Hi Keith,

In addition to Sieghard's information, I find it useful to monitor the
history of an app's updates.  You can use either the AppAdvice web
page or their iPhone app to find out this information under "App
Activity", which is one of the options at the bottom of the page for
their iPhone app.  So if I'm using the iPhone app, I'd open the app,
and either touch the bottom right corner or do a four finger tap on
the bottom half of the screen to move to the last element on the
screen, which is the "search" option.  Then I would type "tunein" and
double tap "search" in the bottom right corner of the virtual
keyboard. The listed results will show Tunein Radio Pro, TuneIn Radio,
and a few other matches, and will also tell you when there was last a
change to price or version -- so you would hear "6 days ago" for
TuneIn Radio Pro, and "last week" for TuneIn Radio. Since I know that
"App Activity" is one of the last entries on the screen, for each app,
after double tapping to select "TuneIn Radio Pro" I would touch the
bottom left corner of the screen and flick left past "Other apps by
TuneIn" to "App Activity" (and two more flicks left would give me the
current version number of the app and whether it is universal).  If
you double tap on "App Activity" you'll get a chronological list of
version and price changes for the app.  For example, for TuneIn Radio
Pro, the entries are: "Nov 27 version 3.1", "Nov 19 version 3.0.1",
"Nov 04 version 3.0", and so forth.

I find that occasionally I have more difficulty locating an app in the
AppShopper app than I do if I run a Google search for the same app, by
typing in the app name along with "appshopper" in the search field.
In the case of the Google search, you'll want to set your rotor to
"headings" to move to "App Activity".  For Google searches I sometimes
have to type in the names of the app again in the AppShopper page's
search text box to select the correct app to check.  But one other
advantage of using the web page instead of the app is that you'll be
told if the app is no longer available in the app store.  Although the
page is not meant to be active, you can still navigate to "App
Activity" and find out when the last activity entry was posted.
Details of changes made in each version are not available this way,
but at least you can find out when different versions came out.  you
can also use the App Activity heading to find out the history of price
changes.

I found out about the AppShopper "App Activity" entries early on, in
Fall 2009 when I got my first iPod Touch.  The free NY Times app,
which had worked perfectly with VoiceOver for a number of months, had
an update that made it inaccessible (similar to the Kindle app --
suddenly the entire page just gave you a "boink" sound with VoiceOver
and nothing was read). Fortunately, I had downloaded a working version
before ever getting my iPod Touch, so I just never updated the app,
and kept tabs on the "App Activity" heading for the app on the
AppShopper web pages to wait for a possible fix.  It took more than a
month.

HTH.  Cheers,

Esther,


On Dec 3, 11:58 am, "Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D."
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to troubleshoot some TuneInRadioPro streaming issues, and I want 
> to compare the latest app version on my iPhone with an earlier app version on 
> my iPod4thGen.
>
> Thought it would be good to know in general best way of finding app versions.
>
> Thanks in advance. Keith

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