Quickie 1.1

This ver­sion was a bit longer in the mak­ing than I ini­tially intended. I was brain­storm­ing the road map and what I wanted to do and when, thus after some code tests I switched pri­or­i­ties. This ver­sion is first fruit of re-thinking of the road map.

First, you can now add mul­ti­ple items to exist­ing list at once, in the same way as when ini­tially cre­at­ing the list — using sep­a­rate multi-line input field. When in items view, tap Edit then the + but­ton in the top bar and type in. I was con­tem­plat­ing other solu­tions but in test­ing they proved to be counter-intuitive and sur­pris­ing. This solu­tion adds to the con­sis­tency of the inter­face, which I value greatly.

Sec­ond, you can now re-order both items and lists. This was orig­i­nally planned for later ver­sions, but I switched gears due to UI changes and fea­tures got moved up a bit. This is pri­mary rea­son why I never pub­lish road maps for my apps. Things that seem easy when out­lined can turn out to be quite a chal­lenge and could actively pre­vent the releases.

Third, in-app help is gone. Quickie is very sim­ple and that icon was tak­ing space that can be used bet­ter. More impor­tant is that help text, as the sin­gle largest body of text, was actively stop­ping the inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion process. Apart from the help, the Quickie UI has about 20 words and short phrases — help sec­tion was like 20x that. So it’s gone and trans­la­tions are com­ing in.

I intended to ship 1.1 with at least 2–3 trans­la­tions, but decided to leave them for future, as I did not want to post­pone the 1.1 any­more. Once first trans­la­tions are in, you can expect 1.1.x in the updates.

Forth, the green check-mark for done item is now on the left. I really liked the left/right split, as it clearly sep­a­rated the done and to-be-done items. How­ever, with such lay­out, there was no place to put addi­tional stuff I want to imple­ment; I tried all UI lay­outs I could think of, noth­ing worked sat­is­fac­tory. Thus, change. The space on the right is now free and will be used for a lot of stuff soon.

Fifth, audio cues are changed. Hope­fully for the better. :)

Sixth, the UI wid­gets are re-visited, as they were few pix­els larger than reg­u­lar iPhone OS wid­gets. The inter­face is also pol­ished a bit and extra­ne­ous move­ment of the items when entering/exiting edit mode is removed and whole expe­ri­ence is bet­ter. Wid­gets now slide in and out while the text stays in place.

I hope you’ll like the changes; please let me know in either the com­ments or through Feed­back page.This is by no means an end, there are quite a bit more use­ful addi­tions already in the works.

A review on the App Store page for Quickie is also very welcome. ;)

P.S. Quickie got great review on Smok­ing Apples. Very happy.