Hi, I got my app 'MicroJam' finished with 24 hours to spare but with a hugley reduced feature set to my original plan. I've been working on the app on and off in my spare time since january so I deceided to make the ADC my deadline.
MicroJam is a simple loop based muic sequencer/remixer and my experience of developing the app for the challange has been mixture of happiness and pain. The main point of pain for me has been the time taken to debug anything, even trivial changes to the code have to be uploaded onto the device/emulator and then tested. This leads to a very disjointed dev workflow(but I guess this must be the same for any mobile develeopment). This problem was amplified by the fact I had lots of audio files in my app. I got around this by adding my audio to the sdcard and taking it out of the app but this then lead to big problems down the line in the eleventh hour when i tried to bring them back in again, see here http://dixonof.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/android-debuggerd-zombie/ . But on the whole I've got a great sense of calm and happiness now I got the thing submitted. I'm now gearing up for my next app which will build on the foundations i've made with MicroJam. I think i may be alone in this.... but I like the fact that I can't make any more changes to the app now it's submitted. I can move on and view any mods as the next version of my app which the maket users can appreciate. MicroJam will apear on the market sometime soon. Simon On Sep 2, 10:12 am, sleith <[email protected]> wrote: > CraigsRace: what is Gonorrhea? i googled it and in wiki said its > bacteria? > hehe i choose that name because clapcard.com domain is available and > the names resembles to the game i played when i was a kid. (dunno if > in your country has it's game, it's by tossing card with friend, who > got upside front win the game). > > On Sep 2, 3:09 pm, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Here's my submission blurb, any chance for self-promotion :-) > > > ---------------------------- > > Tasker let's you link any Task (action set) to the Contexts > > (application, time, day, location, event, widget press) where it > > should run. > > > Send an SMS at 3:15 Monday, make per-app settings or locks, map camera > > button to a menu, launch music app on headphone insert, timelapse > > photos, encrypt on-the-fly, the list is endless! > > ----------------------------- > > > Glad I didn't make a game now, seems to be a crowded category! > > > I'm grateful to Google for organising a fun competition but was a > > little dissatisfied with not having enough time to develop and well- > > test a non-trivial application from scratch. It's also not possible to > > submit bugfixes after the deadline, and of course I'm discovering > > hundreds every day now... > > > I had some test code for the location context which vibrates the phone > > every time the coordinates change: forgot to take it out of course. > > > With 5 hours to go (2am in Europe) I found my widget icons were > > disappearing after a few minutes for no apparent reason: it was comic > > at first but became less so as time wore on and I couldn't fix it > > (never did find it...) > > > Rud: bad luck, I was also worried about catching something in the last > > few weeks, would have been a nightmare! > > > Lee- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
