Aha update (v1.2) is now in the App Store, with a New Look!
It seems like only two weeks ago, but we’ve got another update that just hit the iTunes App Store. The first thing you’ll probably notice is the new icon. You might think that it “pops” a little more than the old one. Myself … I like to believe that I can see a bit of my own vehicle in the center. Regardless, we like it and hope you do to.
Now onto the more substantive changes. We have the standard assortment of bug fixes (some minor stability issues, speed, etc.), as well as a rather important update to some error messaging within the registration flow (HINT: Usernames cannot contain special characters or spaces, and now the error message actually mentions that).
Another significant change involves the layout of corridors in Traffic. A lot of users had been wondering why the roads they cared enough about to manually add weren’t showing up front and center on the screen.
So we’ve swapped the Saved corridors with the Automatic corridors. Now if you have a road or region you always want to track, it will be above the yellow line, and all automatic corridors will be below.
What’s that you say? You prefer automatic corridors to custom ones? Easy enough to fix. Just don’t create a custom corridor and your automatic corridors show up at the top.
There are some more changes too, but they are tied to some additional work we are doing on the back-end, so you won’t notice them right away. So just stay tuned, or sniff around for some potential hints for what’s to come.
Ryan
Community Guy
Ryan,
the new version is a big improvement to stability… usually, I had to re-start the app 3 or 4 times during my 30 mile commute through LA but now the app can last the entire trip without crashing.
A few ideas I thought of on the way to work today –
1) directionality on automatic corridors – can’t we have some smarts on this? If I’m going 10-W, I really don’t care about traffic on 10-E. Can’t we hide that info?
2) highlighting the corridor I’m on – we have GPS, can’t we highlight the corridor we’re on (to save our eyes from straying while driving)?
3) recording actual time spent on a specific corridor – again, can’t we record the time we spent and post it against the projected travel time?
can’t say how much I use this app each day – keep up the good work!
Wayne,
Glad you like the changes, and that it has been much more stable for you. Regarding your ideas:
1) What you are asking for is actually what we are already trying to do. If you are constantly seeing the opposite direction, even after getting on the freeway, let me know the examples and I’ll have the team look into why it’s happening.
2) Already working on ways to do this.
3) Interesting…I’ll raise it with the team and see what we might be able to do.
-Ryan