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SmartGo One gets a major redesign for version 3.0. Last fall, I changed the scrolling lists to adopt the new Liquid Glass look, leaving the game view unchanged. The game view is complex: it contains the board, move tree, player names, comment, score, toolbar buttons, and more. It was not clear to me how to … Continue reading SmartGo One 3.0 →
With pro games, player bios, and go books all in a single app, there are a lot of possible connections. SmartGo One tries to help you make those connections. For example: All of this has worked for a while. The newest version adds one more connection: pro games now show which books reference that specific … Continue reading Linking Pro Games to Books →
To export your books as EPUB, in the past you had to sync your books to the server (Settings > Go Books Account in SmartGo One), then go to gobooks.com/support.html, enter your email, then tap on the link that would be emailed to you, and finally download the EPUB. The bad news: This is currently … Continue reading Export Books as EPUB →
Some years, keeping up with Apple is not too hard, and I can focus on features. Other years, they give developers a lot of homework over the summer. This is one of those years. With Liquid Glass, Apple is making huge changes on iPhone and iPad. Some buttons actually look and act like buttons again, … Continue reading Liquid Glass in SmartGo One →
Version 2.5 of SmartGo One fixes several long-standing pain points, just in time for the US Go Congress. Fast tab switching Let’s assume you’re studying a game and want to switch to reading a go book. On Mac or iPad, you can open a new window (iPadOS 26 will make this much easier), but on … Continue reading Speeding up Common Tasks →
In a recent SmartGo One update, I added the ability to share an image of the current board position as either PNG or SVG. The settings in Settings > Share affect what happens when you tap the Share icon. The regular image of the board position will use flat stones and board to minimize file … Continue reading Share as PNG, SVG, and EPUB →
iOS 18 gives you much more flexibility in customizing the appearance of your home screen, with dark and tinted icons as well as larger icons hiding the app name. SmartGo One now supports all these modes. While working on dark and tinted variants of the app icon, Scott Jensen also created alternate app icons. Like … Continue reading Alternate App Icons →
Rotate two fingers around the center of the board, and you get a popup menu that makes it easy to rotate or mirror the board. This feature is not new, but in iOS 18 it animates, giving you better feedback as to what’s happening. New is the ability to automatically rotate the board when you … Continue reading Rotate Board →
Some users have complained that the player names shown in SmartGo One are not what they’re used to. For example, they may be used to Lee Sedol, while SmartGo shows that player as Yi Se-tol. SmartGo knows about the alternate spelling, and you could already search for Lee Sedol to find his games, but they … Continue reading Player Names and Mini-Biographies →
It’s still SmartGo One, the one app for all your go needs. But it’s now version 2.0 – a significant step forward after all the additions and bug fixes that brought it to version 1.8.7 over the last two years. (Update July 16, 2024: The 2.0 version was using too many resources on older devices, … Continue reading SmartGo One 2.0 →