Dec 14th, 2011 by flingsoft
Today we are super excited to announce the availability of Gary Vaynerchuk’s incredible daily wine show, Daily Grape, for the Roku. The successor to Wine Library TV, Daily Grape provides over 80 episodes of reviews and insight with its always amazing. We have always been huge fans and while he is no longer broadcasting (we wish he was), we have teamed up with VaynerMedia to make sure the content is still accessible to everyone.
The channel is free for everyone, so if you have a Roku then make sure you check it out!
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Oct 18th, 2011 by flingsoft
It is with great pleasure that we introduce another great new Roku channel that was developed in conjunction with our friends at Delicious TV. Totally Vegetarian with Toni Fiore brings deceptively delicious vegetarian meals onto your Roku device and makes it simple for everyone to produce amazing food in their own kitchen.
We are also huge fans of Toni’s mantra - “Buy Locally, Eat Seasonally, Buy Organic, Use Your Intuition, Everything In Moderation”. It is a show for people who love to eat and for those that want to healthier.
“Totally Vegetarian” is available now on the Roku Channel Store (must be logged in) for a low monthly subscription of only $1.99 a month. You get access to 3 full seasons and tons of great recipes.
Hope everyone enjoys the channel!
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Sep 20th, 2011 by flingsoft
We are very pleased to announce the release of “Travel With Kids” on the Roku. “Travel With Kids” is an award-winning family travel show that shows parents how they can travel the world with the little ones without breaking the bank or losing their minds. Its also great for the kids as they can experience what its like to travel and see all the great things there are to experience out there. From Europe to South America to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, they have traveled around the world and bring you some amazing creative ideas and stories.
Using Fling Soft’s video architecture we were able to rapidly deploy an entire custom application within a minimal timeframe for the “Travel With Kids” team and we are really excited about the result. As a father of two little ones myself and an avid traveler, I can personally say I am super excited about bringing this to market and can’t wait for people to check it out.
“Travel With Kids” has won numerous awards including multiple Tellys, a KidsFirst! award, Dove approval, and iParenting Media Award and many more. You can find out more on their website, check out their blog, or find them on Facebook.
“Travel With Kids” is available now on the Roku Channel Store (must be logged in) for a one-time fee of $4.99. You get access to all 4 seasons and new seasons as they become available.
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Aug 15th, 2011 by flingsoft
We are very pleased to announce that our newest app, Classic Westerns, is now available across multiple devices including the iPhone and iPad. Movie Vault users have been asking us for a while to come up with inexpensive pre-sorted versions and everyone loved our last genre specific version, House of Horrors, so we wanted to add to the collection. With this release, we expose a great selection of classic films featuring incredible western actors like John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Tim McCoy, Gene Autry and more!
You can install it now on:
- iPhone ($.99)
- iPad ($1.99)
- Android ($.99)
- Roku ($1.99)
- Windows Phone 7 ($.99) Coming Soon, in review now!!
We hope you enjoy and can’t wait for our upcoming releases!
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Apr 14th, 2011 by flingsoft
We are pleased to announce that Movie Vault is now available on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace for $1.99. After much hard work, we are happy to see our app within the beautiful WP7 user experience. It has all the same great features and content as the other platforms, but takes advantage of the WP7 smooth Panorama controls giving it a nicely integrated feel. We would love to hear feedback and hope users enjoy!
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Apr 8th, 2011 by flingsoft
We are really pleased to announce today our first release of Movie Vault on the Android Market. After months of development, we are proud to have an Android specific version of our application that takes advantage of many Android specific features as well as being (we think) mighty handsome.
Movie Vault for Android includes all the great features of its iOS counterparts:
- Over 1,000 classic films featuring tons of great actors.
- Fully search-able meta data direct from IMDB. You can also tap the IMDB logo to jump right over to the full detail page.
- Movie reviews listed for all titles when available.
- Updated from the server side, so you get new content as its available.
- One-time purchase and then use it as much as you like. No recurring fees.
Movie Vault for Android is $1.99 and available in the Android Market and coming soon to the Amazon Appstore.
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Apr 8th, 2011 by flingsoft
Today we are pleased to show off our new logo and our updated website. We all felt the logo was definitely in need of an overhaul and we think the new version is a lot more fun and of course, a little retro. We also dropped the “Soft” from our public name in favor of Fling simply because it exemplifies an attitude and a feeling we strive to bring to our apps.
The site also needed some help and we really wanted to prepare for the release of our upcoming Android, Windows Phone 7, and OS X versions. So now you get a sneak peek of whats on the way and a super clean look and feel.
We hope you enjoy!!
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Mar 18th, 2011 by flingsoft
As we wait for the imminent release of Movie Vault 1.2 on the iPhone and 1.3 on the iPad (which both add AirPlay!!), I thought I would offer up some information on the devices and testing we do for the various applications. We are also avidly working on Android, OS X, and Windows Phone builds which should be showing their faces very soon!
Most development teams do not have access to a wide array of devices, so they are forced to depend on the simulators that are included with the SDKs or great third party services like DeviceAnywhere. While most of these are really good ways of testing (and we use them in addition to the devices), we do notice that you can miss a lot of if you rely of them solely. So we have a nice stable of devices thanks to our partners and we are growing it rapidly. Here’s a shot of some of them:
We test on the following for iOS:
- iPhone 4
- iPhone 3GS
- iPhone 3G
- iPhone Classic
- iPad
- iPad 2 (coming soon, still in line!)
For Android, we test on:
- Motorola Droid 2
- Motorola Cliq
- Motorola Backflip
- Adding more soon!
For Windows Phone 7 we test on:
- Samsung Focus
- HTC coming soon!
For IP TV boxes, we test on:
Some issues:
To start, it is very difficult to test memory leaks and memory related crashes through only the simulator. Whatever the reason is, the simulators seem to not exhibit similar leak behaviors. I can run an app for hours in the simulator and then put it on the device and kill it in 10 seconds.
Next, UI interaction… you know the jumpiness/smoothness factor. Because the simulator takes into account system processing power things always feel crisp. Not so on the device and especially when you go between versions (iPhone 3G to 3Gs to 4 for example). DeviceAnywhere also has issues here because it is network based so sometimes it can feel jumpier than it might actually be. Two heavy extremes.
Video and this is obviously where we want to shine. We would never use a hosted service to test this and the simulator in most cases can’t even run video well. We can test our streams outside of the app for general functionality, but we always like to try them on device to make sure it looks the best it can given our original source.
General usability is the best use of these tools and where they accelerate development. If you want to see how things look and how interaction functions, then they can drastically speed things up.
I won’t delve into the actual QA process, but we are very engineering oriented so we go through QA cycles, bug review, fixes, re-test, etc, etc. I can always talk to our process here in detail as well if anyone is really truly interested. I hope everyone enjoyed this and we always welcome comments and questions. Always happy to help and share our experiences.
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Mar 3rd, 2011 by flingsoft
Movie Vault 1.2 for iPad went live today in the App Store and we are really pleased to make available some a great new feature, My Queue. A ton of users have been asking for it and after some work, we now have added it. It is super simple to use as well, simply select a movie and then under the Watch Movie button you will find a button labeled Add to Queue. Click it and it will be added to your queue which is then accessible via the My Queue button in the top left.
With that said, here are the release notes:
- Updated user interface graphics, much better quality we think.
- My Queue feature added due to popular demand.
- Lots of stability improvements to handle memory issues.
- Added Flurry Analytics for data reporting.
We have to say that Apple turned this review around faster than ever before and we are really happy with how responsive they have been. We are looking forward to 4.3 and adding AirPlay so when it comes out make sure you download so we can get to work on the next release!
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Jan 31st, 2011 by flingsoft
The better question is probably what’s next for Fling Soft, but I wanted to give everyone a quick glance at what we have in store in the coming months. As some may know, we recently launched our Roku app and this is really just the start of our expansion onto other platforms. Here is the tentative roadmap and what we are working towards due to user feedback:
- Mac OS X
- Android 2.2+
- Windows Phone 7
- Blackberry Mobile
- Blackberry Playbook
On top of this, we are also working on updates to Movie Vault for iPhone and iPad. We are focusing on stability and the addition of Airplay support as well as expanding our content library. We think we will be close to updates in the next 30-45 days depending on Apple’s OS release schedule.
Also, we have something big in the works that we are keeping under wraps until we get things finalized. Stay tuned!!!
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