>>Incognito,
>>Agreed. You are talking sense for a change ;) You are making me blush! :) On Apr 25, 10:05 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.- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
