I personally have skipped about 75% of the apps that have come up in my queue. Why? Because most of them are irrelevant to me. I can't be bothered to try an app which gets public transit information in Paris, tells me which direction to face when I pray, tells me when I am supposed to pray, and the list goes on. Most of the applications I have seen are poorly designed, half implemented, or even contain major bugs which make them unusable. I had one app that was simply a Hello World... of course that is not what the uploader described, so I wonder if they uploaded the wrong APK. I had another that forgot to include the one button that the application required (the one that triggered the one and only task that the application had to do). I have come across a few gems though. But overall I have been really disappointed in the showing.
Note: I am judging these applications as a user only, though I suppose being a developer might color my responses a certain way. I did not get an application submitted because the bar that I set for myself was higher than the apps that won ADC1. Had I anticipated that that would not be the case for everyone else, I might have dedicated myself to an entry. On Sep 26, 10:56 am, "ander...@phdgaming.com" <ander...@phdgaming.com> wrote: > As my applications audio is streamed from the net, some numbers from > me based on my webhost: > > 36 visits (80 hits) for page 1's audio. > 1 visit (1 hit) for someone who made it all the way to page 17. > The application has 40 pages of content - but the uninstall to > continue to the next application makes it unlikely anyone would get > that far. > > Voice definition audio: > 6 visits (11 hits) for the word on the first page "Ancestral". > Subsequent pages have from 1-3 hits for the definitions that are > clickable. > > My application is a 10.75 MB behemoth though which is likely causing > people to skip it (one such person even posted doing so in these > forums :p). Also doesn't help that there are bugs / grammar errors in > the version I submitted. > > Anyway - better than I expected, to be honest. Assuming the same rate, > it should be rated ~360 times by the end of the challenge, which isn't > bad. I'd also assume Google would begin to publicize the judging > application more next week having used the initial few days as a "beta > test" by more savvy developers and power users. > > On Sep 26, 12:34 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" > > > > <cor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have three apps in ADC2 and so far have seen a total of 63 users run > > them. > > > There seems to be a very low number of judges participating in ADC2. > > I've seen no publicity at all, no mention in the tech press, no TV > > coverage, nothing to indicate this contest is running. > > > I'm guessing that the majority of judges at this point are developers. > > Won't that skew the results? Is this supposed to be a developer or > > user contest? > > > -John Coryat > > > "Radar Now!" > > > "What Zip Code?" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
