I have done videos of my apps. You can see them in the crittermap channel. They are all obsolete to various degrees. Even the obsolete videos get traffic - hopefully they find the newest ones.
Here's two methods: 1. I put a camcorder on a tripod aimed it down at the Mobile Screen. You can here my voice and ocassionally see a disembodied finger. There is a bit of distortion involved here. 2. I used ScreenCastomatic to capture from an emulator on screen, with video from my microphone. The performance of the emulator makes it look like my app is slow and clunky - or that I'm just inept at working my phone. The instructional nature of the video tends to make up for usability problems in my app. But when I actually improve the UI (the preferred case) it tends to make the video obsolete. Here's two methods I haven't tried: 3. Some phones (very few) have video capture. It might be the best of both worlds - but I don't know cause I don't have them. 4. Create a video using music, no voice, screen captions, slides, stock photos, and screen shots, with some transitions from Animoto.com. It would be more of an "infomercial" for people who don't know about the app than hard core instruction for those that have it. I've never really gotten good at doing the videos, but if I did, I might get to where it doesn't take too much time. I have an offshore graphic designer who may already be good at method 4. I would consider just having him do some of these with a few basic scripts from me. Nathan On Mar 17, 12:40 pm, Chris Stewart <cstewart...@gmail.com> wrote: > After spending too much time trying to get a video of my app, I wanted to > follow up on this thread. > > Last night I spent the better part of the night trying to capture video and > audio from a walk-through of my application. I used Fraps to capture video > of my desktop and the audio from my headset, which worked out really well. > I used the emulator to run my application and a web browser beside it as > that has a value for explaining usage. The emulator was so slow, causing > issues not found while running on real hardware, and simply useless for > these purposes. I can't imagine trying to do development on the emulator > exclusively. I've always used my phone to debug and I suspect that if I > didn't have that luxury, I wouldn't have lasted long trying to do Android > development. It was awful. > > I managed to capture about 45 minutes of video which came down to about 20 > minutes after editing. There's still a lot of lag and performance issues > being shown in the video that aren't representative of the experience that > customers have on their phone, so really, I won't be releasing what I've > created so far. It won't do a lot for promotion if a prospective customer > thinks they'll be waiting a minute for certain screens to show up -- when in > reality they won't be. > > Now I need to find a way to capture using my phone directly and walking > through the application that way. The performance is real, the experience > is a better representation of the actual app, and will be a better showcase > for what a customer is about to purchase. It sucks I can't use the emulator > to convey that. > > -- > Chris Stewarthttp://chriswstewart.com > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Kunju Vava <android...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> plse give any idea? > > > Start your own thread? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------- > > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
