What openintents wasn't in the 50 ??? well that sucks because it is really something useful for developers... We even included the acceloremeter simulator to make a demo of our app !
Well congratulations for SplashPlay i think our app is really something original ! On 10 mai, 12:37, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just learned about an hour ago that we won with SplashPlay > (http://www.splashplay.co.uk/,http://www.openintents.org/en/node/11 > ). I am really happy about that and I guess I still can not fully > realize all the implications. > > Knowing that there have been a lot of very enthusiastic developers > with great ideas in this contest brings up mixed feelings. I almost > feel a bit guilty of winning, in a honest sense, and I really feel > sorry for all remarkable developers that did not have the last bit of > luck that was definitely necessary to win in this contest - besides > all the passion and skill that far more contestants possessed than > were picked finally. > > I was really surprised though to find out that we have won not for our > concerted big effort - for OpenIntents - but for an application that > was originally meant to showcase OpenIntent's capabilities: > SplashPlay. > > My whole heart lies in OpenIntents (http://www.openintents.org/en/). > A technical masterpiece of open components that freely interact. > Neither the shopping list (http://www.openintents.org/en/node/19), > nor the SensorSimulator (http://www.openintents.org/en/node/23), nor > any of the other numerous components (http://www.openintents.org/en/intents > ) seemed to have convinced the judges enough. > > Luckily, we submitted SplashPlay as a separate contribution. > SplashPlay is powered by OpenIntents. Because SplashPlay is based on > OpenIntents components (like the OpenIntents > MediaPlayerhttp://www.openintents.org/en/node/15), it took no more than a > couple > of weekends to code its main functionality. > > Of course, the idea behind SplashPlay is "Keffyoid"'s, and I am very > happy that he looked for open source developers, and that we > (OpenIntents) picked SplashPlay as a nice application to showcase > OpenIntents components. > > I'm quite sure we would not have received any award had we submitted > SplashPlay as part of OpenIntents (and therefore had in principle an > even larger submission). The judging process seemed to have favored > neat scoped ideas that one can grasp in a short moment. > > Now, since SplashPlay has been chosen for round 2, we will of course > put all our efforts to make this a great application by itself. We had > a full list of ideas that could keep us busy for years to come. > > In a sense, OpenIntents' main idea of providing free components is > carried on by providing free music tuition (with optionally available > hardware). There is a second heart in me that loves SplashPlay. > Bringing this to new levels and making it a deserved competitor for > round 2 will not be an easy task, but one that we are happy to accept. > > I want to thank my collaborators who worked on OpenIntents and I want > to thank for all the feedback that we have received for OpenIntents - > all patches and contributions, ideas and suggestions. > > OpenIntents's story is not over yet. We'll continue, with shifted > priorities. SplashPlay will still require OpenIntents as a backbone, > and advances in SplashPlay will flow back to improvements in > OpenIntents. Most notably, a generic sensor listener that will serve > SplashPlay as well as many other applications, is already in > preparation and will be released soon. > > I would like to thank Keffyoid for the idea to SplashPlay and the > great work he did with graphics and help on the documentation. Last > but not least, I would like to thank my fellow developers Friedger and > Zero who helped to shape OpenIntents to where it is now. I will need > your help to get SplashPlay to the next level. > > All the best to everybody also in this forum. I enjoyed the heated > discussions a lot, and I hope we are just at the beginning of > something great! > > Peli --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" 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-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
