My app probably had some bugs and omissions, that is the nature of the game. I am guessing even Android might have a bug to two? :-)
Really the bottom line is, imo, will your app show off Android and help sell phones? Pure speculation on my part but if an app showed huge potential and would help Android be successful then you have a winner. David On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Cow Bay wrote: > > your message raises a question of mine about round 2 of Challenge I: > > "how complete must the app be in order to win $270k or $100k?" > > it is especially critical to those client/server apps that currently > "fake" > server code/data in the apps. > > it will be great if anyone of google could answer it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Android Challenge" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:23 AM > Subject: [android-challenge] Re: How many people submitted with > known bugs? > > > > Ours showed a concept, a user interface and a roadmap. We presented > the problem as worth addressing and well posed with Android. Our > server side is to act like another android phone using the GTalk > interface to communicate with the handset. This keeps important > background processes on the mobile phone light enough to hold priority > and not get frozen and keeps valuable information about when and where > you travel secure on the server Android. Testing would require > multiple emulator instances which we thought was beyond the scope of > the testing for phase 1. So we have left the judges with a question: > Is it worth while to progresively engage commuters in community in a > step by step way? > > We did not provide a complete solution, just user interface and proof > of principle. A time and space travel demo would have been more > persuasive, but we showed that with a video. So I would not say bugs, > it is a proof of concept protoype consistent with resources we had at > that time. > > Ed > > > > On Apr 24, 12:34 pm, "Steven A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Depends - do missing features count as bugs if the application >> functions without them? If so, stuff like music, score upload, pause >> functionality, etc are all bugs in my submission. I only started / >> learned the contest existed in mid-March, so I got hit by a lack of >> time to fully debug things that didn't work right away and hence were >> dropped for the submission. Stuff like the lack of MIDI support (the >> same code now works when I switched the music to mp3s..... I'm still >> quite upset at myself for not thinking about trying this earlier). >> >> Like Kornelius, a week later my app is many times better than what >> was >> submitted and I'm wishing I had submitted that instead. ^^ I update >> it >> every couple of days at:http://www.phdgaming.com/c/EDUBlaster.apk >> (http://www.phdgaming.com/Games/EDUBlaster.cfmfor the main >> application page). Even though I'd feel much better if the new >> current >> prototype version had been submitted..... I also realize I can't >> change the past, and can only hope I make the top 50 cut with what >> was >> submitted. :) >> >> On Apr 24, 1:15 pm, Kornelius Tuggerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> A whole bunch of small stuff slipped by me during the presubmit >>> crunch. I used the weekend after the challenge to address them and >>> my >>> app became a 100 times slicker and more usable. >> >>> I am kicking myself now because I didn't allow myself enough time to >>> polish the ui up before april 14th. Why didn't I follow the agile >>> approach? Why didn't I deliver a working product more often? Why >>> did I >>> let my model and my view code get all tangled up together? Because >>> made the mistake of thinking that developing code on my own time is >>> somehow gonna be easier or more pleasant then developing code at >>> work. >>> Boy was I wrong. >> >>> Anyway to the 15 people who downloaded the ADC version of my app - >>> try >>> the new one, its faster and less buggy, and works an all emulator >>> screen sizes!http://code.google.com/p/android-geocast/ >> >>> On Apr 24, 12:47 pm, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> I see a lot of posts from people worried about a bug or two that >>>> slipped through. My gut tells me almost all of us have bugs that >>>> made >>>> it in with our submissions and that they are expected. If you >>>> submitted your app with bugs in it make a post in this thread. >> >>>> I'll start: >> >>>> +5 or 6 issues we didn't have time to fix- Hide quoted text - >> >>> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
