Tag: «этот день»

I released an update for the This Day app. I redesigned it for iOS 7 (which is roughly the same as removing almost all styling altogether). In my opinion it became nicer and more concise.

I used the standard UIActivityViewController for sharing via Facebook, Twitter, and other built-in options such as email, sms/iMessage, etc., and I also added Vkontakte-iOS-SDK for sharing to VK instead of the homemade thing that had been there before. True, there are not really any visual differences for the user, and by the time I finally got around to polishing everything, VK had already released an official iOS SDK, but I did not want to dig into it just to replace something that was already working.

At the same time I got rid of the now unnecessary SBJson for working with JSON, because you can safely use the NSJSONSerialization already built into iOS. I decided to add Yandex.Metrica Mobile to the app to count users properly and see, for example, who uses which iOS version and on what device. For now I am just watching the numbers; it is informative.

This is how the little hobby project continues. I will think about what else to build into it, and then I will write the next app. For now — download/update:

Finally finished updating the «This Day» app so that it now installs not just on iPad, but on iPhone as well.

Full version | Lite version

Version 1.1 of This Day for iPad has been released. At first I wanted to add swipe navigation for events and fix a few small things, but somehow it dragged on. When I finally coded it, I had to reject the app from the App Store 2 or 3 times because I kept finding nasty bugs that made it crash or display incorrectly. By the time I had fixed everything critical, the new iPad had come out, so I added graphics for it right after that. And at the very end I discovered that sharing to VK requires a captcha, so I had to google it and implement its handling.

So in the end, what started as small changes turned into a pretty substantial changelog for such an app:

• support for iPad with Retina display;
• events can now be swiped with a finger;
• when publishing an event to Facebook or VKontakte, the app now shows a notification that the publication succeeded;
• when publishing events to Facebook or VKontakte, they are now posted in a more understandable form with the full date;
• captcha handling for posting to VKontakte added;
• fixed a bug that prevented long events from being published;
• minor improvements and bug fixes.

A friend and I shipped an iPad app called «This Day». First one done — congrats to me. More details…