New App “Text Flasher” Now Available on the App Store!

Posted by Chris on Apr 28, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

The app idea that one of the blog readers suggested was submitted to Apple last Sunday. Today, thursday, the app has been approved and is now available! Since I don’t believe the app will be searchable until tomorrow here is the link for the app on the app store: Text Flasher. I am still accepting ideas for apps other people would like to see so hit me up on twitter (@csheldrick) or email csheldrick at gmail dot com. Enjoy!

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...

iOS App Ideas – Send ‘em In!

Posted by Chris on Feb 8, 2011 in iOS Apps | 24 comments

It has been a few weeks since I have updated the site, but things are settling down and I am ready to take on another app project. I have multiple apps for sale/free in the App store already but I am having trouble coming up with new app ideas. So I have decided to let you submit ideas to me which I will work on making, once I finish your app idea I will send you the promo code to get the app for free. So this is your chance to send in any app ideas that you want to see and actually be able to use. So it is up to you now to either email me the app idea or leave a comment on this post, I look forward to seeing your ideas. Oh and my email is csheldrick at gmail.com!  Read more here...

iSupplement v2.2.2 Approved and Released

Posted by Chris on Nov 23, 2010 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

Received the approval email from Apple yesterday, just checked and v2.2.2 is live on the app store so go update. This update is mainly just a bug fix, when you use the “quick” take a dose button the days supply never updates unless you go into the details of the supplement. I only noticed this after I almost ran out of a supplement I thought I had a 20 day supply for.

If you find any more bugs or have any requests feel free to drop me a line (either here on the blog, the forum, @csheldrick, @isupplementapp, or even an email) Enjoy!