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Informant 4.1 for iOS 8 – Pocket Informant

Informant 4.1 for iOS 8

by | 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 working with iOS 8 for a really long time now and its been a lot of fun 🙂 Even more exciting than iOS 8 is Pocket Informant for iOS 8!

Now unfortunately we don’t have Informant 4.1 for iOS 8 ready at the launch of iOS 8 because we’re taking advantage of so much iOS 8 that we wanted to spend the extra time really testing it against real users like you on iOS 8. Yes, other apps are releasing on iOS 8 release day, but experience has shown us that we do a better job testing against release iOS versions and not beta ones.

Informant 4.1 has a lot of changes; none are arbitrary, but have specific reasons for them. For example we’ve introduced a new default theme that gives us a bit more of a specific look and a bit more color. We have also kept the Clear theme around for those who like the more plain look. Both are first-class themes within Informant 4.1. Another change we made was to move the calendar sub-views pill into a popup menu on the tab bar. This provides one-handed operation on larger screen iPhones – but also allows us to have new long-requested calendar views. We’ve also greatly improved navigation on Tasks View and so much more. And yes, 4.1 will also run on iOS 7.

iOS 8 Specific Features

  • Touch ID password support
  • Informant Alarm alarm action such as snooze, call, or mark as complete
  • Today Widget
  • Create new task or note from Safari text selection
  • Several new user interface options
  • iPhone 6+ Landscape support

4.1 New Features

  • New Calendar Subview navigation allows for one handed operation and new views
  • Year View with heat map
  • Tasks View expand/collapse entire sections
  • Redesigned ETA on the new Focus screen
  • Live filtering for tasks view
  • New left/right swipe cell actions
  • Lots of user interface improvements, performance improvements, and bug fixes

We expect 4.1 to be released in October. Here are a few sneak peaks of 4.1. Anything can – and probably will change in beta testing feedback.

  • Tasks View Collapsable Headers and Live filter

  • Year View and Heat Map

  • Today Widget (in dev)