Shopping App installed to expand the reach of your push notifications and loyalty program.

Technical improvements

  • Updated apps’ Target SDK to Android 35 – keeping us up to date with the latest platform standards.

  • Improved our main tracking delegate and boosted test coverage to ensure stability for our Analytic trackers.

Release v1.140.0

Release date: June 25th, 2025

This release introduces additional accessibility enhancements, aligning with the European Accessibility Act (EAA), to make Shopping App inclusive and user-friendly for everyone.

New features 🎉

Touch Targets Review

Reviewed all interactive UI elements to meet the recommended size of 48dp in support of users with limited dexterity. The valid area for touch interaction of components across the Shopping App has been updated to meet this accessibility guideline.

Landscape Mode support

Added support for landscape orientation. Landscape Mode provides users with greater flexibility based on their preferences.

  • Retailers can enable or disable landscape mode through configuration by storefront.

  • To enable, go to Account > Settings > Accessibility. The app is portrait-first by default for optimal usability.

Release v1.139.0

Release date: May 26, 2025

We're excited to announce a new version of Android core v1.139.0.

New features 🎉

Repeat onboarding screens

You can now redisplay onboarding screens after a set number of days if a user dismissed or did not proceed with the onboarding. Each onboarding screen can be configured with specific Onboarding Interval Days.

Contact your Ominchannel Success Manager to enable Onboarding Interval Days. This feature is available for new installs from version 1.138.0 onward.

Improvements 💪

Filter and Sort button review for accessibility

The Filter and Sort button now changes background color based on its active or inactive state. The background color, in combination with the dismissal button, helps users understand whether filters or sorting options are currently applied. This is a step forward towards European Accessibility Act (EAA) readiness.

Toolbar headings review and tags for accessibility

Updated all toolbar headings to include proper heading tags. Screen readers like TalkBack can now announce the screen titles as soon as the screen loads. This provides immediate context for users and assists in smoother navigation. This is a step forward towards European Accessibility Act (EAA) readiness.

Release v1.138.0

Release date: March 31, 2025

We're excited to announce a new version of Android core v1.138.0, which brings single-choice filters for more granular user filtering options, enhanced peak time reliability with improved autoscaling, and a fix where combining favorite synchronization and remembered last size resulted in incorrect product configurations.

Improvements 💪

Single-choice filters

Added support for single-choice filters (equality search). Now, brands can offer more granular filtering to their user, such as a price discount percentage filter. For example, up to 10%, up to 30%, or up to 50%.

Peak time reliability with autoscaling

Improved autoscaling across various backend services to ensure further platform reliability and resilience during peak time. Now, you can direct traffic to your Shopping App even more confidently.

Bug fixes 🐞

Favorites Synchronization and Remember Last Size

Fixed an issue where using Favorite Synchronization together with Remember Last Size feature caused the wrong product configuration to load when opening a product from the Favorites list.

Release v1.137.0

Release date: March 10, 2025

We're excited to announce a new version of Android core v1.137.0. This release includes adaptations for accessibility, a new Quick Action Button, improved push notification handling for Emarsys, and various technical improvements.

New features 🎉

Dynamic text sizes for accessibility

The Android app supports dynamic text sizes. Users can now adjust text sizes via system settings for a more inclusive experience. This enhancement aligns with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) requirements. The act ensures that digital products and services, including e-commerce apps, are accessible to people with disabilities or impairments.

Early Access: Quick Action Button

The Quick Action Button allows brands to highlight one essential feature to their Shopping App users, for example, a live chat, loyalty program dashboard, or support hub. Customers can instantly access the key app screen using this button from anywhere in the Shopping App.

This is a floating button that can be dragged up and down. It always remains visible and allows seamless navigation to a defined view or App Extension in the app. The button is configurable by country and language and can be enabled without requiring a new app update.

This feature is in Early Access. Contact your Omnichannel Success Manager to have this enabled.

Improvements 💪

Account form

Added the ability to hide the account editing form in the Account tab. Brands now have greater flexibility in choosing where users can edit their details.

UI elements labels for screen-reader accessibility

Added descriptive labels to the user interface elements to improve screen-reader accessibility. Labels make it easier for visually impaired users to navigate and use the app with a screen-reader. This is a step forward towards European Accessibility Act (EAA) readiness.

Bug fixes 🐞

Push notifications

Push notifications sent from SAP Emarsys without a deeplink will reliably navigate users to the app.

Product configuration

The configuration button now redirects users to App Extensions also for products without configuration options.