Codebook 1.6.1 is now available in the iTunes App Store, providing one of the biggest feature upgrades the app has seen to date. Many of these new features were on our customers' wish-lists for some time, and they make the app much nicer to use. Read on to find out what’s changed!

What’s New

• In-app prefs are now accessible from Note view toolbar
• Alpha-numeric sorting option for notes
• Search inside a note and jump directly to text
• Manual sorting option for notes
• AutoCorrect for note editing now available
• Preference to clear pasteboard on exit
• Share note via email as password-protected PDF
• Adjustable font face and size for notes
• Updated password reset screen
• Auto-upgrade database schema on Dropbox when possible
• iOS 3 is no longer supported

Bug Fixes

• Cancel button on dropbox login controller did not work in iOS 5
• Deleting a note in search view caused crash
• Dropbox sync failed on database version mis-match, reported password mis-match
• Editing in landscape mode was a little busted
• Error messages during sync were cryptic

As of Jan 4th, Strip 1.6.3 (for iOS) is available in the iTunes App Store. This is our best release of Strip to date, providing a slew of major and minor bug-fixes over the previous rev, and a number of new improvements and features. All customers are strongly encouraged to upgrade, this should be a smooth one.

What’s New

This may seem like a minor thing, but the password reset screen got a lot of needed love, as did the shake-to-generate password generator. The latter no longer requires you to shake the device to generate a password, but the accelerometer is still being used for entropy, so we encourage you to wave your iPhone around in public like a maniac before settling on a random password.

There’s also a couple of new preferences available in Settings: defaulting the login keyboard to the numeric keypad (we still discourage this, but it’s been on some of your wish-lists for a long time), and ensuring the pasteboard is cleared of copied data when you exit Strip.

What’s Been Fixed

Editing text for notes in landscape mode has been fixed, and we’ve made it easier to view longer field values on the entry screen by shrinking longer text a bit to fit. We also fixed a nasty but hard-to-track-down bug involving memory warnings and the login screen, which could cause the screen to go blank, and data loss could occur in obscure cases as a result.

Sync operations on the whole should be smoother, and error messages far more informative. In addition, we fixed a couple of nuisance issues you could run into when syncing with Dropbox. Strip now properly reports whether the remote database has a different password (or a different database version—it will automatically update an older database schema before replicating). When a Dropbox operation errors out due to such a condition, Strip will remove the lock-file it places in your Dropbox so you don’t get an additional error on your next sync.

Thanks

Thanks are due to our beta testers! Thanks very much for taking a chance on the newest version of Strip before we were sure it was ready for public distribution.

We are happy to announce that version 1.0 of SQLCipher for Android has been released. With this latest release, a collaborative effort between The Guardian Project and Zetetic, much work has gone into stabilization of the library across various Android versions. For those unfamiliar, SQLCipher for Android allows a drop-in replacement of the standard SQLite database used on Android to encrypt application databases.

Now that SQLCipher is supporting Android with this latest release, we have written up a tutorial covering both the integration of SQCipher for Android into an Android application as well as the steps required to build SQLCipher for Android from source. The latest binaries are available here. In an era where mobile security continues to be a threat, protecting your data becomes ever more important.

Last week we had a quiet release that we forgot to mention here on the blog, an important update to Strip for Windows. This version includes our Dropbox Sync feature, making it possible to sync your Strip data via Dropbox to iOS, OS X, and Windows.

Full change-log:

• New Feature – Synchronize Strip desktop with Dropbox!
• New Feature – New application toolbar for quick access to application functions
• New Feature – Support field reordering via drag-n-drop move handle
• Improvement – Improved integrity check command finds and fixes improper field indexes
• Improvement – Double click non-url fields to switch entry into edit mode
• Improvement – Proper centering and alignment of modal dialogs
• Bug Fix – Allow export of data sets containing empty field values
• Bug Fix – Installer now shows proper program name instead of random string

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch.

We released Strip 1.6.1 to the iTunes App Store and then pulled it from the store a few hours later yesterday due to confirmed reports of a bug preventing our customers on iOS 5 from accessing their data after successfully signing into the application. It’s that bug scenario you always fear as a developer with the App Store—something that you simply must fix right away, but can’t due to the app review process. We have already submitted a fix to Apple as version 1.6.2 and requested expedited review due to the circumstances.

We pulled the update to make that sure no one else gets bitten, and as a result Strip is currently not showing up in the iTunes App Store. There’s unfortunately no way for us to rollback a version update once it’s on your device.

We know this is a horrible inconvenience, but our recommended option is to wait for the forthcoming App Store update because it is the safest and lowest-impact fix. However, if this is not an option there are two other potential courses of action:

1. Sign up for our TestFlight beta service. If you become a beta tester for Strip we can send you a new version before it hits the app store. However, this process involves a sign-up and registration of your device. You can sign up and register devices here: http://tflig.ht/nxGEhq
2. Restore from backup using iTunes. As long as you haven’t synced your device since the update was installed, you should be able to restore from backup. Unfortunately this would erase any data from Strip and other applications that was not in the last backup. If you are think you might need to do this please don’t sync your phone with iTunes, as it could overwrite your last backup. This should be a last resort due to the potential for data loss.

We’re really very sorry about the problems this has caused – we are doing our best to get this fixed as soon as possible.