In preparation for a final release, we're publishing today v2.0.0-beta.3. As there are no outstanding issues left for the v2.0.0 milestone this beta can be considered a release candidate.

v2.0.0 includes numerous new features and bug fixes over the v1.x series, including breaking API changes. To learn how to update your app please check and contribute to our migration guide.

Highlights

• Mapbox Navigation SDK Navigation SDK for Android #346
• Introduce support for Mapbox Distance API Distance API added #219
• Update Map Matching API to support new v5
• Divide library into smaller modules to reduce method count on Android projects Split MAS into smaller submodules #251
• AppEngine support Expose okhttp3.Call.Factory in all services #344
• Introduce support for Mapbox Telemetry Telemetry module #282
  • Added reusable components for permission and connectivity management add a ConnectivityReceiver/ConnectivityListener pair #276
  • Abstracted the location engine from a specific provider Abstract the location engine from a specific provider #269 and provide default implementations Expose LostLocationEngine in library #320
• Shared improvements across clients
  • RxJava support RxJava support #304
  • Enabled setting a base URL to facilitate testing [android] - make changing base url a part of public API. #245
• Directions improvements:
  • Added direction v5 lanes Added direction v5 lanes and updated fixture #214
  • Added support for the driving-traffic profile mapbox/driving-traffic support added to the list of directions profil… #292
  • Added support for polyline6 Adds support for polyline6 #287
  • Added rotary convenience methods added rotary convenience methods #329
  • Added bearing query parameter Added bearing query parameter  #337
  • Remove support for v4 Remove deprecated v4 directions #260
• Geocoding improvements:
  • Batch requests support Batch geocoding support #267
  • Added landmark, limit, country parameters support add poi.landmark type to geocoder #209 Updates Geocoding to match API #217
  • Added cancel method Added cancel method to autocomplete widget #226, setting multiple types Geocoding autocomplete widget fixes #230, and language, base URL method setting to autocomplete widget Add optional language parameter to geocoder #315 Expose base URL param in widget #328

Known issues: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-java/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3Av2.0.0

Release checklist @zugaldia

• Change version name to 2.0.0-beta.3 in gradle.properties
• Publish 2.0.0-beta.3 artifact to Maven Central
• Change version name back to 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
• Update CHANGELOG.md
• Tag v2.0.0-beta.3 in GitHub

Post-release @cammace

• Update methodscount badge in README.md
• Update Javadoc in http://mapbox.github.io/mapbox-java
• Update install instructions in README.md
• Update install instructions in https://www.mapbox.com/android-sdk/#mapbox_android_services

/cc: @mapbox/mobile