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iiTimer released! (iPhone/iPad timer)

I love this timer, but I do have one small request(sorry if this has been asked before, but I don't have time to search through this thread, I'm at work). Could you add a way to just output a scramble without changing the type of scramble or timing yourself? A lot of times I just use this to get a scramble without actually timing myself, and it's a pain to have to change the scramble type to another and then back to the one I'm using in order to generate a new scramble.

Other than that this app is amazing, I love how many different types of scrambles there are, especially the obscure ones, like 3x3xn.
 
randomtoad said:
Just time for 1 second then delete the time...?

Seems a pretty illogical request to me as no other popular timers offer this...
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I've actually got 2 other timers on my ipod that both generate scrambles at the push of a button. However the scrambles that they output aren't nearly as good as the ones that the iiTimer outputs.
 
I could add a batch scramble function, but as Toad mentioned, I find it simple enough to just start the timer and start it instantly to get a new scramble. I do this all the time when testing the app :p I can't think of a reason to clutter up the interface more with a button that would be hardly used, but I appreciate the suggestion.

I'm going to be submitting a lite version with very limited functionality if people are interested in trying before buying.

Remember, price is 1/2 off until New Years so get it while its hot!
 
Alrighty, i just got this app today, and i gotta say it's a pretty nice app, there are a few thigns you couyld add to it, but some of them you probably already know.

I just got my ipod touch also, on bozing day, and iitimer was one of the first apps i got. It looks exactly like qqtimer; which is my favorite timer. and best thing of them all, it's portable!!

great app!!
 
some of the add-ons could include:

- music playing capabilities.
- More scrambles. ( if i can remember which ones there were to add)
- more average types: average of 100 possibly.
- graph to show improvement. (like on cubemania.org)
- background or color changing abilities.

i'm not saying that you should add all of those, but it's just some suggestions.

:D
 
masterofthebass said:
I could add a batch scramble function, but as Toad mentioned, I find it simple enough to just start the timer and start it instantly to get a new scramble. I do this all the time when testing the app :p I can't think of a reason to clutter up the interface more with a button that would be hardly used, but I appreciate the suggestion.

I'm going to be submitting a lite version with very limited functionality if people are interested in trying before buying.

Remember, price is 1/2 off until New Years so get it while its hot!
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Understandable, plus after fiddling with it today I've gotten used to just starting the timer and then atopping it again to get a new scramble. However I do have another suggestion. I think that a landscape mode would be very useful. Especially if the text of the scrambles was a little larger in landscape mode. It's a little difficult to see the scrambles for some of the larger ones. Just a thought. Other than that I really like this app a lot. The amount of scrambles are great.
 
buelercuber said:
some of the add-ons could include:

- music playing capabilities.
- More scrambles. ( if i can remember which ones there were to add)
- more average types: average of 100 possibly.
- graph to show improvement. (like on cubemania.org)
- background or color changing abilities.

i'm not saying that you should add all of those, but it's just some suggestions.

:D
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These are suggestions I've already thought about (except the music. With multi-tasking, there's no point to music controls within the app anymore). I haven't found a good graphing utility in order to produce the graphs, but it is definitely something I have wanted to add. About color, there isn't anything in the iOS SDK for color picking, so I will have to do a lot of work for something that doesn't necessarily add too much benefit. If I can find a nice solution, it is also something I was looking to add already.

unirox13 said:
Understandable, plus after fiddling with it today I've gotten used to just starting the timer and then atopping it again to get a new scramble. However I do have another suggestion. I think that a landscape mode would be very useful. Especially if the text of the scrambles was a little larger in landscape mode. It's a little difficult to see the scrambles for some of the larger ones. Just a thought. Other than that I really like this app a lot. The amount of scrambles are great.
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I looked into doing landscape mode when I first designed the interface. If you have a friend with an iPad, look at how it is on there. I almost use it exclusively on landscape but when I had to make the UI for iPhone, landscape just did not work. There is not enough screen real estate to have it look at all appealing.
 
masterofthebass said:
I looked into doing landscape mode when I first designed the interface. If you have a friend with an iPad, look at how it is on there. I almost use it exclusively on landscape but when I had to make the UI for iPhone, landscape just did not work. There is not enough screen real estate to have it look at all appealing.
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Darn, then perhaps a zoom feature? It's not a huge deal, I can always move my ipod closer lol. But it would be nice if the scrambles for 5x5 cubes and up were a little larger and easier to read.
 
Sorry for the double post(even though they are 3 days apart lol). I do have one small complaint that I just happened to notice today. I went to save my session; the dialog box pops up asking me for a name, after typing the name of the session I realize that there is no way for me to save this session. The keyboard on my ipod touch pops up and covers the "Cancel" and Enter" buttons on the dialog box. There is no way to move the keyboard out of the way so that I can hit the Enter button to save the session.
Am I the only one having this problem? Am I doing something wrong?
 
My app crashes a lot. When I'm doing 3x3 and stop the timer often there's no problem but when I'm doing puzzles that take longer like 5x5 and megaminx and it just runs for a few minutes (I'm slow) it will just shut down.
 
unirox13 said:
Sorry for the double post(even though they are 3 days apart lol). I do have one small complaint that I just happened to notice today. I went to save my session; the dialog box pops up asking me for a name, after typing the name of the session I realize that there is no way for me to save this session. The keyboard on my ipod touch pops up and covers the "Cancel" and Enter" buttons on the dialog box. There is no way to move the keyboard out of the way so that I can hit the Enter button to save the session.
Am I the only one having this problem? Am I doing something wrong?
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I had the same problem when I had the app on the iPhone, now I have an iPad and there is a button to hide the keyboard so you can hit the save button, but in the iPhone I didn´t know how to solve the problem, and I tought that like no one had posted anything about the issue, that was just that I was doing something wrong, the thing is that I had the iPhone just a few days, but now in the iPad there is no problem
 
I bought this app a couple days ago, love it. An option to hide the timer like in qqTimer would be nice. It would also be cool if the app could go horizontal when you turn it horizontal.
 
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