We've taken a few weeks out to get all the documentation up to scratch first and improve the stability and usability of the designer, as it's become the biggest issue for most people now. The Designer UI is now stable but the documentation is probably even more important than bug fixing! After the documentation has at least caught up with the libraries again, a beta version of embedControl will follow pretty quickly. Probably supporting ethernet first on iOS and Win10 (also Bluetooth on Win10). Followed by Android, then BLE.
We've taken the step of making our roadmap public this week, so people can better see where relative priorities are. You'll see starting with the next sprint, embed control comes back centre stage (forgive my use of popular album names for the sprints but you've got to have some fun in the process of planning):
https://www.thecoderscorner.com/products/product-roadmap/
Public beta, around a month, if we had not taken the call on documentation and ease of use, it would be out already on Win10 and iOS. After documentation, it's the next priority. If you wanted an early test version on Windows UWP to try, I can zip a version up and send it to you.
So in summary: EmbedControl app is actually working and quite well tested (cosmetic details aside) on Windows 10 and iOS, (Android is also working but not as well tested yet). It's written in Xamarin (the same as the store versions of tcMenu Designer) and unlike the designer which uses direct UWP on Windows and Cocoa on Mac, the controller uses Xamarin's cross-platform UI so it's a lot quicker to port.
I know this is a somewhat long post for a very simple question, but a lot has been going on in the Nutricherry company household, we are basically a very small family business, and we've finally recognized that, and recognized that we're not going to compete with the large IoT providers in any way, and actually we don't need to. So we've decided that we'll just support everything that we can basically. So, along with embedCONTROL that will target local monitoring over the LAN / BLE, as commercial users require it, we will also start looking into supporting endpoints for services such as Blynk, Amazon IoT/Alexa, Google home, Apple home, Adafruit cloud, Azure and Arduino-IoT. There will probably be a one-off cost for using those endpoints, and we'll probably offer support services around them all. What has recently surprised me is how quickly I can build endpoints to other services. On a larger board we could even support more than one at once.
Priorities:
1. Get the documentation sorted out and make sure a new user can find their way around it quickly and effectively
2. EmbedCONTROL for iOS and Win10
3a. Some small fixes for the designer, graphical plugins and library
3b. BLE for EmbedCONTROL on iOS and Win10
3c. EmbedCONTROL for Android
(the order of 3a,b,c is going to depend to some extent on feed back from step 2)