August 2010 News and Updates
8/27/2010
Grades: Student Organizer was
just updated to version 2.2.1 including many requested features and bug
fixes having to do with Calendar Integration and it's compatibility
with devices. See the application page for more detailed release notes.
8/20/2010
Grades:
Student Organizer has just seen another update that adds a reminder
feature for calendar integration. You can now set calendar reminders for
Course Meeting Times and To-Do items.
8/17/2010
We
have received several negative ratings/comments on the Android Market
lately due to a lack of support for other countries educational systems.
We would love to include support for a wide variety of systems with all
their distinctions and differences but we only have experience with how
the US educational system works and no one who has negatively reviewed
the app has has responded to our request for information about how we
can make the app better. Therefore from today forward, Grades: Student
Organizer will only be available for download in the United States. We
can't afford to continue to get negative reviews from customers outside
the US. If you have questions, concerns, or would like to purchase the
app but cannot due to it only being available in the US please contact
us at contact@androidinfinity.com.
Also, please email us before giving us negative comments on the Market
if you have some kind of technical issue, most of those that are sent in
are easily resolved within minutes. It takes a lot longer to resolve
them through market comments and it gives potential users a skewed view
of the app. Thanks
8/16/2010
Today
Grades: Student Organizer was updated to version 2.1. This version
brings many new features that makes the app even better! Here are the
release notes:
Schedule Enhancements:
- Add Course Meeting times to your Google Calendar.
To-Do List Enhancements:- Now has two tabs!
- Incomplete Tab shows the traditional To-Do list with all course items that have not been marked Complete.
- "Not
Graded" tab shows all items that are not marked as Graded. (Includes
both incomplete and complete items as indicated by the check box)
- Color
of To-Do Item due date changes dynamically depending on status (due
today is yellow, past-due is red, due later is traditional black, ONLY
for the Incomplete tab)
Profile Enhancements:
- Term Credits will show total number of credit hours for current term whether the courses are included in GPA or not.
Other Enhancements:
- If a course is not included in the GPA it he letter grade on it's "Overview" tab is not shown. (Percent value is still shown)
- Re-enable localization support
- Lock
now requires you to confirm your pin before accepting it and locking
the profile. (NOTE: If you ever lock yourself out, you can go to your
phone's Settings - Applications - Grades - And then "Delete User Data".
This will reset your pin but won't delete any of your profile data (it's
stored on the SD Card). This will however reset your calendar
integration settings accessible via Utilities)
- Fixed Force close when trying to lock or unlock your profile in landscape mode.
8/14/2010
Just
uploaded another update to Grades: Student Organizer on the Android
market. This patch should fix any issues you might have had registering
the program and any black screen problems you've encountered. Also,
please us know if you've had any issues with the "Application Not
Licensed" pop-up showing up. Thanks.
8/12/2010
Android Infinity is a little ahead of schedule on version 2.0 of Grades: Student Organizer and published it to the market early this morning. We wanted to get
this version out because it was what the app was originally intended to
look like and we want it available at the start of the Fall semester for
all the students out there.
This new version includes an all new user interface that is much easier to use and is more visually appealing.
Most of the version 1.x updates were all about feature additions and now
we give you a new "dashboard" style UI similar to that of
Facebook and Twitter's apps where all major features are only a press
away. Along with this update comes the final version of the Privacy Mode
which has been given its own section on the dashboard that allows you
to easily Lock (password protect) or Unlock the app. When the
Lock is enabled, each section of the app past the dashboard will require
a password for entry.
Also to note is that this version is FULLY working on Android 1.6 through 2.2!
Some
of you may also be wondering where theme support went, unfortunately we
had to remove theme customization in version 2.0 because the new UI,
but once we make sure that everyone has gotten used to the new layout we
will be incorporating customization options. All the data you have
input will be safe when updating from version 1.5.1 to version 2.0 so
don't worry. We didn't include any new features as far as the actual
calculations and inner working of the app is concerned because we want
everyone to get used to the new UI first but several cool feature
additions are coming soon!
Also to note is that this version is FULLY working on Android 1.6 through 2.2!
UPDATE: We also published a bug fix patch for Keep Tabs Debt Management that fixes the app not closing correctly.
8/10/2010
Android Infinity would like to show you a glimpse of what we've been working on in our Grades: Student Organizer App.
It has only been a few short months since we released version 1.0 and
have been updating weekly with enhancements and feature additions. We
are already deep into working on the next major version, have put
together the first development build and have a screenshot to show our
users to get them excited about the future of the app. This is by no
means a finished product but a good preview of the user interface
enhancements we're working on. This "dashboard" style UI is the current
Android standard for apps of this nature and makes the app even more
easy to use. We will update the Grades section of the website with other
screenshots in the future but expect a release sometime this August or
September.
8/5/2010 Grades: Student Organizer
has just been updated on the Android Market. This update include
various fixes and the addition of custom color theme support! You can
now change the way you want your Grades app to look.
URGENT:
More and more phones are starting to be upgraded to Froyo or Android
2.2. Froyo currently has a bug where it will delete user data on
upgrading an app and Grades: Student Organizer is affected by this bug.
If you have Android 2.2 installed on your phone and are coming from ANY
Grades: Student Organizer version prior to 1.5 PLEASE BACKUP YOUR PROFILE via the utilities menu in the app BEFORE you update to version 1.5 otherwise your current profile WILL BE DELETED!
We
have implemented a workaround in the app in version 1.5 so that this
bug will not affect any users upgrading from version 1.5 to any future
version that we release so you will not have to worry about having to
backup your profile before every update from here out.
8/1/2010
Today
we are going to be updating both Keep Tabs and Grades as we continue to
strive to support all the different varieties of Android devices. These
updates are maintenance releases and add better landscape support so
that users of devices like the Motorola Charm (to be released) will be
able to use our apps without worry. We have updated our apps a lot in
the past week with Android announcing the new licensing service and
also continued feature improvements by us and we understand that having
to update apps all the time can get frustrating. This should be the
last update for a while until more feature rich updates are produced in
the coming months.