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.

Notified 2 Beta Update

I just uploaded an update to the Notified Beta Repo, most of the changelog is here. But a couple things I didn’t mentioned before were also added:

  • An option was added to delete all the notifications of an application when it’s badge reaches 0. It’s under “Auto Delete”, and it’s off by default
  • The API was improved, send me an email if you want a header with the current API. I’ll upload it to github when my computer stops being picky.

If you don’t know how to get the beta, go here.

Upcoming update for Notified 2 Beta

I’m almost done with a new update for the Notified 2 Beta, but since Safari decided it wouldn’t let me download properly the Linux image I needed to rebuild the repo index on a virtual machine, all I can give you right now is a change log:

  • iOS3 code was removed, reducing the file size of the dylib by ~17kb (almost 10%!)
  • Auto Delete is no longer a switch, but a menu with 3 options: none, single (deletes only the tapped notification) and group (deletes all notifications in the group of the tapped notification).
  • When custom icons are off, the header cells are a little smaller and the icon is now pixel perfect (29x29, I was stretching them to 32x32), you might realize how seriously we take the looks of Notified ;)
  • The “Show Old” button was improved: It now says “Show Older”, it has a new size, and a new pixel-perfect new blue button.
  • When custom icons were on, all applications would have the generic push icon, that was fixed and now they should show their custom icon.
  • A “Choose Gestures” option was added to the options, it let’s you choose which gestures should open Notified a little easier.
  • Statusbar icons were all removed except for the ‘!’, which was brought back. This is because the Statusbar icons package will be extended and offered as a separate package, probably free for Notified costumers.
  • I’m also looking into fixing the Default Alerts Blocker.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to get this update uploaded today (March 15).

We’re preparing a beta

After a while of being too busy to work on Notified, I was finally able to make some substantial progress on something I started and never finished.

The first feature you will see on the beta is that now, the notifications will carry the information they received and when the app is launched it will open with that information passed to it, that means that if you get an IM, your IM app will open in that conversation.

At first, that will happen only when you tap the notification, I’ll see if holding that information longer doesn’t cause any problems, and if it doesn’t, the information could be kept on the notifications list.

Another feature (you won’t see), it’s an under the hood improvement to the way the window is managed, this will help when adding live pull-down, which I’m working on (with help from Ryan Petrich, developer of Activator, since this requires some changes to Activator too).

I’m looking into adding some other features based on your feedback, too, and I’m also working with Daniel Zimmerman to get the mail notifications polished up and bug-free.

This beta will be held on MacThemes and I’ll announce via twitter when it’s available, so follow me. I still need to test a few things myself and improve the current plugins to handle the new notifications, but it shouldn’t take long.