Erica Sadun
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Erica Sadun | 4:14 pm | November 23, 2009 | 3.x, Test Requests, Software
I’ve opened up DEMOkit (thanks Brett for the strange casing!) for a limited beta. Let me know if you want in. Devs only.
Erica Sadun | 1:02 pm | November 16, 2009 | 3.x, Test Requests
UPDATE: I have enough testers for now. I’ll open this up for more testers once things are more stable.
UPDATE: BetaKit 0.9 new look and feel. Screen shot here
I’ve started a small beta test of BetaKit. Ping me if you want in. BetaKit provides a floating invisible overlay over your app, when tapped in a hotspot (you set which corner), it opens an in-app e-mail populated with a screen shot, device information, any text you’ve output via NSLog(), and optional user feedback.The idea is that you add this to any app you’re sending out for beta testing, allowing users to send you screen shots and feedback while they are using the app. Screen shots of the interface in action: here and here
Erica Sadun | 4:29 pm | November 15, 2009 | 3.x
The whole idea behind DemoKit and the bit I’m working on now, which is BetaKit, is a suite of developer libraries that help you prepare your application before app store. BetaKit, which I’m still writing consists of a floating invisible windows with buttons at the corners that let your beta testers send in screen shots, console logs, device details, feedback, etc. directly from within the application. A delegate protocol allows you to supply a default e-mail address and message for the in-app mail composition controller. As with DemoKit, you can exclude the library from your AppStore submission with a flag that controls compiler directives.
Speaking of DemoKit, my friend Francis has asked that I add in custom font names and sizes (haven’t decided if this will be through .h declarations or through the telnet interface). Any other requests?
Erica Sadun | 10:43 am | | 3.x, Software
I’ve been putting together DemoKit recently, which provides a TV Out extension to UIApplication. You can see a demo of it in use here:YouTube Video.The point of the exercise is to provide in-house live demo abilities while being able to compile to a complete App Store friendly version that includes no illicit APIs. I’m not really sure where I’m taking DemoKit in the long range so if you have any ideas of how I could productize it, drop me a note.