Run Mate 1.1 feature set

Ver­sion 1.1 is sent to Apple for approval, eagerly await­ing “Ready for sale” mark. :)
This ver­sion took much longer time to push put than I expected, mainly due to me try­ing cram too many stuff into it. Thus after much back and forth, this is what 1.1 brings.

New icon

New icon :)

Not really a fea­ture, but it will be a relief to me. New icon is a bit unusual, in that it does not have a back­ground at all and no shine that Apple is adding by default. Hope­fully you’ll like it too.

New pace types: warm up, cool down

Needed before and after each run, they can be any­thing you like or are used to: brisk walk, stretch­ing, jump­ing etc. There are no rules, do what­ever you feel like doing for warm­ing up or cool­ing down.

Time inter­vals defin­able in seconds

We opted for the 5s incre­ment, mainly to pre­vent too much scrolling when set­ting pace inter­val. I wanted to do this in the first ver­sion, but Apple time picker has only hours and minutes.

New pace types and new inter­val picker

This time I wrote my own, it looks rather fine. Upgrade will update any­thing you might already have defined.

Abil­ity to clone entire session

This allows quicker setup of the weekly run­ning pro­grams where ses­sions are often repeated sev­eral times in one week with few or no changes at all.

No music required

If you want to run in silence – maybe you want to hear your breath­ing rhythm – now you can. Run Mate will fully work with no music, even with screen locked.

Access iPod library from Run Mate

This removes the need for switch into iPod app and back into Run Mate — access all your music and pick indi­vid­ual songs, albums or playlists. Through iPhone’s default Set­tings appli­ca­tion, set your pref­er­ence should music start as soon as picked (this is default) or when you actu­ally touch the “Start run” button.

Of course, there’s inevitable bug fixes. I have fixed few that I have found and some reported to me and all that have shown up in iTunes Con­nect as crash logs. Hope­fully this will also help with issues few of the peo­ple that left a review on the App Store had. As I don’t know what the actual prob­lem is — I can know this only if I receive the crash log — I can’t be sure. And App Store does not have any means of con­tact­ing peo­ple that left the review. Frus­trat­ing, but that’s how it is. If you do have a prob­lem, of any kind, please con­tact us, I’ll do my best to help.

Now, off to work­ing on 1.2 :)
I hope to have a shorter period between updates, adding few fea­tures at a time.