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After getting a nice cease and desist letter from SquareEnix, I had to pull the FFGear app off of the itunes store.

Now about a month and a half later, I've got a new version almost ready to submit to apple.  It's currently in beta, couple more kinks that i need to work out and some new graphics in the works.  I'm planning on submitting back to the itunes store sometime in the first or second week of Feb.

All of the fixes that were originally going to go out with v1.2 which got hammered down by SE, will be in this version. I have also added a new feature which will allow you to import your own icons for all the gear in this app.  The app will ship with some default images (free from copyright infringement) for gear, but I'm sure you will want some better and more specific graphics.

Introducing the FTP Import!

You find this screen by tapping on [Update Application Data] from the Gear Sets screen.  Then Choosing "User Generated (FTP)".

I recommend using FileZilla to transfer your files from this point. (http://filezilla-project.org/)

Just enter the "Connect To:" IP Address given to you by the FFGear app where it says "Host:" in FileZilla.

To Upload your images or data lists, just drag-and-drop the files onto the Uploads folder.  Currently the app is accepting 3 different Files to be uploaded:

Icons.zip           - archive of icons for gear items in the app.

GearInfo.plist    - xml containing info on all the gear in the app.

food.plist          - xml containing info on all food items in the app.

Aside from this, I'm also currently finalizing a Mac & Windows client that will build the three files mentioned above.  It is a modified version of the tool that I had originally used to gather all the item/food icons.  The Mac client is ready and the Windows client is very close.  I'll update here when they are both ready and available to download.

For legal reasons i cannot host any of the files containing copyrighted images from FFXI, so it will be up to you all to either gather up your own (suggest by using one of the two client apps mentioned above) or maybe some of the other folks that are using this app will do so and provide them to you all.

Either way, I'm very excited to have this FFGear app so close to being available to you all once again!