Previous version already had ability to share your best pace to Twitter or Facebook. In 2.0, sharing options are greatly expanded. As before, sharing is available from the run view, so you can brag about your results as soon you’re done running or you can do it afterwards, when reviewing run details. Icon for the sharing is changed to (more or less) official icon:

The share panel is greatly enhanced:

You can choose do you want to share the best pace or the distance covered. Below that, you see the main new addition: ability to share full details of your workout to dailymile.com, one of the most prolific running communities on the web.

dailymile

I wanted to add dailymile integration for ages, ever since I saw one of these gorgeous infographics website can automatically generate for you (I found that linked graphic through random search).

Once you tap the dailymile button, you will see this screen

Here you can edit the message shown, choose how you felt during the run and decide do you want to post the track as well. In essence, you can post full details of the workout in just two taps: one to choose the “felt” and then tap “Post”. Everything else is pre-populated and sent automatically. Easy-peasy.

You are not forced to send the run on the day you did it – you can do it at any time; Go Couch to 5k will send the correct date of the run as can be seen from my dailymile profile.

Facebook and Twitter and…

As before, Facebook and Twitter integration are present and are updated to latest APIs they provide. Twitter integration is using iOS 5 Twitter framework thus make sure you have your accounts predefined (through Settings app). Facebook integration is using their single-sign-on, so if you have Facebook iOS app installed, you will not have to login again, it will pick up the login credentials from there.

If you tap the “more…” button at the bottom, you will see additional ways to share your run details, through either SMS text (or iMessage, depending whom you’re texting) and also through email.

We did all we could to make the sharing as easy as possible and least time-consuming and we hope you will like it and use it often.

Head over to RadiantTweet page for more details.

This has been an interesting week, to say the least, with each day of the week my sleep time was around 4am. Main reason was that Run Mate went on sale on the App Store last Sunday, while I have not yet finished the web site. Thus 24 full hours of working later I had a passable site live. if you have visited the site in the last several days, you could see the design coming along, day by day, to its current form.

At the same time, I needed to get the word out. Contacting blogs, review sites — that took a lot of time, just doing the research. Opened an account with prmac.com which does press release distribution – great service, very quick. Writing a good press release is seriously hard job — it took an entire day of writing, re-writing, editing and re-editing to get to the point of being acceptable.

At the same time, the sales took off. This was really surprising as I did not expect any, until I get the word out. But the very first day Run Mate sold few dozen copies! Big thank you to all of you who bought the app, you made those long nights more than worthwhile.

And with sales comes feedback, with some really good feature suggestions. Feature request list is growing steadily, along with work progressing on the 1.1 version.
Keep the feedback coming, either here in the comments or through the feedback form.

I’ll write more, when 1.1 enters beta stage.