What have we been up to?
Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 02:59PM Well, it's been a while since we've posted a blog entry, or released an update. You may ask yourself, what's going on over at ApApp? To be honest... too much going on lately, and we've been discussing an Adroid version of the app, graphic changes, and how to best process time if the app is running in the background on an iPhone.
In order to correctly handle how Apple deals with "multi-tasking" we've had to undertake a pretty dramatic change to how we were dealing with the timer. Apple only really allows 3 functions to run in the background, and our timer function is not one of them. So the app had to actually know it was going to sleep and then start back up from where it was, calculate the time it was asleep, and then keep going. This meant we had to rewrite the timer. We also have to enable the functions of knowing that it is being put to sleep and that it woke back up. Hopefully we will be submitting a version of the updated App to the app store soon.
We are also looking at adding Twitter support, so that you can tweet out the amount of waste to start a meeting and total cost of your meetings. Do you think we should hold up the release until we have Twitter integration done?
Let us know!!
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