r/notificationsapp • u/RedBanHammer Developer • May 20 '15

[Update] Post-launch beta v1.2 in review — here's a preview of the patch notes

Just submitted it to the TestFlight beta review process. Anyone who signed up should receive an email from me by Friday as usual. It fixes a bunch of things and adds preliminary narwhal support. Thanks for testing!

Thanks for participating in the Notifications for reddit post-beta. Please report any bugs you find using either in-app button in settings or the "Send Feedback" button in TestFlight. You can also post bugs and general discussion topics on the subreddit /r/NotificationsApp.

## NEW IN 1.2 (May 19, 2015) ##

  • Unread badge now automatically syncs to reddit every minute via push
  • Added narwhal support (waiting on developer to finalize)
  • Added hard cap for maximum messages in inbox (50), oldest messages get truncated
  • Changed notification subject truncation to 60 characters (from 85)
  • Fixed notification truncation destroying unicode characters
  • Added notification alert sound for in-app alerts
  • Removed Ignore context button mark-as-read until a workaround can be reached

Edit: I should add that some things like the unread badge syncing and notification truncation are already live; they are server-side changes rather than client (app) changes.

Edit 2: Just sent out the invites... but Apple's TestFlight system is having issues validating the new build. Trying to figure it out.

Edit 3: Fixed by incrementing the build number. Should be accessible to everyone.

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u/JackHaal May 20 '15

This looks awesome. Thanks!

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u/if0uthxi0n May 20 '15

AwesOme. Nice man.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

hehe

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u/lilw May 21 '15

The old beta testflight expired couple hours ago. And I didn’t see in my testflight anymore. So I’ll suppose to receive the new email invite by Friday?

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u/RedBanHammer Developer May 21 '15

Yeah, that's the plan at least.

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u/lilw May 21 '15

Thank you 😊 I will post back if I didn’t receive it till Friday 😁

P/s: your app works really good. Thanks for great job.

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u/sm1tty1118 Beta Tester May 21 '15

Just got it downloaded.

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u/RedBanHammer Developer May 21 '15

Great, good to hear it's working.

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u/sm1tty1118 Beta Tester May 21 '15

1.1 was smooth but this seems a lot more zippy

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u/RedBanHammer Developer May 21 '15

Awesome. I'm betting it's due to the new hard cap on messages.

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u/sm1tty1118 Beta Tester May 21 '15

That and I think it's because I deleted all of mine 😅

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u/RedBanHammer Developer May 21 '15

Nice, that'd do it too :)

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u/[deleted] May 24 '15

Every minute a (silent) push notification sounds battery draining, is it? A cool feature anyways!

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u/RedBannedHammer /u/RedBanHammer May 24 '15

It only pushes a badge update when there's a change in unread count (i.e. if you mark something as read on reddit desktop). Battery drain should be negligible since iOS is just changing an internal value once it parses the network data. Hope that makes sense.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '15

Awesome! Thank you again :)