We promised it a couple days ago, and now it's here! As probably the first real product of our recent back end overhaul, we were able to submit updates for Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, and Windows 8/RT all at the same time! I think we already recovered most of the time spent doing that.
So, after more user requests and stars taken off reviews than I can remember, new Weather icons are here! It's been a long time coming, and it certainly took some effort to manually match all the new icons to the weather codes provided by the weather service, but it's now complete and we think you will be much happier with the new ones!
Also included in this update is a new feature...the ability to get the weather for your current location! This feature uses the new location services in Windows 8, so it should be reasonably accurate even if your device doesn't have GPS. Make sure that you have location services turned on if you would like to use this feature. Currently it only works "on demand" by clicking the "My loc" button right above the scan button, but it may be possible in the future to set this behavior as the default way to retrieve weather.
This update is now available in the Windows 8 Store! The updates for Windows Phone 7 and 8 will be available as soon as Microsoft approves them, which should be any time now. The Windows 8/RT store was faster on the approval process this time even though they were all submitted at the same time.
Awesome icons! But the con module still doesn't work properly (star view window), and the sound of beaming someone in at the transporter module doesn't end quite well, but more abruptly. I'm sorry if I sound high demanding but these are things you guys seem to address real quick :P
ReplyDeleteWe do try and resolve an issues as quickly as possible, since any feature not working properly takes away from the experience and quality of the app! The Conn issue is something we haven't been able to fix yet though. Microsoft changed something out of our reach with 8.1 with how the media player is working and we haven't found an alternative, but we are still working on it!
DeleteThe sound issue on the transporter is something we will look into and is most likely just the sound effect needing to be edited. The next release will hopefully not be far off, as we currently have a lot of things in progress and some should be ready soon.
Thanks!