BeerAlchemy Viewer is approved

Just had an email from Apple - they've now approved BeerAlchemy Viewer. It doesn't appear to be on the stores yet but should appear in the next few hours.

Just a reminder about what the app is (and isn't). It's a free app that syncs with BA on the Mac and lets you look at your recipes and inventory on the device. It doesn't do any sort of editing or creating of recipes - if you want to do that then you need to buy BeerAlchemy Touch.

Another rejection...

This time for BeerAlchemy Viewer. Can you guess which icon Apple's claiming as their own?



All those icons (except the app icon) are in BeerAlchemy Touch which has been approved TWICE. Obviously the app reviewer couldn't be bothered to tell me which one....again.

Dear Steve,

Thank you for submitting Beer Alchemy Viewer to the App Store. We've reviewed Beer Alchemy Viewer and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because of an Apple trademark image. We want to remind you of the importance of following Apple's posted Guidelines for Using Apple's Trademarks and Copyrights: .

If you believe that you can make the necessary changes so that Beer Alchemy Viewer does not infringe on Apple trademarks, we encourage you to do so and resubmit it for review.

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Apple Logo and Apple-owned Graphic Symbols:

You may not use the Apple Logo or any other Apple-owned graphic symbol, logo, or icon on or in connection with web sites, products, packaging, manuals, promotional/advertising materials, or for any other purpose except pursuant to an express written trademark license from Apple, such as a reseller agreement.

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For additional information regarding the image we are requesting that you remove, please refer to the attached screenshot.

Regards,

iPhone Developer Program

A loaded question or two..

How many of you are still using Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)?

I don't actually collect stats on this other than from the crash reports that users send to me. From those it seems that the majority are on Leopard or Snow Leopard with 4% still on Tiger. This is from crash reports from the start of June. Is this representative?

Going forward I'd quite like to tidy up the internals of BeerAlchemy on the Mac using the new stuff from the iPhone. Having one code base makes it a lot easier to fix bugs once and maintain compatibility between the two. The iPhone code is also a lot more efficient and generally better written. Unfortunately using the iPhone code would mean killing Tiger support.

The other question is about PowerPC support. My guess is there's a lot more people using G5 and G4 machines than there are still using Tiger. Am I right? I should still be able build universal binaries after moving to the iPhone code so that is less of an issue right now.

I'm just toying with the idea at the moment but it's interesting to note that in xCode on Snow Leopard you have to specifically install the stuff to allow you to build for Tiger. My money's on it being removed completely on the next major xCode version (as well as support for universal binaries). When that happens I won't have a choice...

BeerAlchemy Touch 1.0.1 is out

...so that fixes the BeerXML upload bug.

I have 1.0.2 ready to go so that will be submitted later today. This fixes a bunch of other bugs and crashes.

I'm currently working on 1.1 which will roll much of the BrewMath functionality into BeerAlchemy Touch. BrewMath will however continue as a separate product for those that don't want or need BeerAlchemy Touch. There might be other stuff in 1.1 - it depends on how long Apple takes to approve 1.0.2 and on what I get done during the recovery from my op.