Release Candidate for v3 of iStayHealthy/iPhone

Finished the Release Candidate for the new iPhone/iPad version of iStayHealthy last night - after ironing out the last couple of wrinkles.
I had to cut down some of the features I planned for the new version. But more about that later. Version 3.0 will have the following

• Password enabled: users can set a passcode to protect the app from being used by people other than themselves. This was the number one on people's wish list
• The 'Other Med' tab has been completely reworked. It now contains
• Other Med - as before, this records any supplementary medication users want to record. Whereas before users could only specify [mg] unit as dose, they now can choose between [g], [mg], [ml].
• Illness/Surgery: users can now record any other illnesses or infections as well as any surgeries/procedures.
• Clinics: allows users to enter their basic clinic details. In particular their clinic ID, contact number/web-site/e-mail. Users can contact the clinic directly from the app
• HIV Drugs tab: some changes
• In addition to recording any missed medication, users can also record any side effects they encounter with their HIV medication.
• the HIV tab has been slightly changed: instead of listing each individual missed medication (or side effect) it simply shows the number of recorded missed/side effects. 
• Results
• Viral Load for Hepatitis C co-infections can be recorded. 
• Overall changes to the User Interface
• Bug Fix: some of the selected HIV drugs didn't show their images in the summary HIV tab. This has now been rectified.

Password protection for iStayHealthy

Upon popular demand I am now working on enabling password protection for iStayHealthy. I'll enable this first in the iPhone version, then the Android version.

For a while I have been resisting this step. My main rationale was: we have a lot of very sensitive data on the phone. E.g. mails, contacts, phone/SMS logs etc. If we imagine that all these apps were password enabled - it would render the usability of the phone quite cumbersome.

However, I do recognise that health data - and in particular data relating to HIV are very sensitive. Therefore, the new versions will include a Settings tool - from where users can enable password protection for the app should they so wish.

Android Maintenance version 1.0.2 on Android Market

I had to publish a maintenance update for iStayHealthy on Android today.
Version 1.0.2 addresses the following 2 issues:

1. A possible crash when iStayHealthy is started while the phone is in landscape mode. This has been fixed. This also means that iStayHealthy can now run on tablets and later versions of Android (although the app is not optimised for tablet screen sizes).
2. For smaller screen sizes, i.e. a density per inch of 120 or less the chart in the Charts Tab looked a bit squashed. Solution: I rearranged the Chart Tab for smaller screen sizes to allow more space for the graphics. 

Also - I submitted iStayHealthy to the Amazon Android market today. The app is currently under review.

Android version of iStayHealthy is published

I just published the first Android version of my app iStayHealthy on Android Market today.
Check out iStayHealthy on the Android Market!

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pweschmidt.healthapps

The Android version has similar levels of functionality compared with its iOS counterpart.
Differences are

• version 1.0.0 iStayHealthy for Android doesn't have DropBox backups enabled. This will come with another version
• but version 1.0.0 iStayHealthy allows users to record side effects and not just missed medications. This is only available on Android - but I will make that available on the next iOS version, too.

Next version of iStayHealthy

The Android version of iStayHealthy is in its final testing round and should be released within the first week of November.

Time to think about further improvements for iStayHealthy. 

The next iPhone/iPad version will include the following

• password protect/lock the application. A number of you have requested this and I will make this available with the next version
• listing side effects. Meaning, that in addition to allowing users to put down any dates when they missed to take their medication - they will be able to list any adverse side effects they might encounter. This will be particularly useful at the beginning of the therapy
• include more medical data in the result section: at the moment only CD4, CD4% and Viral Load. I will include a number of other blood results (like blood cell count, liver values, cholesterol)

iStayHealthy v2.0.2 available on iTunes

The new version is now available from iTunes AppStore. With this the all the remaining iOS 5 issues should be resolved - as well as some minor improvements.

iStayHealthy v2.0.2 Submitted to Apple

Further fixes to make iStayHealthy work smoothly on iOS 5.
I submitted another maintenance release today. This will include the following

• Fix 1: empty cells when editing an existing Result, Alert or Other Medication.
• Fix 2: When selecting a sound in the Add/Edit Alert tool, the sound continued to play even when exiting the tool. 
• Fix 3: In Edit Alert - sometimes the previously selected sound wasn't ticked (checkboxed)
• Fix 4: In Edit Alert - the time label would always show the current time - instead of the previously set alert time

In addition to that I 

1. modified the Other Medication tool slightly. Users can now change the name as well as the dose. I did that because sometimes the same medication may come in different names - even though it still is the same drug.
2. Cleaned up most of the graphics elements. Mostly, because they were too big. 

With this iStayHealthy should be working absolutely fine on iOS 5 - just as it did on iOS4.