By Robert, on June 7th, 2010
There’s no way how to reply to our users reviews, so we made a decision to pick some questions, comments and answer them here.
IzyPhotoTip
Q: it’s nice to be able to see where the tip is on a map. but I need to be able to get directions to that spot from where I am. in others words, I need the pin to have a “get directions” option. it’s quite common that I have clients in my car or following me to a location and I depend upon the navigation I have in my current app.
A: IzyPhotoTip 1.1 does contain navigation via Google Maps or NAVIGON. We tried to add support for TomTom, but we are unable to find TomTom’s custom URL scheme specification. 1.1 version is waiting for approval.
Travel Photo Gallery
Q: I hope further updates will add even more images and countries to the list.
A: There’s no need to download updates to see new countries or photos. All data are downloaded online and if David provides new country, photo, you’ll see it immediately in the News section of the application.
Q: My only suggestion would be that we have the option of viewing a thumbnail list, making it easier to browse and view select images.
A: Thanks for the suggestion. We will contact David about this and it will be probably implemented soon.
Many thanks for your reviews, questions, … We are listening!
By Robert, on June 1st, 2010
Travel Photo Gallery is available for download. It’s free. Enjoy browsing David Lacina’s portfolio.
By Robert, on May 28th, 2010
We made a decision to integrate Flurry Mobile Analytics in all our applications. First application, which does support Flurry Analytics will be Izy Photo Tip 1.1 (under review just now).
This integration helps us to get some statistics of our applications usage. Flurry Analytics is enabled by default. We value our customers privacy and if you don’t feel good about Flurry Analytics, you have a choice (in application settings) to turn it off. If you turn it off, no data will be provided about our application usage.
By Robert, on May 28th, 2010
I just submitted IzyPhotoTip 1.1 update for review. What can you expect?
- Bugfixes and better stability,
- voice notes,
- tip navigation.
Voice Notes
You can record voice note and assign it to a selected tip. It’s quite handy when you do not want to (or you can’t ) write longer notes.
Tip Navigation
There’s a new icon in the Tip view screen, which gives you possibility to start Google Maps with directions from your current location to the selected tip. In case you have NAVIGON application installed, you can start NAVIGON application instead of Google Maps.
By Robert, on May 28th, 2010
I have an application with lot of locations and I would like to start navigation application to navigate me to one of these locations from within my application. Is this possible? Yes, it is. At least with Google Maps and NAVIGON. How?
Google Maps
You should read Apple URL Scheme Reference. Here you can find what arguments you can pass to the Maps application. If you have source location, destination location, you can simply call:
NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=%1.6f,%1.6f&daddr=%1.6f,%1.6f",
source.latitude, source.longitude,
destination.latitude, destination.longitude];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication]openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]]; This will open Maps application (not Safari with Google Maps) with source and destination set. If you don’t have Maps installed (iPhone Simulator for example), Safari will handle this link flawlessly too.
NAVIGON
We are going to use same approach here. Read this short presentation called NAVIGON AppInteract.
Navigon URL can be constructed in this way:
NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"navigon://%@|%@||||||%f|%f",
[[[NSBundle mainBundle] infoDictionary] objectForKey:@"CFBundleName"],
@"My Great Location",
destination.longitude,
destination.latitude];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[urlString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; Hmm, but how can I know if NAVIGON is installed or not? It’s simple …
if ( [[UIApplication sharedApplication]canOpenURL:url] == YES ) {
// NAVIGON installed, launch it
if ( [[UIApplication sharedApplication]openURL:url] == NO ) {
// NAVIGON installed, but failed to launch it, inform user
}
} else {
// NAVIGON not installed, inform user or hide this option
} It’s easy, isn’t it? You should really read NAVIGON AppInteract, because it covers more topics. For example – how to be safe with more NAVIGONs installed (US, Europe, …).
TomTom
I tried to find something similar for TomTom, but no success yet. Anyone know something about TomTom’s custom URL schemes? As I don’t own TomTom, I have no idea if they support them or not. Would be nice if TomTom reveals this secret like NAVIGON 
By Robert, on May 25th, 2010
 Voice Notes Here you can find screenshot of the IzyPhotoTip application new feature – voice notes. Feature requested by our users.
As you can see, screenshot on the left side contains voice note player only, but recording is also possible.
Do you like it? We hope so!
By Robert, on May 24th, 2010
So, what are we doing now?
Travel Photo Gallery
We are waiting for Apple’s approval. You can learn more about this application at Travel Photo Gallery page.
IzyPhotoTip
IzyPhotoTip is under development now and we are implementing new features based on user comments. For example – voice notes, etc.
You can expect IzyPhotoTip update soon – let’s say in one month.
iPad
We are also developing an application for iPad. This application is for photographers or anyone who wants to edit own photos. More details later
By Robert, on May 24th, 2010
There’s an interesting discussion in the ObjC mailing list about Nil messaging.
It’s quite long thread, but it contains interesting informations about this topic. What’s nil messaging? Consider following example …
@interface MyObject : NSObject {
}
- (long)myMethod;
@end … and myMethod call on nilled object reference …
MyObject *obj = nil;
if ( [obj myMethod] ) {
} What is the return value? It’s all about this chapter in the Cocoa Fundamentals Guide and Sending Messages to nil in the Objective-C Programming Language guide.
You should read both chapters and mentioned thread to be absolute sure you’re doing the right thing.
By Robert, on May 21st, 2010
Welcome to our new labs. What’s it all about?
We would like to keep our main site as simple as possible, but we also want to inform you about news, development, etc. We also would like to introduce some informal place where we can discuss issues with our users. This is the reason why we made a decision to introduce new Labs site.
Prepare to read stories behind the scene, some AppStore analysis, issues we had to solve during development cycle, etc.
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