iPhone Cigar App RELEASED!

[romwarrior]

Hey Ken,

Since your is the ONE and only app I have on my Touch, and since we are waiting for approval of your latest version, I thought of you when I read this. Now you can see where your app is in the approval process:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/...le-iphone-app/

[KenS]

Originally Posted by romwarrior

Hey Ken,

Since your is the ONE and only app I have on my Touch, and since we are waiting for approval of your latest version, I thought of you when I read this. Now you can see where your app is in the approval process:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/...le-iphone-app/

Not really much of an improvement. Lastest Mobile Stogie update went from "waiting for review" to "in review" on November 6th. Not sure what that status change has done for me to understand what is going on. I doubt it would take any of you guys 6 days to review the app

[romwarrior]

Gee, thanks Apple!!

[Titan410]

Any chance of a DROID version?

[romwarrior]

Originally Posted by Titan410

Any chance of a DROID version?

Answered in this thread just a couple days ago:

Originally Posted by KenS

Actually I have started to look at the Android platform, but mostly as a curiosity at the moment. I seriously doubt that I'll have the time to learn and develop on a 2nd platform. The only reason I even look at it is that I'm sick to death of AT&T. I really like my iPhone, but I have enough issues with AT&T to consider alternatives. To me, the Android platform will best be remembered as the competition that drove Apple to fix the AT&T problem, and hopefully continue to drive innovation forward as well.

[KenS]

Got the "Your application is Ready for Sale" email about 1/2 hour ago, so version 1.8.6 should be showing up sometime this evening. Sometimes it takes and hour or so, sometimes several hours; I never fully understand the process

Reminder of what's new:

• Added capability to email cigar inventory data
• Added capability to move cigars between humidors
• Added 'shake to select random cigar' feature
• User interface tweaks
• Code optimization to reduce memory needs and to increase speed
• Added hundreds of cigars to the default database

[KenS]

Here's a use case for the 'move between humidors' capability:

If I grant a wish on the MAW or TAW thread (even when I'm not at home, since I have my inventory with me ), I just create a new humidor with the name of the BOTL that I'm sending the wish to. Then I browse through my other humidors and move cigars 1-by-1 into the newly created humidor.

Once I get home, I can just look at that one humidor and quickly grab the sticks to box 'em up for shipment. After that, I just delete that humidor, and I get prompted to delete the cigars that I added to it. I've used that capability several times in the past couple of weeks; very handy.

[earnold25]

I just purchased your app about 5 minutes ago. Mine has the "shake" feature, so I guess the new version is live?

[KenS]

Originally Posted by earnold25

I just purchased your app about 5 minutes ago. Mine has the "shake" feature, so I guess the new version is live?

It would appear so . Tap the "i" icon on the top-right of the home screen, and it will show you the version info. The new version is 1.8.6.

[earnold25]

yep, 1.8.6. There were still almost 300 updates available. Great app. Gonna take me a while to enter all my crap, but I'll have fun doing inventory

[massphatness]

Mine just updated!
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Originally Posted by KenS

Here's a use case for the 'move between humidors' capability:

If I grant a wish on the MAW or TAW thread (even when I'm not at home, since I have my inventory with me ), I just create a new humidor with the name of the BOTL that I'm sending the wish to. Then I browse through my other humidors and move cigars 1-by-1 into the newly created humidor.

Once I get home, I can just look at that one humidor and quickly grab the sticks to box 'em up for shipment. After that, I just delete that humidor, and I get prompted to delete the cigars that I added to it. I've used that capability several times in the past couple of weeks; very handy.

Another use for it, moving cigars from the main humi itself to the single drawer which you may want to treat as a separate humi. Or moving cigars from the big humi to the desktop, or moving cigars to the travel humi for a weekend trip. You get the point.

[GoldnGT]

Ken - I was doing an "email" to myself from the program, and for some reason, I cannot select one of the Humidors. I can select 2 of the Humi's I use, and even my wishlist, but the 2nd humi on the list it will not let me put a check mark beside... any thoughts?

Edit: I deleted the humi and made a new one and it worked. The only thing I can think of is that it didn't like the ' that i had in the name.

[KenS]

Originally Posted by GoldnGT

Ken - I was doing an "email" to myself from the program, and for some reason, I cannot select one of the Humidors. I can select 2 of the Humi's I use, and even my wishlist, but the 2nd humi on the list it will not let me put a check mark beside... any thoughts?

Can you tell me the name of the humidor?
Also, can you try adding a new cigar to that humidor, and then delete that cigar? Then does the email function work?

Very strange problem, but we'll figure it out.

[skibumdc]

Ken,
if the program can output a cab file...can it be made to import a Csv file?

That way we could enter all of our cigars in excel and import into the app?
Just a convenience.

[KenS]

Originally Posted by skibumdc

Ken,
if the program can output a cab file...can it be made to import a Csv file?

That way we could enter all of our cigars in excel and import into the app?
Just a convenience.

Unfortunately it is not that easy, for a couple of main reasons:

1. Each application is 'sandboxed' on the device, and not allowed to access any data of other apps (including email attachments, etc.) This is actually a good thing, so that malicious things can't be done between applications on your device. Of course it also creates some limitations that require clever things to work around.

2. The database structure itself has to maintain relationships between the reference data for a cigar, and the cigars that you put into your humidor. It does this with certain 'reference keys' that you would need to know about in order to create the spreadsheet/csv file in the first place.

Ultimately, the answer is a companion desktop app and/or online service for synchronizing your humidors. Both are under consideration, but pretty large undertakings. I already spend a LOT of time on this app, so I can't promise, but I continue to look for a way to give you guys what you are looking for

[skibumdc]

oooph, a lot more than I anticipated.
No worries, it was just a thought.

THanks for all your work.

Ken,

Thanks a million for this app, it's great!

[KenS]

In case you are wondering what all the updated cigars are all about, I have now gone through EVERY cuban cigar in the database and verified the information to the best of my ability (invested about 8 hours in this; currently 853 cuban cigars in the database):

- Removed duplicates
- Added a bunch of special release cigars
- Validated the status (current production, special release, or discontinued)
- Fixed a bunch of typos

The reason I did this is that the next version of Mobile Stogie will list the cuban cigars in "groups", starting with current production, then special release, then discontinued. This will make it much easier to find any given cigar in the reference.

(Though I could do this for the NC's as well, I have no confidence that I can maintain the status of those 1,000's of cigars.)

This feature is about done, but I want to add two more features before shipping the next release:

- Ability to move from Wish List to a humidor (forgot to do this before )
- Some basic search functionality (at least search by brand and/or name)

I'll let you know when I get these features done, and shipped to the app store

[sikk50]

Ken can you add the Devil's Weed?