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.

v 1.14 Auto Scroll through Events

It is now possible to set the app to automatically scroll through the events.
In the settings screen just set the Auto Scroll setting to On and a new event will be shown every 10 seconds.

Updated Settings Screen

 When the last event is reached the scrolling will begin again at the first event.

v 1.13 - Updated Preferences

This release contains a couple of updates

The preference view has been updated to show the preferences in a grouped table.

Settings Screen

The help button displays the support blog without leaving the app.

Support Website

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me at phil.bevan@gmail.com

v 1.12 - Updated graphics & bug fixes

This is a minor update to the graphics on the Main Countdown Screen.

Main View

Also included are 2 minor bug fixes, missing bitmaps for the settings & sort buttons and correct a crash when trying to sort events when none have been created.

If you have any queries please email me at phil.bevan@gmail.com

v 1.11 - Animate hiding of buttons

Note - apparently this app was uploaded without the graphics for the Sort Event & Settings.
This has been corrected in v 1.12 which is awaiting approval by Apple.


This is a minor upgrade to some of the graphics in the app, and new functionality to hide/view the user interface items.

 

Pressing the arrow on the right hand side animates the buttons right, leaving just a arrow pointing left which when pressed will animate the buttons back on to the screen.

The Icons on the settings screen are now placed at the bottom of the screen and animated upwards if an ad is to be displayed.


For any queries I can be contacted at phil.bevan@gmail.com.

Countdown to an Event v.1.10

This release only ccontains updates for the iPhone.

Added Sort option (Ascending date, Descending date or Manual) 

Sort Order for the Events List

Added Settings Screen

Settings

Option to Display Date / or Display Days on Event List 

List View

Option to Tap on an Event in the List to set it to the current Event.

Option to Hide Next/Previous Buttons (Use gestures to navigate) 

Next/Prev buttons hiden

Swipping Left/Right navigates through the events. Double Tap allows selection of a new picture for the event being displayed.

When adding new Event sets the Current event to be the Event Added 


Version 2.0 will bring all iPhone updates to the iPad version.
For any queries I can be contacted at phil.bevan@gmail.com.

Countdown to an Event (v 1.09)

New features in v 1.9

Updated Arrow Icons

Added a help Icon

Pressing the help Icon will display a confirmation dialog box before opening the safari web browser and bringing you to this this blog (which is mobile enabled).

Creates thumbnails of the selected pictures to improve performance of the Event List. (There should be no stuttering of the list as you scroll it.)

Allow customisation of the default image used when creating a new Event. To create a default picture, use iTunes to copy a file called image.png into the documents folder for the app. This will be used as the default image for any new events.

On creation of a new event the Event Text starts as blanks.

For support queries, I may be contacted at phil.bevan@gmail.com