F.R.U., your app for tracking performance of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Funds is now available for Android smartphones!

F.R.U. in Android Market

Kigra Software’s newest mobile game is now available in the Apple iTunes App Store.

App Page:  http://www.kigrasoft.com/orb-code/

iTunes Link:  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orb-code-deluxe/id458024249

YouTube Promo Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfauKgtMAU

-srk

Now that I’ve caught up with all the changes to TSP.gov from the new year, I’ve had a chance to get back to working on the iPad version of F.R.U.  Here’s an early screenshot.

TSp.gov has once again changed their website–this time to add a column on their price chart for the new L2050 Fund.  Because of the way F.R.U. parses the data, the values several of the funds are now incorrect.  A fix is on the way.

- Stephen

Version 1.0.3 did not work correctly on the new devices.  Because of the multi-tasking capability in the newer devices, F.R.U. would never completely shut down and therefore would never check for updated data.  I’ve developed a fix and have submitted it to Apple.  Hopefully it will be available for download by early next week.

- Stephen

If you check the app store today you’ll find an updated version of my TSP app, F.R.U.  Version 1.03 fixes problems F.R.U. had updating from the tsp.gov website after Jan. 3, 2011.  Another user had also been reporting that it was reporting the wrong figures for a couple of the L funds and this also should now be fixed.

- Stephen

With the new year, the tsp.gov site listing current share prices has altered slightly.  Just enough to break the F.R.U. update process.  I’ll get an update out to fix the problem as soon as possible.

- Stephen

After a few weeks of planning the first update and evaluating how it could be made better, coding has begun on an update to my ASCII Invaders game.  What was initially intended as 1.1 update may better be called a 2.0 release.  First, though, has been to go through the current code and squeeze out all the optimization that I could.  I did a lot for the first release, but based on the feedback I got it was not enough.  So far the invader move code now works smoothly regardless of the number of invaders left and yesterday I was able to take the time it takes to animate an invader destruction from approx. 20 milliseconds to 12-13 milliseconds.  I should be able to apply the optimization I did to an additional part of that code and get it down to the 1-2 millisecond range!

- Stephen

Kigra Software’s newest app is has just been released for both the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android platforms simultaneously thanks to the Corona SDK!

More details here:  ASCII Invaders

When the tsp.gov website was revised last month, it broke my TSP application, F.R.U.  I’ve fixed the code that interacted with the tsp.gov website and the updated app is now available in the app store.  You should get an update notification, but if not, try deleting and re-installing the app.