New:

• Can now pinch/double tap to zoom in on the typhoon track images
• Typhoon Mode – for when the HK Observatory web servers are slow/busy – you can point at HKWarnings servers

Fixed:

• Timeout extended for slow network connections

The first typhoon of the season is upon us:

Not a direct hit though.

There were 460 downloads of HKWarnings yesterday; a total of around 900 in the last 3 days bringing the total ever to 2400. Not too bad!

A new version is coming soon that will enable you to zoom in on the typhoon track images.

Thanks everyone.

Get it here.

See what’s new here.

I rejected the previous version of HKWarnings v1.4 – I discovered a couple of crashes and the details screen didn’t display properly on an iPhone 4.

Fixed and redesigned and just resubmitted for review.

New:

– Redesigned the details screen so it works on iPhone 4 and generally looks better
– Trying out iAds – want to see what Apple ads look like?
– New loading messages
– Improved layout of warning messages
– Added Twitter link
– Improved navigation on About/Disclaimer screens
– Added settings into the app – so you can change from within rather than having to go to the Settings app

Fixes:

– Fixed a crash when a certain warning text was blank
– Fixed a crash triggered by the extras screen

1500 downloads! Thanks everyone.

Number of unique devices = 1500
Number of visits = 50389

OS version:
3.0 => 15
3.1 => 7
3.1.1 => 2
3.1.2 => 129
3.1.3 => 932
3.2 => 46
4.0 => 361

Device type:
iPhone => 1281
iPad => 46
iPod Touch => 173

A few people are confused as to how to change the language in HKWarnings.

The interface language is determined by your iPhone language setting. So if your phone is set to English, you get this:

If you are set to Traditional Chinese you get this:

Notice the warning language is still in English. That’s controlled by a separate setting.

The language the warnings are displayed in is set in the iPhone Settings app. This is based on the design guideline from Apple:

Adding your application preferences to the Settings application is most appropriate for productivity-style applications and in situations where you have preference values that are typically configured once and then rarely changed.

The language of choice will rarely be changed, so it’s in the Settings app.

Scroll down to the HKWarnings entry:

And there you can change the warning language:

or in Chinese:

If you switch to Chinese warnings on an English phone you will get:

Or Chinese on a Chinese phone: