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Rooms and the 3.0 Update

17 Jun

Now the update is online I can almost hear my customers screaming that Rooms failes at 3.0 :-(

But actually I have to say that this is NOT Rooms fault. Apple just made some changes to the UIWebview which displays the chat content of Rooms and these changes came with a little bug.

Some Details:

The WebView loads an initial html template for the chat and Rooms waits until that html is fully loaded using the ‘webViewDidFinishLoad:’ delegate method.

But in the 3.0 Update (only if you are loading some JavaScript within the <head> tag) this method fires a bit too early now.

At this moment, the <body> tag does not exist and so it’s not possible for the app to add the initial content (Chat rooms members, …).

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No more emoji?

28 Feb

Actually I’m reading everywhere about Apples’ Emoji take-down…

Strangely – or should I say luckily  – I didn’t get any mail from Apple yet .

Erica Sadun on ArsTechnica assumed that Apple may have some good reasons to do so, but personally I am really unhappy with Apples decision!

Cause in some recent update I’ve added a great feature of ChatCore (the underlaying chat framework) to Rooms which uses Emojis in a really useful way. It parses the chat text for ASCII smileys and converts them directly to an Emoji counterpart and vice versa!

This way iPhone users can see those cute ‘smileys’ even though the other users on IRC without using Rooms only have sent standard ASCII smileys to the chat.

Furthermore you can use this nice Emoji keyboard within Rooms to SEND smileys which are proper converted to a corresponding ASCII art for the rest of the chat room members.

To sum up, I can say that this feature is a small but mighty advantage for the app and its users. And personally I don’t want to miss it !

Lets hope that Apple already has changed his mind!

(or at least overlooks my app *hehe*)

 
 

Rooms reached the 10.000 !

30 Nov

Today, I am proud to announce that my iPhone chat application Rooms has reached its 10.000st customer!

It has gone live on the Apple AppStore on the 20.08.2008, so its now out for 3 months and 10 days. Man… thats INCREDIBLE!!!

So at this time i want to take this point for another reason to say thank you to all of my customers. I promise that the current state of the app is NOT the end. As you can see on my TODO at the Rooms-Wiki there are still some more features for the outstanding 1.0 :o )

And if you have some more ideas which would make the app even better, feel free to send me an email or just use the Rooms-Wiki to start a new feature request!

 
 

5.000

16 Sep

Wow…

Rooms – my first iPhone app *yey* – started being a little project just to try out the iPhone SDK and learn the basic of the programming language Objective-C – cause i heard it should be similar to Java.

And its nearly one month ago when it came up in the App Store and after this first month the counter now reached 5000!!!

I just have to say i am impressed and so i must say THANK YOU with these words to all of my customers!

 
 
 

Impressum