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so many choices

After a long summer break I found some time to work on ZugInfo 2.1 .. and .. made good progress:

• Save queries / favorites – basic implementation done
• Cancel query – done
• Save all / delete all connections – done
• Secret of Monkey Island re-issue – completed

I still have to implement the editing of the saved queries, which turns out to be quite a pain 😉 So stay with me.

PS: I will have another look at the location to location search (instead of station to station), an option which is also offered by DB.

After we got the shipping out of the way, let’s turn to more exciting things: the next version of ZugInfo. I already received a few feature request:

• Landscape mode for results
  not sure about this one, maybe larger table cells instead…
• History & favorites
  very reasonable, I will try my best
• “Zuglaufanzeige” (?)
  Not sure, what that means. Maybe all stops and connections? You can find the on the second result screen (touch the connection)
• Switch start and destination
  already implemented, just hit the arrows next to the input fields. I will try to make this more visible in the next version

I came up with a few ideas myself

• Add to calender & send connection by e-mail
  IPhone specific cool stuff (and I believe, quite useful)
• Fare info & additional details
  which also means, one has to set some preferences for the fare info
• Improved backend
  • I hate that I am currently parsing the webpage. Maybe someone from Deutsche Bahn can contact me and allow me to use a stable interface – meanwhile, improve html parser, especially allow for parser update over the internet (this is probably quite some work, so don’t expect that in 1.1)
  • Details view should also be table – I used a simple view to get a nice background, but it’s not about the background baby, it’s about functionality

Please add all your feature requests as comments to this post and I will see, what I can do.

“Over and out”. – the list made me say that