This blog has been pretty quiet recently. It's certainly not due to a lack of development activity, though! In fact we've been busier than ever since at any point we have probably half a dozen projects we are working on for public release. I know most of you follow us for our LCARS based projects, and those are my personal favorite to work on, but we also do other things too! Work is still going strong on the Windows Phone 8.1 version of LCARS Interface. Huge sections of the WP8.0 version are being re-written to share a common code base with the Windows 8.1 version. We have had some minor setbacks in this process since we are always working with the latest version of Windows Phone 8.1 that is released to developers. There are some bugs in it that prohibit us from being able to complete work on our app's features. The new Camera module is the latest piece to suffer from this, but hopefully it won't be a problem for long.
Now that Windows Phone 8.1 provides file access, we have released what was our first Windows 8 Store app, Rename It! Pro, for Windows Phone 8.1! This app is taking advantage of the new Universal apps from Microsoft, and so purchasing either the Windows 8 version or Windows Phone version will allow you to download the other without having to buy it again! We plan to take advantage of this with as many apps as we can going forward which should make everything a better value for all of you. We have not done this yet for LCARS Interface, mainly due to the disparity of features between the versions (and so also the cost difference between them). As we move these two versions closer together we hope to make it work eventually. Right now the phone version costs a lot less, so hopefully having to buy it on a second platform won't be too deterring.
Fans of the LCARS Simulator app for Windows Phone (which is built into the Windows 8 version of LCARS Interface) will have some new things coming up soon. Notably we hope to release something related to it that will support more platforms than just Windows 8 and Windows Phone in the next couple of months!
On another note, MANY of you have asked about us doing something for the pre-LCARS era during the original 6 Star Trek feature films. Well there are no official announcements about this yet, but we are doing some initial R&D on it. It's an ambitious project since we can't simply change the colors for that like we can to go between LCARS themes. We definitely want to do something in that style, but we have a lot of other stuff in the works right now so we would like to get some of those wrapped up first!
We've had a lot of great suggestions lately about new features, and we are certainly working on adding many of them into future app updates. Requests don't have to be added to existing apps, either. We can build entirely new ones if that's what it takes to accommodate what you need! Please also take a few moments if you haven't already and rate our apps in the Windows and Windows Phone stores and tell everyone what you think! If you have technical difficulties, please contact us directly so we can resolve them. We cannot contact you to help with problems from store reviews.
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