Hey everyone! 👋

It's been a while since the last newsletter. Since then, a lot has happened! Let's take a look at the latest updates.

Announcing the Capawesome Cloud Live Updates

Use Capawesome Cloud Live Updates to deliver updates to your Capacitor app in real-time. Ship critical bug fixes, new features, and content updates instantly without submitting a native update to the app stores. In addition to the usual features such as channel support and extensive bundle management, Capawesome Cloud Live Updates offers a wide range of additional functionalities:

• 📈 Analytics: Get insights into the number of your monthly active users.
• 🚀 Rollouts: Gradually roll out new bundles to gather valuable feedback.
• 💾 Self-Hosting: You can either host your bundles yourself or upload them to Capawesome Cloud.
• 🔒 Security: Sign bundles with a private key to ensure that only you can publish updates.
• 🛡️ Privacy: Stay fully GDPR compliant with our servers hosted in Germany.

You can test the Capawesome Cloud Live Updates for free with up to 50 Monthly Active Users. After that, you can choose a plan that fits your needs (starting at $7.5/month).

Missing any features? Let us know! We would love to hear your feedback.

Announcing the Capacitor Bluetooth Low Energy Plugin

We are excited to announce our brand new Capacitor Bluetooth Low Energy plugin. This plugin enables interaction with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices in the central role. It provides a simple API to scan for devices, connect to them, and interact with their services and characteristics. This battle-tested plugin was developed in cooperation with a customer who needed a few special features:

• 🦾 Headless Task: Add custom native code for specific events.
• 🌙 Foreground Service: Keep the connection alive even when the app is in the background.
• ⏳ Command Queue: Queue up incoming commands to prevent operation failures.
• 📱 Multiple Devices: Connect to multiple devices at the same time.
• 🛠️ Utils: Utility functions to make your life easier.

Check out the announcement blog post for more information.

Announcing the Capacitor Firebase Cloud Functions Plugin

Another new plugin we are excited to announce is the Capacitor Firebase Cloud Functions plugin. This plugin allows you to call Firebase Cloud Functions from your Capacitor app using the native Firebase SDKs. It provides a simple API to call Firebase Cloud Functions by name or URL.

Check out the documentation for more information.

Capacitor Firebase v6.1.0 is here!

Besides the new Capacitor Firebase Cloud Functions plugin, we also released new versions of the existing Capacitor Firebase plugins with lots of new features and improvements. Here are the highlights:

• 📊 Analytics: Various bug fixes
• 🛡️ Authentication: OpenID Connect support
• 💽 Firestore: Batched writes support
• 🗄️ Storage: Add emulator support

Check out the release notes for all the details.

Ionstarter

We recently launched a new project called Ionstarter, which is a starter template for building high-quality apps using Angular 18, Ionic Framework 8, and Capacitor 6. It's the perfect boilerplate for your next project and comes with many features out of the box:

• 🛡️ Authentication
• 📁 Storage
• 🗄️ Database
• 🔔 Push Notifications
• 🌐 Internationalization
• ☁️ Live Updates
• 🤖 CI/CD

Check it out and grab your copy today! 💪

That's all for now. Stay tuned to see what else we have in store in the coming months, and stay cool out there! 😎

💜

Robin Genz, Maintainer of Capawesome