James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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James Montemagno

App Release

Staged Rollouts & Phased Release on Google Play and App Store Connect

As an app developer it is hard enough to create your app, test your app, prep the app store listings, and then get your app approved. The last thing you want to think about is how fast or slow to roll out your app and updates to users. For the past 10 years all I have ever done was just release the app to everyone all at once, and for a long time this all that was available to us. However, now there are options for developers from both Google and Apple that can manage your release. Unfortunately…

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Porting My Cadence to Android in 1 Day!

It seems like it was just yesterday that I was writing up a blog post on how I was launching My Cadence for iOS [https://montemagno.com/introducing-my-cadence-for-ios-a-simple-cadence-sensor-display/] and then blogging about how I wrote and shipped the app [https://montemagno.com/building-testing-shipping-my-cadence-for-ios-in-less-than-a-week/] in under a week. Well, it wasn't yesterday, but it was just 5 days ago! After I shipped the iOS version, I was watching some HGTV on Hulu and thou…

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Building, testing, & shipping My Cadence for iOS in less than a week

My holiday hacking [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-holiday-season-hack-ideas/] came early this year when I decided to build my own DIY spin bike [https://montemagno.com/building-an-at-home-diy-spin-bike-for-peloton-apple-fitness/]. Soon, after a few rides, my mind started to swirl with app ideas of how to improve my ride. Then when Apple released Apple Fitness+ without support for displaying cadence information from sensors I knew I had to build an app. That app is My Cadence [ht…

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Introducing Island Tracker for Animal Crossing New Horizons

tldr; I built a new iOS & Android app called Island Tracker [https://islandtracker.app] that enables you to track turnip prices, get predictions, and share them with friends. It is available today. Get it on: [https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1510177414?mt=8] [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.refractored.islandtracker] When Animal Crossing New Horizons launched in late March I fell in love immediately. My wife adopted my Nintendo Switch Lite and we both got copies the nigh…

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Introducing My Stream Timer: A Countdown Timer for OBS

I have been streaming on Twitch for over 6 months now. I stream both code on my personal Twitch channel [https://twitch.tv/jamesmontemagno] and I also stream games and recordings of Nintendo Dispatch [http://nintendodispatch.com] with my buddy Michael over on the official Dispatch Twitch channel [http://twitch.tv/nintendodispatch]. One thing that always bothered me was having to manually mess around with apps to get a simple countdown timer. They were too complex, had too many options, and had…

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Scoreboard: An app to keep track of board game scores

Today, I am excited to announce Scoreboard, a brand new app for iOS and Android making it drop dead simple to keep track of your board game scores. It is available today on the App Store [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scoreboard-game-score-keeper/id1191033523?ls=1&mt=8] and Google Play [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.refractored.scoreboard]. Leave that pen and paper behind, Scoreboard enables you to easily keep score for any game with up 4 players or teams. Easily ke…

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