Mealstrom 1.1 released!
Hi everyone,
I’m happy to announce that Mealstrom 1.1, our long-awaited first update, is now available! This update hugely improves the application, making it more table, less buggy, and better looking. While there’s not a lot by way of cool new features (boo), I’ve significantly firmed up the code to make a founation for future updates, the first of which is almost ready (yay). Think of the app as being like a mango. When you first brought it home with version 1.0, it was hard and unripe but promised better things to come. Now, with version 1.1, you’re holding a soft, ripe, and delicious fruit. (Yeah, that’s a terrible analogy, but I’ve been eating a lot of mangos recently.)
New UI
I wrote about this a month ago when it was first submitted, but I’ll recap the updates here in the format I’ll use going forward.
Significant updates:
- Picture uploads have been improved; images sent over 3G are less compressed and hence look better online, and images sent over wifi are not compressed at all.
- You can now sign up through the app via an iPhone specific webpage (something that should have been in v1).
- The UI has been updated, grouping different parts of the form in a more logical way, and generally improving the look and feel.
- The app acts appropriately when there’s no network connection, queuing your meals for later transmission with an appropriate message.
- Many stupid and annoying bugs were fixed.
Known bugs:
- When you add more than three pictures, enabling scrolling in the picture view, the application no longer allows you to magnify or delete any of the images. Fixed in 1.2.
- When you transmit images over a 3G connection, image orientation is lost — any vertical pictures will become horizontal. Fixed in 1.2.
- If you transmit more than one queued meal at a time, you’ll get a message at the end saying that a transmission error occurred, even though all meals were successfully sent.
That’s about it — time to get back to cooking, preparing for a wedding, and, of course, preparing the next Mealstrom update. I’ve been focusing a lot on the iPhone recently, but plan to get back to the website after two more updates (1.2 and then 1.3, which will incorporate Facebook Connect.)
Have a great night and happy eating,
Alex
iPhone Signup Page
Old UI