Sunday, December 27, 2015

Movie Pulse of "The Brand New Testament"

This is a movie which perfectly depicts the dilemma:

A pulse graph will not obviously tell if the film has been loved by you.

This movie is hilarious - I deeply loved it.

The Brand New Testament

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

And here we go with Star Wars

Unfortunately, I went to the cinema in the afternoon, when I usually have my energy drop.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Monday, December 21, 2015

The movie which gave me the kick

The idea for this app has been kept, stored in notes, put aside. Summer came, summer left. Another app needed an update, illness, laptop stolen, such things.

Then something happened to my: I saw a movie which got hyped all over Europe. Exaggeration, words of praise, few of blame. In such times I tend to avoid those movies. At least I try not to read and hear about it. I managed it.

And the I saw "Victoria" - spontaneous, unprepared and unspoiled. It worked, I went with those naiv adolescent night strollers in realtime without editing through their story. And I promise: I am sure, my heart beat never ever run that fast.

I knew instantly: drop everything else, make Movie Pulse work!

Thank you so much, Sebastian Schipper, for directing this fine piece of film history.

Victoria by Sebastian Schipper

One note of watching movies and measuring heart rates in parallel: too bad - this will work in such intensity only the first time...

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Submitted

As always: submission to the iTunes Connect review process has been just-in-time. I am thankful of Google, because one submits far less than writing code…

These are the facts what went wrong or needed to postponed to the next version:


  • Social Media sharing with Facebook allows no text nor image
  • Link for sharing the app is broken
  • Could not make notifications work - which would be handy to get a reminder after 1h30, 2h and always stop after 3h


And to be honest: I would have loved to make the Star Wars movie as the default one with my graph.