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Scanner Go 1.1

Level Up — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:53:56 +0000

We’re already posting an update to Scanner Go on the app store. The original x-callback-url protocols have changed slightly to make them easier to understand and implement. Look for another update in the future that allows custom actions for scanner results. We’d love to hear what kinds of actions you’d like to see with barcodes. What sites or apps would you like to send scanner results to? Post a comment with your ideas.

Scanner Go

Level Up — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:15:00 +0000

We use Filemaker Go a lot on our iPhones. So we were looking for a way to use the iPhone camera as a barcode reader for data entry to Filemaker Go. Enter Scanner Go. By using url requests within FIlemaker Go, you can open Scanner Go, scan a barcode, and send the results directly back to a script in your mobile database. Integrating these url requests is simple to do for any app or website. Check out the protocol here. It’s available on the App Store now.

What’s next?

Level Up — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:41:39 +0000

I sincerely hope no one was holding their breath for the next posting. We at Level Up finally have a new app to introduce. We’re finishing up some of the development now and starting Apple’s approval process. Entirely painless last time. This next app is called Scanner Go, and it’s coolest feature uses Apple’s URL api’s to communicate with other apps. Thanks to the folks over at x-callback-url for developing the standards for inter-app communication.

The idea is simple enough. Instead of requiring every app to implement it’s own barcode reader, the app calls Scanner Go through a custom URL. Scanner Go opens, reads the barcode (Special thanks to the programmers working on ZBar), and then sends the text right back to the requesting app!

We’ll document our supported actions in an upcoming app page on this site.

QR Creator Update is Out

Level Up — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:23:50 +0000

Version 1.1 was recently released onto the app store. This adds the history table, which saves the content and image for future offline usage. We moved the info button from the right to the left bottom of the screen to accommodate the new history button. We hope this didn’t lead to any confusion and we hope you love the new feature. We also made a number of under the hood improvements to improve the amount and speed of the encoding. And we added some interface improvements that show you when you’re offline and allow you to cancel a slow encode. Enjoy!

QR Creator Updates Coming

Level Up — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:51:50 +0000

It’s been a great first month on the app store with QR Creator. We’ve been hard at work on some improvements and a new history table to store your QR Codes and we’ll have an update out soon.

Introducing QR Creator

Level Up — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:02 +0000

Apple has finished their approval process on time for QR Creator, a helpful utility for creating and sharing QR codes. Six days of waiting for review, and one day of review. We’re finally ready to go live on the App Store. Check out our new QR Creator page and look for us on iTunes. Available now.

App submitted

Level Up — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:53:32 +0000

Our first app was submitted to Apple for app store approval today. Apple has said most apps are approved in a week or less, so we’ll be watching the clock closely. As soon as it’s approved we’ll be posting an app page for it with links to the App Store.

Real life iPhone

Level Up — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:39:48 +0000

After programming on the iPhone simulator for months, we’ve finally set up our developer credentials in Xcode to allow testing on a real iPhone. Setting the developer certificate in our code was more difficult than Apple’s easy tutorial. It may have been the interaction with our recent upgrade to Xcode 4. Now that’s done and we can load it up for tests. Fortunately there aren’t any differences between how it was running on the simulator to the iPhone.

Hello world!

Level Up — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:16:47 +0000

Finding an available domain name is harder than you might think. iLevelUpApps.com gets the point across. We develop iOS apps by Level Up. As an approved Apple Developer with a registered web domain, we’re finally ready to polish off our first app and submit it to the App Store. One step at a time…

Apple Developer Status

Level Up — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:30:29 +0000

Well, after a lengthy approval process to become an Apple Developer, we’re finally on board. It wasn’t that difficult, but they did need to verify our articles of organization and verify our contact info. Next we’ll be preparing our first app for submittal to the app store. Stay tuned!