Fluent Mobile Blog

#1 in Free News Apps!

fluentmobile — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:24:06 +0000

Just a quick post to share two exciting pieces of news. Fluent News is currently the #1 ranked app in the Free News Apps category! Our app also appeared in today’s presentation on the iPhone OS 4.0. Yes, that’s our icon right above Facebook’s.

iPad App and Section Customization

fluentmobile — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:45:48 +0000

We’ve just released version 1.7 of Fluent News. It has been updated to look spiffy on the iPad and it also contains some controls that allow you to further customize your sections. In addition to creating your own sections through keyword searches, a feature we released several months ago, you can now turn the default Fluent News sections on and off. You can also reorder sections in the Sections tab to give yourself easy access to the sections you read most often.

We are submitting a minor-bug-fix release later this week. Thank you to our users who have reported issues – like clunky scrolling on the iPad in landscape mode. Please keep the feedback coming! You can reach us at feedback at fluentmobile dot com.

Fixed – Version 1.6.1

fluentmobile — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:36:52 +0000

It’s been in the store for a while now, but we realized that we never made a blog post to let folks know that Fluent News, Version 1.6.1 fixed the crashes that people were experiencing with Version 1.6. We hope that you are enjoying the update which also contains a Weather section and some performance enhancements.

Issues with Version 1.6

fluentmobile — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:20:06 +0000

Version 1.6 of Fluent News was approved and available in the App Store on Tuesday of last week (2010-02-23). It includes weather and several performance enhancements. It also contains a change so that links shared to Twitter, to Facebook and via email now link directly to the news source.

Thank you to all of our users who have submitted feedback and support inquiries on version 1.6. We know that many of you have been experiencing app crashes and that some of you are experiencing problems with the location configuration. We’ve already submitted a bug-fix release that addresses these issues. Please look for that update in the App Store soon.

Version 1.5 Features and Some Support Topics

fluentmobile — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:03:24 +0000

Fluent News version 1.5 is now available. It offers some performance enhancements, includes timestamps on articles and displays an indicator while an article is still downloading, so you’ll know whether that article will be available offline when you step into the subway or onto an airplane. It’s best to give Fluent News about 2 minutes of wifi connectivity (a little more for 3G) to make sure you’ll have all the articles available offline if you haven’t synced in a few days.

We’ve heard from a few users, primarily iPod Touch owners, this past week who were experiencing app crashes. In most cases, these users had not yet upgraded to OS 3.0 or higher. Unfortunately, Fluent News 1.4 and later is not supported on earlier versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch OS. So if you haven’t upgraded to OS 3.0 or later, please do not upgrade your version of Fluent News.

We hope that you’re as pleased as we are with our latest improvements. As always we welcome your comments at feedback_at_fluentmobile_dot_com. And we wish you all a very healthy and happy new year.

Landscape Mode, Source Filtering and more!

fluentmobile — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:48:46 +0000

Fluent News 1.4 went live this week! This approval took a while, but the new release has a lot of great features. Fluent News now supports landscape and full screen display modes. It also provides source filtering; users can disable and promote one news source. Fluent News also offers unlimited source filtering and unlimited custom sections via premium access, which users can buy through in-app purchase. Premium access also removes ads from within the section lists.

This update also includes some performance enhancements. Download it today and let us know what you think!

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=312886230&mt=8

Facebook Post Error

fluentmobile — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:45:35 +0000

We heard from some of our users that they were having difficulty posting articles to Facebook from Fluent News. Sure enough, something changed on Facebook’s end such that you can no longer post an article to your news feed without a comment. If you enter any character (other than a space) in the comment text box, the article will post successfully. In our next release, we are going to automatically send a dash if you don’t include a comment, so that the posting doesn’t fail. In the meantime, say something witty! Or just add punctuation.

Version 1.2 available!

fluentmobile — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:18:21 +0000

Version 1.2 of Fluent News is now available in the app store. This update lets you include a message when posting articles to Twitter. The start-up and article load times are also much faster. But the most exciting new feature in this release is search! You can quickly find articles across multiple news sources using keyword search. Download the 1.2 update and let us know what you think at feedback at fluentmobile dot com.

Version 1.1 Update

fluentmobile — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:25:17 +0000

Yesterday, we released our first Fluent News update, Version 1.1. This upgrade contains new features and some important bug fixes.

Bug Fixes

Backups and Syncing
As several of our users pointed out, Fluent News contributed to long backup and sync times. We’ve fixed the file storage issues that were causing this problem. If you experienced lengthy backups and syncs and you use our app with some frequency, you will see a dramatic improvement after installing Version 1.1.

Scrolling and Article Loads
We’ve done a lot of work to improve the smoothness of scrolling. We’ve also done performance tuning on article load times. The Fluent News experience should feel faster and smoother all around.

New Features

Saved Articles
We added a “Saved Articles” section to give you easy access to articles you want to read later. To save an article, click on the sharing menu in the upper right hand corner of the navigation bar and select “Save” from the pop up menu. Access your articles from the “Saved” icon in the tab bar. Articles are saved until you delete them.

In-App Email
OS 3.0 broke the email functionality that we shipped with Version 1.0. So in Version 1.1, we utilized the new SDK and built in-app email. Now, after sharing an article via email, you are returned to the article you were reading – you never leave the app. Unfortunately, email no longer works for users on earlier versions of the iPhone OS.

We hope that you continue to enjoy using Fluent News. As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions at feedback at fluentmobile dot com.

Welcome

fluentmobile — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:17:22 +0000

The Fluent News iPhone application has been available for a month now and we’ve received some great feedback from our users. Thank you to those of you who have taken the time to tell us what you like about the app as well as improvements you’d like to see. We’ll be using the Fluent Mobile Blog to communicate new features, bug fixes and company news to our users. Please check back frequently. As always, your feedback is welcome at feedback at fluentmobile dot com.