New updates of Fit and Aria Touch have been uploaded to Apple and are under review.
What’s new in Fit 1.03
- Custom food entry bug fixes
- Ability to delete any food, food group, exercise, or exercise group
- Ability to control the visibility of standard database items
Users can also control the visibility of standard database items. There is a fairly fine grained degree of control on this - you can decide whether you want to be able to browse the included food groups and items and whether or not the standard items appear in searches, too.
What’s new in Aria 1.01
- Fixed Memory Warning crashes
- Improved Fogbugz support for larger projects
- Autoscrolling to newly created tasks upon return to list
- Improved task alerts (no alerts when reassigning tasks to self)
- Improved text fields for task summaries to show predictive text/kanji/etc. options without cutoff.
- Improved table cell handling for memory management.
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The History page on Fit gives you a graphic display of your weight and calorie progress from when you started using Fit, to the current day. The current version of the graph displays a lot of information in a compact, innovative way. We will be further enhancing the graph in future Fit updates. Here’s a breakdown of each of the history graph’s current elements, and how to interpret them:
Fit History graph details
As time goes by tracking your fitness goals, it may help to get an overall picture of your progress so far and the History graph is there to provide a visual representation of your path so far. If you have ideas or suggestions for what you would like to see as we roll out future iterations of the graph, we are happy to hear them.
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Fit 1.02 has been approved and is available in the App Store!
What’s new in 1.02:
- * extensive stability improvements
- * metric system support
- * custom food creation
- * custom food groups
- * custom exercise creation
- * custom exercise group creation
When this version is available to all existing Fit customers as a free update. You will still be prompted for your password, but this is part of the authentication process.
I am really surprised out how quickly this update went through: I think that 3 days may be some kind of record. As I said in our last post, I thought it was going to be about 2 to 10 times as long a wait!
Needless to say, 1.03 isn’t ready yet. I spent most of today doing design work and prototyping for the new features, which are going to be great. I can’t talk about the, yet but will let people know what we’ve got shaking here by the time the next beta release is ready.
-Daniel
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Fit 1.02 has been submitted to Apple and is currently in review. This upcoming build is not *yet* available on the App Store but features:
* extensive stability improvements
* metric system support
* custom food creation
* custom food groups
* custom exercise creation
* custom exercise group creation
When this version is approved it will be available to all existing Fit customers as a free update. You will still be prompted for your password, but this is part of the authentication process.
Experience and discussion with other developers leads us to suspect that it may be anywhere for one to three weeks before this update is available to users. In the meanwhile we’re already working on 1.03, which add even more great features.
I would like to thank all of the beta testers that helped us with this build. Your feedback has been instrumental in getting this version of the application out the door. We’ll be pinging you about 1.03 updates in the next week or so, so stay tuned!
-Daniel
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We’ve gotten lots of great feedback from our beta testers on Fit and the result is a stable, great application. With any luck, we will be shipping the new build to Apple in the morning.
Once that’s done, we’re going to start diving into the next round of features. Fit is a solid application now, it’s going to be great in the weeks to come!
Thanks to everyone that has participated in this round of beta testing. We hope to have some new features for you to check out soon.
-Daniel
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Beta test notifications have been sent out tonight. If you applied as a beta tester for Fit or Aria Touch and haven’t received download instructions, check your junk mail folder or send us an email letting us know at support AT blackpixelluminance DOT com.
-Daniel
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Pain
July 24th, 2008
We are fast approaching the point where we need to freeze our feature set and enter a serious testing phase with Fit 1.02. This is really a challenge, because what I personally want to do is keep adding features to make Fit better. At this point, though, all that is really going to do is make it harder to ensure that we are shipping our customers a solid, stable product.
Fit Status Update
At this point, we’ve been working with custom foods and exercises for about a week. Most of the work we’ve done since then has been focused on making other features in Fit (such as search and recent items lists) support custom items as well.
We have a few loose ends in code to wrap up, but now most of our work will focus on testing, bug fixes, and rapid handling of memory warnings from the operating system.
Memory errors are particularly tricky on the iPhone, going beyond traditional memory leaks: if the phone decides it needs more memory than it has available, it will hit up your application to free some up. If you don’t your application gets killed.
In my opinion, this feature of the operating system is probably the most common source of crashes on the platform.
Anyway, we’re moving into testing. If you have applied to be a beta tester we will be shipping you information on how to download and install the release candidate build on your phone.
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We’re looking for iPhone and iPod Touch users to help us test out new features in our upcoming releases of Fit and Aria Touch.
If you are interested in being a beta tester, please send email to info AT blackpixelluminance DOT com with a subject line of either “Fit Beta Test” or “Aria Touch Beta Test.”
In order to create a build that can run on your hardware, we’ll need the device id of the iPhone or iPod Touch you want to use. If you don’t know it you can download Erica Sadun’s free Erica Sadun’s app, Ad Hoc Helper, to find out.
-Daniel
Beta testers will be required to sign and fax us a noncompete/nondisclosure agreement, which we will provide. Aria Touch testers using FogBugz 6.0 are particularly sought after!
-Daniel
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Stability improvements
Despite the initial fixes in 1.0.1, we have still received several reports of crashing during regular use. Bil has greatly enhanced Fit’s response to memory warnings from the operating system, which has resulted in a very large reduction in crash frequency.
Metric units
As of today, our internal build of Fit now support metric units - so far this is only for the weight log and food measurements but the exercise list will be updated as well.
Custom food updates
Custom food and exercise development continues - we can now include custom foods in the regular meal journal as you would any other food.
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We’ve been working almost literally around the clock to get customization enabled on Fit. The following screenshots are all live, that is to say, this is running code that actually creates usable custom items in the Fit database.
Click any of the images on this article for a full-sized preview.
We still have quite a bit to add before we’re ready to ship, plus we obviously want to do a LOT of regression testing and quality assurance before we hand our next build over to the App Store.
New food creation
New beverage creation
Scrolling down, you can see that, in addition to calories and serving sizes, we provide the ability to add and track fat, carbohydrates, and other nutritional information for food and beverages.
Vitamin, iron, and calcium data.
New food group creation
Fit lets you mix and match pre-existing and new food groups any way you like. You can splice in your own restaurants, add new top level categories, etc.
New exercise creation
Exercises consist basically of a name and the number of calories burned per hour of exertion. When you enter a new exercise set we’ll take whatever duration you include and compute the number of calories you’ve expended for you.
New exercise group creation
Custom exercise groups work the same way as food groups in that they can be added in at any level in the Fit exercise group hierarchy.
More to come
In addition to item creation, we will also provide a way to delete existing groups and items if you are interested in thinning out some of the previously existing database entries. We will be adding a lot more than simple customization soon, but we aren’t at liberty to discuss what the features are quite yet.
At this point, figuring for the time Apple will need to deploy our update out to the App Store, plus our own time required to finish and test our change, we are probably looking at getting this out to people by the end of the month. Naturally, this will be a free update for existing users of Fit.
-Daniel
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