Bearvelo

Features
. Improved indoor activity look and feel (more feedback)
. Improved indoor activity HIIT timing
. Improved indoor sensor and heart rate measuring (more frequent)
. Additional greetings
. Improved main screen landscape layout
. Improved overall look and feel of existing activities
. Updated various third party libraries (due to issues in the versions of the libraries)
Fixes
. Fixed crash case if data in an Activity has only one entry

Features
- Greetings engine now added
- Improved layout for single had 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

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

Features
- Additional Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) support. Can now read speed data for running sensors, as well as indoor fitness machines that support treadmill and cycling speed
- Indoor activity now shows seconds and minutes counters, making it easier to do high intensity interval training (HIIT) activities
- Users can set the number of minutes (in settings) shown in indoor activity dial

Fixes
- Indoor activity chart (in details) was showing count instead of duration on x-axis (now duration)

Features
- Step information is now available with walking activities (if allowed via health)
- Improved indoor activity gauge

Fixes
- Fixed indoor activity max speed display in details view (after completed)
- Fixed case where activity is not cleaned up when user exits indoor activity without saving (now removes any recorded information)
- Fixed case where application ends (no longer running) and user is doing an indoor activity, now returns to indoor activity when restarted

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 (as opposed to outdoor 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)

Features
- You can now 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, trimming the highlighted range
- 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

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

Features
- Improved layout and usage of main view, adding an existing activity view
- Existing activities can now be filtered by type, distance and location
- Activity details are now a live map, allowing you to zoom in out and navigate around the recorded activity
- 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
- Improved launch screen layout, now consistent with main view
- For first time users, improved flow around approving health access

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

Features
- Improved sharing content layout
- 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

Features
- Improved flow (and reduce delay) when moving between views in the product (switching from main to weather to current activity etc)
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where banner ad would not refresh (I know you as a user may not care, but it pays the bills)

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)
- Added ability to reset bluetooth check in settings (aids cases where monitor can go to sleep) (NOTE: Only present if bluetooth detected)
- 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 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 view (fixed by ignoring older locations)

Features
- Added feature to compare and review recent weeks activities
- Added ability to review release notes from the settings
- Current activity view stays active even if no user interaction (so you can leave it open)
- Provide image of type of activity in list, details views
Fixes
- Fixed value calculations related to watching current activity speed and max speed (only occurred on current activity view)
- Fixed current activity map and activity details map to address cases where location data may be invalid (minor rendering of line issues, now fixed)

Features
- Added new activity types so users can record pet and child activities separate from walking or running in general
- Added streak count and distance to main view trends
- Added pace, best pace on activity details
- Improved loading of activity details
- Adjusted calorie calculation, improved values when at low speeds (relative to activity type)
- Provide haptic feedback (vibrate) when heart rate monitor becomes connected
- Improved connectivity for heart rate monitors
Fixes
- Fixed dark mode display of chart on details view
- Fixed chart bug, if very small data set could cause infinite loop (data under 8 seconds)

This version now supports heart rate monitors (via bluetooth). Once you've paired your monitor with your iPhone/iPad, during an activity the application will also connect to your monitor (and show bpm) and record the data for review with your active time.

Activity details now show a chart of activity speed, and if provided your heart rate data as well.

Improved layout of tomorrow weather, removing non-daylight hours.

Fixes:

Fixed an issue with showing the average speed value in a completed activity, if there were large idle times at the end (would cause average speed to be too high)
Fixed an issue with the tomorrow weather that would show the hour value off by an hour

Fix
If the remaining day or the next day's weather has no hours with bad conditions the app would crash. This is now fixed.

Features
Added initial weekly summary (total distance, longest, farthest)
Add hardest climb badge, hardest climb over 60 seconds (or closest)
Added legend on weather view
Expand map view automatically if the number of recorded activities is low
Use proper pins on current activity as well as completed activity

Fixes
Speed on main screen, current activity screen only updates if speed accuracy is satisfied
Time on charts showed noon incorrectly (12a), now shows as 12 or 12p
If a day's weather has no bad information, multi-day weather report didn't include the day (it does now)

Features
You can now share activity details
Improved weather projections
Improved layout of activity map information
Improved calorie calculations
Health Info now includes active energy (calories)

Fixes
Fixed cleanup issues in health info when toggling the type of activity

Features
Weather Check now includes a 7 day view
Flurries, sunshowers are now considered ok weather
Rain, snow and similar conditions now include precipitation amount (and are highlighted in the weather view)
Precipitation limit raised to 35% (35% and above are now considered cautionary conditions)
Basic calorie calculations are in place and in the details, and shared with the Apple Health App
Max grade is now present

Features:
Updated with visualization of best times for activities based on weather for today, tomorrow
Visual improvements around display of numerical values
Improved summary activity calculations, more accurate overall speed and altitude representations

Fixes:
Fixed issue with Health information, if you change a workout type it would not have updated the related health information, it now does
Fixed memory usage issue when product is recording an activity and in the background

Fixes
Fixed memory (leak) issues when switching between views
Fixed crash case where location data is attempted to be saved before being populated

If undesirable weather is detected, show message and allow user to see undesirable weather for the day
Improved activity list layout, added location of activity
Improved altitude calculations
Added product version to settings view
Banner ads have been added

Fixed:
Weather icon in dark mode wasn’t visible, it now is
Negative peak altitude showed to negative signs, now shows one
If activity is started and user doesn’t move, initial data could be recorded against prior activity, now records correctly
Possible crash when loading location map on an activity when restoring UI has been fixed