Hi everyone, here's some short data on my app:
Travel: Transport Finder Description: Displays bus stops, tram stops and stations around you and shows their upcoming schedule (works for Germany and Switzerland). Also has a widget for the homescreen. By: Daniel Kleine-Albers Published on the market: No, waiting for ADC2 feedback Website: http://www.dka-edv.net/android/ (empty now, will be setup in the next couple of days) Androidwise the greatest challenge was the control of the service lifetime (starting / stopping / power saving) - it's kind of tricky when you have a widget as well as an application that access the same backend service. Also, the emulator seems to behave different than a real device in this regard in some cases. Contentwise the greatest challenge was to get the schedule data. The stops are retrieved from OpenStreetMap (same for everywhere), but their XAPI servers are not reliable, so I had to setup my own one (with reduced dataset because of space limitations). For schedule data it is more difficult, as at least each country has a different place to get them from and these places are usually not offering a stable API. This is also the reason why the app only works for Switzerland and Germany (which might be a big disadvantage in ADC2) - in the app there is basically support for a different provider per country (which again is difficult for, e.g., the US). I have not been involved with ADC1 but I read that there were around 1700 entries. I guess it will be more this year as the Android platform has gained a lot in popularity. Anyway I think there will be a lot of nice contributions and that it will be a pretty tough competition. For me personally this was already a great learning opportunity. Cheers Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
