A point to ponder as far as devices

I was reading a thread in the vivoactive forum today about the number of download per "thing" in the app store, and one user made a comment about the initial stability of some "things" when the vivoactive first came out (who knew about the 10 second revert timer for widgets until they saw one), and isn't downloading CIQ stuff.

The initial stability (need I mention :phoneConnected crash?) causde some "bad press" (in the forums) for CIQ stuff early on.

We could see a repeat, as there are a bunch of apps in the store that are marked to be there for the epix, and I've heard of anyone that has actually seen an Epix, so it's clear that most apps store things have never run on an actual Epix. Until the device is released and people have a bit of "hands on" with it, we as developers have no idea of any "uniqueness" of that device, and with publishing CIQ apps for the Epix day 1, it could leave a "bad taste in the mouth" for CIQ when people start getting them.

We all know of cases where the simulator does things differently from the real device (fonts with the vivoactive...), so is it wise to have Epix builds before anything (in CIQ level detail) is known about it?

hawken over 10 years ago

you raise a good point, and one that I've wondered about myself. We've been working closely with the Epix team to make sure we catch as many issues as we can prior to release. We learned a lot with the launch of the other devices, so hopefully things will go much more smoothly for the Epix. In all likelihood, I'll be testing several published apps on an Epix before it gets into the hands of customers (I have done some limited testing with the Epix already, and the Epix team has been putting it through its paces with our sample apps).

I can't guarantee that things will go without a hitch when the Epix is launched, but we'll do our best to minimize potential issues.

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

Found another vivoactive one today. Trying to use a "TextPicker" on the VA causes a crash.

I wonder if there are builds for the va in the app store that use a text picker, only because it was a box that could be checked for the build. NumberPicker on the va "kind of" works, but it always says "set local time"...

Putting out stuff that was not tested on a given device just gives CIQ a bad name, IMHO....

Kyle.ConnectIQ over 10 years ago

Found another vivoactive one today. Trying to use a "TextPicker" on the VA causes a crash.

I've commented on this in the other thread.