We're getting real close to Mango being pushed out to the masses, so it's only appropriate that we show what we've got coming up. Our developer Jay Bennett has been hard at work with v1.4 which will unleash the Mango power:
Multiple Live Tiles - pin sub-sections like Games, Reviews and Apps to your Start screen
Flipping Tiles - tile reveals latest headline, last update when it flips over
Toast Notifications - get alerted to the latest story within 10-20 mins of the story; notifications also deep-link to the story itself
Live Tile counter - Shows number of new stories awaiting your review
Fast app switching
Background downloading - app will download story text in the background, making articles load faster on launch
Enable/Disable System Tray - for those who insist on seeing the time, battery life, cell signal, etc. you can now have this area show within the app
Live Tile settings - see what tiles are enabled, when they will next update and other diagnostic info
Podcast overhaul - Play podcast with app in background (uses music controls); Mobile Nations podcast support, fast forward/rewind, podcast episode description and graphic, resume at last left spot if stopped
Etc: bug fixes, other minor enhancements, things we forgot to mention
So as you can see, this will be quite the nice update. We're nearing completion of the beta and should have in the Marketplace sooner than later. For those of you on Mango, you're sure going to love this update. Stay tuned, folks...
Its looking good :DQuestion:Are the tiles updated via a backround agent or push notifications?Suggestions:1) The System Tray can be made transparent & doesnt take up any pixels at the top of the page in Mango, so in the Mango build of the 1800PocketPC app, they always show, but dont get in the way :)2) If this site is built on wordpress, there is a JSON plugin which makes posting comments so much easier from the app.
Answer:Background agents (two of them in total)Re suggestions:1) I tried doing this just before I sent Daniel this build but couldn't find a way to make it function properly, I'll figure out what I did wrong if it is possible and it'll be in the release build2) The site isn't Wordpress, and hopefully when the server upgrade rolls out everyone will understand why it took us some time to get comments working
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Woo how cool. Gimme Gimme :o)
Canot wait! Its looking real good.
way to go guys! This looks awesome. Good on you all for blazing the trail to Mango compatibilitiness =)
Its looking good :DQuestion:Are the tiles updated via a backround agent or push notifications?Suggestions:1) The System Tray can be made transparent & doesnt take up any pixels at the top of the page in Mango, so in the Mango build of the 1800PocketPC app, they always show, but dont get in the way :)2) If this site is built on wordpress, there is a JSON plugin which makes posting comments so much easier from the app.
Answer:Background agents (two of them in total)Re suggestions:1) I tried doing this just before I sent Daniel this build but couldn't find a way to make it function properly, I'll figure out what I did wrong if it is possible and it'll be in the release build2) The site isn't Wordpress, and hopefully when the server upgrade rolls out everyone will understand why it took us some time to get comments working
Is there anyway to receive the beta notifications for this app, I'd like test this beta version in my Mango device.
Me too! I have Mango on my Focus.
Follow me on Twitter is the easiest way, I always announce it there first: @JayTBennett
Cool!Now if just Samsung could get that damn Mango rolling to my phone...
any one can get it , its not the official MANGO.
Anyway to turn off screen rotation? That's my biggest annoyance from your app.
??? Go under settings. It's been there for the last two versions.
Commenting?
Sorry not yet :( I wish I had control over this but I don't I promise it'll be priority one as soon as I'm able to work on it!
I wish Engadget could spend a day with your developer(s) to show them how to write a good app that uses the phones features.
Just a single developer :) But yeah if Engadget want to invite me over to New York I'll happily oblige :)
LOOKING GOOD!!!
I can't wait ^o^
Looks great. Cant wait for it!
cant wait to get it