Aviation application news
As of today, you can now follow AviatorApps on Twitter. Links to all news items (blog posts) will be automatically posted (tweeted) on Twitter, so now you’ve got one more option if you would like to keep up to date on AviatorApps news.
The account is relatively new so don’t expect much to be there now, but more is certainly to come in the days and weeks ahead. To follow AviatorApps, just click the link above or use the ”Follow Me” button to the right.
The AviatorApps news feed has gone mobile. If you view the site on your iPhone, you’ll now get a view optimized for the iPhones screen. You can even search the feed and post comments right from your iPhone. Enjoy!
Do you enjoy playing with your iPhone apps into the wee hours of the night? Are you willing to work for little to no pay whatsoever? Have you ever spent time in a Turkish prison?
If so, then I may have a job for you. Well, not a real job, but a job nonetheless. That’s right, I am looking for contributors; People willing to write app reviews and features to be posted here on the news feed.
What will you get in exchange for your efforts? Fame! A chance for notoriety! A ride in one of the Thunderbirds F-16s! It could happen! I can’t pay you anything but you’ll get full credit for your review, and I’ll gladly take you out for a burger and beer should we ever meet.
So if you fancy yourself as a writer, know how to take screen shots with your phone, and you think you can write an objective review, then feel free to contact me.
Since launching this site I’ve received several emails asking whether or not I will be adding apps for the Android mobile OS to the app list. The short answer is no, not in the immediate future.
The longer explanation is that I do not currently know of a way to establish a connection to or relationship with the Android Marketplace without the use of an Android phone. Yes, I know there is AndroidMarket.com, but the view it provides to outsiders coming in from non-Android devices (i.e. a PC) is limited to only a few “featured” applications. Currently, the only way to access all of the Android apps is from an Android mobile device, and unless you start buying a lot more apps through this site, spending $80 on another phone and data plan is out of the question. 
If you are interested in reading more on this topic, check out this TechCrunch article from November 15, 2009.
If you are an Android user and have comments, suggestions or ideas, you can either leave a comment below, or use the contact form to send them to me privately.
Happy New Year!
Where are the updates? What’s the latest with the site? What about that categorization filter?
Yes I know, I’ve been a bit absent lately… sorry about that. Year-end at my day job and the invasion of family for the holidays really sucked up all of my available time, but with 2010 now upon us (and the family gone) I am anxious to get back to work on the site as well as a few other projects.
So without wasting your time with more excuses, expect a long overdue update to the app list in the next few days. Once that’s done, I will once again turn my attention to the app categorization filter. I can’t give you an ETA for it yet, but I am making it my top priority for 2010.
Thank you for your continued support.
Brad
Good news; Last night’s problems have been resolved and everything appears to be functioning normally.
I also took this as an opportunity to tweak the sort function a bit by adding a secondary sort. Now when you sort the list by Price, Developer or Date Listed, the apps with similar results for those criteria will again by sorted by name. For example, if you sort the list by Price, all of the FREE apps will then be sorted by name. For this secondary soft I’ve fixed the sort direction as ascending, so while you may sort the list by Date Listed and choose the sort direction of descending, the batch of apps for a given date will then be sorted by name in ascending order. Clear as mud right?
My host experienced a power outage last night and they are bringing everything back online today. While things are slowly returning to normal, I’ve noticed that apps are missing from the list when it is sorted. Since they are still working on the issue, I am going wait a bit to see if the problem fixes itself once they have restorated all of their services.
Thanks for your patience… I’ll post an update as more information becomes available.
A user kindly pointed out that there was a problem with the sort and pagination features where the “Sort By” setting wasn’t persisting on subsequent pages. For example, if you sorted the list by Price then clicked the next page link, page two of the list would revert to being sorted by App Name, not Price.
As soon as it was reported, I knew what was wrong… I had changed a variable name in one place and neglected to change it in another. Oooops! This goes to show you; Don’t go messing around with your code after you’ve tested it. Rookie mistake! 
Well, it’s now fixed and the Sort and Pagination features should now work together in harmony (as intended). If you sort the list by any parameters, those parameters should persist as you view pages of the list, at least until you re-sort the list.
It’s been quiet on the news feed for the past two weeks, but that’s simply because with the end of the fiscal year my day job has been keeping me BUSY (emphasis intended).
The pressure at work is lessening somewhat and I’m starting to see some time free up, so with that I’ve got a few updates queued up which I hope to push out over the weekend. Included will be an update to the app list, and the release of the pagination feature. Stay tuned!
As I have mentioned several times before, you will soon be able to filter the app list by category. That being said, before the serious database work begins I thought I would post the list categories with the hope of gathering user feedback. So take a look and let me know if you have any thoughts or comments. Did I miss any? Are these clear to you?
Oh, I almost forgot… Apps will be able to belong to multiple categories.
