For the past few weeks, besides making nearly all of our dictionaries available on iPad, we have been working hard to finish the Android versions. Now that they’re almost ready, we are in final testing and preparation for the "launch" :). We don't have any experience in the Android market yet, so it will be a very interesting time for us. Since the whole mobile market is extremely volatile, there's always something new happening, which causes us to have "experience-ful" periods again and again, thanks to Apple and the revolutionary iPhone. Can you even remember what the mobile market was like before the iPhone? I can. It was boring and uneventful, just Nokia and their new phones with Symbian...
I think Apple really did something great to stimulate this market.

YES!!! Finally completed!!! Our updated dictionaries are now available from the App Store, and yes, they are available for the iPad, too, with specific UI to maximize your usage experience.
We worked hard to get there and on the last day there seemed to be no hope. The problem was the application has In-App Purchase, to pay for the voices, and those couldn't be tested on the simulator. All in all it was rejected several times, until everything started to work fine.
Oh, and there's one more surprise for you. There is now a built-in translator using Google Translate. The speech works with translated texts, too.
At the moment only four of the dictionaries are out. Here are the links to get them.
At the moment only for of the dictionaries are out. Here are the links, go get it.
Spanish English Dictionary & Translator
German English Dictionary & Translator
French English Dictionary & Translator
Italian English Dictionary & Translator

Nobody likes when his/her application is rejected from the store. Normally there are really good reasons for that. It was the same in our case. There was always some kind of reason which was stated somewhere, and there was a description how to do it right. But not this time...
Now some of our dictionaries was rejected, with the following reason for the In-App Purchase:
"I have been advised by our app review team that the presentation of the attached dialogs are not in accordance with the standard implementation of In-app Purchase/ StoreKit."
The dialogs attached:
  

As you can see, one of them is an information dialog, where the user can choose whether he/she want's the application to check the earlier payment. This could be good when you have already purchased some feature. The user can choose no, however, when he chooses to enable it, an Apple dialog appear, asking for the password. It's the same process as for buying something.
I wouldn't feel that nervous, if the reason was not what it was. I mean "are not in accordance with the standard implementation". What is this? Is it stated anywhere, what the standard implementation is?! No, it's not. The only thing in the programming guide is:
"Once a transaction has been processed and removed from the queue, your application normally never sees it again. If your application supports nonconsumable or subscription products, it must provide the ability for users to restore these purchases on additional devices."
So as I can see now, the problem is, our app is able to do the restore. Fine.

And what now? I have emailed them, to help solving the problem as it was stated in their rejection mail. But to be honest, I don't really think they will answer in 5 days. I think it would be more. Until that time, I can't really do nothing, except trying to find another solution, which "is in accordance with the standard implementation".

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The last year was very exciting for BitKnights - as I'm sure is for all newly founded company. There was a lot of happening, beginning with foundation and our first steps in the world of iPhone, continuing with some middle-sized success in the field of Dictionaries and Altitude measurement.
I think we began like most of the iPhone development teams. We tried ourselves and AppStore, and the users liked our applications, so we moved forward. The only thing missing is the "big bumm" of one of the applications :).

So what are the new challenges to the new year. Well, there are some.

At last our new homepage has finished and is live. There are several worth-mentioning-things:

• It has a new design, which looks a lot better than the old one
• The blog is integrated
• Some applications have video, which demonstrates the use and capabilities.
• There are direct links to AppStore

There is a poll on the left, where you can vote, how do you like our homepage. Please let us know, this will help us improve it.