`notesCount` not updating correctly (for the app-badge-icon)

[vermiculus]

1. Create a new note, put whatever you want in it, and return to the notes view.
2. Delete the note.
3. The app badge does not decrement to reflect the deletion.

I've looked through the code for the noteCount updating (Classes/Capture/NoteListController/-(void)refreshData), but I can't make sense of the code inside CountLocalNotes() (in DataUtils)

[richard]

The badge count was intended to show how many actions that need to be synced, not how many notes are present. At the time it was useful to know if you needed to re-sync, back when a lot of people used it on iPod Touches without wifi and iPhones with spotty Edge connections.

I don't believe there is a flag indicating whether a particular note had ever been synced before, so adding then deleting a note counted as 2 actions that needed to be synced. Since sync status wasn't tracked, I couldn't tell whether a note needed to be deleted remotely as well as locally, so I played it safe and always checked remotely as well. If a flag was added for each note to keep track of whether it had ever been uploaded, notes that were never uploaded and then deleted could be simply deleted from Core Data and wouldn't impact that badge count.

In retrospect, it all seems quite convoluted and I hope one of your fresh perspectives will lead to a simpler way of handling some of these things.

[vermiculus]

I think my complete lack of real-life experience in using this app is getting in the way here. What you're saying make sense, but I agree that there might be a better way. Hopefully someone else can think on this; as for myself, I'll have to wait until it's put back on the AppStore.

[webframp]

We plan to have it back in asap, just need to coordinate a few things.

[vermiculus]

😀 (patiently awaits the day :) )

[gvol]

FWIW, I still use it on an iPod and would love to have the app badge back.

[mgmart]

is it the app-badge or the badge on the tabbar-icon which is talked about?
The App does not show anything for me. The glitch with the capture-icon-badge is gone meanwhile.
Should be closed, shouldn't it?