iMood – Progress on ‘Preset Messages’ function

Someone had emailed me earlier on this month about letting people have the ability to add preset messages to the chat/scrolling message function which, would mean they could save messages to quickly view up without having to type in again.

Well! With a currently in development version of iMood you can do just that!

The way to save the messages is in the iPhone System Settings area. I find this the best place as it means iMood does not have to be loaded up in order to save preset messages.

Here are some screenshots of the iMood Preset Msgs (Still in development) in action.

iMood 1.2 and GaragePad

iMood 1.2

iMood is now undergoing development to bring out version 1.2 to the App Store. If anybody has any requests please do email me at: imacdev@yahoo.com

GaragePad (Alpha)

GaragePad development has now fully started. Ideas have been written down, contacts have been contacted and it’s first Alpha stage has been tested on the iPhone OS. Expect a release this March or April.

Well… I kind of told a lie

When I said I was doing exams… I kind of gave up for this evening to… carry on development with DonkPad! It was sitting there so I thought I’d spice it up a bit with some graphics. It’s still far off release, but then again, it’s close to release.

There is currently a new feature I am researching into, and this is probably what may take most of the time. More details closer to the time as per usual.

Exams

I am currently going through some important exams this week, however after the weekend I will be fully resuming to developing the apps for the iPhone. I will be posting when the apps have been sent off for review and any results.

Watch this space.

In the mean time, you can catch me on AIM ( Username: imacdev )

Future plans

I thought it useful to post up a list of my future plans for over the next few years.

iPhone App Store

• I will be posting updates as soon as I can get them coded and uploaded to iPhone Connect for customers.
• With each app and update I’ll be learning more and more of Objective-C, Xcode and iPhone development so that should help me in the long run produce more professional and better developed apps for release.
• The pricing for apps are going to differ from free to an amount I feel worthy of the time put into the app.
• I will be learning throughout the year and for a number of years, as long as I can go for producing apps on my own, as a team, or part of a company.
• Money from the first apps is going towards a new iMac where I will developing more applications and giving me a better and quicker machine to develop my apps on.

Mac OS X

• You may have briefly seen in an older post, but I will be making a few apps for Mac in the future once the iPhone development has properly kicked off. I will be posting updates on this later on this year, probably after June 09 you will hear any bulk of news about this.
• It’s too early to say at the moment, but I have plans to develop a program for the Mac which will coincide with an app on the iPhone, bring users together in one place… online.

Windows

• Although it may not seem it, but I will be creating a number of highly developed Windows programs in languages such as Java, C++, C# or whichever suits the purpose best.
• Development of these programs probably will not start till late 2010 due to a busy couple of years for me.
• I will be doing a course on Computer Science at university to further my study into programming which will be based on Windows and will help me develop better programs for the Microsoft user base out there.

Another Mobile OS or Platform?

• Android?
• I may start learning and developing for the Android OS once it picks up, however I’d have to save up for a development device.
• But who knows?! I will keep you all posted when news becomes available on my behalf.

iPhone app project & other random stuff.

I’ve now been working on my new iPhone App for a couple of weeks and most of the bugs have been sorted out and a lot of the code has been cleaned up. I’ll be posting an announcement once I have been accepted into the iPhone Developer Program (should be soonish), and then again once my app has reached the App store.

I have also done a complete revamp of my iPhone App, and now mainly I’ve just the graphics to make and apply and then it should be nearly complete!

Once my app has been released, I will be updating it every so often to bring in enhanced features and GUI changes (as well as any bug fixes that may occur in open testing). I will then start developing my next application project will is still on the drawing board. If anybody has any ideas of an app they would like to see, please go forth and send me a message or comment on here. I will definitely consider it for review.

In other random news, I’ve now been taking a lot of my time using Twitter! I’ve found it pretty random, but nevertheless, pretty fun! Met some great people on there such as @technicalfault @swanny and specially @stroughtonsmith.

You can find me at: http://twitter.com/domness

Thanks again,

Dominic