So, the past 24 hours for us has been pretty insane. In the day or so since we released Notify 1.0 to the world, we’ve had over 3200 downloads. Thanks to everyone who retweeted, posted, linked to, or downloaded it! You’re awesome!

One thing we’ve also been overwhelmed with is requests for Google Apps support – We’ve gotten over 60 request emails for it so far. Clearly we wouldn’t leave all these people out to dry, so we’ve got some news for all of you wanting Google Apps support..

Google Apps support is coming in Notify 1.1.

The reason we can’t support this with a simple  1.0.1 update is, well, the current way we get the contents of your inbox is a little bit of a hack – we’re basically parsing the Atom inbox feed for each account you add. This has some limitations, such as it only shows the 20 newest messages, doesn’t show the full message text, etc. It also seems that the feed has some odd quirks in it, as we’ve had reports of users getting email from THE FUTURE! So…

We’re going to be moving to a completely IMAP based system for 1.1 and beyond. This means that we’ll be able to support not just Gmail and Google Apps, but any mail account that has IMAP access. We’re not sure if we’ll open it up to any generic IMAP account in 1.1, but if not it will certainly come in a future release. Moving to IMAP will also allow us to build in things like in-app replies, new message creation, etc. These extra things will probably come in a later release.

You’re probably wondering when 1.1 will be released – we’re really hoping we can get it out the door (at least to our beta testers) in about a month, so maybe the middle of September.. Can’t make any promises though, as  our developer will be starting his Computer Science course at university in just under three weeks. There should have enough extra time to continue working on Notify (and other things we’re working on), but you never know.. We’ll update you on the progress of 1.1 at that time.

Anyways, thanks for reading, and thanks for downloading!