Here’s What’s Up

Posted by Chris on Apr 6, 2011 in iOS Apps, Life | 0 comments

I have been working hard on iSupplement v3.0.0 however, I have also started a new job so my free time right now is rare. The bright side to updating iSupplement is that most of the changes can be brought right over to iPill Trackr. Speaking of which, iPill Trackr has moved into the low 600′s on Apples healthcare and fitness top 1000 grossing apps and 800′s on the healthcare and fitness top 1000. This boost in ranking has definitely been driving sales higher.  Read more here...

UILocalNotifications Needs to be Fixed

Posted by Chris on Apr 1, 2011 in Programming | 0 comments

Apple’s UILocalNotifications class is broken and needs some love.

If you use iSupplement or iPill Trackr you may have noticed that no matter how many items you have that need to be taken (alerted you) the badge for the apps always remains at 1. There is no built in way of tracking the badges number without the app being open. To make things worse, when you schedule a local notification you have to provide the badge number, increments DO NOT work. So if I schedule an alert for 1 pill the badge is set to 1. If another alert goes off it simply resets the badge to 1 again. There are a few hacky ways go track this information in order to get a proper badge number. Apple really needs to fix a lot of things with local notifications. As developers we are very limited by apple in what we can do and access. Most end users don’t see this (just read some comments about feature suggestions). The classes provided by apple need to be fixed so that we can create better apps. There is a lot of fixing that needs to be done but local notifications need a huge overhaul. From what I’ve read and seen iOS 5 should bring a new notification system. So we shall see if local notifications get some improvements.  Read more here...

iSupplement Progress – Gettin’ it done!

Posted by Chris on Mar 27, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

Alright been cracking away at iSupplement v3.0.0 and its look good. There have been way more UI changes than I had originally planned, so far performance is also up. If you look at the screen sheet sneak peak you will see the new UIToolBar on the bottom of the screen. This toolbar has 2 buttons, one for viewing your scheduled medications (still need to adjust how the table view text wil look) the other will be used to track notifications that had been irgnored.You can see that the postpone button has been added, and the feature is fully implemented already.  Read more here...

New App in the Works – Project Shepherd

Posted by Chris on Mar 20, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

I have temporarily put off game development after coming up with what I hope to be a great idea. I am not going to give out much information on the new app yet as I am just getting started on it. I’ve named the Project Shepherd because I am not very creative and my dog is an Australian Shepherd. I will start tagging all posts related to the new app with “Project Shepherd” to make it easier to find and follow the development.

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iSupplement v2.2.3 and iPillTrackr v1.0.3 now available!

Posted by Chris on Mar 8, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

The updates were both approved within hours of each other. Both are now available on the app store. Again this was a minor update to add an easy way to backup your information if you want to.

Enjoy!

iSupplement v2.2.3 and iPill Trackr v1.0.3 Submitted to the App Store

Posted by Chris on Mar 4, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

I just submitted both of these minor updates to the App Store. Should be ~1 week until they are live. Very minor changes I added support for iTunes File Sharing. Now when browse your iPhone’s sync options and selects Applications, if you scroll down the apps with be listed and you will have the ability to back up the databases on your own in case a restore would be needed. This came from my own needing of backups of the databases and now will be available to everyone.

iSupplement Lite Now Available

Posted by Chris on Mar 3, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

After making the required to changes to iSupplement Lite and resubmitting it to the app store, it has finally been approved and is now available!

The Lite version is free, with no ads, and allows tracking of 1 supplement at a time. I like to think of it as arty before you buy.

So go check it out on the app store and follow the app on twitter. @iSupplementApp

Enjoy!

New Facelift for the Blog

Posted by Chris on Feb 23, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

Today I finally decided to spruce up the blog. New beautiful theme from Elegant Themes. I also made several “under the hood” changes. You will hopefully notice the site loads about 1000000% faster. I removed a lot of ads, there are 2 image ads and 1 text link ad now. I figured the amount I am getting from adsense is laughable anyway so I might as well clean up the blog and give it a less cluttered look. I also added a register and login button to the top of the page. I just realized why no one could sign up for the blog, they had no access to the registration on the old theme. So come in and sign up! I think the next facelift be for the forum, lets face it, the forum is ugly. So I may start working on that next week.  Read more here...

iSupplement Lite – Not Approved

Posted by Chris on Feb 23, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

I just received the email today from Apple explaining why iSupplement Lite was not approved. I’ll paste the email:

Hello Chris,

Thank you for submitting iSupplement Lite to the App Store.

We’ve completed the review your app but cannot post this version to the App Store because it provides a reduced feature set and it up-sells to a separate, more feature-rich version. This behavior is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines <https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html>:

2.9     Apps that are “beta”, “demo”, “trial”, or “test” versions will be rejected  Read more here...

New iOS Company Website – UtilisWare

Posted by Chris on Feb 21, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

I literally just finished the site. I have been busting my butt on this thing for about 3 days straight and finally finished. I had finished yesterday but then decided to change everything over to use SQL and PHP to generate pages dynamically. It pretty much turned out like a simple version of WordPress (what this site is built on). So go check out the site: Utilis | Ware  Read more here...