APL Ninja Update October 2021

The latest changes around APL Ninja.

Alexander Martin, Oct 24, 2021 2 min read

Blog Posts

Since October 15, it is possible to publish your own blog posts on APL Ninja. The Blog Post Editor is very similar to the APL Document Editor with the difference that you don't describe your blog post via JSON but use Markdown for this. Similar to the APL document editor you can add images via drag&drop. If you are not already familiar with Markdown, you will find a Markdown cheatsheet at the bottom of the editor screen. Blog Posts can also be saved "private" or "public" like APL documents.

Blog Post Editor

Blog Post Editor

APL 1.8

All APL 1.8 features are now supported.

APL Document Editor

Working on a large APL document can be painful, especially if the document is optimized for different viewport profiles. For this reason, the APL Document Editor has 2 new features as of today.

Outline

The outline shows the hierarchical structure of the document. In the usual tree view, you can use it to navigate in the document, expand or collapse sub-trees and jump to arbitrary positions. The outline is available for the APL document, the datasources or sources at the bottom of the editor.

Outline

Component highlight

In the "Options" which can be found on the right side of the editor there is a new option called "Component Highlight".

Options > Component Highlight

By activating this option, the APL component you are currently editing in the editor will be highlighted in the preview.

Highlight

Furthermore, parts (components) of the document are grayed out that are not currently rendered, for example because the expression specified under "when" does not apply.

Grayed out

The screenshots are based on the document "Alexa Music now playing screen" .

APL Widgets / Viewport Profiles

The Viewport profiles have been expanded to include the Echo Show 15, Echo Show 10, and the APL widgets announced at Alexa Live.

I hope you enjoy and also find these new features helpful.

Do you have a feature request? Drop a comment below! Do you like the features? Leave a ❤️.

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