Leadbolt Ads

I didn't mention it in change log, but I am testing a new ad in checklist. Well, it comes in addition to banner ads, but it's much less intrusive than those.

You'll find a new menu item, "Top apps", which will show you an "app wall", with a selection of apps from Leadbolt. (yeah !! could post my referral link !! :D)

I hope it won't disturb you much (well, that's just one more menu item after all...), but also I hope it will make you discover other interesting apps.

edit : I renamed this menu item "Top apps" to a more accurate title "Free apps"

Checklist update : cloud functionality !

it was hard, but finally I managed to release a new major version of Checklist. Great new feature : store your checklists on the cloud. I'm going to be a bit lazy and paste the change log :

* now create your checklists in the cloud ! At the moment, limited to one checklist per user. Still beta testing, so please be forgiving and don't hesitate to report bugs * cloud checklists are shown in blue, italic font on main screen
* share your cloud checklist with friends, get synchronized with them to execute your to do list !
* cloud checklists have some limitations for now
* use your Google account to connect to the cloud
* of course, you still can use this app like before without taking care of cloud functionality
* added "About" dialog box with my mail, my blog and my apps
* added this change log, thanks to Karsten Priegnitz ;)
* Replaced the menu item "New" with a button to add checklists. you can restore previous behavior with an option in settings menu.


I hope this cloud ability will be useful, and I'm curious to see how it will be appreciated (or not)
This app uses Google app engine to store your data, and I'll write soon a confidentiality declaration (it will be very simple : your data will NOT be shared or communicated to anyone without your explicit agreement).

Google app engine gave me some hard time, and I anticipate some bugs with that, but I'll fix them as soon as possible.

At the moment, only free version has been updated with cloud functionality. of course, it will be updated too within some days

Android comments

I will soon remove user comments from my blog. Well, not the comments directly posted there, but the ones I was copying from Android market and pasting in appropriate app page, here on my blog.

I'm starting to have much comments for app "CheckList", and it's making much to scroll. I'll rather post a message here if I see a comment on market awaiting an answer from me.


Also, not much people must have noticed it, but I removed one of my app from market, Expiry reminder. I had less than 100 downloads and no feedback, and I didn't have time to improve it or even write user guide... I prefer to concentrate on my other apps.

Talking about other apps, I'm getting close to a new release of Checklist ;)

Inventory manager : too complex ?

I got several (bad) comments from French users, on Inventory Manager Lite. They find it too complex to use. And at the same time, I am asked for more functionalities by other users :/

I'll think about how I could make it easier to use while continuing to bring functionalities. Maybe i should propose basic and advanced mode ?

Anyway, at the moment, I am working on checklist. I should be able to propose some amazing features at the end of this month, maybe beginning of March.

Inventory Manager "Force Close"

There was a possibility of force close with users who have a large product database. It's fixed now, please update to 3.1

Thanks to the user who send report.

"Home inventory" becomes "Inventory Manager" & major update

I published 5 minutes ago a new major release of Home Inventory. I published only the free version right now, paid one will be updated tomorrow.

Here's the patch note :

- Low and high stock counts alerts
- Modified expiry and near expiry alerts
- Possibility to change the expiry alert delay (15 days before expiry by default)
- Added product families : use same warning settings for several product codes
- Search option
- Added possibility to show full inventory with filters by location, family and product

Old backups won't be usable anymore, so don't forget to make a new one after update.

 I also add some help messages to help you to understand how this app works. These hints are taking some room, so you may hide them with a new menu "Preferences" in main screen.

I hope all this changes will be appreciated, and much more will come later (but not this month, except for bug fixes of course)

By the way, I renamed this app to "Inventory Manager". It's quite subjective, but I think this new title more appropriate now. French title, "Gestion de stock", wasn't changed.

Let me know your comments, by mail, on the market, on directly on this blog.

PS : happy new year 2012 ! :)

10 000 downloads on Checklist !

We have reach today 10 000 downloads on the free version of checklist ! It seems quite few compared to the 10 billions downloads the whole market reached this week, but I'm still happy to have reach this number, and it encourages me to continue ! :)