Wandle SoftwareDelicious have just announced that their site (and presumably API) will have a planned outage on Sunday. Yummy should continue to work but, obviously, won’t be able to sync.
The last planned outage lasted a week. Let’s hope things are better this time!
The first iOS 9 update to make it out of Wandle HQ is for our sharing utility app, ShareEverywhere.
Other than the usual minor fixes and enhancements, most improvements come with iOS 9. For example, on some of the newer iPads you get the “slide over” multitasking feature, that might allow you to tweak a setting before launching the sharer in the main app. Not an everyday occurrence, perhaps, but useful.
Behind the scenes, the biggest change is support for Apple’s “Application Transport Security,” which means that a secure connection is used for all services where available. “Where available” is an important qualifier here as most services currently require a slight loosening of requirements to work. (“Forward secrecy” is the least commonly supported feature. This requirement needed to be relaxed for Twitter, Pinboard.in, Diigo, ImgUr, Facebook and Tumblr.)
With luck, ShareEverywhere 1.1.2 should be available for download in a week or so.
On Wednesday, Apple announced that they’ll be releasing iOS 9 on September 16 and OS X El Capitan on 30 September. Will Wandle Software’s apps be ready?
Short version: yes.
The last updates to Yummy and ShareEverywhere fixed a couple of minor glitches that I saw when running on iOS 9. To be clear, these versions do not use any new features in iOS, they just work properly with it.
Coming soon, both apps also have “real” iOS 9 updates.
ShareEverywhere 1.1.2 is a minor update, mostly to support iPad side-by-side multitasking.
Yummy 3.2 is a bigger update that includes the side-by-side multitasking, Spotlight indexing and a few other neat new features that are unrelated to iOS 9.
Version 2.2 of Rootn Toon is nearly ready to go, too. The current App Store version has a couple of minor visual glitches on iOS 9 but it’s fully usable otherwise.
www.cut is in a similar state to Rootn Tootn. After the battle to get the last version released, it’s not clear how soon this update will be available, though.
Finally on the iOS side, I need to do more testing with CameraGPS. It seems to be okay, but with the same visual glitches seen in Rootn Toon. A new version will be forthcoming if necessary.
On the Mac, Quick Calendar still works well on OS X 10.11.
More information about each specific app when I submit to Apple.