Happy new year! I realised it has been nearly a year since I last updated Draw A Graph!, and a brush-up is long overdue. Thus I have begun working on a medium-sized update featuring new icons, iOS 8 optimisations, and a … Continue reading
Well, it’s surely been a while! Was out in a community project called Age of Aincrad trying to build an MMORPG. Handled a lot of networking, database wiring and script-based coding. Definitely worth my summer! Speaking of which, during the … Continue reading
Well, that took a while.
Anyway, the new update is out. Tons of new stuff added. Such use. Very power. Wow.
I was trying to improve overall user impression. Redesigned buttons, app icon, screenshots, help, and stuff. Of course, the new Group tool is also fully functional too!
Go get the update now!
This is a small update including just a few optimizations and one new feature.
The selection tool I was working on takes more conceptual design than I originally thought. Codes are getting messy the more I work on it so I really want to keep everything neat and tidy from now on.
So this update doesn’t include the selection tool yet. That should be in the next update.
What is included is the thumbnail feature in Layer Inspector (although layers aren’t really ready yet…haha!) so you can see what is what and select what you want.
Anyway, happy New Years guys 🙂 in 2013 there has been a total of 3585 downloads…without any paid advertisement! Thank you for all the support and I’d appreciate it if you give it a rating!
So the update is out and things got fixed, and App Store reviews and ratings all got reset as a byproduct…oh well! If people like it then people will rate it. Don’t want to force people to do so.
On the other hand, I already started to implement the next update. I hope to make object editing more accessible, so I am introducing a group selection tool (modelled on win7 selection rectangle). You can select multiple objects at once, move them, rotate them, delete them, duplicate them, etc. This is the first step to a more rounded layer (or grouped objects) function which I hope to implement in the future.
Also, I’ve added thumbnails in the property inspector so you can tell which object it is!
Hopefully I can get all these working in a week or two~
Well, it’s barely been two days since I released Draw A Graph and I am already working on the first update…
There are some performance issues (which are quite visible on older devices) which I’m trying to optimize, the Freeform Lines in particular. I discovered in the current version I’m asking the phone to recalculate several thousands of points every 0.005 second or so if the line gets very, very long.
Also, upon a friend’s suggestion I implemented a resize control for Freeform Lines so you can stretch them (without losing quality…it’s not an image!)
Finally, I will be translating the interface for simplified and traditional Chinese. If my Japanese gets better during the course of the year, I’ll do a translation for that too. (Maybe get a few friends to help with other major European languages like French, German and Italian…)
I must say I’m surprised there’s more than 100 downloads on the first day! It’s only my first project, after all…no ratings yet though!
Finally, both Air Physics and Draw A Graph! are in the App Store!
Nope, didn’t make into Noteworthy or Editor’s choice. Seems like I do need a graphics artist!
I would love to hear what everyone thinks about the apps!
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