10.0.0-rc.4 July 14, 2021

The Mapbox Maps SDK for Android has moved to release candidate status and is now ready for production use.

Features ✨ and improvements 🏁

Add new param to allow users localize selected layers. (#461)
Add API to control logging for animation plugin and disable debug logs by default. (#474)
Introduce option to use continuous rendering for scale bar. Continuous render mode will fix gfxinfo profiling. (#458)
Add shortest bearing path option for animators. (#473)
Add modelTranslation support for LocationPuck3D (#493)
Add default parameters to coordinate conversion functions of MapCameraManagerDelegate#cameraForCoordinates, MapCameraManagerDelegate#cameraForCoordinateBounds and MapCameraManagerDelegate#cameraForGeometry. This overloads the functions to have a more simple API surface for developers to hook into. (#491)
Support text-writing-mode property for line symbol-placement text labels (#1766)
Note: This change will bring following changes for CJK text block:
- For vertical CJK text, all the characters including Latin and Numbers will be vertically placed now. Previously, Latin and Numbers are horizontally placed.
- For horizontal CJK text, it may have a slight horizontal shift due to the anchor shift.
Session SKU generation is now available
Add getSKUTokenIfValid to get a SKU token for a SKU identifier if it exists and is not expired, return empty string if not.
Allow filtering of log messages by categories.
Expose isFiltered for checking logging category settings

Fix flyTo crash when using single-pixel paddings. (#478)
Fixed regression in map gestures on devices with Android 6 and lower. (#484)
Fix overwriting sync geojson data with getSourceAs by async. (#482)
Clean up network listener after http file source gets out of scope
Fix line-center anchor calculation when the anchor is very near to the line geometry point
Fix crash when a Feature State API is used with dedicated rendering thread
Fix threading issues in HTTP file source
Fix volatile tilesets handling