We’re pleased to announce the launch of beta testing for 4D v19 R3! One of the richest feature releases we have shipped so far!

Without further ado, let’s take a look and see what this feature release has in store for you:

• Your business logic will love 4D’s new Computed Attributes in ORDA, Classes, iOS, and Android.
• 4D for iOS with features allowing to interact with native Apple apps and build even more advanced UI’s. 
• As for 4D for Android, we’re giving you a way to test your Android app on a real device before releasing it to users.
• 4D Write Pro is shipped with an image setting dialog, the possibility to have different numbers of columns on the same page with continuous section breaks, and additional options to manage formula visibility. 
• Out-of-the-box security boost with the support of the bcrypt algorithm for passwords. What’s best, there’s nothing to change in the code. Everything is automatic. 
• More news for dark mode enthusiasts. After giving end-users a choice between dark and light mode for the appearance of their applications, it is now the turn of developers to choose between these modes during development on macOS.
• And more (see below)! 

We’re pleased to announce that 4D v19 R2 is now available!

Here’s an overview of what this feature release has in store for you:

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• 4D for Android (our development platform for Android devices) is now final with 4D v19 R2. 
• Speaking of mobile, new features for iOS and Android platforms are now available, allowing you to customize your app’s color, adapt it to dark or light mode, sort its local data, and more! 
• 4D View Pro: Analyze data with pivot tables. Import and export CSV files. Manage your sheets by programming. Easily handle page breaks (for printing purposes) from the user interface.
• 4D Write Pro: More display options for inline and anchored pictures. We’ve also made it easier to format the images as background documents, sections, paragraphs, etc.
• More Object-Oriented programming features that will please your developers. Beyond the storage aspect, memory management and speed performance will be significantly enhanced with blob content for object attributes.
• Features that incorporate best practices such as defining a default .gitignore file and managing Byte Order Mark (BOM) and End of Line (EOL).
• Features that enhance your experience as a developer, such as getting access to the details of a class function from the code editor.
• Features that make the end-user experience smoother, such as automatic component signing on Mac.
• And if you’re a software publisher, you’ll be happy to know that we’ve added a feature that prevents the users of your application from seeing (and modifying) the contents of the 4DZ.