iOS app thoughts

Right. I’ve been doing some thinking about the direction that the iOS app should go in. I thought a lot about the comments from @bidouilleur. And that’s totally right about people want the iOS app to be a simple to set up thing where you can just go and see something quickly.

The fruits of my thinking are that actually the app should be focussed around the apps, just like the Android app. My plan is to backtrack a little (don’t worry, not much effort went into what I’ll end up taking out) and remove the saving of charts bit. And then add back in the apps.

I want to make the apps a little extensible, so each will be a sort of template. You could therefore have 2 “MyElectric” apps if you wanted. This is something I know the Android app is moving towards. You could then have one to check on solar generation, one for electric usage, one for car charging, etc.

I’m a little unsure if the “Feeds” tab needs to stay in the app if the app becomes heavily focussed to the apps. Or if the app should even be tabbed like it is at all. But that can easily change, and for now the feeds tab is quite useful in my opinion.

Thoughts anyone?

Tagging all those who have got the beta:
@bidouilleur
@testequipmentforsale
@Paul_Cardelli
@tridiumcontrols
@Dave
@Dmacnz
@Jon
@David_Hunnisett

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