Just want to thank everyone again for all of their time testing today. It was really exciting/sobering to see this app out in the wild. We have identified that we need to really focus on bringing the startup time down. For the first time you launch the app after installing it, the startup time will be around 30-90 seconds. There really isn’t to much I can do here, Redbox has such a massive movie catalog that takes a little while to insert into the application’s DB (network bandwidth really isn’t the issue here–it’s the iPhone CPU power that is the issue). Afterwards, though, the application should be able to start up very quickly, and we will focus the majority of our effort on improving that startup time before the beta testing is over. This evening I’m posting the first of what will probably be many builds that will address the startup time.
The new build can be found on the Beta Testing page, along with a short summary of the changes that I’ve made. Please try install the new build at your convenience. When posting issues to our forum, please note the build date that you are testing against. As far as installing the new build. I’d recommend uninstalling the current build from your device before installing the new build.
Thanks again!
-Hassan