See the December 14 announcement below for more information.
- In countries that use "," as the decimal point, editing of food items now works properly.
- When using a virtual keyboard to edit foods items, scrolling to the last items now works properly.
- The demo version no longer expires.
- The free version no longer displays ads.
- The paid version no longer checks Android Market for a valid license.
- The bug report and survey menu items have been removed.
I am sorry to announce that CalorieQuick is being discontinued. Unfortunately, the income generated by sales of the paid version and from the ads in the free version is not sufficient to cover ongoing costs.
If you are an active CalorieQuick user, I'm sure you have questions. I'll try to answer some of them now.
Can I continue to use CalorieQuick?
Yes, it will continue to run indefinitely.
Will there be any more updates?
There will be a single update to all three versions (demo, free and paid) around Dec 19. It will fix some small bugs.
I installed the demo version. What do I do when the demo period ends?
If the demo period ends before the final update (around Dec 19), you should upgrade to the free version. Otherwise, you should wait for the update in which the demo period restriction will be removed, and you can continue to run the demo version indefinitely.
I'm using the free version. What should I do?
Continue using the current version. After you install the update, the ads will disappear.
I purchased the paid version. What should I do?
Continue using the current version and install the update.
What will happen to the Shared Food Database on the CalorieQuick server?
It will continue to operate for now. If it becomes unavailable in the future, you can use the Developer Tools screen to turn off access to the database.
Will the new Weight Watchers Points Plus program be supported?
No.
I cannot find the demo and paid versions on Android Market. Does this mean they won't be updated?
No, they are there, but are no longer visible. Only the free version will be visible and that will end on December 31.
I sincerely regret the necessity of this action. I hope that those of you who have used CalorieQuick have gotten some benefit and, in the end, that was my primary goal. And thank you to all of you who have provided feedback, particularly the beta test participants.
Best of luck with your eating and your exercise,
John
- While the Exercise Timer is running, the Back key and Search key are disabled to avoid accidentally stopping the timer.
- Once each day, all versions of CalorieQuick report version information to the CalorieQuick server. This allows the tracking of the number of version types in active use. No user-specific information is included.
- Once each day, the paid versions of CalorieQuick contact Android Market and verify that the user has a valid software license. For now, a warning message is displayed if a valid license is not found. In the future, CalorieQuick will stop working. If you see a message indicating you do not have a valid license, send an email to "help@caloriequick.com". For more information, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
- The CalorieQuick Privacy Policy has been updated to describe version reporting and license validation.
- When editing an exercise directly from the built-in exercise database, the "Calories/min" and "Points/min" values were not filled in.
- Exercise editing did not allow negative values to be entered, resulting in positive calorie counts. Now, positive values are entered/edited for exercise calories and points, but the the net value displayed and used is negative.
- When using a virtual keyboard for editing foods or exercises, the wrong keyboard might be initially selected. (E.g. when editing a bar code, the keyboard did not initially show numbers.)
- When loading a backup after a re-install, the data might only be partially loaded and the summary dialog would disappear.
- When editing a food or exercise and the phone was rotated (this is called an orientation change), values entered so far would be lost.
The problem will only occur on November 7. On Monday, November 8, things will be back to normal.
The feasibility of releasing an update to address this problem is being investigated.
- FatSecret™ support has been removed. For more information, see the news item for October 24 below.
- Users can easily share foods, including UPC bar codes, with other users using the new online CalorieQuick shared foods database.
- Food searches have changed significantly:
- Food searches now search the CalorieQuick shared food database in addition to the user's own data and the built-in USDA database.
- UPC bar code searches now search user foods, which can contain bar codes.
- UPC bar code searches search the CalorieQuick shared food database.
- All data for any food or exercise can now be edited at any time, including making it a Favorite.
- In some circumstances, it was possible to delete the current user in the "Edit Users" screen.
As a result of this change, effective immediately, the price for the paid version of CalorieQuick has been cut from $2.99 to $1.99.
The removal of FatSecret support does not mean that the bar code scanning feature is useless. See the new bar code features in the new version below.
Users of the current version (1.1) will see an error message when they enter search text. To disable FatSecret searches, see these instructions. CalorieQuick will continue to search the built-in FDA database.
A new version of CalorieQuick will be released prior to October 31. In addition to removing FatSecret support, it will have the following new features.
- All food nutrition values may be entered. Now you can enter Fat from Calories, Total Fat, Vitamin A, etc.
- All foods and exercises may be fully edited at any time.
- For foods, UPC bar code values may be entered.
- Foods with a UPC bar code, calorie and point values may be shared with other CalorieQuick users.
- When scanning a UPC bar code, CalorieQuick will search your own foods for the bar code and, if it is not found, search the foods shared by other users.
- Support for wide ("landscape") oriented screens and slide-out keyboards.
- Exercise timer measures your elapsed time for quick exercise entry.
- Favorite items with zero units always open the edit dialog.
- Calendar buttons in Home and Enter Weight screens.
- Allows entering foods and exercises for future days.
- Easier bulk entry of past weights.
- Improved layout of bonus points information on Home screen.
- Bugs fixed:
- A meal now properly adds the nutrition values of its component foods (calories, points, total fat, etc.)
- Deleting favorite foods and exercises works properly.
- CalorieQuick Demo This version is free and completely equivalent to the paid version except that it expires after 14 days.
- CalorieQuick This version costs $4.99.
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