What's New in Mobile SDK 13.0

Mobile SDK 13.0 is a major release that features user experience improvements on Android and iOS, asynchronous REST API requests, REST wrappers for SFAP APIs, and SmartStore support for several SQLCipher editions.

In major releases, we typically remove items that have been deprecated. To learn about new features and breaking changes that can affect your app, read the rest of this article. In every release, be sure to check your compiler logs for deprecation warnings so that you can address these changes before they go into effect.

These changes apply to more than one platform.

You can now receive logs with LogReceiver. See Receiving Logs with LogReceiver.

Smartstore now supports SQLCipher Commercial, Enterprise, and Enterprise FIPS. See Using SQLCipher with SmartStore.

React Native: 0.74.7

We redesigned the Add Connection screen for better accessibility.

Note: The updated screen comes with new localizable strings. If your app supports localization, see our updated list of Localizable.strings on GitHub and localize the latest additions.

We updated the way REST API requests are handled in the RestClient class.

To streamline error handling, we replaced the callback-based patterns used in previous versions with Swift’s asynchronous concurrency model.
We refactored our network requests to use async and await methods instead of completion handlers.
We’re deprecating completion-based methods in favor of async and await methods. See iOS Current Deprecations.

We introduced REST wrappers for SFAP APIs in the SfapApiClient class. SFAP requires JWT-based access tokens, which we now support. See REST Wrappers for SFAP APIs.

In hybrid remote applications, we now use session IDs, sourced from the login and refresh token endpoints, to load the app’s start page. This replaces the behavior in previous versions, which relied on a frontdoor URL to establish a UI session.

Note: This feature requires hybrid authentication, which is enabled by default. To verify the hybrid authentication setting, ensure that the useHybridAuthentication property in SalesforceSDKManager is set to true.

Deployment target: 17
Base SDK version: 18
Xcode: 16

See iOS APIs Removed in Mobile SDK 13.0.

Check your compiler warnings, or see iOS Current Deprecations.

We redesigned the login experience on Android. The redesign features a modernized architecture that uses Jetpack Compose and Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM), and these general changes.

On the login screen, the top and bottom native elements now match the login WebView background by default.
You can now customize the login screen in LoginViewModel without subclassing LoginActivity.
You can now use the login server picker without leaving the login screen.
For apps that exclusively use advanced authentication, we added a single-server Custom Tab login option that bypasses the standard WebView.
The user account switcher is now a bottom sheet that displays over the host app.