iPhone App Released - FRC Tracker

[engunneer]

I'm probably going to the Milwaukee regional, and will try to get pictures of each robot there for TBA. Thanks again for the App, Tom.

[Tom Saxton]

Tom: Good suggestions. I'll work on those issues. Thanks!

Branden: I hope you're able to make it to a regional. Have you missed a year since you started? Thanks for thinking of collecting robot photos for Milwaukee.

[engunneer]

I was playng around with the 2009 version (more pictures available), and discovered that you can swipe up and down to increment and decrement teams in photo view, which is cool.

I've had two different weird bugs, but so far have not been able to reproduce them.
1st was an issue when swiping between pictures, where a picture would be replaces with a blank white area (not the "No photo available" screen)
2nd was on the team search page, where changing the search terms did not visually update the list, but if I selected a row after changing the search terms, I got the expected search result.

I I can reproduce either of these (I was using 2009 1.3.3), I'l let you know.

As far as missing regionals, I certainly have not been going every year until starting to help 1318. this will be my first time going to a regional where I'm not a member of a team. There's only one team in my city (1306), and I want to go introduce myself to them, so I have a team for next year.

Just before hitting post, I did find one issue:
in 2009, go (for example) to the Boston regional, and update team photos
on the MA Teams page, select the photo for Team 88 and swipe down. Team 69 is displayed (this is expected, as 69 is the next lower team number in MA 2009)
go back to the MA Teams list, and select team 88's normal (non picture) entry.
Select the photo option to view the photo, and swipe down as before. Now team 87 is shown, instead of team 69.

[Tom Saxton]

Hi Branden,

Good observations!

I'm glad to know that you discovered the trick of scrolling through photos. (It is documented on the Guided Tour page on the web site.)

The weirdness you noticed in how teams are filtered is because the team detail view doesn't care how you got there (through the big team list or through an event's team list), so it didn't have an event to pass to the photo viewer for filtering. I wondered if anyone would find that when I noticed it. I'm glad to hear you did find it. I've now bubbled that info through, so it will be fixed in the next release, probably after the week 1 regionals.

I'll look at the code for the other two bugs and see if I can figure out what happened.

Thanks for the feedback!

[Brent Strysko]

This app is awesome! good work

[Tom Saxton]

Originally Posted by Brent Strysko

This app is awesome! good work

Thanks! I appreciate the encouragement.

I think you'll like the upcoming versions even more. Version 1.0.1 fixes the Twitter update bug and improves the match list and team list views. I hope Apple will approve that one in time for people to try it out during the week six regionals.

I'm almost done with version 1.1, which adds more features plus support for the Championship competitions. I hope to get that one submitted to Apple right after the week 6 regionals wrap.

[pitzoid]

Originally Posted by Tom Saxton

Thanks! I appreciate the encouragement.

Hey Tom

Cool program, put it on my iphone. Whats I like too is I saw in another thread how someone was talking about teams being always red or blue in quals, and your FRC tracker made it real easy to see a team like 148 basically being red, then blue, then red, then blue for the whole qual tourney.

Keep the cool apps coming....

[Tom Saxton]

Version 1.0.1 was finally approved by Apple today and is now available on the iTunes App Store. In addition to fixing the Twitter update bug, there are a few enhancements:

• Show team name and rookie year in team list.
• Team name and sponsors viewable from the team detail view.
• Match list improved, especially when viewing matches of a specific team.
• Tapping on a team in an event's team list takes you to the team detail view instead of straight to the match list, making it easier to see what other regionals a team attended.

I've been busy working on the next version while waiting for 1.0.1 to be approved. I'm nearly done with version 1.1 which adds more stuff, including support for the Championship. I expect to submit it tomorrow in hopes of getting it approved by the start of the Championship event.

[wilsonmw04]

just my luck, I get the update and twitter is down for maintenance.

[KeatonM]

This app is AMAZING. I love this thing.

Helps a lot with a couple of my personal projects, too.

[Chris is me]

This is an amazing application that my mom used to follow the 10,000 lakes regional this week. She loves it.

Is there any way it can get bot pictures from TBA?

[katd30]

Can I just say that this is officially my new favorite app on the iPod touch. SOOOOO useful! And it will probably be an excellent scouting tool for Atlanta. It is great how you can see previous match records. I think the updates your planning will make the app even more useful! Love it!

[Tom Saxton]

Thanks for the nice comments. Hopefully with the annoying Twitter update problem fixed, it will starting getting more positive reviews on iTunes.

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Is there any way it can get bot pictures from TBA?

I definitely want to do that, but it won't make it into version 1.1, so probably not before the Championship.

[Tom Saxton]

I submitted version 1.1 this morning.

This version will have a complete database all the way through the end of week six, including merging together the match results from Twitter (which include the scoring details, but aren't always the final results for a match) and the official results from FIRST's web pages (which are official, but don't include the scoring details).

I haven't added in the information about the divisions at the Championship, but 1.1 has a mechanism that will let users download event info updates without having to go through a new release through Apple and iTunes.

Hopefully everything will work for the Championship, but there's no way to test it in advance as the division web pages aren't up yet. Everyone cross your fingers!

[Legator91]

Just updated to the newest version. I like the fact that it updates much better now, not failing as often. Can't wait for the big version 1.1 update, keep em coming.