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What were we doing for the past couple of weeks
It might seem we are not that active as we should be but everyone in our team is doing their best! We try to answer all questions you have placed on our Twitter or emailed them to us. Beside the organization stuff we are working on three other projects and few commercial commissions for our VIP clients. I’d like to share some of the current information which I am at the moment authorised to publish to each particular project:
Cookmate
Cookmate is our major application and most worked on. Last week Apple approved our first but minor update 1.0.1 which brings completely new function such as option to share the groceries list or new option to share recipes via email. Currently the most time consuming activity is to arranging for a few set recipes from our contractors and suppliers. The next update will feature the following sets of recipes:
- Italian cuisine (about 50 recipes)
- American cuisine 2 (about 100 more new recipes)
- Vegetarian meals (about 100 great recipes)
We‘ll also add some of the new functions coming together with this update such as:
- the number of displaying pictures of that particular meal (recipe) already uploaded in the recipe’s gallery
- hidding of the unwanted recipes or ingredients
- very requested opportunity such as adding of your own recipe
Please see below the preview of the functions (or visit our Ember for latest sneak peeks):
Screenport
This is our latest baby. At the begining there was a simple idea of the tool which could possibly make the workflow easier for designers which are designing UI for the iPhone. We explored and extended this great idea of few additional functions. This app will be compatible with Mac, iPhone and iPad and it’s gouing to have a very particular web interface.
I am at the position that I can say no more information but just that the first Beta version where the main option is going to be the searching after the testers in segment of UI designers. Out at the end of March 2010.
If you want to be the part of this revolutionary application I strongly advise to sing up to our mailing list and you will be first to know what and when is it going to happen!
Project X
The state of thid app is right now in stage when still deciding what the app should be able to do and how it will work although the main idea wis pretty clear. Nothing as factual for existing activity you experience for example on the social network sites.
That’s all for now I hope I answered some of your questions. Please keep posting your questions on Twitter or Formspring.
Comments 4 weeks ago on February 9th, 2010 -
UITitleBar: black buttons
Short time ago we were dealing with an issue in one of our apps. It was not possible to switch the UITitleBar with custom background to black color, to achieve black buttons and not the standard blue ones. Unfortunatelly only setting the style on UIBarStyleBlackOpaque was not enough.
But finally I’ve discovered the following solution:
navigationBarStyle = UIBarStyleBlackOpaque; navigationBarTintColor = nil;
Comments 1 month ago on January 20th, 2010 -
Exciting New Apps Coming Soon
We are currently working on a few very exciting iPhone and Mac apps. One of them is for web travel service that you may know. You’ll be able to stay connected with your friends, view articles, photos and videos! More information coming soon in near future on our blog! Here is the latest sneak peek of that travel app!
Comments 1 month ago on January 20th, 2010
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People from Apple are also human
Apple refused our last update. Cookmate crashes when the user wants to create a picture and has no camera — usually via iPod touch. This bug was also in first version of Cookmate, which passed approval. That’s weird.
We re-sent fixed version again to Apple and hopefully will be soon on App Store near you also with new recipes available via In-App purchase.
Comments 1 month ago on January 12th, 2010
