Hi, here is my app: -Name: MyPages -Category: Productivity/Tools -Description: "Use your phone as a Post-it, remember pages for your books and Google Books, add notes, "one-touch GoTo" a particular page for Google Books, customizable sorting and filtering and more. Never have page creases or scribbles in your books again!" Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75lR4zLy_LQ
-The Idea . . . I got the idea for MyPages during my daily subway commute to New York City when I noticed a lot of people reading books (for work/school/ leisure). Very few had actual bookmarks while the majority made page creases or used subway tickets or other pieces of paper to remember pages in their books. -The App Goal . . . I desgined MyPages with the main goal of providing a "Post-it" functionality where users keep track of pages for books they are reading as well as adding notes. Moreover, I figured that it would be a perfect fit to augment Google Books with the same "Post-it" functionality and allow an "on-the-go" reference to pages in users' Google Books library. With MyPages, I also wanted to showcase the flexibility that Android provides for building great UI. To this end, I spent a lot of time creating my own graphics to skin MyPages from the ground up. The Coding . . . Thanks to well documented Android API and Google Data API, developing MyPages was an enriching and great experience. My main concern was indeed finding the time to code since I work full-time and also doing my Masters in CS part-time. Regards, Nadim Bahadoor On Sep 2, 7:27 am, Chris Hager <metaka...@gmail.com> wrote: > I gave it a shot with MyMarket [1][2], a customizable overlay for the > Android market, where users can bookmark, recommend, remove and filter > as well as preview apps and games. > > I was thinking about theADC2since spring, waiting for a good enough > idea to come up (and if at all). Four weeks ago my flatmate and I were > talking about the Android market, and how boring it usually is to > browse the apps and games listings (mainly because the popularity > listings doesn't change a lot, and the by date listings are spammed by > low-quality apps). We figured it would be a real improvement if users > could simply remove items they don't want to see in the list anymore. > > We started working on the project and released the first version on 8. > of August, followed by a ton of user feedback and great ideas which we > had never thought about in first place. The next weeks have been a > constant cycle of iterations, considering each and every feedback we > received (we don't know what's best -- our users do!). Because of all > those supporters we were able to integrate many new and anticipated > features such as recommendations, "my downloads" with updates, quick > filtering, etc. and have fixed a wide range of bugs which were > detected in the first weeks. > > The last days we worked towards version 1.0, which we got finished a > day before theADC2submission deadline. We released it on the Android > market again and asked many users which sent us feedback previously > for a quick test. We were able to fix 2 important bugs, and by now we > are quite confident that MyMarket works as expected. We never could > have come this far without all the help from our users -- credits go > to them for thinking of many of the implemented ideas in first place! > > The last hours before the deadline we luckily had enough time to add > one more (great) feature: displaying the number of user-votes in the > recommendations. As most developers at this point we have been quite > tired (no sleepless nights though) and hope not to have introduced no > new bugs :P. I think our project works quite well -- we haven't > received any feedback about new problems since we pushed the same > version to the normal Android market. > > TheADC2really pushed us to try to deliver a high-quality > application, which works with all oddities (eg. screen rotations on > the G1, etc.). We also asked the designers at glyfx to enhance our 2d > icon to a 3d version, according to the (not really trivial) "Android > Icon Design Guidelines" (great company btw.). > > It was a fun thought knowing that hundreds (if not thousands) of other > teams were simultaneously working on their ADC-projects during the > last days. Good luck to all the teams which submitted an entry! > > - Chris > > PS: I'm seriously looking forward to an announcement of Google, and > hope they publish a list of all submissions. I find it a bit sad that > the google-dev blog is not mentioning that the deadline is over, nor > that theADC2site was updated (still says "submit your apps today"). > Google could easily generate a bit more emotions and buzz in the whole > Android community. > > [1]http://mymarket.cc > [2]http://www.4feets.com/2009/09/mymarket-v10-submitted-to-the-adc2 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
