System Driver Release Notes

1.15.x and later

Maintenance updates for System Driver.

1.14.1

New Features:

• Added support for Samsung Galaxy A series 2018.

1.12.x–1.14.0

Maintenance updates for System Driver.

1.11.x

This release adds support for the New Universal Menu.

1.10.x

Maintenance updates for System Driver.

1.9.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed video capture playback issue with skipping frames.
• Fixed potential video capture crash on shutdown.
• Fixed tracking service crash while undocking and redocking.
• Fixed German Gear VR Controller recentering instructions issue affecting Marshmallow phones.

1.8.0

1.7.1

Maintenance updates for VrDriver.

1.7.0

vrapi_Initialize now returns an error code if the system driver is not found on the device instead of terminating the app with an exit(0).

1.6.1–1.6.3

Maintenance updates for VrDriver.

1.6.0

VrDriver minimum and target Android SDK versions are now 21. New Features:

• More robust Gear VR Controller tracking.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed race condition on shutdown.

1.5.6

Bug Fixes:

• Maintenance update for Gear VR Controller.

1.5.5

New Features:

• Added Chinese localization.
• Usability improvements for Gear VR Controller.

1.5.4

Bug Fixes

• Gear VR Controller improvements.
• Reduced visible wiggle artifacts for some equirect images.
• Fixed missing default loading icon affecting some UE4 apps.

1.5.3

New Features:

• Improved Snapdragon Profiler support. For more information, see Snapdragon Profiler.
• Improved Gear VR Controller usability.

1.5.0

New Features:

• Added support for Gear VR Controller. Application support requires Mobile SDK 1.5.0 (available mid-March).

1.0.4.5–1.0.4.6

Maintenance release.

1.0.4.4

Bug Fixes:

• Android-N fixes.

1.0.4.3

New Features:

• Added Android N support.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed headphone state notification update.

1.0.4.2

New Features:

• Added support for Parties and Rooms. For more information, see our blog post announcement⁠.

1.0.4.0

Beginning with this release, VrApi has been renamed System Driver and now ships separately from System Activities. For System Activities release notes, see System Activities Release Notes. New Features

• Moved SysUtils library from the Mobile SDK into System Driver for applications built with Mobile SDK 1.0.4 or later.
• Removed TimeWarp Debug Graph support.
• Added support for Prologue startup experience.