Believe it or not..we had a judge somehow look at the read me before
looking at our app.  We have an Android client (obviously), and a web
console to trigger server events.  We got hits on the web console
first!

I really hope this doesn't mean they couldn't connect on the
console.....

On Apr 24, 8:55 pm, "Muthu Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any application that would require the judges to read the docs before
> running them is clearly going to be at a disadvantage.
>
> Why?
>
> The judges are all alone sitting with their laptops, ready to test. Imagine
> yourself downloading an apk from the net. It comes with a readme,
> fairenough. But now imagine how many things might go wrong, if the
> application requires you to read the docs fully and understand it and run
> the application all by yourself.
>
> I'm not saying this is rocket science, but all am saying is there's a lot of
> variables that can screw up the experience.
>
> Hope the judges do take some time, completely understand the "readme" and
> then give their best in fairly testing and judging the applications. I hope
> the judges are not giving it up after their first try, since there's
> countless number of quality hours spend by the hard working android
> developers all over the world. They deserve better.
>
> Good luck on all your submissions.
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:57 AM, ConAim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have the same problem.
> > I look at the server log (which does log every activity came from the
> > clients). But then all I see is, the judges make the connection and
> > click on the Ready checkbox and then close it. When I staged clearly
> > on the documentation that this online poker game need at least 2
> > players join and ready to initiate the game. I'm not sure if the
> > Judges does read the documents. :(
>
> --
> take care,
> Muthu Ramadoss.
>
> http://mobeegal.in
> find stuff closer.
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