6.0.1 Released

We’ve been busy since our 6.0 apps were released and Apple’s iOS 5 hit the streets about a month ago. Here’s what’s in 6.0.1.

A majority of our effort was spent in tuning the announcements and messages you’ll receive. Our apps have more than 120 separate data items you can see or hear, from something simple like your current pace or speed, to something complex like the average heart rate for the previous interval. This was a lot of work, with the bulk of our efforts making sure we accurately handled splits and intervals. Our beta customers gave us great feedback that helped immensely. And so now if you’re at mile 16.3, and want to know your pace for the previous split, and the split distance was set in your activity settings to 0.5 miles, then we will accurately report on your average pace from 15.5 to 16.0 miles.

The other big improvement we made in 6.0.1 was that we split out the “one and only” announcement item list into five different announcement lists. Now you have one announcement list for on-demand announcements, another for time intervals, and another for distance intervals. You also have one for the end of splits, and one for the end of intervals. If you’re like me, you might want a very simple announcement every mile (distance, average pace for the split, and average heart rate for the split). But you might a whole raft of information for the on-demand announcement, including how far you are ahead of your best, median and worst workouts. Now you can more directly control what you hear.

We also made improvements to our reporting of ascent and descent, caused because iOS 5 included changes that seem to introduce a lot of noise into elevation readings. If you look at this graph image, you’ll see the very same hill being reported under iOS 4 and iOS 5. The iOS 5 elevation graph is much choppier, and this choppiness compounds in any ascent and descent calculations. We added in filtering that should filter out the noise, leading to more accurate ascent and descent.

One other cool improvement for ANT+ users is that we upgraded our code to allow us to continue to read the Wahoo Fitness sensors as our application shifts into the background. This is only available under iOS 5. In iOS 4, you should continue to be sure our app is on the screen when you press the top lock button or let it go to sleep.

Here’s the official “What’s New in 6.0.1″ list:

➤ Added dozens more data items to announcements, notifications, stopwatch display, Email Update, Twitter, Facebook, and dailymile. These are grouped under Current Split, Previous Split, Trailing Split, Current Interval, and Previous Interval.
➤ Added separately configurable announcement lists for Time Interval, Distance Interval, End Split, and End Interval. See More > Announcements.
➤ Added support for ANT+ sensors to continue recording while app is in the background. (Only supported in iOS 5.)
➤ Added elevation filtering to improve ascent and descent data under iOS 5.
➤ Added the ability to automatically stop the app when all intervals are complete. See the settings for each activity.
➤ Added Target alerts to iOS 5 Notification Center support.
➤ Added ability to import heart rate and cadence data from GPX files.
➤ Added odometer data items to Twitter, Facebook, dailymile, calendar, and notifications.
➤ Fixed issue where speed would display faster than fastest speed.
➤ Fixed bug causing 7th split and others to not be shown on the map.
➤ Fixed some issues where resource errors would cause announcements to stop playing.
➤ Other bug fixes and performance improvements.

Thanks so much for your ongoing support and feedback. We’re happy to keep improving our apps for you. Wait until you see what we’re cooking up now!

Steve & Kevin and the rest of the Abvio team

November 9, 2011 at 8:42 pm | Cycling, Running, Walking