Push notifications?

I think I may do this next. The concept is you tell naips which airports you want to monitor then quit out of naips and do whatever for the next few hours (fly perhaps!)

When an updated TAF is out, you will get a message on your home screen notifying you of the new TAF. If you click “view”, it will open up naips which will load the new location briefing for that airport.

It will only do TAFs as METARS are already predictable as they come out on the hour. The watch time would be selectable, but around 6hrs (after which time you wouldn’t get any more messages).

I can probably make it give some of the TAF in the message but it will be partially cut off due to a 256 character limit.

Of note: Apple does not provide a 100% garuantee of push notifications to devices so this can not be relied upon, only as a faster way of getting info that you would have otherwise been checking for manually.

Any suggestions or ideas let me know. I’ll start working on it mid-August.

(Edit) Ill also look at implementing the restricted area briefing found on the Airservices website at some stage too.

iPad on it’s way [Update: Approved]

Update 24Jul10: Approved by Apple.
Update 10Jul10: Finished development and submitted to app store. While it wont be winning any design awards, it is fully functional with a similar look and feel to the iPhone version. I’ll be releasing updates in the future that improve the user interface but for now the priority is to get a version out that utilises the ipads full screen resolution.

Apologies to those people not running iOS4 yet, but I have had to increase the minimum requirements to iOS3.2 in order to get it working on iPad. This now means people running OS 3.1.3 etc will need to update to iOS4 to get the latest updates, however their existing copy will continue to run.

Obviously lots of work to get the formatting right on the iPad (redesigning the whole interface for a big screen is a big task). It will be a universal app so you only need to buy it once and it will work on both your iPhone & iPad.