I've been watching my logs, and I want to contact somebody about it. Not sure what to do. I have a user signup process that doesn't require reading documents, but you sort of have to finish it. I have a bug. The user menu becomes active before the setup is done. Originally, you couldn't click around the main app until the user setup was complete. However, I changed the app towards the end to do the menus in a common subclass, so the user setup procedure starts making the menu available earlier than it should be.
So. Two judges have logged in. The first one got about a screen into user setup, then stopped completely. That was frustrating. That guy just stopped. The second one also didn't finish the setup, but then clicked around the app for a while. At least that one got to see it. Neither did any data submission (which is what the app does), and neither logged into the exiting user I set up for the purpose of evaluation and put in the docs I sent. Most of these apps are going to be very early stage. Its also a new type of platform for most of us (I'd bet 90%+ come from a web programming background). What that boils down to is interface design that might not be as clear as possible. Right? Its easy to send a link to a buddy to take a look. Not so easy to send an apk file and an emulator, then explain what a command line is (most of the people I have look at stuff are not computer people, which is very helpful). In my case, the screen that these guys are dropping out on has 1 button, which actually says "Next". Yet neither clicked it. Thinking back, I should make it red or something, maybe animate it around, huge flashing arrow pointing at it. Whatever. But, come on. It says "Next". Its the only button. Top/right of the screen. There are 1788 submissions. I don't know how many judges there are. So that's a lot of work. But if you figured out how much work we all put into the submissions, a total of a couple minutes is not sufficient. At least, you know, if "Next" is confusing, have somebody send me an email. I'll explain it. Lets imagine my app is out of the contest now, and I know from the logs that the 2 judges I got were really phoning it in (pun intended. By that I mean they're barely trying). I'm going to have a real problem with that. This whole 'good will' exercise would have the opposite effect. If they gave my app a full look, and then rejected it, well hey. Don't play if you can't handle losing. But without really evaluating it? Anybody else have a similar situation? The tough love answer is, "Hey man, if your app isn't getting these guys to want to use it, maybe its not good". It isn't good. Its alpha quality software. Barely. Right? Now, to be clear, I switched the app from a different one earlier. I had a lot less time than if I'd started with this one in the beginning. That was my decision, but still. Its a new platform. Android is not without its own bugs. I sort of assumed "proof of concept" was what they were looking for anyway. You know what they say about assumptions. On Apr 24, 4:27 pm, 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. :( --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
