It is not that the application is complicated, it is the testing that might be confusing, as the default mock providers weren't very useful for a golf application. I provided a nice less than one page quick start, hoping that the judges will take their time to look through it thoroughly. Plus there are the slightly annoying tutorial popups (can be turned off though).
And since I only started on the website after the deadline had past, and I did not have it up until this week I really hope the judge(s) will make a second visit. Finn http://www.teedroid.com On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Muthu Ramadoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incognito, > > Agreed. You are talking sense for a change ;) > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >>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. >> >> Agree with you, however, let me play devil's advocate, if your >> application takes too long to understand( i.e. a couple of hours as >> opposed to just a few minutes) then you will most likely loose a lot >> of points, in fact, I'll doubt you will win. Why? Because these are >> mobil apps, and mobil apps are supposed to be simple to understand and >> use, this is the case even for desktop applications. Even if your >> application is doing something really complicated behind scenes it >> should still be really easy for a user to get up and running within a >> couple of minutes. So if a user cannot get the gist of what your >> application does and how to use it after reading just a couple of >> paragraphs from your manual or Read Me file then you've probably >> already lost. >> >> On Apr 24, 11:55 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. >> >> > > > -- > take care, > Muthu Ramadoss. > > http://mobeegal.in > find stuff closer. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
