New in version 1.3.5:
- Incursion 1.1 static data.
- Use HTTPS for all API access.
- Added a ‘Today’ button in the wallet calendar view.

Fixed in version 1.3.5
- Fixed Wallet crash on older devices.
- Cope better with unhappy API servers.
- Fixed Jump Planner system selection.
- Removed duplicate Corporation entries.
- Restored agents that had gone MIA.
- Other minor tweaks and enhancements.

No lite release this time around!

Resolutions

Rather than specific features, these are more general things I’m planning to try and stick to:

More responsive release schedule

In the past there has been a tendency to hold off on releases till I’ve run out of reported niggles to fix, and/or an upcoming CCP patch – and accompanying data – has been released. I need to step back from that and get fixes for critical issues out of the door quicker.

Beta testing

There’s some big new features coming soon, and I think it’s about time to share some of the testing pain before unleashing more bugsfeatures into the world. I’m definitely planning on starting this before the next major feature release, but there’s a chance the interim bug fix releases may go this way. More on this when it happens.

New functionality as well as refinements

Other than the little things, there’s been no major new features in iClone for a while (Since the map I think…). Given the recent crop of changes seem to be settling down a bit, I’m planning on getting some, or hopefully all, of the things below into your hands in 2011.

New functionality?

The following ideas may happen, or they may not. Also, this isn’t the sum total of features I’m considering – If you’ve given me any suggestions than they’ll all be in the master list.

Storage rewrite

I’m currently completely rewriting iClone’s API importing and data storage code. If early tests are to be believed, this should yield better performance, both for import speed and general app responsiveness, and let me bolt in new features more easily. Or it may all go horribly wrong.

Selective Updates

This one has been requested particularly often. The general plan is to keep the ‘update’ button as-is, but add:

• Per-character disabling of individual feeds. This will let you not waste time downloading the some of the data for your trade/market checking/spy/forum trolling alts.
• A per-menu item (and per-entity within a top-level menu) ‘update now’ function, exact form TBD but you can probably guess what I’m leaning towards.

This should help keep things leaner and faster for people. The only wrinkle on the horizon for this is the dependency chaining for some APIs – for example, assets require an up-to-date player-built station list. This isn’t hard to code, but I need to have a think over the best way to do it!

Autopilot

People seem to like the Jump Planner (or alternatively be confused as to why it can’t route from Dodixie to Jita), and I’ve had a lot or requests to extend it to include normal gate-to-gate planning. This is on the cards, aiming for a simple A-to-B calculator in the first release, with more bells and whistles to follow.

Filtering

This is heavily dependant on the above storage rewrite, but filtering of Orders/Transactions/Jobs should be coming at some point after that’s done.

More APIs

I’m definitely planning on adding support for the new Account Status API, as well as EVE-Mail reading support. Certificates are a possibility, along with any other APIs iClone is not currently grabbing. These will follow on from the Storage changes and Selective Update functionality – I think doing it before that would involve unfortunate comparisions with straw and camel backs!

iPad

Support for the iPad will be coming – I want it as much as anyone! However, I’m not willing to release a purely scaled-up version of the iPhone version, hence the slow development schedule.

A Hard Choice

Given the way some things are progressing, I’m thinking that support for iOS 3.x will need to be dropped at some point during the year, probably around the time the universal version comes out. The new goodies that iOS 4 brings to both the iPhone and iPad, coupled with not having to maintain as much conditional code (= fewer bugs) seem worth the cost to me. I’m sure you’ll let me know otherwise – compelling arguments will be listened to, if not necessarily agreed with!

That’s enough wittering for now – fly safe in 2011 everyone!

As always, please let me know of any issues you might be having via the contact form or the forums!

Here are the release notes:

New in version 1.3.3:
- Basic Market Order searching
- Curent skill training viewable in character list.
- Improved server status display
- Skill completion notifications on iOS 4

Fixed in version 1.3.3
- Fixed an issue with limited API key detection corrupting account information
- Fixed a crash when double tapping a system map
- Fixed a crash when selecting empty wallet date cells.
- Improved wallet import from the API
- Fixed time-to-completion on character skills
- Various performance, UX and memory usage tweaks

P.S. This version is about 33% smaller than the last one!

It has been stripped of the corporation, asset, industry, wallet, map overlay, system map, item browser and market order features the full version has – the benefit of this is that it’s significantly smaller, and using only the bare minimum of the available EVE API features means updates are much quicker.

I hope you find it useful – If you have any bug reports or feature requests then please post them in the forum or contact me via the contact form.

New in version 1.3.1:
- Latest Tyrannis data
- Support for the Retina display
- Support for backgrounding on iOS 4
- Wormhole space now viewable on the map
- Empty home menu items are now not shown

Fixed in version 1.3.1:
- Fixed character image downloading
- Fixed asteroid/ice belt mixup
- Fixed display of assets witin containers
- Various other tweaks suggested by users.

Update: This is now approved and will be making its way onto the the App Store servers.
Update 2: There is now a forum thread for collecting bugs and issues with this release

You all seem to be liking it so far – thanks for all the useful feedback. Some people have commented on the practical use of the map, so I think it’s worth responding that:

• It’s a spinny map. That bounces. That was justification enough for it to exist for me
• All system and station info should be available without having to navigate via the map – if there’s something that’s missing then let me know and I’ll look into it.

The Bad

Initial start-up time on first launch with the new version is slow. This is a one-off hit whilst iClone upgrades existing data, mainly adding indexes to make a few of the data views much quicker to load, but can take a few minutes – sorry!

There’s also possibly an issue with API Key importing – I can’t reproduce it, but am investigating, so if you’re having issues then please use the contact form to give me details.

The Ugly

A few (minor) graphical glitches have sneaked in on iOS 4, which I’m fixing at the moment. Also, I seem to have gotten Ice fields and Asteroid Belts confused. D’oh.

Fin

I’m at the EVE BBQ next weekend, so no patch release before then to fix the above issues, but hopefully one not too long after – If you’re at the BBQ then that might be a good time for feature requests…

Keep the feedback coming, it all helps make iClone better!

New in version 1.3.0:
- New Home screen
- Tyrannis data dump
- Universe and System maps
- System and Station information
- Ability to disable updates on a per-character basis

Fixed in version 1.3.0:
- Fixed crash when planning a jump from hi-sec
- Fixed POS fuel display
- Fixed crash when viewing ship blueprints and market order details with no Internet.
- Various other tweaks suggested by users.

New in version 1.2.2:
- Import character from EVE API pages, via clipboard.

Fixed in version 1.2.2:
- Fix for wallet viewing in non-UTC timezones.
- Fix for new account addition.
- Fix for incorrect account badge value.
- Fix market order progress bar
- More intelligent character portrait update.
- More intelligent filtering of market orders.
- More detail in market order list view.

Here are the release notes:

New in version 1.2.1:
- Dominion static data dump.
- More detail in improved wallet transaction browser
- Caching of roles to reduce number of unsuccessful API calls

Fixed in version 1.2.1:
- Fix for duplicate corporate information in some tabs.
- Link to new support pages
- Improved performance of App when updating data in the background
- Improved ‘No Data’ messages
- Fixed resistances on ship information

There are a couple of potential outstanding issues with regard to industry job statuses sometimes displaying incorrectly – I’m still looking into these. Also, a few of you have reported adding accounts is behaving less smoothly than it ought – I’ll be trying to improve the documentation surrounding this area, especially with regard to syncing with Windows machines.