New build anytime soon?

Added by MisfitsTimmy over 1 year ago

There hasn't been a new build released in 4 weeks. Has development stopped? I'd be willing to test daily builds if a tester is needed :-) I love working with this app! It's highly addictive :-)


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RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by souleman over 1 year ago

Actually, its only been 3.5 weeks :)

Typically, new releases show up about every 2 months. Did you start using it in the middle of June? Because there were a lot of releases over about 5 days. Mostly bug fixes because of a couple major updates (like new way to see themes, and the clock/date widgets). But once it is stable, you won't see another update until there is some big things being put in. Little bugs, like a fix to the clock widget (see my post in new features discussion), are not enough. Some dev's like to publish new releases every 2 days just to get back on the "new release" section of the market I think. This being a beta, I believe (granted I'm not the dev, so this is just my opinion), the dev would rather publish every couple months with big updates, then kill his bandwidth pushing out new releases that have to be manually updated every few days.

I think if more people posted findings, both good and bad, and got more discussion on the forums, it would also be helpful.

RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by MisfitsTimmy over 1 year ago

I started my addiction back in April, actually :-)
But, I didn't know that's how it usually is. Thanks for the info!

RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by Lemon over 1 year ago

There's also the issue of his day job getting in the way of SH from time to time as well.

RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by scotg over 1 year ago

See, day jobs always get in the way of good, clean fun.

RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by souleman over 1 year ago

I agree. He should quit his day job.

But then we would have to pay for SH, so.... guess we will just have to be patient.

RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by souleman over 1 year ago

And as if right on cue... New release out last night.

RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by Lemon over 1 year ago

Yeah, all builds expire on the 11th of each month.

New build is mostly bug fixes and memory fixes. Also some backend account stuff which isn't exposed yet.

:)

RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by souleman over 1 year ago

Do we know what bug/memory fixes? Like the clock widget and needing to change themes every reboot?

It seems a little less responsive, but that might also be my phone, because I changed kernels yesterday which might have caused it.

RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by Lemon over 1 year ago

Clock widget is supposed to be fixed (12pm, 0pm) but didn't get installed in time yesterday to check.

RE: New build anytime soon? - Added by kodiak799 over 1 year ago

The lag appears to be worse than the prior version and still getting the screen redraws (BB 0.4 and Sapphire 1.0)