Tangerine Musings » Release Previews http://clevertangerine.com/blog Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:11:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 RCLogbook 4.5… http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2014/03/rclogbook-4-5/ http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2014/03/rclogbook-4-5/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:32:18 +0000 http://clevertangerine.com/blog/?p=287 Continue reading →]]> Well, that’s a wrap. Beta time.

This release will be the last release to support iOS 6.x and earlier (it may also drop iOS 5.1 support, depending on how the tools handle things). The next release will be iOS 7 and later only. I am reluctant to drop the older support, but the installed base stats just do not justify keeping around the old code. There was a lot of “if iOS7 do X; otherwise do Y” that had to go in to the last few releases to play nicely with all the releases. It is time to clean that stuff up and migrate to some of the new APIs.

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Though, in the meantime, 4.1 and 4.2 got taken care of and released into the wild. You can find 4.2 on your friendly neighborhood App Store. These are both incremental releases, but there is some good stuff in there like Dropbox support (finally) and multicopter model types.

The coding elves are busy working on putting in a few cool things for whatever comes after 4.2. Parallel charging/discharging support is wrapping up along with a few other goodies.

]]> http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2014/02/zombie-tangerines/feed/ 0 More on Four http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/09/more-on-four/ http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/09/more-on-four/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:47:17 +0000 http://clevertangerine.com/blog/?p=254 Continue reading →]]> 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 up and the app submitted next week.

]]> http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/09/more-on-four/feed/ 0 What’s Actually in 4.0… http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/09/whats-actually-in-4-0/ http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/09/whats-actually-in-4-0/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:11:41 +0000 http://clevertangerine.com/blog/?p=247 Continue reading →]]> Here’s the official list of major new features in RCLogbook 4.0 include:

  • Add barcode scanner to scan models and batteries for events and cycles.
  • Add support for “storage” state in batteries.
  • Added “no timer” setting to skip the timer when logging at the field.
  • Now warn user when they try to start an event with a discharged battery.
  • Now record internal resistances to tenths of milliohms.
  • Now display event counts and last event date on event location callouts.
  • The usual cast of bug fixes and stability improvements.

The barcode functionality requires an iOS device with a rear-facing camera capable of 720P video capture – this pretty much means an iPhone 4, 4S, or 5 or a 4th generation or later iPod touch.

There have been a lot of changes under the hood to move to modern iOS 4.x APIs and other clean-up. Those changes turned out to be a lot more work than anticipated.

]]> http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/09/whats-actually-in-4-0/feed/ 0 Where we are With 4.0 http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/09/where-we-are-with-4-0/ http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/09/where-we-are-with-4-0/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:03:31 +0000 http://clevertangerine.com/blog/?p=245 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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More to come…

]]> http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/08/done/feed/ 3 Edging Closer http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/07/edging-closer/ http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/07/edging-closer/#comments Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:34:48 +0000 http://clevertangerine.com/blog/?p=238 Continue reading →]]> 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.

]]> http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/07/edging-closer/feed/ 0 Of Tunnels and Lights http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/07/of-tunnels-and-lights/ http://clevertangerine.com/blog/2012/07/of-tunnels-and-lights/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:24:07 +0000 http://clevertangerine.com/blog/?p=236 Next release is getting close(r). Wrapped up work on one of the biggest remaining changes this weekend.  Beta should be around the corner. More to come…

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Hmmm…

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What this is for, I am not saying just yet. Speculations are welcome…

To-do-list-wise, 4.0 is pretty close to code complete. There is one more piece of infrastructure that needs to be done now that iOS 3 support is gone. The update is touching a lot of the code and is slow going. The bummer in all of this is that it is for a feature that folks probably will not even notice.

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