FlashCards Revision History

FlashCards for webOS will be an ongoing project to refine, improve, and add more functionality to the application. Below is a history of changes to the application.

v 2.5.2 & 2.5.3 - [2/18/2011]
- Minor fixes to bugs introduced in 2.5.0.
  - "More Results" when searching now displays properly instead of being hidden until scrolled.
  - The Sets list filter has been fixed instead of taking you straight to a hidden feature.
  - Fixed paragraphs of text bunching up together.
- Added "Break time" feature
  - After 30 minutes of uninterrupted study
- Other minor tweaks and fixes

v 2.5.0 - [2/9/2011]
- Minor fixes to bugs introduced in 2.4.0
- Increased speed of the study area -- no delay in applying your preferences.
- Integration of webOS 2.0 features
  - Exhibition Mode (automated runthrough of your flashcards)
  - Just Type (search your flashcards with webOS' Just Type feature)
- Introduction of FlashMe!
  - A revolutionary new method to study. FlashCards will remind you that it is time to study at a set interval, on specific days, and during specific times. Uses webOS' unique notification system.

v 2.4.0 - [1/28/2011]
- Changes to Quizlet.com API for future compatibility.
- New JSON datasource for all data. 40% speed increase.
- Resolved most language issues.
- New animations for right/wrong answering and forward/back buttons.
- Fixed bug where marking the last card as learned would not let it be learned.
- New option to show how many cards in a lesson are marked as learned.
- New Hidden Feature!
  - This feature will become a standard staple in v3.0 that will revolutionize studying.
  - It was 5 lines of code, so I went ahead and put it into v2.4.
  - $50 to the first person who finds it and emails me with a screenshot.

v 2.3.00 - [4/15/2010]
- Minor Changes: There have been minor changes trhoughout to account for very rare odd reports users have submitted. One user said the buttons on the opening screen did not load the first time, so this ensures things like this will never happen.
- Updated audio controls: FlashCards now uses the HTML 5 audio system. It preloads audio, has pause/resume capabilities, and generally just runs a lot better. The delay before audio plays has been significantly reduced.
- Coming Soon: Audio recording!

v 2.2.1 - 4/18/2010
- Bug Fix: Adds code in the event of a cookie error (documented webOS bug). With this fix in place, if the cookie that holds your preferences becomes corrupt, it will auto-reset it instead of killing the app.

v 2.2.0 - 4/15/2010
- New Feature: Supports reordering of the cards directly in the app.
- New Feature: 4 NEW Preferences (now totaling 21 Preferences)
  - Auto Multiple Choice!
  - Right/Wrong Align - Top or Bottom
  - App Background - Choose from 2 Styles and 10 Colors
    - This feature was added by popular request.
  - Fullscreen - Now you can study in fullscreen view to maximize the study area. Really helps Pixi users.
- New Feature: Set specific preferences. Now you can set the card color, text, and many other options for each set. This overrides the App Defaults, so each set can have their own settings.
- New Feature: The last card you viewed will be brought up again when entering the same study mode.
- Enhancement: The card management screen now show's 'cards' for some of the new options, and those to come. Along with this comes a new button to quickly upload your set data to the Online Tools. This screen will also remember the 'tab' you were on previously and restore it the next time you open the set.
- Enhancement: When switching between the tabs, the "Study" button changes. If you open the Active Cards, Bookmarked Cards, or Learned Cards, you can then tap the button to enter that study mode instead of a single card within that mode.
- Enhancement: The multiple choice section has been reworked to handle options with longer answers. It will now scroll if the text is too long to display on the screen.
- Tweak: When you turn off the Study Type notice, the actual text now hides as well.
- Tweak: The study area has been completely re-written. It is as efficient as possible. It no longer users the original Orientation controls (which called for checking the orientation 4 times a second), but uses a new method. This runs the check only when the orientation actually changes, saving processor time and battery life. Many other programatic changes as well have been made.
- Other: Many under the hood changes have been made in preparation for v3.0. These are technical, so I will not go into detail about them.
- LITE Version: The previous code to unlock the LITE version for Non-U.S. customers has been removed. This is because Paid Apps are now available in other countries.
- BUG: There is a bug in the Help System. The Preferences content will be displayed at all times, and the content you are looking for will be below it. This has already been corrected for a future version.

v 2.1.0 - 3/3/2010
- Fix: Ordering sets from lower in list to higher now snaps in place properly.
- Fix: Style issue caused by webOS 1.4 (the collabsible arrow section).
- Tweak: Tweaked most content to fix spelling errors and added some new content in the "Create" section.
- Enhancement: Now supports Grooveshark Media Player.
- Enhancement: I redesigned the "cards" in the study area to use HTML/CSS with minimal images. This allows it to expand to any height, so longer content shows up instead of getting cut off. Also applied a "fix" for pragraph tags having too much padding/spacing when used.
- Enhancement: The "auto grow" is now larger for cards with more data than shorter cards.
- New Feature: Orientation Lock -- Lock the study area to Portrait or Landscape. Use the keyboard shortcuts W for Landscape Mode and O for Portrait mode. When these are activated, the screen will not be in "free" mode, but will stay in it's view. Hit the keyboard shortcut again to resume free mode.
- New Feature: Activate Lesson -- You can now activate all the cards in a specific lesson. Thanks Mary!

v 2.0.07 - 2/9/2010
- Fix: Smart Random method errors after a while when marking cards as learned.
- Fix: Error notices if you backswipe from card edit or study area before scene fully completes.
- Fix: Ordering cards not working in all cases.
- Fix: Text cutting off in the card in some instances.
- Fix: Fixed an issue in very rare instances where the loading screen fails to actually load (some delay still present, but it loads).
- Enhancement: Study area much faster now.
- New Feature: Full Quizlet Image support!
- New Feature: Added 'Learned Cards' study method.
- New Feature: Sort your cards now by Order, Alphabetically, or by Last Study Date. You can also start typing to filter the list.
- New Feature: Filter User Submitted and Editor's Picks cards to quickly find what you need. Just start typing!
- New Feature: New categories in the Editor's Picks: Most Popular and Newest Sets.
- LITE Version: v2.0 of FlashCards lite. Same 1 set limit. Leitner Boxes, Lessons, and Active Cards are also disabled in the Lite. Upgrade today!
- LITE Version: The LITE version unlocks itself to the PAID version for users outside of the United States until April 15th. This is because you do not have the opportunity to purchase. You should have paid apps in March, so you can enjoy the full version until you are actually able to purchase. After April 15th, it will revert back to the Lite version limitations. Read more.

v 2.0.02 - 2/3/2010 [v2.0 App Catalog Launch!]
- Overall
  - Updated Look & Feel in App -- New Opening Page. Complete overhaul here, I focused on UI and 'intuitiveness' quite a lot.
  - Speed & Responsiveness -- A Major focus in v2.0 was speed. I am caching data, making less database calls, and revamped code to be as efficient as possible now that I am comfortable with webOS and Mojo.
  - Promised Features -- I focused on features I promised for v2.0 I could not deliver them all, but managed to solve any issues people have had. I also focused on the little things such as an icon to denote when you have already installed a set, new gestures, expanded keyboard shortcuts, etc. I promise more is to come and will get a v3.0 promise list out soon.
- While in Online Downloads, shows which sets have been installed already so you can skip over them. Thanks Pinky!
- Adds the ability to show/hide the top menu bar when in landscape mode. Gives more room for the card to help focus you on the information itself and not the app interface. Thanks to Brandon for the idea!
- Card advances to Next card when you mark it as having gotten right or wrong. You can change this via the preferences (No Action. Next Card, Random Card). Still needs work though, it doesn't 'feel' right as it pops too quickly. What can I do? Thanks to Nathan for the idea!
- In App Tip system
- New Splash Page to help present which options are available.
- New In App feedback system -- so please use it!
- New Study Features
  - Lessons with Lesson Plan Creator
  - Leitner Boxes
  - Active Cards
  - Tags
  - Bookmarks
- Set Management
  - Revamped the Set Management area to allow for all of these features and much more.
  - Reordering of sets! Tap and hold a set, once it 'disconnects', you can drag it into any order.
  - Shuffle Cards: Random, Alpha, By ID
  - Lessons: Auto Lesson Plan Creator. Choose how many lessons you want, or how many cards per lesson and it will create them for you.
  - Tracking things such as Last Studied and more stats, so we can provide good progress reports soon.
  - Renaming a set is now possible in the app itself.
  - Cards can now be assigned to a Lesson. They can have Tags, Notes, and Bookmark status. Also added a 5th Multiple Card Option (E).
- Preferences
  - Many new preferences including, Text Color, Text Align, Text Size
  - 3 new Card Colors: Red, Gray, and Chalkboard!
- Online Downloads
  - Sped this up considerably so sets will download a lot faster now.
  - Updates to account for new options such as lesson, boxes, bookmarks.
  - Added a Help Section.
- Practice Area
  - New Swiping action to move to next/prev card. Preferences on this can change the behavior when you swipe (display random instead of next card in sequence).
  - Area to display current study material being displayed (lesson, box, bookmarks, etc)
  - Code to work with new features, such as moving box levels when right/wrong, bookmarking, etc.
  - Added new keyboard shortcuts
  - Many under-the-hood enhancements
- Database
  - Upgraded database to handle new features, install faster, and made it much easier to install new things as features are developed. New loading mechanism shows progress and will alleviate ANY problems installing itself.
- Installation
  - New installations now go through a wizard. First, to tell you how much I appreciate your using FlashCards. I also detail that there are 16+ preferences, and allow you to register for an account immediately. Account Not Required.

v 1.1.9 - 11/22/2009
- Help Button added to main screen. Loads the 'Help' scetion of the app.
  - Expanded help extensively.
  - New Help Scenes (Online Walkthrough, Preferences, Lite Version Help).
  - Rewrote many text pieces to better explain the process.
  - Added "Contact" section to the top of the Help Screen.
- Lite Version Improvements
  - Added upgrade button on lite version.
  - When creating an new set or trying to install a new set (with the demo sets installed), you can erase the demos and install anew set automatically.
  - Subsequent installs better explain the process and give buttons to Upgrade, or get Help.
- Preferences
  - Updated marking a card as Learned in the menu to show the alert dialog.
    - Added preference to turn notifications off -- Thanks Kelly C
  - Now includes option to hide the "Lines-on-a-page" graphic options -- Thanks David B & Jody T
  - New card color: Black! White card text so you can read. Thanks Sam
- Online Downloads
  - Updated so that taping the same icon again refreshes the list. Helps if there is an error accessing a specific function.
  - New option to order online sets by Date, Name, and Rating
  - Added option to "Preview" set before installing. For now, this opens the website to review them.
- Practice Area
  - AUDIO: Fixed audio to work in 1.3.1
  - Updated Practic Area to handle Pixi screen size.
  - Code improvements to the practice area for speed. Right/Wrong and Hint animations now use CSS Transitions.
  - Added Keyboard Shortcuts & Help in the "options".
  - Added new keyboard shortcut: Edit Card [E]
  - New card color: Black!
- Database
  - Updated database usage to require less calls to the database and thus improving performance.
  - Should eliminate the rare instances of corrupt databases.
- NOTE: I apologize, but v2.0 is not ready.

v 1.0.1 - 10/23/2009 [App Catalog Launch!]
- Lite version released. Limits you to one set, but ALL features are active. It's free too.
- Pro version released: $6.99 [now $5.99]
- Bug Fixes:
  - Line breaks now show properly
  - Online downloads revamped to allow for larger downloads
  - Third card in reverse mode fixed
- Minor improvements to code to make it a slight bit faster

v 0.5.1 - 10/4/2009
- Revamped UI and Icons (looks like index cards)
- Upload Flash Card Sets to your online tools account
- If in plain text, puts in line breaks and resizes text properly in the practice area
- Tweaked the card colors (should be better)
- Finished Third Card implementation
- Random Card now pulls better to get non-viewed cards
- LITE version implementation (although not activated here)
- Lots of behind the scenes cleanup/improvements
- Updated the Online Downloads for better UI and updated the search
- Fixed 'loading' spinner in the My Online Sets
- Changed the default Sets to include a "Spanish: In La Casa" set
- NOTE: 0.5.0 had a minor bug, so if you downloaded this, upgrade to 0.5.1 to fix the orientation controls.

v 0.3.0 - 9/28/2009
- Allows for Orientation changes
- Supports audio in cards now
- Settings & Options
  - White, Blue, Pink, Green, Orange, Yellow index card colors
  - Turn Multiple Choice on/off
  - Turn Right/Wrong on/off
  - Set the Hint Delay
- Fixed minor bugs (multiple choice, unknown action when clicking on title in practice area).
- Improved icons a bit.
- Improved speed issues in the practice are due to all the new features.
- After installation of a set, if you choose to review the cards, it pops all online scenes to clear memory.
- Updated Help area.

v 0.2.5 - 9/25/2009
- Right/Wrong selection options
- Updated Practice Stats to show # right and # wrong cards
- Multiple Choice capabilities added
- Edited some icons

v 0.2.0 - 9/24/2009
- Online Tools Access
  - Revamped the way you can access the Online Tools from the app.
  - Choose from My Sets, Editor's Picks, User Submitted, and Search
- Practice Area
  - Added hints capability. [TIP: Reload the U.S. Capital's set from the Online Tools. Then practice them. Wait 10 seconds without tapping a card or doing anything to watch the animation.]
  - Reverse Mode added
  - Mark As Learned
- Full UI tweaks (do you like this one better?)
- Fully edit a specific card through the phone.
- Improved speed and efficiency.

v 0.1.5 - 9/21/2009
- Online Management Tools launched.
  - Create sets online
  - Import data from CSV file
  - Download your Online Flash Card Sets to your phone
- Integration of Online Tools to the application.
  - See your online Flash Card Sets and download to phone.
  - Added search capabilities.
  - Added ability to password protect your Flash Card Sets. This ensures only people you specify can download your sets.
- Added activity spinners to online content while loading.
- Loaded many new Flash Card Sets for download.
- Tweaking of the code to prevent memory leaks.
- Prepared database for future features planned.

v 0.1.0 - 9/18/2009 [Initial Launch]
- Initial release on PreCentral Homebrew