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. Good luck to all the teams which submitted an entry! - Chris PS: I'm seriously looking forward to an announcement of Google, and hope they publish a list of all submissions. I find it a bit sad that the google-dev blog is not mentioning that the deadline is over, nor that the ADC2 site was updated (still says "submit your apps today"). Google could easily generate a bit more emotions and buzz in the whole Android community. [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
