Version 1.2 is live on the store

Actu­ally it’s 1.2.1, since quickly after get­ting 1.2 live, I got a report of the seri­ous issue in 1.2 (it occurs when you cre­ate entirely new pro­gram or ses­sion), so 1.2.1 was quickly submitted.

One small new fea­ture is the abil­ity to pre­vent the screen lock dur­ing the run. So if you like to visu­ally check your progress, turn this fea­ture on in the main iPhone Set­tings app.

Voice and sound alerts toggles

The main new fea­ture is abil­ity to inde­pen­dently tog­gle voice and sound alerts. You can do this:

Set­ting options for all ses­sions or sequences

• for one sequence
• all sequences in par­tic­u­lar session
• all ses­sion in program
• all pro­grams

This fea­ture is also handy to setup your pre­ferred defaults before cre­at­ing new items.

There’s only one sound alert in the app — it’s that ping sound at the end of each pace inter­val. Voice alerts are var­i­ous spo­ken cues dur­ing the run. Impor­tant dis­tinc­tion is that sound alerts are mixed with the back­ground music – they don’t inter­rupt the music. Voice cues how­ever pause the music while they are on then con­tinue play­ing it when done.
If you pre­fer to not have the music inter­rupted, turn off the voice alerts and leave the pings on and you’re good to go.

New edit sequence screen

On the other hand, if you use care­fully crafted music back­ground, like music mix pre­pared for HIIT type of train­ing, you’ll prob­a­bly want to turn both off and use your music changes as cues.

Along with this, coop­er­a­tion with iPod is thor­oughly re-tested and improved, as well as inter­rup­tions like phone calls. Appli­ca­tion will pause when you answer the phone and con­tinue when it’ over.

Google Ana­lyt­ics

This fea­ture is use­ful only for us here. :)

This allow us to anony­mously track the way Run Mate is used and plan the fea­tures, pos­si­bly spot prob­lems etc. This track­ing will not inter­fere  with the way app works and you’ll not even notice it. If for any rea­son you don’t want this to be on, it’s easy to turn it off, again through the Set­tings app.

With hope you’ll put Run Mate to good use, wish you good weather and clean tracks.