Archived Builds
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/02/09
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/04/09
- Improved startup time (first time still is a bear, though)
- Fixed DB Deadlocks (I think this was causing crashes on Kim’s iPhone)
- Fixed missing new movie badges on first app startup
- Added first time loading message
- Fixed bug with map not centered on GPS coordinates correctly
- a few other misc items that escape me now…
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/05/09
- Greatly improved startup times by moving promo code page first
- Improved first time load performance by around 33%
- Moved ad banner to movie detail page
- Changed the “What’s this?” button to a question mark icon on the Promo code page
- Added build number to splash screen
- Fixed bug where GPS did not return location and zip code was not set–defaults to Denver and displays warning that you must set your zip code
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/06/09
- Changed the movie lists to use progressive image loading for smoother scrolling
- Updated the Movie page to use section headers to display the release date
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/07/09
- Improved first time launch time to around 4-5 seconds
- Updated the refresh icon on the map
- Updated ratings to use the MPAA images
- Updated legal disclosure and redbox attribution
- Faster loading of the movie detail page: full DVD images are now being loaded progressively
- Added address level reverse geocoding from geonames.org (that reverts to zip code level when address level times out)
- Updated settings to allow users to specify home address as well as zip code
- Tab switching speed improved
- More visible user notification when app is busy/thinking
- Fixed bug where genre listing was returning duplicate movies
- Fixed bug with the “Cancel’ button not working on data reset from settings
- Fixed bug where “and” and “&” where not being treated the same in movie search
- Updated promo code feed URL & map view URL
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/09/09
- Updated build package to do builds for iPhone OS 2.1, 2.2, and 2.2.1
- Fixed bug where the center of the map used for finding the kiosks was being determined incorrectly
- Fixed bug where kiosks that had the machine name in the address where not rendering
- Fixed bug where kiosks that were at the same location but used different addresses were not rendering correctly
- Fixed bug where locations that had more than 2 kiosks where not rendering correctly
- Added precaching of kiosk locations at the current location after starting app
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/13/09
- Overhauled the locations tab. Now we display locations in a list format. To view locations on a map you must click on the map button from the Locations screen.
- Created kiosk browsing list screen, this screen shows all the movies in a particular kiosk in a list fashion. You can also access this page from the kiosk browser displayed in the map by touching the list button.
- Updated app to not crash when the inside redbox site becomes unavailable
- Inside Redbox Mobile Full Version, Beta build 02/15/09
- Support for viewing the online status for kiosks
- Fixed machine number toggling issue on the kiosk browse screen
- Better nil checking when constructing strings (this was causing some app crashes)
- Compiler directives to support building full version of app and lite version of app
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta build 02/16/09
- Better accuracy with geocoder, using Yahoo! geocoder instead of google maps geocoder (White Marsh, MD redbox machines work now without any one-off fixes)
- Additional notification when geocoder cannot place machine accurately on the map
- Added promo code detail pages
- updated initial ”please wait” indicator to not block access to promo codes (and now says: Loading Movies)
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/17/09
- Misc changes on promocode detail page
- Updated interface with inside redbox
- placed ads on most of the pages for the free version
- added pending promo codes for just the full version
- moved the updating movies activity indicator to the bottom
- Updated freeze dried DB with latest movies
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/18/09
- Fixed bug where approximate locations where being given multiple kiosk badges in map
- fixed bug where returning from to the location page from the map page was clearing the search address
- Updated location page to reuse an instantiated map page if it was not nil
- fixed bug where clicking on the current button on the location list resulted in a truncated list of redbox machines
- reformatted the pending promo code view for the lite version of app
- added ads to promocode detail page and the kiosk browse page
- removed location call from ad on promocode page (location may not have been determined yet)
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/18/09 B
- fixed bug where first time load was picking up the last launch date from freeze dried DB (and displaying new movie badges inappropriately)
- fixed bug where toggling back and forth between location list and map caused an app crash
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/19/09
- Fixed error message “Cannot connect to Internet” when renting movie
- made the “Cannot connect ot internet” message more appropriate, and updated the busy indicator state to stop when this error is fired.
- Updated promo code pending status table cell view for lite version
- Added more descriptive “waiting” messages
- fixed bug with tab edits not persisting
- forced the more tab to drop exiting state when you navigate to it
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/20/09
- Added better locking during initial movie load so that promo code browsing does not interrupt
- found another source for app crashes on startup–memory warnings encountered during app startup would access the model interface prematurely in an attempt to clear caches. this access caused a db lock. caches are cleared in the model interface only after the model interface has been fully created.
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/21/09 A
- Better memory management for views
- removed state from all tabs, when you click on a tab, it will go to the first screen for that tab instead of where you left off the last time you were on that tab
- minor bug around not all empty results on location list display results not found message–fixed.
- Inside Redbox Mobile Beta, build 02/22/09
- Updated icon images
- created upgrade page
- tweaked background load thread to not kick off if at least 250 thumbnails have been preloaded (saves on memory and CPU)
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