Just to make your job easy, I am using the same format you have used. LifeStyle: NetDroid Description: "Revolutionary motion-sensing browser with which you can scroll webpages by just tilting the phone. It also supports asynchronously loading tabs and full screen browsing." By: Ramani Feedback: Android being open source was very helpful for me to look up the original source code for solving my unanswered questions. Having developed for iPhone earlier, I see this as a major difference.
On Sep 2, 4:42 pm, Lout <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 theADC2since 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 theADC2submission 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. > > > TheADC2really 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
