We’re giving away some promo codes!

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We want to give away some promo codes!

We’re giving away 30 promo codes for Headlines and also 30 promo codes for Twithibition. (Both smartphone apps) The codes are only valid in the German AppCatalog.

Sounds good? O.K. here’s what you’ve to-do to participate and maybe win a code:
First, by visiting our Facebook page, like us/become a fan of the page and leave comment on this post you’ll find there that we’ve posted.

On Saturday, we will select the winners and we will get in contact with you. Each winner will get one promo code, we will select which of the both apps randomly and will send it either via Facebook message of contact ask you to contact us back.

We’re also giving  2x 10 codes to the German webos-blog.de so have a look there to maybe also get one of the codes.

Good luck to all!

 

Convertor XL – Special offer for existing customers!

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ConvertorTo support our existing customers that already bought a copy of Convertor for webOS, our premium unit & currency converter, we would like to say Thank You! and created a special promotion.

To proof you purchased the app in the past, please do the following:

  • Open the HP/Palm receipt you received in your mail when you bought Convertor. Take a screenshot of the attached PDF (feel free to black out your home address, everything also should remain intact)
  • Email the screenshot to support AT coding bees DOT com
  • Include the country of the AppCatalog where you purchased the app and use the code
  • The mail address where you sending the screenshot should be the same as the one you received the receipt from HP/Palm
We have only a limited amount of promo codes available. It’s first come, first serve. So be sure to act quickly on this offer! This will be a one time offer, once all codes are used, promo is over.
The promo is time limited and will end on October 30th!

Going big and bigger!

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With big and bigger we mean of course, the Pre3 and the TouchPad!

First, the smaller one – Pre3

Today HP approved an update for Headlines 1.0.2 for webOS that use of the full screen, means that the 20px bottom bar visible on most non-adjusted apps is no longer there, instead the app takes advantage of the full resolution by 480×800 and also got some updated graphics for it, because most of the scaled graphics didn’t look that good. Have a look in the AppCatalog on your device to get it.

Second, the bigger one – TouchPad

ConvertorWe’re happy to announce that HP also approved a new app we submitted. And it’s called Convertor XL(AppCat link). Yep, it is the premium unit & currency conversion utility now in big size with adjustments for the TouchPad UI. So still the same huge amount of units & currencies (over 400!). Still fully customizable to your needs.
Available for $1.99 around the world (where AppCatalog with paid apps is available).

And we have a special promotion for all our existing Convertor users, that bought the phone version earlier. We will announce that later today in an extra post, so if you’re already bought the app, stay tuned!

Insights in TouchPad usage – Statistics of an app!

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Since HP’s fire-sale of their webOS devices TouchPad sales gone crazy and most of the webOS developers saw a nice increase of downloads of their app. No matter if free or paid versions.

One of our apps ColorHarmony is available for a long time already for all the phones and since end of August also for the TouchPad. We track some device distribution statistics for over a year now and we were really surprised on how many users are already downloaded and used this app on the TouchPad.

Enough words typed, let pictures speak.

Device Distribution overall (Emulator is development)

Different ScreenResolutions

Download stats for the last couple of days

As a summary, these stats are tracked over the last 12 months, except the download stats that are representing only the last weeks, since TouchPad launch. And as you see, the TouchPad has already taken the 2nd place, has left the usage on Pixi‘s behind and is only a few weeks on the market.
I also not included a number on how many apps are used out there, because it would make no difference if overall are 1000 or 100.000 users of ColorHarmony.

Now think what could have been happened if HP has done the launch of the latest device (Pre3, Veer and of course the TouchPad) right?

ColorHarmony available on any webOS device! Again.

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ColorHarmony is now available on the TouchPad for a few days already, but with this submission to the AppCatalog it was not available for all the phones with webOS out there anymore.

This has been changed with the latest 1.6.1 release together with some enhancements for the shiny new devices.

  • fixed display of HEX color values on the TouchPad
  • better handling of back gestures (TouchPad)
  • Pre3 ready now with some now images
Best of all, it’s still free!
So launch your AppCatalog on whichever webOS device you are and download your copy today!

App update

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I just want to give a short update on what happened the last week and what’s happening in the next couple of days/weeks.

Apps for the Pre3
We trying hard to make all our applications ready and using the full size of the 480×800 pixels on the HP Pre3. This will take some time for some of our applications, but we made good progress already.
The following applications are already available.

Both are already using the full resolution including the 20px bottom fix. (Pre3 users know what I mean :) )

We already submitted the following apps that are waiting for approval from HP:

Some of the above apps will still show the 20px bottom line, but be sure that we will fix that in the coming days!

Wait, where is Headlines? You may ask, it should run fine already (based on reports from users) on the Pre3. If you’ve found issues in the full version please report them to us so that we can fix them. The Lite version of Headlines is currently not able to use the inline view for articles. We’re aware of this and will submit a fix for the Lite version next week.

We haven’t written something about the TouchPad compatibility yet, so here we go.
As of version 1.6.0 ColorHarmony runs in full resolution on the TouchPad, as you’ve noted this is already the published version and is available in the catalog.
Next one will be Convertor, but since we had to change the UI to make full use of the higher resolution it won’t be compatible with the phone-sized version. So we decided to bring a new version strictly for the TouchPad.
Be sure, that our existing Convertor customers are getting promo codes if they want to also get the TouchPad version for no extra costs!

We also decided to rewrite Headlines for the TouchPad as Enyo app, that means, it will take some time before we can release a public version to the AppCatalog. It will be a complete rewrite and will use some of the new webOS 3.x features as well. Sorry for this delay, but be sure you’ll love what the new version will provide. So stay tuned!

Get your Ares apps Touchpad ready

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Since we adjust some of our apps to the big resolution of the TouchPad (1024×768) we also have a few Ares apps that need to be changed. And since we had some problems first on how to get started, here is a short tutorial that is hopefully helpful to you.

If you normally open the Ares site, you have only the resolutions for Pixi/Veer and Pre/Pre2 phones. But if you call the Ares URL with a parameter its possible to get the TouchPad resolution and you can design for that one!

URL

The URL you’ve to call is: https://ares.palm.com/Ares/index.html?res=1024×768
Notice the res=1024×768 parameter at the end?

In-App adjustments

After you changed/adjusted the layout to fit the new resolution all you’ve to do is to add one parameter to your appinfo.json file.


"uiRevision" : 2

Don’t forget to add a back-button to your scenes, because there is no gesture area on the TouchPad!

That’s all!

After testing & packaging your app, submit it as an update through the developer portal. This tutorial will show you how to submit multi-platform apps:

Of course, your app is not a native TouchPad app, it’s still a Mojo app, but it works fine in most cases, too!