First, let me assure you that iScale is not dead. Due to a trademark conflict we had to change it's name. The new name will be revealed when it is ready for full beta.
To make iScale the app we wanted it to be required far more technological innovation then we anticipated. We had to make some hard choices about what we wanted to do with the software. We had to break it down into smaller chunks that we could tackle one piece at a time. Some of our goals are:
- Rebuild the user interface to be far more intuitive and responsive.
- Provide extensive graphical output for nutritional progress monitoring.
- Allow for many new kinds of data input.
- Pave the way for new features in the long term.
iScale is not the only app we have under development that can make use of these technologies. However, it is the only one that uses nearly all of our core technologies in a single application.
We now have our core graphing technology built (examples are forthcoming). We also have a new journal interface ready. Both of these technologies are being deployed in other apps before they will be used in a new nutrition app. We feel it is appropriate to have these technologies extremely mature from production use before we apply them to tracking health data. Health information is simply too important to make these kinds of major changes without major testing.
In the coming weeks and months we will show you what we have been and will be working on. Stay tuned to this blog!
1 comment:
I used this app in the spring and I loved it! But I just got a new iPhone and I need to re-download it. What happened to it?? Can't you make the old version available on the App Store (called iNeedAname) while you work on the updates?
And when will the new version be ready?
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