Last night I released version 1.2.0. It added some bug fixes and some new features. The most notable features are updates to the in-game chat system, and news summary.
News Summary
http://i.imgur.com/pfkpxKC.png
The news summary is only available for your province-news, not the kingdom news. Net values of either gain or loss are aggregated for that day's news. Icons next to the resource categories indicate their source (e.x. "rob vaults"); if you don't know what a particular icon indicates, then clicking on it will show a text-representation for a couple of seconds.
There are a lot of types and variations of news events, and while I spent a few weeks provoking attacks (and even having my KD mates op me) to access certain events, I know for a fact that not all cases are covered. Because of that, I've implemented an unobtrusive way for provinces to submit their unrecognized events to me so I can figure out how to parse them. When the app finds an event it cannot parse, you may be prompted to submit the news event to the app's server. If you click no, nothing will happen and information will not be sent to the app's server, and you won't be asked again (unless you reset the app). If you choose yes, the news event will be sent to the server for me to figure out why it wasn't recognized. Know that submitted events are not tied to your account or province, so I cannot determine from whom it came. However, the news events aren't obfuscated (or else I wouldn't be able to determine why they weren't parsed)--so that means if province, "Yarg", from KD, "x:y" attacks you, the news event sent to the server will show who attacked you, but will not show who "you" are.
I hope you choose to help make this feature better over time and click "Yes" when prompted, but it is your information and therefore your choice, so don't feel obligated. I think it is important that the community is made aware when data is leaving the app, and therefore am writing this post and am happy to answer any questions regarding this feature and request.
In-Game Chat Improvements
Chat messages that tag your province now show up as blue, so that they are more easily found. Additionally, chat messages that you send are also styled in blue. There is also a blue delimiter distinguishing the last message you read within the app (messages above the blue line are unread).
Normally, the in-game chatroom's credentials expire after a short time; this means that without logging back in, the chatroom will not be able to update, and province-tags will stop notifying a user after about an hour of inactivity. I've asked the Utopia-Devs to provide a way to re-authenticate to the chatroom without making the province appear online within the game, however if this request is implemented, I can't imagine it would happen soon. Therefore, I've tried to mitigate the problem by adding a service to relay province-tags. This service is hosted on the app's server, and any time a province tags another province, the tag is relayed via the external service. This means that if Province-A tags Province-B, and Province-B has been offline for a few hours, Province-A's tag will be sent to the app's server and then relayed to Province-B, without needing Province-B to be logged in. This only works if someone using the app is online during this process (this could include Province-A from inside the app... this also includes the scenario where Province-A is using the website, but Province-C is online and using the app, then Province-C will relay the tag on Province-A's behalf). This is probably a bit confusing, but the tl;dr is: If you use the app to send Province-Tags to another user using the app, they will always get the ping regardless if they've been offline for a long time.
Minor Changes
When razing buildings, a confirmation dialog is presented. This is to help users whom have accidentally razed their buildings when they intended to build them.
I've also resolved a bug that prevented monarchs and stewards from being able to view the KD forum.
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