NEWS
Push Notification of events in Notes Pro
Apple has officially announced version 3.0 of their iPhone software and with this comes an important announcement for Notes Pro - the addition of Push notification. But - like all good things - it has its drawbacks.
Apple’s push notification requires a central server on the developer’s end to push notifications to Apple. What this means is that to implement this feature Notes Pro would require your Lotus Notes server to send a central JM Interactive server data and then the server at JM Interactive server would push notification out to your phone.
We haven’t tested whether this is even feasable yet - as the Push servers are not available to developers - but we would like to know if this is something our potential and current users would be interested in. We could have varying levels of notification as well - a simple badge alerting you of a new email - or a verbose popup with the sender and/or subject line. Per Apple, these notifications are not 100% reliable nor are they secure, so this is something to take into consideration as well.
Please take a second to answer the poll on the side of the website and let us know your preference.
Lastly - a little more about their announcement. They have still not opened up the calendaring application to external apps. This means - for the time being - that using the calendar on Notes Pro will stay within Notes Pro and cannot sync up to your iPhone’s internal calendar. This is a limitation of the SDK we hope will be lifted in so we can fully integrate into the iPhone in a future version of Notes Pro.
Posted: 03/23/2009, Permalink
v1.2 update
I wanted to update and let everyone know that we were rejected for v1.2 due to a bug - but that has been fixed and resubmitted to Apple.
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Additionally - contrary to my previous v1.2 post we have made updates to the Agent file that we will release when v1.2 is approved. This should offer more stability and also improve the reliability of data in the contacts and todo portions of the app.
Posted: 03/23/2009, Permalink
Thanks to all beta testers!
We’ve tested for a couple days - and I think this is a solid build.
Internally, we tested on an iPod Touch and iPhone, tested with Lotus Notes server v6, 6.5, 7, 8 and 8.5.
We tested Japanese, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese.
We’re confident this should fix language issues, timezone issues, and date format issues.
Again, thank you everyone for your support and your patience while we get this worked out.
v1.2 has been submitted to Apple for approval, and I will update when it has been approved. Note that in the new version an Agent file update is not required, although I have made some tweaks to the agent file to make it more stable so I would recommend grabbing the new one when posted (I’ll do that when v1.2 is published).
For the next version we plan on improving our network and storage code to make it quicker and more efficient. We also will be adding calendar entry creation.
Lastly - v1.2 also adds a feature many have desired - you can now optionally choose to use the built-in iPhone mail client to send mail, reply to mail, or email contacts in the contacts list.
Posted: 02/28/2009, Permalink
An Update…
Hi everyone. We’re almost done with the latest version of NotesPro but we need some testers to help us iron out the kinks.
We’re currently in need of 10 beta testers for the next version. We really need people with the following requirements:
- Foreign language characters used in email / calendar (like russian, japanese, chinese, etc)
- Non-US date format (dd/mm/yyyy vs mm/dd/yyyy)
- Timezones on the positive side of GMT (east of GMT)
If you’re interested, please send an email to betarequest@jimmymooney.com letting us know
- Which of those requirements you fulfill (if any)
- What you consider your approximate technical aptitude (it helps for testing purposes to be able to explain what you’re experiencing)
- The UUID from your iPhone (when plugging in your phone to iTunes, click on the serial number field).
Posted: 02/24/2009, Permalink
Good morning everyone!
We’ve been hard at work on our next release. Apologies it’s taking so long, but we want to make sure as many of the requests and issues that have been brought up have been resolved.
We’re looking to go into beta on it in the coming week or two, and expect to submit to Apple soon after that.
Posted: 11/26/2008, Permalink