BearVelo Release Notes

Release 3.2 (2024 Feb)

  • Features
    • Greetings engine now added
    • Improved layout for single hand usage, moved start indoor/outdoor activities buttons near bottom
    • Improve comparison view layout, show full unique activities if present (instead of scrolling)
    • Improved compare activities share layout
    • Launch view updated to echo main view
    • Updated Firebase, AdMob libraries
  • Fixes
    • Icons for review activities and compare were unexpected (flipped them)
    • Improved main view landscape layout when heart rate BPM is present
    • Ad loading issue (wouldn’t immediately load) when opening app from background

Release 3.1 (2024 Feb)

  • Features
    • New user guided flow added
    • New look and feel
    • Improved weather details today and tomorrow charts (larger bars)
    • Improved indoor activity flow, button now visible (if bluetooth allowed) with a linking page
  • Fixes
    • Fixed various line position drawing items in indoor activity gauges

Release 3.0 (2024 Jan)

  • Features
    • Additional Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device support. Can now read speed data for running sensors, as well as indoor fitness machines that support treadmill and cycling speed
    • Improved high intensity interval training support in indoor activities, with addition of seconds and minute feedback
    • Users can set the Indoor activity minute counter in settings
  • Fixes
    • Indoor activity details chart was showing count on x-axis, now shows duration

Release 2.9 (2024 Jan)

  • Features
    • Improved layout and information in indoor activity
    • Walking (and related) activities now include step information in details and comparison (requires access to steps in Health)
  • Fixes
    • Fixed recording of maximum speed in indoor activity

Release 2.8 (2024 Jan)

  • Features
    • Now supports cycling speed sensor reading via bluetooth, and if present users can record indoor cycling activity.
    • Indoor cycling
      • Results can be added to health info (if the user chooses), will show up as indoor cycling
      • Added visual gauge for indoor cycling, providing speed feedback
      • Can be used with bluetooth heart monitors as well, providing charting of heart and cycling data
    • Application now provides user notification, using a predictive model, if user activity patterns are discovered user gets a daily notification
    • Improved weather grid display for colder weather when ui is in dark mode (inverted color alpha)
    • Updated weather page to use same color ranges for today, tomorrow and weekly weather (providing more consistent color schemes)

Release 2.7 (2023 Nov)

  • Features
    • Users now have the ability to highlight a path on the map in activity details, which also highlights the chart. Similarly highlighting a range on the chart highlights the map as well.
    • For map highlighting, user can toggle the ability to highlight a range vs scrolling and zooming
    • If the user highlights to the end of the chart, the chart can then be trimmed.
    • Enlarging the chart on activity details now goes to either landscape, not forcing users to hold their mobile device in a specific manner
    • The existing activities view now remembers the location and filters if set, allowing user to click on activity details and come back to the same place

Release 2.6 (2023 Nov)

  • Features
    • Enhanced activity details chart to now show elevation and grade (if desired) as well as ability to resize chart
    • Activity details map now has the camera narrowed (you can scroll around, but not too far from the actual activity details)
    • Added cross-country skiing and skating as activity type options (users can make them available in settings)
    • Make view exit buttons have more consistent location and text (Done in settings, Back elsewhere)
    • Improved new user experience by reducing amount of default activity types (others are available just not active by default)
    • Transitions added when moving between views
    • Added (internal) tracking of choosing to record in health, to better understand if users want this option
    • Updated (internal) identifiers and added more ui tests
  • Fixes
    • Don’t show streak information on weekly comparison if only 1 activity (2 or more is ok)
    • Observed case where location, bluetooth and health information were being sent from the device, and when in background this could cause thrashing (and trigger a stop of the application), removed the health information when in background to address this issue

Release 2.5 (2023 Oct)

  • Features
    • You now have the ability to ‘trim’ off bad data on an existing activity, if it appears to be a loop with extra content (so in cases where a user does an activity that returns to the start, but forgets to stop the activity, you can trim off the extra data). Undo of trim is also supported.
    • Improved cold weather reporting, taking into consideration the season of the year
    • Improved location entering in weather details, allowing lookup to start once return is pressed
    • Activity details are now a live map, allowing you to zoom in out and navigate around the recorded activity
    • Improved layout and usage of main view, adding an existing activity view
    • Existing activities can now be filtered by type, distance and location
    • Improved launch screen layout, now consistent with main view
    • For first time users, improved flow around approving health access

Release 2.4 (2023 Oct)

  • Features
    • Weather details are now scrollable to allow for more information
    • Weather details allow user to lookup weather somewhere else, as well as recent activity locations
    • Weather details now include best time ranges to be active outside (if they exist)
    • Improved text on cold weather conditions
    • Improved text with weather, if poor condition is ‘poor light’, don’t display value
    • Sort activities in comparison view (common and unique)
    • Improved experience with Ad, Location request for access
    • Updated AdMob library version
  • Fixes
    • If user has denied or restricted location, don’t allow start of activity

Release 2.3 (2023 Sept)

  • Features
    • Improved sharing content layout (found in activity details and weekly comparison)
    • Improved text descriptions for weather details
    • Ensure close / done buttons are near the bottom of screens
    • Improved customization of activity types, split into list management and add of activity on separate views
    • Improved new user experience, delay bluetooth until user activates it in settings
    • Improved new user experience, health request is delayed until first activity
    • Improved ad experience (allow for more dynamic ads)
      • Updated dependencies in support of iOS 17

Release 2.2 (2023 Sept)

  • Features
    • Improved layout and transitions between views, for example when moving from main view to current activity
    • Removed alert that appears if location access is not set to always, as too confusing for users
  • Fixes
    • Fixed issue when initial requests for access related to location, health and ads, so that the requests appear in a timely manner

Release 2.0 (2023 Sept)

  • Features
    • Added support for custom activity types, ability to control if these are saved in health and if related calories are saved (NOTE: The custom value is only visible in the app, the related common type is visible in health); You can also swipe left (in the customization view) on a custom activity type to delete it
    • Various UI improvements, replacing activity type with visual icons
    • Improved weather layout on main view, as well as textual weather descriptions (in weather detail view)
    • Added ability to reset bluetooth check in settings (aids cases where monitor can go to sleep) (NOTE: Only present if bluetooth detected)
    • Added average heart rate (if using heart rate monitor) on activity details
  • Fixes
    • Streak detection was wrong if there were multiple streaks, this is now fixed
    • Fix case where you drive to a location and immediately start an activity, can end up with drive locations in activity view (fixed by ignoring older locations)

Prior Release Notes