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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
