We had an amazing weekend in Las Vegas at the biggest Star Trek convention of the year. Just in case any of you are worried about Star Trek losing popularity, you only need to go to one of those things and see all the fans young and old excited about every aspect of Star Trek. Unlike many other conventions where Star Trek people appear, this one is ONLY about Star Trek and the number of events they have there makes it impossible to see everything.
Now it's back to reality and that means working on more updates to your favorite apps. We've got some fixes lined up for the Windows 8 app, but not any large features just yet. We may do an interim release just to get those few things out there until the next big update is done. Bug fixes especially are high priority so we want to get those released as soon as possible. Hopefully it will be ready within the next couple days.
On the Windows Phone front we have quite a few things in the works. The closest big feature to being complete is the ability to upload all types of log files to your SkyDrive (Windows Phone 8 only for the time being)! Currently there is no way to back up your logs and that is not something we are happy with. Unlike with the Windows 8 app, 3rd party apps can't write files to the media libraries on the phone (which are the only accessible folders when connected with USB to copy files on and off the device). The logs are instead saved in isolated app storage which is inaccessible to everything else. With SkyDrive integration you will be able to upload the logs from your mobile device to the "Central Database" just in case something happens where you need to uninstall the LCARS Interface app, in which case all of your logs would be lost. This situation can happen at any time, and we want to make sure you are able to back up your data soon! The beta tests of this feature are going well, so we hope to have this feature submitted for Microsoft's approval sometime this week.
So those are some of the new features in the pipeline...but there are TONS of features in the plans and many are already in progress. Some of them will blow your mind! Unfortunately due to the lower priority of these apps vs. the things that actually pay the bills, we can't get them implemented as quickly as we would like. Even so, we believe our apps are some of the best supported ones out there and will always remain committed to having high quality applications for you to enjoy. Keep those feature requests coming and we will do our best to accommodate them if it's within the restrictions of the Windows 8 and/or Windows Phone stores!
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