Sorry for the blog silence the past few weeks. Hopefully many of you have seen a few sneak peaks of what we've been working on from the Facebook page.
There have been a couple updates to the Windows 8.1 app as well as a minor update to the Windows Phone 8.0 app, but a majority of our efforts have been focused on one thing...getting LCARS Interface ready for Windows Phone 8.1!
Read on after the break to find out how it's going. It's a bit long, as there is a lot that is going into this process which likely won't be visible to the end user when the update comes out.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
Long Time No Post....New Stuff Coming!
Sorry for the lack of updates to this blog recently. Hopefully most of you follow us on Facebook where we usually post quick updates and sneak peaks of the things to come.
A new update was just submitted for the LCARS Interface app for Windows 8.1, which will hopefully be approved later today. The quick change log is as follows:
Not anything major this time, but we are making a push to improve upon the interface design. Our initial designs and colors were based on the LCARS Standards Development board website, but that effort was never entirely completed, and is still somewhat incomplete. We are now going through and adding some additional colors to the mix, in addition to making some mathematical adjustments to the controls in order to make them more screen accurate. We are also considering some additional themes. New animations are also in the works.
We have a TON of new projects and updates in the works, and we are rolling them out as quickly as we get them finished. We are also experimenting with the new Universal apps for Windows devices, and investigating what it would take to rebuild the LCARS Interface apps into one of these packages, which would speed up development time and bring the feature sets closer together. The downside is that it would be incompatible with Windows Phone 8.0 at that point. This should not be a huge problem since ALL Windows 8 devices will be able to upgrade to 8.1, similar to the decision we made to no longer support Windows 8.0. We are still working out the details, and consolidating, optimizing, and adding to our code base for these apps in addition to designing the new things we have in the works. It's a little overwhelming at the moment while all of these changes to the development process are taking place, but we should come out more streamlined and better able to support Windows and Windows Phone, in addition to other Windows platforms, than ever before. We are proud to be early adopters of Windows Store development, and some of these growing pains are part of having provided these apps before the platforms were totally mature. But that isn't discouraging us from moving forward. LCARS Interface remains in the top 3 Entertainment apps in the Windows Store, and we intend to keep it that way, in addition to making new and exciting apps to complement it.
A new update was just submitted for the LCARS Interface app for Windows 8.1, which will hopefully be approved later today. The quick change log is as follows:
- Simulator module can now be pinned to Start screen.
- Fixed some issues with Trig functions in Calculator module.
- Fixed seek bar in the Media Player when in full screen mode.
- Many visual adjustments and fixes.
Not anything major this time, but we are making a push to improve upon the interface design. Our initial designs and colors were based on the LCARS Standards Development board website, but that effort was never entirely completed, and is still somewhat incomplete. We are now going through and adding some additional colors to the mix, in addition to making some mathematical adjustments to the controls in order to make them more screen accurate. We are also considering some additional themes. New animations are also in the works.
We have a TON of new projects and updates in the works, and we are rolling them out as quickly as we get them finished. We are also experimenting with the new Universal apps for Windows devices, and investigating what it would take to rebuild the LCARS Interface apps into one of these packages, which would speed up development time and bring the feature sets closer together. The downside is that it would be incompatible with Windows Phone 8.0 at that point. This should not be a huge problem since ALL Windows 8 devices will be able to upgrade to 8.1, similar to the decision we made to no longer support Windows 8.0. We are still working out the details, and consolidating, optimizing, and adding to our code base for these apps in addition to designing the new things we have in the works. It's a little overwhelming at the moment while all of these changes to the development process are taking place, but we should come out more streamlined and better able to support Windows and Windows Phone, in addition to other Windows platforms, than ever before. We are proud to be early adopters of Windows Store development, and some of these growing pains are part of having provided these apps before the platforms were totally mature. But that isn't discouraging us from moving forward. LCARS Interface remains in the top 3 Entertainment apps in the Windows Store, and we intend to keep it that way, in addition to making new and exciting apps to complement it.
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