Added iPad support. Note that to do this as a universal/free upgrade, this new version only supports devices running iPhone OS 3.0 or above.

When displaying a map of the selected hill, added options to also show surrounding hills (within 25 miles), the rest of the selected section or all sections. For hills found using the Search feature, this defaults to surrounding hills (since no list is selected).

Added support for annual reports. When viewing the current month, select the date at the bottom and the display will change to an annual view (January to December) rather than per month. The app will remember which you last used. To switch back, select the current year at the bottom.

Improved the text layout on the spending, incoming and transfers report screens (previously large numbers might have been truncated).

The app will now remember the account you are currently viewing, so when you relaunch it you will go straight to that account.

On the transaction screen you can now convert a one-off transaction into a recurring one (and vice versa).

Alert limits can now be set to values greater than 0 (previously it was 0 or negative only).

When manually reconciling transfers, you can now choose to reconcile each account separately, rather than the app assuming that both events happen together.

Improved the help text for new users.

Minor bug fixes and UI improvements.

Application developers have two main options when it comes to iPad applications. Either produce a completely new application (e.g. Account Tracker “HD”) that will be charged for in the normal way, or produce what is called a “Universal” application that will support the iPad as well as current iPhone and iPod Touch devices. A universal app would typically be an upgrade for existing users.

My initial thoughts on this would be to produce universal updates, to get each of my apps working and taking advantage of the iPad’s bigger screen. However there is a slight issue. The development tools that you need to produce such an application no longer support iPhone OS 2.2.1 or below. If I went down this route, existing users with older iPod Touches would not be able to upgrade at all, and would therefore be stuck at the current versions.

How big an issue is this? All iPhone users can update their iPhone OS free of charge, but there is a nominal charge from Apple for older iPod Touch users (in the UK this is £2.99).

I would welcome your comments, especially if you are running an older iPhone OS version.

By very popular request, added support for rate changes. On the meter settings screen, select the + button at the top right to copy your current rates into a Previous Rates section. From there you can edit the end date of each rate period. The current rates will remain, but you can edit these to reflect any changes. Multiple sets of rates are supported.

Improved the display of numbers to take into account your device’s region setting. Previously this worked for currency only, now it should handle all other numbers. If you think I’ve missed something here, please let me know!

Improved the descriptions around tariffs vs rates … etc. This has been confusing for some people, so I have replaced all references to tariffs to be the actual reading number (1, 2 or 3). Essentially tariffs are the number of readings you have to submit to your supplier, i.e. 1 for an all day tariff, 2 for day and night … etc.

Minor bug fixes.

At long last, the iPad has been released in the UK! I managed to pick one up yesterday and have started playing around with what it can do. While it can support each of my apps already at their iPhone/iPod Touch resolution, they do look small in the middle of the screen. Running these at 2x resolution looks pretty poor since the fonts aren’t properly scaled. Over the next month or two, I will be planning some updates to take advantage of those extra pixels!

Added support for annual budgets, i.e. a view of spending, income and transfers a year at a time. When on the current month, select the date at the bottom and the display will change to an annual view (January to December) rather than per month. The app will remember which you last used.

Minor UI changes to the Account and Transaction screens. On the Account screen, a lot of common actions are now available by selecting the blue buttons. You can copy/clone any transaction to today’s date, move a transaction to tomorrow (if it hasn’t happened yet) or move a transaction to any other date. To edit the other fields in a transaction, select the row itself, not the blue button.

Also added a quicker way to delete transactions. Again on the Account screen, simply swipe a transaction from left to right (or vice versa), then select the red Delete button. For recurring transactions, you get the option to either delete the entire series or just the selected occurrence.

The Transaction screen now lets you edit the account itself (credits and debits only, transfers already support this).

Minor bug fixes.

Added more links to the Walk Highlands website to provide additional hill data and route information. As well the Munros, version 1.8.1 adds the Corbetts, Grahams, Wainwrights, Hewitts and most of the Trail 100.

I also made some minor speed improvements while loading the database, or rather the addition of the above won’t slow it down any further!

On the subject of Munros, best of luck to Stephen Pyke (aka Spyke) who is currently attempting to climb all 283 of them in a continuous round of about 40 days! You can follow his progress on his blog.

Updated the underlying data to version 11.4 of the Database of British Hills, extended the map view to include links to get from the hill pins to the individual hill pages and added links to the Walk Highlands website to provide additional hill data and route information (initially covering all the Munros).

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