Step 1.) On your app’s dashboard, there’s a switch called “Application status” which will be “Off”. To go live, simply flick this switch to “On” and press “Ok” on the dialog.

Step 2.) You’ll be taken to the billing entry page to enter your card details.

Step 3.) After filling in your details and clicking “Subscribe”, you will be taken to your account overview on the “My Account” page. This breaks down your monthly subscription in a readable manner.

Step 4.) If you’d like more specific information, you can view all billing information about your account on the “Billing History” tab of the “My Account” page.

Step 5.) That’s it! After successfully subscribing, Kumulos will serve API requests to more than 25 devices for your live apps.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, you can email us at info@kumulos.com, or post on our new community forums at community.kumulos.com.

Please put your live apps into production with Kumulos by February 3rd 2012, so we can ensure none of your API calls result in an “Account Suspended” response code if the app is installed on over 25 devices.

You can get them for you project now by simply hitting the “Deploy” button and downloading the libraries. You’ll find a new folder called “iOS_5.0_ARC” and inside all the stuff you need to build iOS 5.0 apps in Kumulos!

We’re sorry it took us so long to get here, but good things come to those who wait – so thank you to all those who have been so patiently waiting for these bindings to be released.

Please email me at m.wharton@kumulos.com if you have any problems or questions!

Thanks

As of February 3rd 2012, Kumulos will quadruple your allowance for monthly API requests as part of your $10 package. This means for $10 per month, you will receive 1 million API requests for the price of 250,000. How cool is that? If you have an app running on over 25 unique devices and have subscribed to pay for the service, we are now giving you 4 times as many API requests for the same price. That’s right, you’ve read it correctly, that means you are getting 1 million API requests instead of 250,000 for absolutely no additional cost.

If your app is running on over 25 unique devices and you havent switched your app into production mode, you must do this by February 3rd 2012. If your app is running on over 25 unique devices and you dont switch your app into production mode by February 3rd, they will be cut off. If this happens, you will only be able to reactivate your apps by returning to the Kumulos dashboard and switching your apps into production mode. Please refer to our previous blog posts for comprehensive instructions on switching your app into production mode.

Many of you have been asking about our policy on exceeding the specified limit on monthly API requests. Under the new and vastly improved pricing model you will receive 1 million API requests every month as part of your $10 package. Should you exceed the 1 million API request threshold, you will automatically be billed an additional $10 for every block of 1 million API requests used.

These changes will take affect on February 3rd 2012. If you have any queries regarding the changes, please email me directly m.wharton@kumulos.com

Basically, there are problems when using the Kumulos libs with iOS 5.0 when ARC is enabled.

Even when ARC is disabled using compiler flags, there are still erroneous problems like callbacks never calling back and I’ve even seen a EXC_BAD_ACCESS.

The problem is this: There is something inherently different about the threading in iOS 5 that messes up the code the Kumulos bindins use to make everything simple and seamless.

The kumulos bindings are pretty complex and I’ve written a lot of Objective-C code in my time, the “Convert to ARC” feature in XCode 4.2 completely freaked out when I laughably let it try to do the job for me.

Here’s and example of one the offending code chunks:

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            NSInvocation *inv = [NSInvocation invocationWithMethodSignature:successCallbackMethodSignature];
            [inv setTarget:delegate];
            [inv setSelector:@selector(apiOperation: didCompleteWithResult:)];
            [inv setArgument:&self atIndex:2];
            [inv setArgument:&theResultsArray atIndex:3];
            [inv performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(invoke) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:YES];

Now regardless of the ARC issues (referencing &self isn’t kosher in an ARC environment) for some reason in iOS 5.0 the selector is never called on the main thread. Which is useless.

However the good news is I believe we have a workaround in progress and we will be releasing proper, ARC compatible bindings on the 23rd January.

This is an important reminder that if your apps are production ready, you must go through the billing process by Tuesday January 3rd.

Please put your live apps into production with Kumulos by January 3rd 2012, so we can ensure none of your API calls result in an “Account Suspended” response code if the app is installed on over 25 devices.

I’ve detailed steps below on how you can do this:

On your app’s dashboard, there’s a switch called “Application status” which will be “Off”. To go live, simply flick this switch to “On” and press “Ok” on the dialog.

You’ll be taken to the billing entry page to enter your card details.

After filling in your details and clicking “Subscribe”, you will be taken to your account overview on the “My Account” page. This breaks down your monthly subscription in a readable manner.

If you’d like more specific information, you can view all billing information about your account on the “Billing History” tab of the “My Account” page.

That’s it! After successfully subscribing, Kumulos will serve API requests to more than 25 devices for your live apps.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, you can email us at info@kumulos.com, or post on our new community forums at community.kumulos.com.