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

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.

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.

We’d like to thank all of you for your participation and feedback throughout our beta period, and hope that you will continue to find value in building with Kumulos.

Now that we’re live, our pricing model will come into effect in 30 days’ time. At this point, any apps you want to enable for more than 25 devices will need to be launched. When you launch an app for the first time, you’ll be prompted to enter your billing information.

If you have any concerns about this, please don’t hesitate to contact us through the support system or directly by email to m.romilly@kumulos.com.

As always, we’re keen to hear what you have to say, so if you’ve any suggestions, just get in touch.

Stay tuned to our blog, where we’ll be unveiling our development roadmap shortly, and running articles aimed at helping you create successful apps and make more money from your customers using Kumulos.

There are a few important things that you should consider:

- The Kumulos control panel will be inaccessible for approximately 2 hours during the switchover

- The API servers will be read-only for approx 15-20 minutes

- We will be updating via twitter as we update the system

If any of you are interested in using the new system, please let us know. We are keen to gather some feedback prior to launch regarding the new software. Similarly, if you have any questions regarding your apps or data in relation to the switchover, please contact a member of the support team directly. You can contact me via m.romilly@kumulos.com

Thanks again to all of you for the feedback and positivity during our successful beta. We could not have got this far without your comments and enthusiasm for the product. Please keep talking to us, as your feedback is invaluable. Our goal is to help you create better apps, if there is something we could or should be doing better, tell us about it.

Thanks!!!!

Many of you have been asking about pricing and I just wanted to clarify what’s going to happen based on your feedback. Kumulos will be totally free to use while you are developing your apps. Once your app goes live on either iOS or Android, we’ll ask you to pay $10 per app, per month (subject to fair usage policy). You can also get SSL and Hookup for small additional fees. It’s that simple.

The new software will be ready very soon and when it goes live, there are a few things we need you to do. Firstly, stay calm. We aren’t just going to cut off your app. When we launch the software, the site will be down for a couple of hours, so please be patient with us on that. This is so we can transfer all of your stuff onto the new system. Whilst we are migrating the system, you wont be able to login and your data will be read only. Once we have successfully transferred all your app data onto the new system, you will be able to login again.

Secondly, you need to login to the new system where you will be able to enter your billing information and subscribe to the service. If you do not do this within 30 days, your apps will go into development mode and will be limited to 25 devices. So if your app is live on the app store, it’s essential that you update your billing information on the new system within 30 days, otherwise it’s not going to
work.

There will be live tweets as we go, so please keep up to speed using @Kumulosdev to get the latest information. I’d like to thank you for all your
feedback and support using Kumulos, it’s helping us to understand your business and make a really cool piece of software. We’re really proud of the new system and hope you like it too!!!

Thanks to everyone who took part in our successful beta, we couldn’t have made it this far without your honesty, dedication and support. Keep talking to us because we love to listen to your comments. All of the improvements we are making are based upon your continued consultation and passion for creating sweet apps.

If you have any questions regarding pricing or your apps, please contact me directly via email m.romilly@kumulos.com

We are really excited to be introducing a new much-requested feature as part of Kumulos. As you have probably guessed, this feature is called ‘Hookup’ and basically allows you to import an external database structure into Kumulos so your APIs can select, insert and edit data stored in an existing MySQL database.

This means you can hook up your mobile app to any website, e-commerce or business database using the same simple drag and drop API interface that made building cloud apps a breeze.

Just enter the MySQL connection details and Kumulos automatically pulls in the table structure ready for you to build your APIs in seconds.

Not only does this save time, it provides an added value proposition for your clients and enhances your product offering with the opportunity to bring a mobile application to any existing web presence.

Other Cool New Stuff

Simple Stats:

It’s now easy to see and monitor both your global and per-app API usage. You’ll see these stats next time you log in on both the main dashboard and app dashboard.

Production Mode:

Kumulos will always allow you to create and build apps absolutely free, and you can run and test these apps on up to 25 devices – just remember to flip your app into production mode before submitting to the app store.

During Kumulos Beta, production mode is always on. When Kumulos beta closes all your apps will be safe, geared up for production and free to run for 60 days. After 60 days you can then either turn them off or sign up to our cost-effective package.

UI Tweaks:

We’ve also improved the data management features, adding, inserting and editing data is now more user friendly and easier than ever.
We’ve added a file uploader too for everyone storing images and files in Kumulos.

Apps can now be deleted – simply click on the ‘Edit’ link next to application settings and there is a facility to delete the application.