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Version 2.0.0 Released

It is out. Please update and try it. Be sure to let me know if there are any issues; especially for iPad users. I’m keenly interested in knowing if performance is okay on retina iPads; that’s the only device that I wasn’t able to test on myself.

I also got a new App Store review recently. Thanks Mugen89k. You mentioned that the cards aren’t shuffled and appear in the order you added them. Actually, only new cards are presented in order. Tested cards are shuffled by default but there’s a setting that allows you to have them sorted by creation date if you so desire. I never thought that someone might also want new cards to be randomized. I’ll add an option for that and release an update as soon as possible. Expect it by next week, perhaps. Just for you Mugen89k.

That’s right. If you want something in the app, all you have to do is ask and I’ll probably add it for you. As long as it’s sensible. New card shuffling, yes. Unicorns…probably not.

Happy Studies!

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Version 2.0.0

I finally finished the update. Hopefully it will be reviewed quickly and available soon.

I think it turned out pretty well. This version is iOS 7 only but the old version will continue to be available in the store for those with older devices. The main new features are native iPad support and updated support for imiwa?`s newest feature – analyzing a long string of Japanese text. You’ll need to use the long-press popup context menu to access the analyze feature.

I had to spend way more time than I thought I would tweaking orientation support on the iPad. So much time, in fact, that I wasn’t able to properly test my iCloud implementation. So, I had to keep it turned off for this release. For the time being, you’ll have to manually manage your files through the App tab in iTunes if you have multiple devices. I know it’s a pain and I’ll try to get the next version with iCloud support out as soon as possible. Maybe by Christmas?

After that, I intend to start working on being able to import and export directly to and from Anki files. And sometime next year, hopefully by the spring, I’m going to open up online lesson sharing to you guys. You’ll be able to download lessons without a user account. Those that do create accounts will be able to upload, rate, and tag lessons. No comments but the tagging system will work similarly to something like Little Planet. You’ll be able to choose three tags (words like technology, textbook, grammar, verbs, explicit, stupid, etc.) to describe a lesson so I think it’ll be easy to find the good stuff. It’ll all be searchable as well.

Anywho, as soon as Apple approves the app I’ll post another update to let you know it’s available for download.

Happy Studies!

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Embracing iOS 7

I wanted to post an update on what I’ve been doing recently.

I’m hard at work on the update to a universal app which will include retina iPad support. As I’m sure many of you know, Apple revealed iOS 7 at this year’s WWDC. I plan to release the universal app in conjunction with the release of iOS 7. I’ll be updating the app to version 2.0 and the UI will conform to Apple’s newest design principles. I know a lot of people don’t like the new design. I didn’t either, at first. However, after using it for a few weeks, I can assure you that the OS itself is much better and the new, “flat” design grows on you. I have a couple of preview shots to show you how things are coming along.

Please keep in mind that these are work-in-progress so they’ll almost certainly change at least a bit.

Version 2.0 will only support iOS 7 so you’ll have to upgrade to the new OS before you’ll be able to update the app. I’m going to be releasing the final version of 1.1 soon which will act as a preparatory bridge to version 2.0. The update (ver 1.1.3) will require iOS 6.

I’m going to complete the new iPhone version first because that’s what I’ll be using for daily testing. As soon as that’s done, I’ll start working on the iPad UI and will release some preview shots as soon as possible.

Please don’t hesitate to let me know what you think of the design and what kind of new features you might like to see in the new version.

Happy Studies!

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Version 1.1.2 Released

Version 1.1.2 is available now. Actually, this update was mostly just for me. I cleaned up a lot of the code and tweaked how the font cache is managed a bit. However, I did want to add something that users would actually notice so I put in an option to automatically synchronize your card study dates when you tap the Study tab. You’ll have the option to turn this on or off the first time you launch the new version and you can change it later in the Settings app.

I guess I’m gonna start working on artwork for an iPad native retina version. It’ll probably take a while to finish up but hopefully I’ll have it done sometime this summer. Please let me know if you’d like to see any changes or additions to the app during the meantime.

Happy Studies!

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iPhone 5

I finally got my new 5th generation device and the update to support 4-inch screens is well into testing. It should be ready, submitted to Apple for approval, and available on the App Store soon.

Once I’m done with that, I’m considering working on an iPad native version of the app. However, I don’t want to do just a scaled-up version of the app. I’d like to make the iPad version take advantage of the extra screen space somehow but, frankly, I really don’t have any good ideas about how to do so.

So, please send a long any ideas you might have about what you’d like to see in an iPad version. If I don’t get anything good I probably will at least do an up-scaled version so that iPad users don’t have to deal with the not-so-great default up-scaling. However, it may be a while before it’s ready.

Happy Studies!