Read through all the stuff on Workoutdoors.net yesterday afternoon and was refreshing for an update rabidly before I went for a run last night!!
Had to make do with IOS and WatchOS updates last night (broken Watch reminders grrrr) but, it’s arrived overnight.
LOVE the big green start button, and will be no doubt spending the next few days building multiple interval schedules!!
It would be really good if clicking a lap or segment row in the table (in the phone app) highlighted (and zoomed to fill the screen with) the segment on the map and shaded the little graph at the bottom 🙏🏻😊
What’s next?!
Sorry that there was a slight delay in releasing the app. There was a bug with Apple's development system that meant that I had to rebuild the app and resubmit it again, but luckily they were very fast to accept the new build.
I may improve the analysis in terms of selecting laps or segments on the iPhone app. It's the sort of thing that I do as light relief in-between the more major stuff, so it will probably happen at some time.
In terms of what is next, in the short term I will be integrating the compass in the series 5 (which I am currently setting up). So I will probably put out a version soon with that, which will also include fixes for any bugs found in the new release. I may also sneak in a couple of new features, depending on how quickly a bug fix release is required. The lack of swimming looks a bit odd now that I have added indoor workouts, so I may look into including that.
After that it is a bit up in the air. I have been promising to improve the maps and navigation features for a while, but a lot of the more interesting features would cost me money (topo maps, satellite maps, turn-by-turn etc). This means that I may have to add a subscription for those features, which I am trying to hold off on because I know that it puts people off buying the app at all. If I did add a subscription then all the existing features would still be included in the one-off price. Only the features that cost me more money would require the subscription.
The route navigation also needs improving in terms of showing how far along a route you are. I could then add metrics for how far there is to go (in terms of time, distance, ascent etc). It would also allow graph metrics, such as a profile of the route with an indication of where along it you currently are.
On the workout side of things I want to look into connecting to external sensors. I will start with Stryd, because that is the most requested, and because it is the only one that I own. If that goes well then I will look into cycling power/cadence sensors. I will also look into adding multi-activity workouts (e.g for triathlons).
These are only the major features that I am considering. There a plenty of other minor things on my To Do list that still need adding, but hopefully the app is heading in the right direction!