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Update: Playbook Apps – iOS 5 Compatibility

daren — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:12:34 +0000

The updates to the Playbook apps have been approved and should be available shortly for download. Numerous bug fixes and a few small tweaks have been implemented. The apps have been tested on iOS 5 and so far I am not able to cause any crashing. Thanks for your support! Tweet

Playbook Apps – iOS 5 Compatibility

daren — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:34:43 +0000

I’ve been contacted recently by a large number of users about intermittent crashing with all of the Playbook Apps. Having spent a significant amount of time debugging the app, the common thread seems to be iOS 5 compatibility. I will be releasing a new update shortly that will address the iOS 5 compatibility issues. Thanks [...]

Best App for Drawing Up Plays – PlaybookBall

daren — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:50:00 +0000

O’Reilly recently published the 1st edition of their “Best iPad Apps” and named PlaybookBball the “Best App for Drawing Up Plays”. Peter Meyers writes: Eight seconds on the clock, your team’s down by two with the ball. Coach, how you gonna pull this one out?… Grab you iPad, fire up this app, and show your [...]

Manage Team Rosters with Playbook Apps

daren — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:01:53 +0000

With the latest update to the Playbook Apps, coaches will be able to manage their rosters and lineups along with their plays. To get started, update your app now and tap on Main Menu > Manage Rosters. There are four screens dedicated to Team Roster and Lineup Management. The first is the Teams screen where [...]

Known Issue – Playbook Apps Slow on iOS 4.3

daren — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:45:07 +0000

I have recently verified that performance of iPad Playbook apps is significantly slower than expected on Apple’s latest version of iOS. I am working hard to identify the root cause and will release an update as soon as I can to address the issue. Thank you for your patience. Until this issue is resolved, I have [...]

Snap To Grid – PlaybookFootball

daren — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:45:48 +0000

Hey Football Coaches! PlaybookFootball v 1.1.8 and PlaybookFootball-To Go v 1.1.6 now includes a ‘Snap to Grid’ feature making it immensely easier to line up your players at the line of scrimmage. You’ll save plenty of time without having to meticulously line up your players as they will now automatically line up with one another. [...]

Playbook Apps Crashing on iOS 3.2 (iPad) – Fix on the way!

daren — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:19:55 +0000

Unfortunately, it looks like the latest Playbook Apps update is crashing on iOS 3.2. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, but rest assured that issue has been identified and I have issued an update with the fix to Apple. The update should be available in about a week. Note that this bug [...]

Need to Print a Play? AirPrint is now supported!

daren — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:12:02 +0000

The latest update for the Playbook Apps has just been approved and is now available on the App Store. In this latest update, the Plays menu has been revamped and is now the ‘Main Menu’. Tapping on the Menu button will open up a popover with a number of actions to choose from: Create New [...]

A Note about New Icons in the Playbook Apps

daren — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:39:19 +0000

The last few updates to the Playbook Apps introduced a few tweaks to the user interface. Some of you might be wondering what the new buttons are, so let me describe them. iPad Playbook Apps (Edit/View Mode) First, PlaybookBball (applies to PlaybookFootball, PlaybookSoccer and PlaybookWaterPolo as well). In Edit Mode, the Add Note and Add [...]

Pause Play Animations

daren — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:57:01 +0000

Need to pause a play during playback to better explain how it breaks down to your players? Or, have you accidentally tapped the play button for a play with many steps that you need to get out of? The Playbook Apps have just been updated with support for pausing play animations. At the time of [...]

Use Playbook Apps as a Whiteboard

daren — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:03:10 +0000

The latest update to the Playbook Apps enables users to use PlaybookBball, PlaybookFootball, PlaybookSoccer and PlaybookWaterPolo as pure whiteboards. Coaches can now quickly draw up plays without having to setup an animation and go through all of the individual steps to setup a play. The whiteboard can also be used to draw player passing options [...]

Updated Playbook Apps On the Way!

daren — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:52:23 +0000

Over the weekend I submitted the next update to the App Store. It seems that a few of the apps (PlaybookSoccer-To Go and PlaybookWaterPolo-To Go) have already been approved and the updates are available for users. Hopefully the rest of the apps will be approved soon so all of you can get the latest and [...]

PlaybookBball in Top 10 on the App Store

daren — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:16:37 +0000

For the first time, PlaybookBball has broken the App Store’s Top 10 Paid Sports iPad Apps! (United States App Store) As of 10AM Pacific, PlaybookBball is sitting at the number 8 position behind such notables as NHL’s GameCenter and MLB’s At Bat apps. More improvements to PlaybookBball are still underway. Since its original release in [...]

PlaybookBball Reviewed at nytimes.com

daren — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:44:01 +0000

Bob Tedeschi, writer of the New York Times’s App Smart Online Column, gave a few of the Playbook Apps and other sports related apps a test drive recently. He examined the current state of mobile sports technology software and had quite a few interesting things to say about the Playbook Apps. The following is an [...]

Playbook Apps Updated – But there’s a Known Issue

daren — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:02:23 +0000

The latest and greatest update has been approved for all Playbook Apps and is now available in the App Store. The latest update’s biggest new feature is formations. Each sport now has several pre-built formations to choose from to help coaches setup their plays even faster than before. The update also includes the fix for [...]