September 2009

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OnTrack 1.8.1 Released

Sunday, September 27, 2009

OnTrack 1.8.1 is now available on the market, this release addresses a bug in the export feature that prevented it from working correctly. As well it makes some minor changes to the German localization.

Posted by Gerald Nunn at 12:44 PM | Categories: Android | Permalink |

OnTrack 1.8 Released

Friday, September 25, 2009

Version 1.8 of OnTrack has been released, the following changes have been made:

Added a Quick Add feature
Records can now be exported in HTML
Added a graph for Weight records
Fixed a problem with the Today filter on graphs being one day in the future
Now localized for German thanks to Andreas Heilek

As usual you can get the update from the Android Market.

Posted by Gerald Nunn at 9:20 PM | Categories: Android | Permalink |

OnTrack 1.8 Coming Soon

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The next version of OnTrack will be released this weekend on the Android market. It will have a couple of new features of which the biggest being the new Quick Add feature. For diabetics that take insulin like myself we typically have to enter three records with every meal: Carbs, Glucose and Medication. Entering these records one at a time in OnTrack is a bit of pain at the moment since you have to do each record individually.

The Quick Add feature in the next version of OnTrack will allow users to enter multiple records simultaneously from a single screen. The way it works is that when you select the Quick Add option a dialog will appear showing all of the types that can be entered (Glucose, Food, etc) along with a checkbox next to each one. Check the boxes for the desired records and then press OK and a new screen will appear. On this new screen, the date/time and category are at the top, however under that are individual input boxes for each record type that was checked. Set all the values, as well as subtypes, and press save, one record for each type selected will be saved with the same date/time, category and note.

The other cool feature is the ability to export to the HTML format, this will give you a nice logbook style output that can be easily printed and shared with your doctor. You can view a sample of this export here export_sample.html. I'm hoping in a future version to expand this further and include some of the graphs and reports in the export as well to give your doctor a really good overview of how things are progressing.

Posted by Gerald Nunn at 10:22 PM | Categories: Android | Permalink |

OnTrack 1.7 Released

Monday, September 07, 2009

OnTrack 1.7 has been released and is now available on the Market. This version is an incremental improvement but well worth upgrading to, see my previous blog post for details on what has changed.

Posted by Gerald Nunn at 1:26 PM | Categories: Android | Permalink |

Next Version of OnTrack

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Sorry for no updates for the last month, work has been pretty busy the last few weeks and I haven't had time to get to everything on my list. Having said that, I do have a new version of OnTrack in the pipes that I am planning on releasing towards the end of the week and I thought it would be good to post some information about the forthcoming changes.

This change is largely focused on improving the useability and look of the application by cleaning up some of the details I missed on the last release. Here is a list of the changes I have made so far:

Prompt the user on first load to use mmo/l or mg/dl measurements
Added an option to view home screen by day in addition to weekly and monthly options
I did some work on the graphs to make them more attractive
Reworked the preferences and home screen filter as seperate menu items
Moved the management of categories and subtypes to preferences from the home screen menu
Added support for exporting to XML
Added "id" field to XML export for synchronization purposes
Add supported for showing and hiding lines in graph so it can appear as a plot graph
Added a pie chart for showing number of glucose values in range
Fixed a few miscellaneous bugs
Added a graph to show the total number of carbs consumed per day
Added a report showing the average amount of carbs consumed per category
New on-line help pages with in-program menu option, view current state here.

So has you can see nothing earth shattering but I do plan on adding a couple of key features in the near future as follows:

Add the ability to add different entry types on the same screen. For example, allow a user to enter a glucose and medication entry at the same time to make data entry more efficient.
Add a report that shows a monthly view of glucose entries at a glance
Support graphing multiple items simultaneously and create a graph showing glucose values against medication
Support graphing for medication

Anyways, work progresses so look for the new version later this week. Here are some screenshots showing the changes in appearance along with the new pie chart.