Monday, October 14, 2013

LCARS Interface [Windows Phone] Release 6 Is Now Available!

Update 10/16/2013: A new update has been released to resolve the issue mentioned at the bottom as well as a couple of other minor issues we discovered during testing. This app will stay at release 6 for now since nothing new was added and the bugs fixed were very minor. There is plenty more being worked on for the next update!

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As promised, a new update for LCARS Interface for Windows Phone has been released today!

This is one of the largest updates we've done for this app, and in addition to overhauling the entire back end just like with the other LCARS apps, we've also done all of the following:

  • Added new Battery module (WP8 only)
  • Added ability to turn off extra animations from General section of Settings page.
  • Added lots of new animations for many screens when "Extra Animations" is enabled (especially during Red Alert).
  • Added more appropriate keyboard settings to all text entry boxes including Text Logs (adds autocorrect and word suggestions, etc).
  • Added scrolling to Text Log entry box.
  • Secondary tile for Weather is now a live tile (updates from your default location in the app)!
  • Fixed Clock to properly update the time.
  • Fixed Clock to properly switch between 12/24 hour modes (previously it only worked in certain regions of the world).
  • Fixed weather to not lock up the UI while scanning.
  • Fixed black screen issue when returning from lock screen.
  • Added new Splash screen image (WP7 only)
We've added the new animations present in the latest releases of LCARS Simulator and LCARS Personnel, but also taken it a big step farther! Enable "Extra Animations" and restart the app!

Many of these suggestions come from user e-mails as well as store reviews. We're always looking for ways to make your experience with our apps better, so keep the feedback (good or bad) coming! We do listen.

**NOTE: We are aware of an issue with the app not running when Background processes for this app are disabled in the Windows Phone Settings (Thanks Dennis!). An update has already been released to resolve this issue!
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11 comments:

  1. Dennis A.October 14, 2013 at 5:28 PM

    The new sounds and animations are so epic! Never expected such beauty in an app! It feels so alive and real LCARS when you open the app and/or the weather module

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    1. Davstar AppsOctober 14, 2013 at 8:02 PM

      We are glad you like it! We have been having a lot of fun setting up all the new animations. We still need to add all the new ones this has to the LCARS Simulator app and LCARS Personnel apps, but it's worth the effort! Windows Phone is capable of a lot more than we initially realized when we started.

      And the Windows 8 app will be getting lots of new ones as well! That one is taking a while because it just has so many components in it that make it more complex.

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  2. Dennis A.October 15, 2013 at 4:54 AM

    I'm looking forward to the windows 8 release (almost as much as the windows 8.1 update!). But unfortunately I have a few bugs to report for the WP8 interface app. My weather live tile won't work at all and my app broke after a day, had to reinstall it. Maybe because I am on the GDR3 update? Previous bugs are all exterminated so that's a good thing :D

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    1. Dennis A.October 15, 2013 at 4:59 AM

      Update: after reinstalling the live tile also works again. So no bugs to report!

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    2. Dennis A.October 15, 2013 at 5:04 AM

      Another update: I now know how and why my app broke down! I disabled the background tasks in settings, to save battery (and since the live tile didn't work than). When you do that, the app won't open. When I checked the box which says it will enable the backgroundtasks again, the app did open up again. So maybe you have to make a note of it in the store?

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    3. Davstar AppsOctober 15, 2013 at 7:23 AM

      I will definitely look into this! That should not happen so I will get a fix for it out asap...

      Thanks for reporting this issue!

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  3. ADAMOctober 15, 2013 at 5:48 PM

    Awesome apps! One question, sorry if its been brought up before, but are there any plans to bring some lock screen functonality to this app? Id love to have my lockscreen incorporate the look of the app. keep it up!

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    1. Davstar AppsOctober 16, 2013 at 4:14 PM

      It is certainly possible that we might incorporate some lock screen functionality in the future! The information we are able to display there is pretty limited though, so we're still looking into our options for that.

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  4. AndrewOctober 22, 2013 at 12:35 AM

    I've been unable to get the live tile to work, even after the update and reinstalling multiple times. I have an HTC 8x on t mobile. Background tasks are enabled.

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    1. Davstar AppsOctober 22, 2013 at 1:10 AM

      Sometimes it can take up to an hour before it starts running since the service is only allowed to run by the OS every 30 minutes or so. Also make sure you are adding the secondary tile for weather, as the main app tile is not live. Please let me know if you are still having issues with it!

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  5. UnknownFebruary 18, 2014 at 8:41 AM

    Yaşar Tuna Zorlu1 year prior I'm sitting tight tolerantly here for Windows Phone 8.Brian Benton1 year priorwindows mobile app // iPhone app maker // mobile app developers

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