30 Days to Success 1.1

On Monday, Apple approved the new version of my iPhone app, 30 Days to Success. The new version doesn't contain anything too compelling:

• Added functionality to restore application state at launch.


• Updated application to only retrieve user Facebook info as necessary.


• Added nicer view for Facebook Wall of Fame page.


• Added functionality to share the application link with email contacts.


• Added a friendly reminder to provide a review for the application.


• Fixed some minor bugs.

I added the reminder to review the application using Appirater and integrated Facebook's Three20 library to make a much better view of the Wall of Fame. Adding state restoration was a bit of a pain but I figure if I'm going to charge for my app, I need to add little niceties like that.

I also updated how I retrieved user Facebook information. To post to the app's Facebook page, the user must "like" my Facebook app. Because the user might like/unlike the app, I need to make sure I have the latest info and prompt them accordingly if they try to post one of their successful trials to my app's page. Because it was easier on me, I was retrieving that information when the app started up. But that was a sub-optimal user experience as that information only is needed when posting to the app page. So that was a needed change as I was putting myself ahead of the user.

For my next update, I plan on adding functionality for users to suggest potential trials. I'm going to create a small set of web services on Google App engine that will allow users to submit a trial suggestion, email me a notification so I can review the suggestion and then return the list of suggestions to the app.