v 2.09 iPad Event Details update

Ensure long Event Titles do not overlap Date & Time on iPad in Portrait mode.

A test Event with a long Event Title

iPad Event Details screen updated:

• Event Title size increased
• Better positioning of Event Image on Rotation of device
• Event Title does not scroll when scrolling the event details

Bug Fix for Setting Default Image on iPhone

v 2.08 - Set Default Picture

A button has been added to set the default picture.

To change the picture you now tap on the picture itself to select a new picture.

When entering the title for the event, the text is now saved after each key press. So you do not have to press the done button to save the text

A display new features dialog box is now display one time only when the first time the program is run after an upgrade.

v 2.07 - Screen updated for for iPhone 5 & iOS 6

This version ensures that the program works correctly on iOS 6 and fills the screen on an iPhone 5 device.

iPhone 5 Screen

iPhone 4 Screen

v 2.06 - Display all combinations of Weeks, Months, Years

This version ensures that all combinations of display Days/Weeks/Months/Years display the remaining time to the event are displayed correctly.

(In certain combinations nothing was being displayed.)

Some minor updates to the iPhone graphics have also been made.

Resetting an App's Access to the Photo Roll

In iOS 6 it is possible to control access to the photo roll. If you accidentally disallow an App access to the Photo Roll it is not clear how to enable an App access to the photo roll at a later time.

This has been a question I have had on a number of occasions so below are the steps needed to retainable access to the photo roll.

1. On your phone, open the settings app.

2. Scroll Down until you see privacy

3. Select the Photos setting

4. Set the Countdown App Setting to "ON".

v 2.05 - Displaying Years/Months for an Event

It is now possible to display the number of years and months when the event details are displayed.

Time to an event

The above shows an Event displaying the Year & Months

The above screen show the details screen where you may set which of the optional Time Periods to display.

v 2.04 - Updated Table View

This release contains a redesigned Table View showing the list of events. 

The events with a purple backdrop is the current event being displayed on the Main Screen.
Each line in the table view now displays the title, the date and the time until the event.
The Events that are in the past display the time to the event in yellow.

The graphics for the iPad have been updated updated so that the event details backdrop is correctly display on the new iPad's retina display.
 

v 2.03 - Updated Graphics

This release updates the iPad version only.

Updated Background graphics on Detail screen (see below).

Background Now moves with the UI elements when scrolling details screen in Landscape mode.

The Date & Time pickers have been moved back to details screen. (see below)

iPad Details screen

How old are you in Days?

If you want to know how old you are in days you can create an event on your date of birth.
(This would be great for newborn babies/children).

How many days old!

Note this is not my birth date, I haven't hit 20,000 days old yet!

Set the time to 12:00am if you don't know what time you were born.
Ensure that the Show Weeks option is set to "Off"

Event details

Note, due to the way in which I calculate the difference between the date and today's date it won't work for dates prior to about 1930 ... this will be fixed in a future version.

v 2.02 - Minor Upgrade to graphics & various bug fixes

This version updates some of the graphics & fixes a minor bug.

The arrow graphic has been updated

The seconds value of an event is now always set to 0.

Countdown v 2.00

The purpose of this release was to being the iPad version up to parity with the iPhone version.

So now you can see a list of the events, details of each event, order the events etc etc
See the screenshots below.


The next release will include be a tidy of the the iPad interface which in this release is quite Basic.

v 1.16 - Repeating Events & Bug Fixes

Repeating Events

An event now has a repeating type, this can be one of the options in the screen shot below.

If an event is found to be in the past or it occurs whilst being displayed then it's date is updated accordingly.

Repeat Type

v 1.16 also fixes a bug that was causing a crash on initialisation if the "current event" was the last event in the list and it was deleted. Please report any problems to phil.bevan@gmail.com.

Daylight Savings

I have had a few emails pointing out that for some events the countdown timer is incorrect by exactly 1 hour.

I just wanted to clarify that the countdown timer does take into account any daylight saving that will be in place when the event takes place.

For example, San Francisco has no daylight saving in place at the time of this blog post 20 February 2012. Daylight saving starts for Pacific Standard time on 11 March 2012, ending on 4 November 2012.

So any event that takes place between those dates will appear to be incorrect by 1 hour. Of course it only looks that way the actual amont of time between now and the event date/time is correct.

v 1.15 - Updated Graphics

Version 1.15 is a minor upgrade with some updated graphics & some minor bug fixes

The Event List Display graphics have been updated:

The Icons represent

• Add new Event
• Reorder Events
• Settings
• Help

Added an event type to the event details screen.

If number of weeks is 1 then the weeks label should say "Week" rather than "Weeks"

Backup & Restore your Events & Pictures

It is possible to backup your events and pictures by following the procedure below.

Saving your Events and Pictures

• Open iTunes
• Select your device

Select your device

• Select the app tab in the right hand pane

• Select the Countdown app in the file sharing pane

• Select the Event List & Pictures to save. You should select the file event-list.plist and all the .png images.

• Press the Save Button and save to a folder on your PC or Mac.

Restoring your Events and Pictures

Follow the above instructions

• Open iTunes
• Select your device
• Select the app tab
• Select the Countdown app in the file sharing pane
• Select the Event List & Pictures
• Click on the Add button

The above screenshots are from a Mac, but the PC procedure is identical.