by Alex Kac | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Opinion
Straight up – I’m not a watch guy. I gave up watches over twenty years ago when I got my first PDA – the Newton. I love the idea of watches and I love the design and aesthetics of watches and clocks in general. I love wall clocks, grandfather clocks,...
by Alex Kac | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Opinion, Releases
Ultimately the choice is to release a new version of Informant for Android and do what we can to ease the transition for existing users to the new app; or drop Android altogether. For years we’ve heard how Apple’s review process is opaque, unfair, arduous,...
by Alex Kac | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
Last year we did a survey that gave us a ton of insight into what we were doing well and what we were doing poorly. With those results we designed Informant 4 for iOS and Android, and also version 4.5 a few months later. We really took the results to heart and tried...
by Alex Kac | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
We started work on 4.55 in mid-December to continue optimizing, fixing, and all around polishing Informant for iOS up. 6 weeks later we were ready to submit it as 4.55 and we realized that we had done enough new builds that our third segment of the version number had...
by Alex Kac | Jan 21, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
OK so the screenshots are a bit of a tease, but I wanted to at least show you that yes it does exist. I’m not showing screenshots of the Focus view because its in another branch of our source-repo as its being actively finished and so its not merged in with...
by Alex Kac | Jan 19, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
A long time ago I used to use a couple apps called Now Contact and Now Calendar on Mac OS 7/8/9. They were fantastic: fast, reliable, and their UI was great. When OS X came out they spent years working on a new OS X compatible version called “Nighthawk”....
by Alex Kac | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary
Pocket Informant on iOS has been syncing to Google Calendar since its inception. When we first introduced Informant we had the option of using CalDAV, ActiveSync, or Google’s Calendar API v2. Every calendar developer would tell you to use the Calendar API as it...
by Alex Kac | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
Back in the summer we talked a little about our Mac Desktop plans and its been awhile so I wanted to give you a status update. Chris has been hard at work on Mac Desktop for almost a year. A lot our iOS code is usable on the Mac, but almost all the UI isn’t....
by Alex Kac | Sep 20, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary
As I’ve blogged about before, I’ve been working on 4.1 for iOS for awhile, but what may not be all that obvious is that I’ve spent a lot of time trying to improve our interface and look. These changes haven’t been just for the sake of change...
by Alex Kac | Sep 17, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Releases
iOS 8 has been released today and its a pretty exciting release! For Informant there are some really exciting new features as well – such as the ability to integrate with TouchID, custom alarm actions, Today Widgets, extensions, and more! We’ve been...
by Alex Kac | Sep 11, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
Its been awhile since our last update and that’s because we’ve been heads down working so hard that frankly getting some air to breathe was hard enough 🙂 So here is a quick message on where we are at: Desktop Informant Chris has continued to work hard on...
