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twillis — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:47:17 +0000

The beta continues on 4.0.0 with lots of iOS 6 and iPhone 5 testing. There are still some nagging issues that we need to get worked out, but so far, so good. We are hoping to get the testing wrapped … Continue reading →

Where we are With 4.0

twillis — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:03:31 +0000

Well, wouldn’t you know it we found some last-minute bugs that popped up during some flying recently. So, we are still in a holding pattern on the release. There was an issue in the audio system that was causing “ducking” of the audio from other sources (like the iPod app) to not work as expected. There were also some other minor issues with the barcode scanner that needed to be dealt with. Functionality-wise, none of these were the end of the world, but they were annoying enough to fix.

The audio bug in particular proved to be really hard to track down. I still have no idea why what changed fixed the problem – the audio code was (mostly) unchanged from 3.8.x, where it worked fine. In any case, it appears to be working as of this evening.

Things look clean again, but now we have iOS 6 looming in a little over a week. The question is do we hold off until iOS 6 is out to get a quick beta in or just run some limited testing on the GM release that was made available to developers today. There’s also been some other changes in the latest tools that have implications for our planned support for iOS 4.2 (basically, iPhone 3G).

Decisions, decisions.

Edging Closer

twillis — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:34:48 +0000

The TODO list is down to about one-half of a hand’s worth of items. The last really big and complicated one just went in. Which means beta is close. There have been significant under-the-hood changes which means we will probably beat on it more before turning it loose for wider testing. Maybe, just maybe, we can get 4.0.0 on the store by end of August.

Ran into a nasty bug where a property changed from assign to retain and we forgot to pull the [object release] from dealloc. All hell eventually broke loose as the code ended up over-releasing an object that it should be holding on to. Lesson learned.

Vermin!

twillis — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:50:24 +0000

There’s a bug in 3.8.1 that can cause RCLogbook to crash when working with helicopters that log fuel. The crash can happen on either the flight complete or the flight edit pages of the UI. The bug has been isolated and squashed and a fix is on its way in release 3.8.2. While we were in the code, we tweaked a few other things to improve stability and robustness.

To work-around the crash, your best option is to turn off fuel logging while flying and record fuel usage the old fashioned way. Once 3.8.2 is out, you should be able to go back into the flight editor and update the fuel consumed.

The update was submitted this evening, should be out sometime next week depending on how busy Apple’s app approval gnomes are these days.

Apologies, as always, for the inconvenience…

Release 3.8.1 is Out!

twillis — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:30:58 +0000

There was a big whoops in 3.8.0 for folks running iOS 4. Strangely enough, there were very few complaints which either means that pretty much nobody is running the app on iOS 4 or they never got around to charging … Continue reading →