Got another from Chris over mail Productivity/Tools: MyMarket http:mymarket.cc Description: "MyMarket is a customizable overlay for the Android market with many features" By: Chris and team Feedback: Detailed in his mail below:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Christian Hager wrote: > > Hi, > > I've written the post again, but it's not showing up. I send it to you below: > > - Chris > > I gave it a shot with MyMarket [1][2], a customizable overlay for the Android > market, where users can bookmark, recommend, remove and filter as well as > preview apps and games. > > I was thinking about the ADC2 since spring, waiting for a good enough idea to > come up (and if at all). Four weeks ago my flatmate and I were talking about > the Android market, and how boring it usually is to browse the apps and games > listings (mainly because the popularity listings doesn't change a lot, and the > by date listings are spammed by low-quality apps). We figured it would be a > real improvement if users could simply remove items they don't want to see in > the list anymore. > > We started working on the project and released the first version on 8. of > August, followed by a ton of user feedback and great ideas which we had never > thought about in first place. The next weeks have been a constant cycle of > iterations, considering each and every feedback we received (we don't know > what's best -- our users do!). Because of all those supporters we were able > to integrate many new and anticipated features such as recommendations, "my > downloads" with updates, quick filtering, etc. and have fixed a wide range of > bugs which were detected in the first weeks. > > The last days we worked towards version 1.0, which we got finished a day > before the ADC2 submission deadline. We released it on the Android market > again and asked many users which sent us feedback previously for a quick test. > We were able to fix 2 important bugs, and by now we are quite confident that > MyMarket works as expected. We never could have come this far without all the > help from our users -- credits go to them for thinking of many of the > implemented ideas in first place! > > The last hours before the deadline we luckily had enough time to add one more > (great) feature: displaying the number of user-votes in the recommendations. > As most developers at this point we have been quite tired (no sleepless nights > though) and hope not to have introduced no new bugs :P. I think our project > works quite well -- we haven't received any feedback about new problems since > we pushed the same version to the normal Android market. > > The ADC2 really pushed us to try to deliver a high-quality application, which > works with all oddities (eg. screen rotations on the G1, etc.). We also asked > the designers at glyfx to enhance our 2d icon to a 3d version, according to > the (not really trivial) "Android Icon Design Guidelines" (great company > btw.). > > It was a fun thought knowing that hundreds (if not thousands) of other teams > were simultaneously working on their ADC-projects during the last days with > the same pace as we did. Good luck to all the teams which submitted an entry! > > - Chris > > [1] http://mymarket.cc > [2] http://www.4feets.com/2009/09/mymarket-v10-submitted-to-the-adc2 > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
