Bellas Artes (Taken with Instagram at Torre Latinoamericana)
About to land (Taken with Instagram at Mexico City International Airport)
Notified Beta Update
As some of you noticed, I uploaded an update a couple hours ago.
This update fixes the way redirections work on plugins, and most important, extends the lifetime of the beta.
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Music Notifications
A few minutes ago I tweeted a screenshot with music notifications on the screen, I want to explain what this does and what it doesn’t do.
Here’s the screenshot:
What it does:
- Sends a notification to the plugins with the artist and title of the song, and the music icon, so the plugins display it as a regular notification.
What it doesn’t do:
- It does not save that notification to the notifications list. This is a really low priority notification that doesn’t need to be on the notification list, so it will only show with the plugin you’re using.
If you don’t like it, you can just add the music player to the Ignored Applications list in settings.
Coming soon.
It’s been really sunny lately… (Taken with Instagram at Mexico City)
WWDC 2011 will be my first WWDC, and I’m really exited!
Notified Beta Update
I just uploaded a new beta of Notified which includes:
- Changed “Auto Delete on Badge Reset” to “Auto Delete on “Application Launch”, changed the way it works to, hopefully, avoid lockups of devices.
- Improved the Notification Bar plugin to honor the “Custom Icons” setting.
Please continue to report bugs.
Thanks.
Why isn’t Notified themeable
When Daniel and I started working on Notified, it supported themes, in fact, the first beta on M* had a pretty much complete theme support. What happened to that?
At an early stage of development, we realized that themes represented a big hit on the performance of the app, an app which was supposed to be quick and light.
Having theme support means having a lot more images in place, a lot more checks to see where to position everything, what colors to use, what font size, and many more things.
We decided to sacrifice customization in favor of performance, and I think it was the right choice.
We were able to focus on one simple but great design, standard enough to fit with most configurations, and simple enough to be really fast and light.
We’re really proud of how this turned out, and it’s not changing anytime soon, so don’t hold your breath for themes support on Notified.
