Seasonality Updates

I thought now might be a good time to post an update about how development is progressing in the family of Seasonality apps.

Seasonality Core

Seasonality Core 2.4 is going to be released sometime in the next week. This update has some nice improvements. One is an update to Particle Mode that makes it look much more impressive. It’s the same feature showing the same data, but in a cooler way. The mapping code is also gaining other improvements like allowing wrap-around at +/- 180° (New Zealand users rejoice!). The graphs aren’t being ignored, with a new hover bubble layout to make it easier to inspect the data. The hover bubble will also expand when you hold down the Option key on your keyboard and show all the conditions at the hovered time. It’s a really nice way to look at what’s happening at a certain time.

As far as future plans for Seasonality Core. The next major update will most likely be Seasonality Core 3.0. It’s too early to discuss features, but there are a couple of areas that I think need improvement. One is increasing the number of supported locations and making locations easier to search and configure. This is a lot of work, that requires server-side changes as well, so it’s hard to say when this will be ready. The second change I would like to make to Seasonality Core is to bring back some of the customizability from Seasonality Go. With Seasonality Go, it’s great how you can customize your own screen layouts. I would love for Seasonality Core to be able to do this as well.

Seasonality Go

Seasonality Go 2.2 was just released last month. We worked on the user interface a lot to start the transition to iOS 7, and I think it looks a lot nicer now. Another big new feature was the ability to select a color theme. Just head into the Tools (wrench) menu under Settings to choose a color that looks best to you. Beyond these visual changes, lots of optimizations were made to the code behind the scenes. The app runs a lot more smoothly now, especially when switching screens or switching between Seasonality Go and other apps.

The next major update to Seasonality Go will most likely have the same location changes I discussed above in Seasonality Core. I’m also planning to continue improving the interface to show less clutter and more weather. This will bring back some of the look and feel improvements I’ve been working on in Seasonality Pro.

Seasonality Pro

Seasonality Pro will be an iPad weather app for professional meteorologists. I’ve had the project on my mind for several years now, and over the past several months I’m finally finding more time to work on it.

I have been receiving a lot of questions about how Seasonality Pro development is progressing. It’s certainly taken me longer to complete than I was originally expecting. During the past several months I have been splitting my time a lot between Seasonality Core, Seasonality Go, and Seasonality Pro. There are quite a few features I’ve added to Seasonality Core and Seasonality Go recently that provide major underlaying functionality that will be used in Seasonality Pro. It has been a good way of making progress on Pro, while still providing updates to the other apps. Now that a lot of the foundation code is ready for Seasonality Pro, I’ve recently starting to switch gears. Instead of working on Seasonality Pro indirectly through features added to the other apps, I am now spending a lot more time directly working on the interface and layout of Seasonality Pro. Version 1.0 is still a ways off, but it’s looking good so far and solid progress is being made.

As always, if you would like to provide feedback about any of the Seasonality apps, please send me an email. There are email links in the Help menus in both Seasonality Core and Seasonality Go.