We have introduced a new licensing model with prices starting at L$250 per month.

You can now choose from two different license versions, the Standard version and the Professional version. Main difference between those two versions is the background inactivity timer.
The Standard version will log you out from Second Life after the application has been 15 minutes in the background. The Professional version allows you to to put the application in the background  for up to 8 hours.
But there is also a small feature limitation in the Standard version, see the comparison table under Licensing/Pricing for more information.

Also new is the possibility to buy a Professional license for a whole year, which gives you a discount of L$900 (two months) over separately monthly paid licenses.
The Demo version license has been extended to two full weeks (14 days) instead of previously ten days.

All current active licenses have been classified as Professional version licenses.

New features and improvements in v1.8.538

• Support for SLurl.com and secondlife:// links was added. Clicking on a secondlife:// link (used by SLurl.com and other websites) now opens Mobile Grid Client and you will be asked before teleporting to the destination.
• Mobile Grid Client is compatible with small and big screen devices. For example the HTC Tattoo.
• We have improved the local chat: The entries now show how far your conversational partner is away from you, so you get a better feeling about your surrounding avatars.
• Some time ago Elroy Sullivan mentioned by e-mail, that he would like to swipe between different IM channels. This is my first try in gestures and animations, please let me know what you (everyone, not just Elroy) think about it.
• David Baril, also via e-mail, suggested the use of the full screen landscape soft keyboard, as long as there is the bug in Android that stops the dictionary from working with the other keyboard layout. This was added as an option in the preferences.
• Finally we speeded up chat and IM lists a bit.

Some of you requested the feature to give someone money (L$) and therefore the latest version (v1.7.506) supports payments to avatars. You will also be noticed if someone sends you money. I hope you like it.

The previous version (v1.6.472) introduced an issue with the friendlist, sometimes it did not update the online status. This is fixed now.
If you encounter some problems (like the one with the friendlist) don’t hesitate to contact me via a comment on this site or via e-mail.

The new released version (1.6.452) now supports teleporting to avatars in the same region. You will be teleported 2m to the east of the the selected avatar. This should make it possible to chat with everyone in the region and follow people to special places. I think it’s the best way to move without seeing.

Also new is the group notice feature, but at the moment only the message itself is displayed in the appropriate group chat channel, the attachments are not saved to your inventory.

With the latest version (1.5.408) of the client it’s now easier to teleport around in Second Life and to stay in contact with other people. Your profile now also lists your landmark and calling card inventory folder. Only the elements in the root of these folders are displayed. Duplicate calling cards are only displayed once.

The map also got some small enhancements and additionally shows now three red circles around your avatar indicating the chat distances (whisper, say and shout). Those of you who want to listen to the parcels music stream now have the ability to retrieve the parcel’s music URL (The guys from DroidLive are working to support the launch of the stream with just a tap).

All log messages (on/offline messages, inventory offers, …) are now logged in the local chat list.

Yesterday I received an e-mail form ADC 2 Support:

[…] Unfortunately, your application was not selected by Android users as one of the top 20 in its category. […]

But anyway, I want to thank all of you who supported this project at ADC 2 and I hope you like all the improvements I have made since the start of ADC 2.

ADC 2 was the reason for me to start this project, but the end of the challenge will not mean the end of Mobile Grid Client. Don’t worry I’ll keep working on it.

BTW: Some of you are posting questions at the Android Market rating comment. I can’t answer them there. If you have questions or problems using the application please have a look at the How to use it page, post your questions here as a comment or send me an e-mail.

Version 1.4 is out now and has the ability to search for people and to set a custom start location (But be aware that there is no error message when the start location is not available, you will automatically be redirected to a nearby region.).

Changelog:

• people search feature
• home, last and custom start location via settings menu
• crash with full screen soft keyboard fixed
• better scrolling on chat lists

Version 1.3.0 is waiting for you in the market. Some of you requested a group chat feature, here it is. Now you can start and join Second Life group chats on your phone.

Changelog:

• group chat feature
• compatible with CDMA phones
• timestamps for offline IMs
• message on inventory received
• some small bugfixes

If you like it rate it high on the market, if you don’t like it post a comment here ;-).

Mobile Grid Client is out now and available via Android market. Follow this link or scan the QRCode on the right to get to the market entry of Mobile Grid Client.

Some of you may have noticed the new name. Well, Linden Lab kindly informed us to change it, so we hope all of you are also happy with the new one. Maybe we can add some support for other grids in the future.

And one more thing we have to mention: Because this is a hosted service and therefore requires a server to be payed, we can’t provide the service for free. Take a look at the Licensing/Pricing page.

Now go and get it and put your Second Life into your pocket!

Today the first round of the Android Developer Challenge started. And the first big problem arose: Linden Lab has banned the IP of the login server. So everyone who wants to login via Mobile Grid Client receives the following message:

Second Life cannot be accessed from this computer.
If you feel this is an error, please contact support@secondlife.com

I opened a ticket at the Second Life support pages, and waited for response. I’m still waiting, but the login is working again.

So if you get this message on login, please be patient and try once again a few minutes later. I’ll get in contact with Linden Lab and hopefully solve this issue.

Addendum: This was a kind of technical issue and was solved in minutes. The problem never arose again since then.

Mobile Grid Client (originally known as My Second Mobile Life) participates at the Android Developer Challenge 2. So if you like this application, please judge it high. So we can invest even more time and money into the development of it.