I'd not planned to enter at all, but when I saw a tweet announcing that the challenge was open for submissions, I felt embarrassed that I was sitting on three mostly complete, but still unfinished applications - it's a silly situation to be in; and I knew that I'd regret not entering, so I picked the smallest app and raced to finish it. I'm glad I changed my mind too, it makes the challenge more interesting than merely observing it from the touchline. I'm not upbeat about my chances of doing well largely because the app wasn't designed with around the idea of mass appeal which may be a prerequisite for doing well in this competition.
Tom. 2009/9/4 gjs <garyjamessi...@gmail.com> > > Hi Tom, > > Thought you were going to skip ADC2, glad you changed your mind ! > > Good luck with Daisy Garden. > > I submitted geoPaste in the Media category. > > geoPaste is an AR publishing app, see http://www.geopaste.com for > details. > > I spent about 3 to 4 months developing & testing it, including about 1 > month full time. > > I was also lucky enough to do a short presentation on geoPaste at the > inaugural Sydney GTUG (Google Technology User Group) at Google Sydney > HQ about 2 hours after ADC2 had closed. The presentation seemed to be > fairly well received. > > Regards Gary > > On Sep 3, 9:01 am, Tom Gibara <m...@tomgibara.com> wrote: > > I submitted Daisy Garden which I just published to the Android Market > > (Entertainment).http://www.tomgibara.com/android/daisy/garden/ > > > > and there's a bit more about it on my blog: > > > > http://blog.tomgibara.com/ > > > > It's 'little brother' to a game I'm developing called Daisy Chase and was > > mostly complete, but laying dormant while I worked on that and Moseycode > (a > > barcode publishing system they both integrate with). > > > > I only decided to enter a few days after they announced that the ADC was > > open for submissions to enter, so it was a rush. My most stressed moment > was > > when, with about 4 hrs to the deadline, none of the Moseycodes would > scan. > > It's very complex code and delicate to debug under normal circumstances > and > > I was so bleary by that time that it took me 30 minutes to realize I'd > > simply smeared butter from my toast onto the camera lens. > > > > For various of reasons I'm predicting there will be far fewer entrants > this > > time round - and I'll probably look stupid when they announce a record > > number of entrants. > > > > I'm also predicting that Daisy Garden's best chance of progressing to the > > second round is that fewer than 20 apps were submitted under the > > Entertainment category. > > > > Tom > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
