Alert! – Netflix Broke Genres in the API 6/11-6/12
- Netflix will be eliminating the Genres field as it currently exists on 6/15. This weekend, they began making some of their changes and The Intersect began crashing on the initial load as a result. As of Monday morning, 6/13, they seem to have reversed the backward incompatibility., but some issues may remain. Netflix has not yet issued any sort of details on what is involved in this change, but I will submit a working version of The Intersect to the App Store as soon as I can update the code to accomodate these changes. Likely by Thursday evening, 6/16. My apologies to anyone this inconvenienced.
Fixed several issues which may have led to memory leaks, less than optimal performance, and crashing. Altered the History function to allow duplicate search grids and added an upper limit so the application will trim history to the last 20 items displayed when adding new items. Added a pop-up link to the App Store ratings page for those who use the application for more than a few days.
Changes:
- Corrected multiple memory leak issues that led to crashing.
- Improved search term loading performance.
- Fixed an issue with removing the search term added by default Genre searches when the application first loads.
- Improved History (Back/Forward) navigation.
- History now allows duplicate searches.
- History now limited to the most recent 20 items added.
- Titles displayed on the Back/Forward buttons will now scale to a point, then truncate, making more text readable in most cases.
- Added a pop-up App Store ratings link for frequent users. This pop-up will only be displayed once.
Known Issues:
- The Forward and Back navigation button in the Search Terms view are not functional in the iPhone version. They are intended to serve the same purpose as the navigation buttons in the search results grid and movie views. Version 1.31 will include a fix for this and will be submitted as soon as 1.3 is approved.