Categories Update

Yes, I’m still working on this app. In fact, I have pushed everything else aside for it now.

It is a very hard app to make and porting it is a nightmare which is why I put it off to the last of my stuff. I am glad that ipodtouchmaster is helping out. Most my other apps were able to be ported via the compatibility SDK on iPhone toolchain. Still some work but nothing like this. Categories requires a total rewrite in xcode.

Categories is actually 3-4 apps:
1) A configuration app
2) A specific app launcher
3) An updater app
4) An uninstaller app

So the updater and uninstaller can be done last and are somewhat trivial. But the rest is not. In addition, adding appstore app support is a large task.

I am working on the configuraiton app at the moment. Ipodtouchmaster is working on a rudimentary launcher. When these two are functional we will release an early beta. Hopefully this will be done this week.

After this, I plan to make a much nicer launcher and we may even provide an option to choose which launcher to use.

Included in initial release:
1) Configurator and initial launcher
2) You will be able to make folders and move apps into them.

Future plans for categories once it’s out:
1) Speed dial support - make the ultimate speed dial app.
2) Winterboard theme support.
3) A configuration dialog or prefs bundle.
4) Appflo support in the launcher
5) Interface with mobile substrate in order to seemlessly become part of springboard (big task will be much later on).