No, it took Samsung contacting Android developers including myself
before the Galaxy Tablet release asking us to do special things to
support the larger than WVGA screen size. Even Android developer support
commented they didn't like that. Apps with bitmaps may have a
particular problem when it comes to scaling. And x-large layouts may
not solve the problem either. Samsung may have developed a 3.0 upgrade
but you have to wait for carriers to release which takes even more time
(because they usually want to "customize" it and thoroughly test it to
avoid support costs).
On 05/31/2011 11:12 AM, Disconnect wrote:
It doesn't take 3.0 to make an app compatible with phones and tablets. (And
in fact, "radar now!" is the only app I have that still doesn't fill the
screen or rotate properly. The vast majority of apps use the recommended
layout methods introduced way way back in 1.6 to handle scaling without
issues..)
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Brian Conrad<[email protected]>wrote:
Samsung needs to update the tab to 3.0 or better. I have users complain
about my apps filling the screen too but if you look up threads and some of
the docs there is a "hint" that some company sort of broke the rules when it
comes to larger screens. Their emulator image also only had the Android API
so if a developer had an app that used the Google API it wouldn't install.
Of course right now if you have an app that is portrait in orientation the
screens will flip upside down on Google's 3.0 and up emulators. Sorta hard
to work with that too. Apparently it has something to do with the way the
sensor works and they fixed it but the fix didn't make it into the last
update. Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
On 05/31/2011 07:09 AM, Disconnect wrote:
Congrats on the million installs :)
I grabbed it for my galaxy tab, but the interface is pretty broken - no
rotation, doesn't expand to fill the screen, etc. Works great on the g2,
but
I was hoping to use it on the tab - its summer and the tab spends a lot of
time in a (horizontal) car dock in the jeeep. I need something exactly
like
this app to make sure I'm not about to get soaked with the top off :)
(Doesn't compare to hiding from tornadoes, but still..)
FYI I'd be happy to do testing with the tab if you wanted to try to
resolve
the ui issues..
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Maps.Huge.Info<[email protected]> wrote:
My app "Radar Now!" finally crossed the ONE MILLION active installs mark.
It's taken months of flirting with that milestone to get here but it
finally
has been done. I was at 997,000 two months ago (or so) when they changed
the
<insert unknown element here> calculation and my app dropped nearly
200,000
active installs in one day.
So what does 1,000,000 active installs actually mean? Beats me. I really
don't think this is an accurate figure. Last week the number jumped by
10,000 several times in a single day, over 100% on one day of the
download
counts. Seems curious to me but then again, if I want actual statistics,
I'll just get them from my own server which is far more accurate and
reliable.
Next week the app should cross the 2,000,000 download mark. Again, what
does that mean? Nothing really. The important statistic to me is over
575,000 people used the app nearly 7,000,000 times in the last 30 days.
One
was from Joplin, MO who said the app may have helped keep his family out
of
harm's way (see below). I wonder if "Angry Birds" ever got an e-mail like
that?
-John Coryat
*Thank you from Joplin, Missouri
Thank you so much for having this app available.
Our town was hit by an EF-5 tornado four days ago. On leaving our
son's high school graduation ceremony, I noted that the sky didn't
look right, and it was starting to rain. My view of the horizon was
blocked by buildings. I pulled up your app and saw a large red radar
signal about several miles in size moving directly toward us.
We we able to get to safety (not knowing that it was a tornado, but
was definitely something we wanted to be away from). Within a half an
hour the tornado wiped out about a third of our town. Thank you for
providing us with the information to be able to act quickly.
(Craig Patterson)
*
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