Sunday, November 21, 2010

What We Are Working On

It's been a little while since our last update for SteamDroid, but here's a quick note about what we've been up to.
1) First of all, we are implementing a licensing feature for our program to stay up-to-date with google's policies.  The average user will only notice a decrease in the program size by about 500KB, but this is a must-do.
2) The next thing we're working on is a landscape mode for you Droid users out there, as well as anyone else who has a landscape optimized phone.  Currently SteamDroid only supports portrait mode, so it might be frustrating when you turn your phone to pop out a physical keyboard and the screen doesn't rotate.  We'll be fixing this soon.
3) Finally, one of the biggest things we've been working on is adding support for the IAPWS-95 standard.  This standard is not optimized for quick computation like the '97 standard we currently use.  The '95 standard, however, is more accurate for thermodynamic calculations.  We expect to allow the user to toggle between the two standards.
Well, if you users have any suggestions for the developers, please comment either here on the blog or on the Android Marketplace, or you can always shoot us an email.
Thanks.

Friday, October 29, 2010

SteamDroid version 1.01 Released!

Today we released the first update to SteamDroid.  Improvements and changes include:
-Install to SD card support
-Minor GUI updates
-Hard limits on vapor fraction
-Better reporting for out of range error for T and P

Let us know how we're doing through comments and ratings.
Thanks!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

SteamDroid Beta Released!

We have officially released the beta for SteamDroid!  The cost is $1.99 in the Android Market.  Please download it and let us know what you think. The current implementation uses no tables, but calculates all values based on the IAPWS-97 standard (most Thermo texts use the '67 standard for their tables).  Currently, it is capable of the following calculations:
f(T,x)
f(P,T)
f(P,H)
f(P,S)
f(P,x)
Again, leave us some feedback as we continue to work with this fine app.

See below for screenshots: