Last months were very hot on the MLO beta forum. The users received the new Android version for testing and were trying hard to reveal even the tiniest bugs.
Now, thanks to the great efforts of the beta testers and the MLO team, we are ready to announce a release date. Meet MyLifeOrganized for Android V2 in mid-November!
We know, it’s been awhile since we have started the development of the new app for Android. And we are ready to tell, what we have been doing for so long.
We would like to emphasize, that we didn’t want to create just a lightweight version of our full-featured Desktop software. We wanted to develop a powerful, stand-alone Android app, which could become your personal task manager with just a little or no help from desktop side. To reach our goal, we had to solve the three main issues.
The flexibility of MLO is ensured by a great number of settings you can use, and we wanted to transfer this feature to the new version for Android. We couldn’t shove everything into a single screen, because it would result a jumble of settings, buttons and to-dos. At the same time, users would not appreciate, if we made them to perform too much clicks between different screens of the app. It was not so easy to find a right balance between the app power and the elegance of UI, but together with beta testers we seem to have found the proper solutions.
The second complexity was to implement the long-awaited request of our users to import all the custom views from the Desktop version to a mobile device and allow editing of these settings on device . There are hundreds of custom views possible in MyLifeOrganized! But we made it happen, and after several months of tests we can say that any view can be imported to your smartphone or tablet. Seriously, any view.
At first, we didn’t put calendar view on the list of V2 features. But after the development of V2 for iOS it became clear that we have to include this view in our plan. The MLO users waited for it to be implemented on Android platform for so long that we just can’t deceive their expectations. Since the calendar view is a feature quite hard to implement, we are planning to add at least a simplified version of it by the release moment. And we will refine it in further free updates after the go-live.
Of course, we had many things to implement, besides the three features described above. They were just the most time-consuming ones. Here you will find a list of features you will get in the new version, but it’s not all of it. The more detailed description you will get closer to the release date. So this is what awaits you:
Now, thanks to the great efforts of the beta testers and the MLO team, we are ready to announce a release date. Meet MyLifeOrganized for Android V2 in mid-November!
Challenges we faced
We would like to emphasize, that we didn’t want to create just a lightweight version of our full-featured Desktop software. We wanted to develop a powerful, stand-alone Android app, which could become your personal task manager with just a little or no help from desktop side. To reach our goal, we had to solve the three main issues.
Usability improvements
Custom views
Calendar view
What’s new in the box
- all-new UI design
- inline task editing in the outline
- improved widget
- import of the custom views from the Desktop
- edit custom views on mobile (in plans for initial release or for later free update)
- dependencies between tasks set on mobile
- autosync with cloud
- basic calendar view (in plans for initial release or later in free updates)
- both tablet and smartphone version
- and more
See you in mid-November!
UPDATE Nov 18th : We are performing the last tests with data migration. We want to be absolutely sure that your MyLifeOrganized tasks migrated smoothly to MyLifeOrganized 2. It took a little longer than we expected. But our target is still to release in November.
UPDATE Nov 26th: We started the rolling out of MyLifeOrganized 2 for Android yesterday. We are adding new devices every day to control this process. Please wait for the update notification on your device. More detailed information will be provided soon.
UPDATE Dec 1st: MyLifeOrganized 2 for Android is available for all the devices starting from today!
Sincerely yours,
The MyLifeOrganized Team
Life is easy when organized
UPDATE Nov 18th : We are performing the last tests with data migration. We want to be absolutely sure that your MyLifeOrganized tasks migrated smoothly to MyLifeOrganized 2. It took a little longer than we expected. But our target is still to release in November.
UPDATE Nov 26th: We started the rolling out of MyLifeOrganized 2 for Android yesterday. We are adding new devices every day to control this process. Please wait for the update notification on your device. More detailed information will be provided soon.
UPDATE Dec 1st: MyLifeOrganized 2 for Android is available for all the devices starting from today!
Sincerely yours,
The MyLifeOrganized Team
Life is easy when organized
