The App Is Published

2stores, and the app is live on both

The app is live on Google Play and on the App Store. Google Play since 15 September, and the App Store since 30 September. Both stores carry version 1.28.0 today, and both show the app as free, with no purchases and no ads.

Apple took three tries and 23 days. It turned the first version down on 16 September over an answer on the age form, on 21 September because the Sign in with Apple control did not look like a button, and on 24 September because a player must agree to terms before signing in and the age form must say the app has gambling information. Each one was answered within a day. The app went live on 30 September.

Two updates have gone out since, and each passed both stores on the first try. Version 1.27.0 reached Android phones on 2 October and iPhones on 5 October. Version 1.28.0 followed on 6 and 7 October.

Version 1.29.0 is next. It is in test builds and in neither store. It carries the live tournament updates, which are the app's half of the one-second work, and the fixes found since launch.

What is left, in the order it has to happen

Twenty-four items in five groups. Marked Code where an engineer writes something, and Both where the item has to be done separately for Apple and for Google.

1. The next update, version 1.29.0

5 items

Built and with our testers. Not sent to either store.

Settle what goes into the build. One more correction was merged on 8 October, and no build holds it yet.Code
The timed test of live tournament updates on real phones, next to RoomDirector, a dealer tablet and a TV. The first timed runs on 8 October did not pass.
Four checks on real phones: a RoomDirector email link opened on an iPhone, a used sign-up link, an Android phone with the three-button bar, and the blinds on a running event.
Send it to both stores.Both
The new App Store subtitle, "Tournaments, Rooms & Results". It was approved on 7 October and missed on the last two updates.

2. Still open from the launch

9 items

Found or deferred during the launch. None of it blocks an update.

Password reset, one check left. A second cause was found on a real phone on 5 October and fixed that day. The fix is live in 1.28.0, and a reset from a real email passed on Android. The same check on an iPhone is left.
The two digest notifications default to off, so as written almost no player receives one. A product decision first, then a small change.Code
The notification leftovers: a cold start tested on a real phone, and broadcasts sent with no destination. A tapped notification passed on a real iPhone on 6 October.Code
Email links for RoomDirector and the admin app open in the DirtyStack Poker app on a phone, which uses the link up. RoomDirector links are fixed on the server and the app's guard is in 1.29.0. Two more parts are not started.Code
The admin switch for room logo permissions. The gate itself is in the store version, so only rooms that have agreed show a logo.Code
A prompt in the app to rate it. The search half is done: since 1.27.0 the app is first in App Store search for its own name.Code
The Choose avatar page. The fix for its slow load is live in 1.28.0. One look on an older Android phone is left.
The accessibility section of the App Store page, which is empty.
Decide whether the QA login stays. The two review logins stay for good, because both stores test every update with them.

3. Dates the stores have set

4 items

None is close. Each is tracked so it does not arrive as a surprise.

February 2027, Google. A notice on how the Android build is optimised, with three smaller recommendations. It showed again on 1.28.0.Code
April 2027, Apple. Every build must be made with Apple's next toolkit, which means moving the app's framework up four versions. The build image is also not pinned yet.Code
A folding iPhone, tracked for 23 October. Today's app runs on it in a phone-size box, so nothing must change before that date. New store screenshots for it are needed from April 2027.
Updates without a store build. Today every fix, however small, needs a new build and a store review.Code

4. Later: purchases and ads

3 items

Switched off on purpose for the first release, and switched on together.

Switch purchases and ads back on in the app, with the subscription products and their review screenshots. One more step than before: the two Google Play plans were deactivated on 30 September and the billing permission was taken out of 1.27.0, so that the Play page stopped saying "In-app purchases". Both go back in.Both
Test a purchase on both stores, including the Android purchase check that has never been possible before now.Both
Live payments for the website's ad-free plan, and the ad declarations filed again on both stores.Both

5. Housekeeping

3 items

Not blocking anything.

Fresh tablet screenshots for the Google Play listing, which still shows raw captures from August.
New optional App Store artwork, a header picture and a search picture, which Apple opened on 5 October.
The written build-and-submit procedure still has one step from before launch to correct.

What has shipped since launch

Three versions since 15 September. Each of the two updates went to both stores from the same code.

Version 1.26.0, the first release. Google Play on 15 September and the App Store on 30 September. The iPhone version also has Report and Block, terms before sign-in, and the new sign-in buttons.
Version 1.27.0. Google Play on 2 October and the App Store on 5 October. Notes rebuilt: one form, grouped by person, with a card picker. Plain words when the phone is offline. On Android, Report and Block, the terms screen, and the fix for a crash on the Choose avatar page.
Version 1.28.0. Google Play on 6 October and the App Store on 7 October. Leaderboards and a Watchlist page. The password reset fix. Keyboard fixes on Android sign-up. The stored sign-in is sealed on the phone.

One decision worth making deliberately

When to switch on purchases and ads

The first release carries no purchases and no ads, by a decision made on 28 August. It kept the first review simple and meant no store ever saw a paywall selling nothing.

Both come back together in one release. The question is when. The ads need real sponsors first, and turning purchases on means new subscription products, review screenshots and purchase tests on both stores.

What is already done

Most of the work, and the reason the list above is housekeeping and not launch.

The app itself, live on Google Play since 15 September and on the App Store since 30 September, with two updates through both stores since.
Report and Block for players, and terms a player agrees to before signing in. On iPhones since 30 September and on Android since 2 October.
Both store listings: text, screenshots, the no-real-money wording, both privacy questionnaires, the age ratings, and reviewer notes with a working demo account. The App Store text now leads with tournaments.
The website's side: an App Store badge and a Google Play badge on dirtystackpoker.com, a page for each store, and one QR link that sends each phone to its own store.
A watch on errors. Two Android crashes were seen the day after the iPhone launch and fixed in 1.27.0. Since 8 October an hourly job turns each new app error into a tracked item.
The security work held back during Apple's review. The web framework update went out on 2 October, the other dependency alerts on 6 October, and the stored sign-in on the phone is sealed since 1.28.0.
Push notifications, confirmed on new installs of the store version on 2 October.
A test copy of the app for our own phones, separate from the store app, in use since 1 October.
Payments, proven with real money in July, then switched off for this release.
Sign-in with Apple, Facebook, phone and email, account deletion, and the 18-and-over gate.
The commercial setup on both stores: agreements signed, banking attached and tax forms filed.

Compiled 8 October 2026 from the live issue tracker, the public pages of both stores, read that day, and the app's code. Unlike the build queue, this page deliberately includes testing, review and paperwork, because on this particular path they are the work.

The store consoles were not opened for this edition. Console facts come from the tracker's record of each submission.