2023.11
2023-06-08
## New
Improvements in the Today view bubble:
- Tap the day overview icon (top right): you will get more details about what happened to your cows that day.
- Slight redesign of the text summarizing the day to separate the date from the summary.
## Texts
- Translated the mention of savings in the pricing
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2023.10
2023-06-04
## New
- The speech bubble now shows the rings summary for the day
## Bug Hunt
- Changing the month in the meal list masked the meal description.
## Texts
- One of the random texts in the daily messages was missing (the one cordially inviting you to subscribe, of course...).
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2023.9
2023-06-01
Big design refresh!
## Cowsmetic
- The Meals list (accessible from the top-left button of the Today view) finally looks like what I imagined initially. It has a reading mode with a clean interface, and an editing mode that comes to life with animations when you tap on a given day.
- A more moderate and pleasant dose of color! Let's face it, I'd been a bit heavy-handed with the green. I've been using this update for several weeks now and I love it!
## Texts
- Added a note about pretzels for vegans - Thanks Marina
## Bug Hunt
- The planets would not snap back into place when the meal details were closed by tapping on the starry background.
## Improvement
- Improved rounding in data ledger
- The population titles are all tapable now, making navigation easier
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2023.8
2023-05-04
## Improvement
- Improved the touchable area of the button to add food portions
- The meals history button is easier to tap
- Settings for the birthday cow, units and extra moons are now synchronized between devices.
## Texts
- Corrected a typo in the text about Donut Day thanks Igor
## Bug Hunt
- Cow mergers could sometimes fail and disrupt the following arrivals/departures
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2023.7
2023-04-28
## Improvement
- In the meals history, meals are now sorted by their occasion. This way, Breakfast will always come before Lunch, even if you entered them in reverse order. It should help if you do like me and sometimes answer at the end of the day by going back in time.
- Made the app 5% smaller by... redesigning the Paywall. If you remember, I had started a big work in this sense, but this step needed a redesign to get rid of the very heavy images. Hopefully, this will also bring more of you to support me in exchange for superpowers !
## Bug Hunt
- Updated 3rd party libraries that were causing some issues
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2023.6
2023-04-24
## Bug Hunt
- In the meals list, the dates didn't account for the timezone - Thanks Nyki & Matt
- Food items would not show up sometimes
## Improvement
- Fixed the tint color when creating a plate - thanks Filip
- When adding multiple food items at once, the items in the basket are now marked with a (-) icon to signify that you can remove them from the list.
- Improved performance on first launch
## Texts
- Fixed missing Widgets titles and descriptions
- Fixed text in Pretzel Day description
## Foundations
- Use a local configuration when reading data for widgets
- Improved the way the application asks for time in the background to check the arrival/departure of cows. Previously, the application could run out of time before it could perform its calculations.
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2023.5
2023-03-19
## Cow care
I added 5 new cows, don't miss them!
- A cow to celebrate to have passed the 400 reviews (I'll try to do that every 100 reviews from now on!)
- International Chess Day 2023
- Donut Day 2023
- Pride Month 2023
- World Environment Day 2023
## Improvement
- You can now create portions from the basket directly, avoiding the step of cancelling the current search
- Changed my strategy for handling duplicate data (which can happen when you use multiple devices).
## Bug Hunt
- The bug tracker was causing crashes. Oh the irony. It's updated now.
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2023.4
2023-03-14
This update is a new start with the possibility to record more information about your meals.
The difficulty was to keep the ultra fast and simple mode (\"yes/no\"), while proposing to go further when you want.
At the beginning, I thought I would simply propose to record the types of meat. But I quickly felt like being able to track fruits and vegetables from time to time because not all of them have the same effects on health or the environment.
I hope you enjoy this update as much as I do.
## New
- Food Portions: keep track of the ingredients you've eaten. Whether you just want to keep track of the type of meat you ate, or keep a comprehensive record of what you eat, anything is possible!
- Ingredients Library: more than 300 food products to choose from, carefully organized and classified according to whether they contain meat or not
- Meal Occasions: specify when a meal happend - breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack
- Vegan Meals: specify when a meal is vegan. Your efforts will not go unnoticed.
- Fasting: make those meatless \"meals\" count too! You can even add a moon to quickly log them.
- Add notes and tags: remember the circumstances or the delights you ate
## Improvement
- Redesigned speech bubble with a more visual display of your meals.
- A small cloud is displayed when an iCloud sync is in progress.
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2023.3
2023-02-18
OK, this is an update I didn't expect to make, but I discovered that the birthday cows weren't working in 2023 and I didn't want to wait another minute to fix that. I've thrown in a few other goodies for good measure.
## New
- New small and large widgets that will display a random cow - Thanks for the nudge Nyki & Filip
## Cow care
- Added the 2023 edition of the Easter Cow
## Improvement
- When visiting a day in the past, the theme and moon of the day correspond to the day visited instead of the current day.
- Add a list of ongoing timers. Otherwise, if you launched a timer and killed the app, it became impossible to stop it - Thanks Axel
- Collateral bonus: you can now launch multiple timers at the same time
## Bug Hunt
- Birthday Cows are back in 2023: if your birthday happened before January 1st and today, go to the settings and claim your cow
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2023.2
2023-02-10
The next update will add the ability to add more details to your meals. Beta testing has started (contact me to be part of it). In the meantime, here is an update to help you wait.
## New
- Added link to Mastodon profile
## Bug Hunt
- The back arrow in the detail of a Forecast returned to its place (left) - Thanks Ethan
- You can close a Forecast with a left swipe - Thanks Ethan (again)
## Improvement
- Added support for more file types when adding screenshots to a bug report - Thanks Ethan (and again)
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2023.1
2023-01-12
Happy Moo Year! I wish you many delicious meals, good health, and a peaceful mind.
Great things are planned for this year, I can't wait to share them with you. The first major update will involve recording the details of your meals (while keeping it simple when you don't want to bother with more than a yes/no answer).
In the meantime, here's a little update to start the year on the right hoof. It introduces a new concept: collectible energies. These are groups of special energies that show up at random times. These are groups of special energies that manifest at random times. The forecast will tell you that an energy is present, but it won't reveal exactly which one.
Energized cows look different from normal cows and some of the energies in these collections may be rare or unique, so don't miss them!
## Cow care
- 2 additional cows in February
## Bug Hunt
- Sometimes the application did not have time to calculate the arrival and departure of cows. This led to late arrivals (or departures). Cows like to be punctual, so this was annoying.
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2022.32
2022-12-09
My little family caugth a seasonal bug. As an indie, this kind of thing means there's no one left to do the work. Thankfully, everyone is doing better
## Improvement
- For peace of mind, the notification asking if you ate meat today will disappear after you answer - Thanks Filip for the suggestion
## Texts
- ″Frequenty Asked Questions″ has found its L.
## Bug Hunt
- If the number of your responses/meals changed significantly each day (e.g. 50 one day, 20 the next, 70 the next), the app could no longer do its calculations (add missing days, attract cows, etc.). I had not imagined this use and the app was not ready to handle the resulting numbers . It should be better now. As always, just record a new meal and the system will self-correct. If you are one of the users who sometimes have more than 5 responses per day, I would like to talk with you to understand your usage please :)
- If you registered a meal for the day, before receiving the news of the day before, the cow you were about to attract was included in the headcount.Whether you understood that sentence or not, you can see why solving this bug might have been a headache. Thanks to the anonymous user who reported it!
- When using shortcuts, the view presented in response would sometimes crash
## Foundations
- We will soon be able to log more content inside the app, but this will require an update of the database. I made (big) changes in preparation for this.
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2022.31
2022-11-22
A much smaller app, and even cuter cows.
## Improvement
- The application is 50 to 75% smaller. On an iPhone 14 Pro, that's like going from 72 MB to 22 MB. This means faster downloads with each app update, more storage space for you, and ultimately a greener app.
- The horizon of the forecasts listing the upcoming special cows is now the same as that of the calendar - Thanks Igor
- Cowlidays moons show up even if you're not a Naomist (but you're going to subscribe, right?)
## Cowsmetic
- The app size reduction prompted me to redo the cow images, so I took the opportunity to incorporate the cow makeover that was lying around in my bag. Nothing dramatic, just something to make the cows even cuter.
## Bug Hunt
- Some cows sometimes remained half associated with their day of arrival. What can I say, they are faithful.
- The detail view of the forecast sometimes had an animation bug: the whole view went up and down, instead of just the energy sphere.
## Compliance
- Some alternative app icons have been removed in accordance with ″App Store Review Guidelines″. These icons were too abstract to clearly identify the app.
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2022.30
2022-11-12
## Improvement
- App version check is refreshed when the app becomes active
## Bug Hunt
- In the cards of the frightened cows it was indicated that they were still there. The departure date is now correctly displayed. - Thanks Maurice
## Texts
- Improved the text about the cow in its detail card - Thanks Maurice
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2022.29
2022-11-05
## Improvement
- On the Apple Watch, widgets are smarter about the selected tab when opening the app
## Bug Hunt
- Rounding errors could lead to unattributed cows. This is the remains of a previously fixed bug, but the fix could be ineffective if the number of meals per day was often different at the time.
- The release notes would crash if it was taking too long to load them - thanks KP Fate
- In the bug report view, the application version check indicated that you had a beta version even when you had the current version.
## Foundations
- The iOS and watchOS apps now share the same root, which is a step towards more watchOS views and other devices.
- Removal of items specific to iOS 14 support
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2022.28
2022-11-02
## New
- If a new version of the application is available, it will be displayed in the Settings. This should help you make sure your app is always up to date with the latest special cows!
## Bug Hunt
- On some rare occasions, the day change was not taken into account - thanks Adam
- Some cows were confused about their arrival date and did not appear on the right day in the history.
- On a Cowliday, the daily message would be displayed on any date, not just the current one.
- The bug report view now includes a self-diagnosis (previously only available in a convoluted way)
## Texts
- Localization of the Watch widgets names
## Foundations
- Improved data persistence processing logic to avoid unnecessary operations
- Added a check when running routine data checks to avoid data modification when possible
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2022.27
2022-10-28
Did you notice that we went from version 4.23 directly to version 2022.27? I changed my marketing version numbering scheme. I'll now be using the year and a number that will be incremented along the year. I believe that it's better for the app, for me, and thus for you as well. [Read more](https://sowenjub.me/writes/im-done-with-semantic-versioning/).
## Cow care
- The 2023 New Year's cow is ready to start the year with you.
## Bug Hunt
- Some of you tap faster than Flash, recording more than one meal per second. Unfortunately, the app didn't always have time to digest them, and it could lead to missing cows. Cows are used to chewing for a long time, that's why they didn't understand what was going on! As usual, if you were affected by this issue, it should solve itself the next time you answer. No cow is ever left behind, that's the Arnaud guarantee!
## Texts
- Localized the names of the Watch widgets
## Foundations
- Updated the logic handling purchases
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4.23
2022-10-22
An update taking advantage of the new features of iOS 16.1, but which you can enjoy in part from iOS15!
Cows are eager to do activities with you and to be even better companions. This update introduces a first activity that will allow them to be helpful to you.
## New
- Do an activity with your favorite cows! The Population View now includes a cow timer to accompany you while you cook, work or meditate. A randomly chosen cow among your favorites will accompany you during your session and lodge itself on your lock screen or your Dynamic Island if you have the latest iPhone.
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4.22.1
2022-10-21
Farewell iOS14, this is your last update.
I'm sorry. I did my best to support iOS14 as long as I could, but it's becoming a hindrance to the development of the application.
I didn't want to slam the door on it though, so I added one year worth of special cows .
As a reminder, any device running iOS14 is compatible with iOS15. So update it and you can continue to enjoy the app! See you on the other side .
## Cow care
- A bunch of Cowlidays for 2023
## Improvement
- You can attach screenshots to bug reports
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4.22
2022-10-19
## New
- The Watch app can now display upcoming Cowlidays. Swipe left to right to reveal it, or use the countdown widget.
## Improvement
- The Cowlidays Widgets redirects to the list of upcoming Cowlidays (both on the Locked Screen or the Watch).
- I also added the contact options in the release notes. It seems like a good place to invite you to contact me, whether you're happy with the updates or have spotted a problem.
- Enabled proper support for time sensitive notifications.
## Cowsmetic
- Improved the layout of the Home Screen Widget
## Bug Hunt
- Modifying missed days prompted you to subscribe; the subscription is required to modify the days you have already entered in the past, but you do not need it to catch up on missing days.
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4.21
2022-10-16
## Cow care
- More cows for the end of 2022
## Improvement
- A fancier bug report interface
## Bug Hunt
- The app was unusable under iOS14: a side effect of the birthday confettis! Sorry, but I may soon stop supporting iOS14. It's too much trouble for me and iOS15 is available for all devices compatible with iOS14. Please contact me if this is a problem for you.
## Foundations
- The Widget and Watch app now use the same SwiftUI views as the main app for the planets (instead of images)
- Improved the code to fix various (harmless) warnings
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4.20.2
2022-10-12
## Improvement
- Improves data verification when there are empty days
## Bug Hunt
- The missing cow detector was miscalibrated. If you were missing cows, record a meal and make sure they come back! Or contact me and we'll look for them together.
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4.20.1
2022-10-10
## Bug Hunt
- Widgets were not displaying data
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4.20
2022-10-08
## Cow care
- Halloween Season & cow
## Texts
- More puns
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4.19
2022-10-03
You asked for them, here they are: Birthday Cows!
## New
- Birthday Cows: you can now get a cow on your birthday! If your birthday was earlier this year, don't worry, I've got you covered: you'll be able to claim your cow from the Settings. And there's also a mechanism to make sure you can get all the cows if your birthday falls on a holiday. How cool is that?
## Cow care
- A cow for the app's 3rd anniversary
- Sixteen's tail was clipped. It's healed now.
## Bug Hunt
- The bug that was turning your History into a windmill farm was back. Again. If this has affected you, just answer the question of the day as usual and your cows should be back soon. If not, please contact me.
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