It's been a long time coming, but we are finally just about ready to submit our next update to the LCARS Interface app for Windows 8!
Up to now we've been pretty fast and furious with the update cycle, but as mentioned in a couple of the previous blog posts, we needed to do some major overhauling of the back end of our apps. Simply put, we were not optimized to take advantage of the code sharing possibilities between Windows 8/RT and Windows Phone because we never intended to do anything for Windows Phone! Now that we are doing quite a bit (3 apps now, actually!) we felt it was time to get that done in order to get ready for Windows 8.1/Windows Phone 8.1. The last updates to the Windows Phone apps now take advantage of the new structure and we are very pleased with the results so far! Lots of performance optimizations and the update and bug fix process is much more streamlined on any functionality that is the same between them. This is a very exciting thing for us developers...the rest of you won't see any difference right away, but you will have more reliable software and faster updates to all of them!
The Windows 8 app took some more time since it is quite a bit larger than all the phone ones combined and we have to make sure we didn't break any existing functionality! We were also working on adding the newest module! We have quite a bit more planned, but the next update after this one will likely take place after Windows 8.1 is released. 8.1 (which will be a free update for Windows 8, so you don't have to buy anything to get our next updates) will finally allow us to give you all some of the most requested features that were previously not available to us. We have been on top of the changes that are coming in order to make sure our apps are taking full advantage of any new features!
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