Nintendo Switch Online app v2.2.0 (26/07/2022)

[samuelthomas2774]

Release notes (https://www.nintendo.co.uk/-1520024.html):

• You can now send friend requests via friend code.
  • Users must use a Nintendo Switch console to respond to friend requests.
• You can now copy your friend code as a URL and/or save it as a QR Code. You can receive friend requests from anyone with whom you share the URL or QR Code.
• Various issues are now resolved.
• Changed minimum OS version.
  • iOS version 14.0 or later is required to use this application.

In-app announcement (iOS):

Thank you for using the Nintendo Switch Online app.

You can now update the app to Ver. 2.2.0.

Please see below for a list of version changes.

• You can now send friend requests via friend code.
  Note: Users must use a Nintendo Switch console to respond to friend requests.
• You can now copy your friend code as a URL and/or save it as a QR Code. You can receive friend requests from anyone with whom you share the URL or QR Code.
• Various other small changes have also been made.

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We hope you continue to enjoy the Nintendo Switch Online app.

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}

In-app announcement (Android):

Thank you for using the Nintendo Switch Online app.

You can now update the app to Ver. 2.2.0.

Please see below for a list of version changes.

• You can now send friend requests via friend code.
  Note: Users must use a Nintendo Switch console to respond to friend requests.
• You can now copy your friend code as a URL and/or save it as a QR Code. You can receive friend requests from anyone with whom you share the URL or QR Code.
• Various other small changes have also been made.

---

We hope you continue to enjoy the Nintendo Switch Online app.

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    "distributionDate": 1658887200,
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}

Both announcements are exactly the same..

Users must use a Nintendo Switch console to respond to friend requests.

This is not strictly true - sending a friend request to a user who has sent you a friend request will add them as a friend immediately, it's just not possible to actually view received friend requests using the app.

Other changes:

• user.show_fast, event.list and event.invite API classes have been re-added, but are never used (the API endpoint isn't defined)
• Added a fullScreen custom attribute for web services
  • When set to "true" the web view will not have a header and close button.
  • This also enables native scroll bounce on iOS! 😄
  • The app will show a loading screen and wait for the webpage to call the custom completeLoading function when it is ready to show. After a few seconds a button will appear to cancel loading the web service if it still hasn't loaded.
  • Will probably be used by SplatNet 3 (Splatoon 3/SplatNet 3 #11)...
• See 2nd comment on new JavaScript APIs available to web services
  • No existing functions appear to have been changed or have new options.

No breaking/behaviour API changes have been made (see 1st comment on new endpoints for friend requests). f tokens generated with v2.0.0 are still accepted.

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https://github.com/samuelthomas2774/nintendo-app-versions works :). Changes to the Nintendo Switch Online and Nintendo Switch Parental Controls apps on iTunes, Google Play and Nintendo EU/JP will be pushed to this repository automatically. Join Discord to enable notifications for the #nintendo-app-versions channel.

[samuelthomas2774]

Sharing friend code:

• Calls /v3/Friend/CreateFriendCodeUrl with an empty parameter object
• Returns a response with this result object:

  {
      // 0000-0000-0000 is the user's friend code
      // hash is 10 characters matching A-Za-z0-9?
      // hash is the same every time this endpoint is called
      "url": "https://lounge.nintendo.com/friendcode/0000-0000-0000/hash",
      "friendCode": "0000-0000-0000"
  }

When sharing as a QR code, the app appends ?via=qr to the URL before creating a QR code.

I'm not sure what the friendCodeHash is a hash of/how it's calculated, or if it's even a hash of anything. (It's very short, and it seems to be possible for it to use any alphanumeric characters, so it's not base64-encoded.) I don't know what purpose it serves either, as the URL includes the user's friend code anyway, it just seems to restrict generating this link to the API (the app doesn't appear to be able to generate it).

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Sending a friend request by entering a friend code:

• Calls /v3/Friend/GetUserByFriendCode with this parameter object:

  {
      "friendCode": "0000-0000-0000"
  }

• Returns a response with this result object:

  {
      "id": 0,
      "nsaId": "0123456789abcdef",
      "imageUrl": "https://cdn-image-e0d67c509fb203858ebcb2fe3f88c2aa.baas.nintendo.com/1/0123456789abcdef",
      "name": "...",
      "extras": {}
  }

The app then shows a modal with the target user's name, image and friend code and a send friend request button.

Pressing the send friend request button:

• Calls /v3/FriendRequest/Create with this parameter object:

  {
      "nsaId": "0123456789abcdef"
  }

• Returns a response with an empty result object

The app stores recently sent friend requests locally (requestedAt, userName, friendCode, userImageUrl), on Android using the FriendRequestHistory shared preference key.

Friends requests sent using Coral appear as "sent via your friend code"/"by exchanging friend codes" on a Nintendo Switch console, although it's possible to send a friend request using Coral without the recipient's friend code, as it's only used to retrieve their network account ID.

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Sending a friend request using a link:

• Calls /v3/Friend/GetUserByFriendCodeHash with this parameter object:

  {
      // From the https://lounge.nintendo.com/friendcode/.../... or com.nintendo.znca://znca/friendcode/.../... URL
      "friendCode": "0000-0000-0000",
      "friendCodeHash": "0123456789"
  }

• Returns a response with this result object (same as /v3/Friend/GetUserByFriendCode):

  {
      "id": 0,
      "nsaId": "0123456789abcdef",
      "imageUrl": "https://cdn-image-e0d67c509fb203858ebcb2fe3f88c2aa.baas.nintendo.com/1/0123456789abcdef",
      "name": "...",
      "extras": {}
  }

The app shows the target user and sends friend requests the same as if the friend code was entered manually.

[samuelthomas2774]

New web service JavaScript APIs:

/**
 * Unknown.
 * I guess it just opens the QR code reader? But it doesn't appear to have any new options,
 * and must just use the same close function as the other openQRCodeReader* functions.
 * A new `window.onQRCodeReadForCheckin` function is called, I assume on completion of
 * this action.
 */
function openQRCodeReaderForCheckin(/** JSON.stringify(data: QRCheckinOption) */ data: string): void;

interface QRCheckinOption {
    source: 'Camera' | 'PhotoLibrary';
}

/**
 * Download images and save the image to the photo library.
 */
function downloadImages(/** JSON.stringify(data: DownloadImageParam) */ imagesJson: string): void;

interface DownloadImageParam {
    image_urls: string[];
}

/**
 * Report the web service is ready to show and hide the loading screen.
 * Web services with the `fullScreen` attribute set to `"true"` must call this function.
 */
function completeLoading(): void;

/**
 * Close the web view.
 * Web services with the `fullScreen` attribute set to `"true"` must have an option that calls
 * this function somewhere to allow the user to exit the web service. (This is also available
 * to non-fullscreen web services.)
 */
function closeWebView(): void;

/**
 * Unknown.
 * SplatNet 3 has unused translation strings for widgets. This function may be used to
 * ask any native app extensions to look for new data (where?).
 */
function reloadExtension(): void;

[samuelthomas2774]

As of 29/07/2022 v2.2.0 is required for /v3/Account/Login.