Beta Released!!!!

The 2015 FRC Scout Beta is now able to be sent to anyone who emails dev.frcscout@gmail.com with their team number! We have 1000 spots to fill, so please do send in a request! More people = More feedback = Better app = Happier everyone = Less people getting coal for Christmas!!

Beta Version

For those of you who are looking to get your hands on a beta version of the app, please email dev.frcscout@gmail.com with your team number (only one representative per team). We should be releasing the beta in the next couple days.

FRC Scout 2015

I apologize if anyone has been fretting about FRC Scout in 2015 due to the lack of information posted about it. However, I am pleased to let you all know that FRC Scout will be back in 2015, we just had a bit of a delay due to some other jobs and responsibilities to kick off the new year. As far as this year's app will go, here are our goals:

• iPad app
• Revamped UI
• Much thought and strategy put into what makes a fantastic, well-rounded scouting tool for any and all teams, no matter the differences in scouting philosophies
• Better/more reliable Bluetooth and WiFi syncing capabilities
• Fewer crashes
• iPhone app
• Not likely that this will happen due to the late start that we are contending with
• It will, however, be a feature developed in the off-season
• Android
• Pretty decent chance that FRC Scout will invade the Android platform this year. We have a fantastic Android developer that we have recently accrued and he will be developing in close contact with the rest of the team
• Website
• Also not very likely due to the late start
• Will be developed in off-season
• Purpose is to create a world-wide collective FRC scouting database for all teams to utilize

In summary, we will pour all of our efforts into the few chosen platforms to make them as amazing as possible, which will set us up for better and easier improvements in the future. We apologize if this comes as bad news to some of you that were hoping for more, but we are still humans and we're giving it the best we can. I look forward to seeing where this project takes us and I'm excited at the potential of such grand ideas we are coming up with.

I'm at a loss for words

I just received this email this morning from Apple and I still can't quite comprehend how fantastic this opportunity is. I am so incredibly honored and grateful. Thank you all for your belief and support this year and keep tuned in for more updates!

Hi, Jim and Louie.

I am writing because Apple is interested in including assets from the Jim Nazworthy app "FRC Scout" in an upcoming presentation at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC 2014), June 2-6, as an example of good design.

We kindly request your permission to use this content as part of WWDC.

If you are willing to grant us that permission, please review and add your name the Asset Usage Permission Form below, then email it back to afitz@apple.com (Alex Fitz).

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thanks,

Alex

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Asset Usage Permission Form
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frc-scout/id824608264?mt=8&uo=4

COMPANY (LICENSOR): Jim Nazworthy

ASSETS: FRC Scout app, icons, logos, and screen captures

TERM: 10 years from date of first use

TERRITORY: Worldwide

DESCRIPTION OF USE: For use, without compensation and royalty free, in Apple technical presentations, sessions and labs during Apple’s Developer Conference or Tech Talks and in video recordings of these presentations, sessions and labs, as well as associated slide presentations, to be publicly displayed and distributed (free of charge or for sale) during and after such events, as well as in the promotion and marketing of Apple products and services in connection with Apple’s Worldwide Developer Relations.

By returning this agreement, I represent and warrant that I am authorized to grant the permission described herein in accordance with the terms and conditions above.

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Tracking Code: wwdc.sd.apple.com/resources/12346/edit

GitHub repo is now public!

I have officially made my repository for the app public! Please feel free to critique it and maybe learn a few things about Objective-C if you are just starting out. It is far from professionally done and doesn't have a ton of comments and has absolutely no tests, but I look to change that over the summer.

Here's the link

Let's break 1000!!

With the total from yesterday, the app now has 932 downloads!! Can we break 1000 by the end of Saturday?? Spread the word of FRC Scout and don't forget about the iBook manual!

The Manual is Published!!

Read through this thing! It is exceptionally well done by Andrew from team 2232. He obviously spent a lot of his time on this and it looks extremely professional. Really easy to follow and I think it covers everything within the app very thoroughly (so it'll help some people that give the app sub-par reviews because they just didn't see the features).

Here's the link!