day 0.9 : ambadoo.app sneak peak
Daily stories from the ambadoo team, behind the scenes, dev-stats and other random stuff.
Now since we’ve bottled the app and shipped to Apple we know what it contains when , it’s time to get a sneak peak right? I’m tempted to uppercase this following text but I won’t. Bare in mind it’s a bare-bone skeleton we’ve shipped. More alpha than beta. It’s really just the fundamentals that got into this release. That said, the app does what at core what it’s supposed to do: keeping you up-to-date with contact information.
Let’s get to the point.
Contacts
A contact list, straight forward. With a twist. For now, the only difference you will see between the built in address book and ambadoo is the color, and the colored blobs. The blobs are your ambadoo friends, while the ones without is local contacts from your address book. You can delete a contact by just swipe, a duplicate for example.
Search
Built in at the top of your contact list is a search bar, where you can simply search people locally in your phone, or at the global ambadoo directory, then either contact them straight away or add them to your address book.
Do you notice the two Amb Adoos? Good. It’s a bug to fix for the next release =)
Profile
The heart of ambadoo is your profile, your card or whatever you want to call it. It’s you. It’s the only thing you really need to keep up-to-date. For this release we decided to include only the basics: phone numbers, emails & websites. You can add as few or many as you please, change as often as you want.
Privacy
You decide what you want to share with whom. For now it’s a switch between friends & everyone, where items set to friends only is visible to people you’ve accepted as ‘friends’. You get the point.
Sharing
Throw your business cards oldies, just start sharing your profile over WiFi or bluetooth and whoop, everyone around you can add you in a split sec. Enough said. Oh, by the way. Unlike the business cards, this function has no expiring date.
Invites
As someone add you to their address book, you can chose if you want them to see items only visible to friends. In that case you just click ‘Accept’ and they get instant access to your entire self-updating profile, or you can just ignore and they’ll see your public profile.
The (Complete) App
That’s it! And you wonder, what the heck took you so long?! Well, that’s for a different post! We can’t wait to let you try and use it. Still nothing from Steve. *waiting for review*
day 0.7 : waiting for review
Daily stories from the ambadoo team, behind the scenes, dev-stats and other random stuff.
Have we been waiting for this moment? Yes we have. It’s been a countdown since the beginning of July. We had set July 31 (day 0) as deadline for App Store Submission to make our launch. We didn’t quite make that deadline but we kept working intensely this week to get the remaining few bugs and tasks out of the way.
It’s a major milestone for us, to finally be able to get this baby out of the belly. It’s been growing for very long and it can’t wait to get into your hands. It should be said though that we have no idea if it will make it pass Apple’s walls but we hope and pray for it to make it this time. May the Apple Gods (and Steve) be with us.
If we’re really lucky and if the Apple review team is really fast the iPhone app might still be able to make it to the release. If not, tough luck. By now we’ve gotten used to w a i i i t.
It’s Oh Happy Day no matter what. Now what? Well, first of all we’ll go and grab a beer and celebrate the semi-victory. Then back to last bits and bytes preparing the launch. Good stuff!
