We’re back baby!

After an unfortunately long time being out of the App Store due to issues with Push Notifications, ThinkMessenger is back up and better than ever.

What happened?

In December I started to transition my developer account from a personal one, which listed apps in the store under my name, to a business one. This is a fairly routine operation with a set procedure, however when the transition was suppose to start, I lost access to my account.

Shortly there after it became apparent that new push registrations were not going through to Apple’s server. So existing users continued to use the app without problems, but new users and anyone who uninstalled or disabled notifications, were not able to use notifications. Needless to say, I got a lot of emails from users who could not figure out what was going wrong. To avoid any more users experiencing problems, I chose to remove ThinkMessenger from sale until I could get the problem fixed.

I contacted Apple Developer Support, who nearly immediately took responsibility and labeled the issue as a bug on their end. However, after a month, they still had not found a solution. Eventually one support specialist recommended that I remove my access to all other developer accounts (other companies I have done work for). While this wasn’t easy, once I did Apple was able to push the change through and I once again had access to my account and, at least on new builds, notifications were working again.

What else is new?

ThinkMessenger 1.4.0 includes the following improvements:

• Added ability to send a message while another one was being sent
• If a reply is not added to the current conversation, the new conversation is shown
• Fixed unsent message saving
• Fixed bug that caused the notification sound from playing on launch
• Moved logout button to settings
• Fixed crash that would happen if the user received a empty text
• Feedback form now includes device info
• Made push notification registration more stable and reliable
• Added notice for Google Apps users to setup push notifications manually
• Added Voice Over support
• Fixed bug with the user’s contact photo
• Fixed issue with audio route in voicemail
• Fixed issues with proximity sensor
• Added call and contact buttons to the top of conversations

Filed under: Uncategorized