Most importantly, the updates include A&B and alternate days schedule shift after holidays, fixes of random syncing issues, customization of date for assignment notifications and some more improvements of general performance of the app.

Also, for iOS version the School Bell notification sound is added

Update: both versions are available on the App Store as of Dec 20, 2011.
NOTE: you need to update both iOS and Mac versions in order to get Cloud Sync work properly.

Added:

• iOS 5 compatibility
• Overnight events to be shown in Week View

Fixed:

• Problem when current events disappeared from Today view on iPad
• Italian localization corrected

Enjoy!

The update 1.0.4 is already submitted for approval, now waiting Apple’s feedback.

What’s new:

• Enhanced for OS X Lion: full screen support, basic restore (app will open where you left it)
• Week view now supports overnight events as well as events that start before 4 a.m.
• Data is saved to disk automatically when any change is made in the app
• Added alert message to prevent occasional delete of courses and semesters

Fixed and improved:

• Fixed synchronization of cancelled classes and exams
• Fixed swapped actions for “Cancel Classes” and “Keep Cancelled” buttons
• Fixed problem causing exams to be duplicated on several days in Overview
• Fixed day change refresh
• Fixed improper ordering of courses in Planner
• Fixed bug preventing input of decimal credits
• Improved drag & drop of classes in Planner
• Improved assignments list layout
• Minor improvements in localizations

In fact, we have already fixed most of the issues related to iOS 5 compatibility.
But the thing is that there is lots of code in iStudiez Pro that was developed by us from scratch (existing application programming interface did not provide generic methods for our purposes) in order to deliver unique user experience to you.
Some things that were developed that time by us now became common in iOS 5, but it means that previous solutions stopped working.

So now when we included new solutions based on iOS 5 they were considered as conflicting with Developer Agreement and the update that we tried submitting was rejected.

Until iOS 5 is released (at least as GM), we will not be able to re-submit the update with iOS 5 compatibility. As soon as iOS 5 is officially out, we will submit the update immediately.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

iTeacherBook is a sister app for iStudiez Pro and was developed for iPhone/iPod Touch as a response for multiple requests from teachers who already tried and enjoyed iStudiez Pro.

iTeacherBook not only allows planning a teacher’s schedule and tasks, but also gives an option of tracking attendance of all students, send assignments by email right from the app as well as mark and observe the progress of students for every course and class they attend (grades option).

The app makes it possible to track schedule and progress of students both in real-time mode and post factum in the form of reports in .csv format.

We are proud to announce it here for the first time and hope you guys will help us spread the news among your teachers

You are more than welcome to learn more details here: iteacherbook.com

P.S. The app is now in review and will be available in the App Store as soon as it is approved by Apple.

Fixed:

• Issue when classes were not shown in Today view
• Bug when exam notifications settings were not displayed
• Crash when entering Percent Grading Scale view
• Bug related to refresh of Semester view
• Bug when days of week were not displayed in Week view
• Bug when decimal points were rounded to one decimal after comma in GPA scale view
• Occasional crashes during sync process
• Issue when entering Instructor’s name from Korean keyboard.

Bonus feature:

• Added Sync button in Today view for iPhone/iPod Touch

As many of you start to ask when is the update and what features you should expect, we decided it is time to share the news. So here is what we prepared for the nearest update to make you love the app even more:

iPhone/iPad/Mac:

• you will finally be able to add grades to your exams
• option to add partners to assignments is enabled again
• added possibility to assign multiple instructors to classes
• added option to assign instructors to exams
• GPA scale for percents added
• we added possibility to assign negative values for your grades (for our users in some European countries and Scandinavia)
• maximum repeat period for a class is extended to 20 days, hopefully this will satisfy those of you who have weird schedules
• cancelled classes will now sync normally
• previously cancelled classes can be restored or optionally keep cancelled when you make any changes to the course schedule
• BONUS: new icon added to choose from class type icons, also all passed exams will be marked with a cute icon showing the grade received.

iPhone/iPad only:

• minimum required specification is extended for iOS 4.1
• you will now be able to set the due date for assignments for the next class
• we also added separate settings for exam notifications, for your convenience

iPad only:

• you can now add iCal events from iStudiez Pro
• we thought it would be more handy to add events from Overview, so  we added “+” button right there

Mac only:

• quick look for class details and notes implemented (available if  you double click a class or press spacebar when the class is selected)
• you will also be able to navigate week view using your keyboard
• in Assignments view double click to add assignment

Also, thanks to your comments and reports the following bugs are now fixed:

• notes to classes will no more be lost when changing any schedule details for particular course/class
• settings sync fixed
• overall performance improved
• problem causing occasional events not to show in Calendar (Mac version)
• occasional switch from letter grades to percent grades causing overall grade to be calculated incorrectly (Mac version)
• hitting and viewing overlapping events in Week view (Mac version)
• occasional crashes (Mac version)

Wow, that appeared to be the long list!
Right now we are finalizing some of the above listed features, proceed to overall testing on all devices and then will be ready to submit to the App Store.

UPDATE: iStudiez Pro version 1.5.2 (iOS) and version 1.0.2 (Mac OS) submitted for approval.
If you own both iOS and Mac versions of iStudiez Pro, remember to update both versions before syncing.

Starting today we officially stop Push Notifications Server that had supported push notifications for iStudiez Pro prior to Apple implemented Local Push Notifications option into the iOS 4.0.

The reason we are doing it now is that we are optimizing server workload which assumes removing functionality that is currently hampering the app’s further development.

Local push notifications option remain untouched and will work normally.

We just received several messages in Twitter and to our support mail from some of you informing us that “i” button is not visualized on Today screen if iOS is updated to version 5.0.
Some other bugs related to the compatibility of current version 1.5.1 of iStudiez Pro and iOS 5.0 might also appear.

As soon as iOS 5.0 has not yet been officially released, all related bugs in iStudiez Pro were not yet addressed. So in order to avoid compatibility conflicts we recommend that you refrain from using iStudiez Pro on iOS 5.0 before it is officially released or before we announce that related bugs have been fixed and the update is available in the App Store.

Following this recommendation you will avoid problems while using iStudiez Pro for you daily schedule planning.

P.S. We are now working on a major update, will announce details very soon.

iStudiez Pro for Mac syncs with iStudiez Pro on iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad via the Cloud Sync server. All users of iStudiez Pro version 1.5 will be able to enjoy this feature.

Version for Mac 1.0 is not yet fully localized into all the languages that iOS version of the app supports, but our volunteer translators are now helping us to improve that. Thank you all guys for being with us!

We also want to say thank all of you who sent their ideas and suggestions, our beta-testers for their valuable comments and timely feedback and everyone else who was patiently waiting and supporting us on their blogs, forums, tweets and Facebook posts.