licence MMD5 Composer for iOS
Hello Fletcher,
My licence for my iOS Composer runs out all the time. It would be so nice to be able to opt for timely announcements to install a newer version of the Composer both in macOS and iOS, preempting error messages.
Thank you,
Adrian
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Support Staff 1 Posted by fletcher on 31 May, 2025 03:06 PM
Adrian,
First -- good to hear from you!!
Composer5 will automatically notify you when a new version is available. Because it is still in beta (hopefully not for much longer), each release does expire. This will not be the case with a "real" release.
Composer for iOS isn't even in beta. It could charitably be described as an alpha release, but even that might be a bit much. You're one of two people besides myself who have installed it.
I guess it's good to hear that you notice when it expires? It means that you're not completely ignoring it. :)
I use the iOS versions of Composer and nvUltra very infrequently, but when I need it I need it.... So I don't do a good job of pushing new releases out to TestFlight very often, and it will (frequently) expire without a new release being available.
When there is a new release available, TestFlight will automatically notify you.
My issue is that I am not happy with the way the apps work at the moment. I need to get nvUltra finalized with Brett, MMDComposer 5 for macOS finalized (which will be quick once nvUltra is done), and then readdress the UI for the iOS and iPadOS versions into something I am happy with. That will help motivate me to do a better job of keeping the TestFlight builds going until it's actually "in production."
I would be interested in hearing your thoughts about the iOS app -- what is it that keeps you using it? What changes would you like to see to make it a better app? etc? Like I said, only a couple of people have used it, so there's no feedback yet.
Fletcher
2 Posted by adrian on 08 Jun, 2025 05:15 PM
Dear Fletcher,
Many thanks for your much swifter answer than mine. Please accept my apologies, but I am going through a bundle of serious problems, which stress me maybe more than one single tragedy would.
I too, like you, use the iOS version of the Composer very seldom, especially now, when I have an iPhone only, and no iPad anymore, just for jotting down things in a hurry and, to be honest, out of loyalty to an application (the macOS version) which I very much like.
In my opinion, the main reason d’être of an iOS version of Composer is the (hopefully) finely granulated way of embedding one-directionally files from the iOS version to the macOS version.
The ease of such embedding, eventually having in the macOS version specific placeholders and version keeping, will be the only base of attracting macOS Composer users to avail themselves also the iOS version.
All in all, I totally agree with you, Fletcher, that for the moment the iOS Composer version may remain on the back burner.
I will answer in a moment also to your other e-mail, which is (probably not only for me) much more important.
All the best, and thank you,
Adrian