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Win a BlackBerry of Your Choice! Ambiance for BlackBerry Now Available!

To celebrate the release of Ambiance for BlackBerry (available now in the BlackBerry App World storefront), Urban Apps is giving away a new BlackBerry phone.  If you win the contest, you will get to chose a brand new BlackBerry from the 5 models Ambiance is available on!

• Storm 2
• Storm
• Bold
• Curve
• Pearl

All you have to do to enter is tweet the following:

UrbanApps BlackBerry Giveaway! Tweet and win a BlackBerry to celebrate the release of #Ambiance on BlackBerry App World! http://bit.ly/e5ZGl

Multiple entries (tweets) are not only OK, but encouraged! Just make sure the tweet is exactly the same as above.  We will randomly choose a winner from those tweets on Monday, November 9th. The winner will be notified via Twitter from the account @urbanapps. Good Luck!

Fixing symbolicatecrash…

Because you found your way here, I am assuming you already know what symbolicatecrash is and when/why you would use it. If not, take a detour < href=”http://furbo.org/2008/08/08/symbolicatifination/”>here and come back. This tool has been great but is very temperamental. It worked for a while when I first started, then it broke and stopped giving results. I applied the Alan Quatermain Fix, but things still weren’t right.

Well, tonight I had a client app rejected from crash I couldn’t reproduce. I only had 1 crash log from Apple, and the stupid symbolicatecrash script wasn’t finding anything! I had to dig in and see what was up. After spending a little bit brushing up my Perl, I was able to fix the problem. Basically, the Regex that the script uses was failing to match in two places: the bundle name, and the versions.

Change lines 372-377 in the symbolicatecrash script to look like this:

^\s* (\w+) \s* \- \s* (\w+) \s*    (?# the range [1,2])

(\+)?                              (?# the application may have a + in front of the name [3])

([^\s]+)                           (?# bundle name [4])

\s* \w+ \s*                        (?# the versions--generally "??? [???]")

\?                                 (?# possible UUID [5])

\s* (\/.*)\s*$                     (?# first fwdslash to end we hope is path [6])

There are 2 changes from the pre-Alan-Quartermain-Fix:
On line 374, I changed the (.+) to be ([^\s]+) just like the AQ fix.
On line 375, I changed the \s+ .+ \(.+\) \s* to be \s+ \w+ \s* because my crash reports never have versions in parenthesis.

I don’t know if this will work for everybody, but it works for me and the crash reports I get back from iPods and iPhones. Good luck!

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Ambiance has been named the “App of the Day”…

(via http://appoftheday.com/app/Ambiance)

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Overriding -[UINavigationController drawRect:] to add a custom background image…

I needed to do this across the board for a client app and thought I would share…

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Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 Just Released…

Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested features being added. Here is whats in the release:

NEW FEATURES

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Another Stupid Apple Rejection

Today, Twittch and Twittch Pro were rejected for the following reason:

Currently, shaking the device does not produce a random comic though the application description states “shake for random”.

If they took any time to inspect the app, they would see that there is a switch to enable/disable the shake feature.  I have such a love/hate relationship with Apple.

Ambiance 2.0.5 Released

After a long 5 weeks in the Apple Review Queue, the Ambiance 2.0.5 update is finally in the stores.  While you will not find any new features in this bug fix release, you will find:

• Fix for Quickstart Lockout
• iPhone OS 3.0 compatibility
• Stability Enhancements

We deeply apologize for any inconvenience caused by the review delay.  Enjoy Ambiance!

Ambiance QuickStart Busted!

For some users, using the new QuickStart feature on Ambiance will cause the app to crash on load.  The worst part is that you can’t remove the setting because the app won’t open. so you are stuck with a useless app.  The fix has been submitted to Apple (2.0.5) and hopefully they get it out soon to fix this problem.  Sorry!