Google speechless...

This is the current situation with ADC2, no word from google. A week has already past and as a developer I expected at least a list of all top 20 applications in round 2. I guess passion is the only thing that we have left now ;).

Development of the Fish! application is going slowly at the moment. My wife and I are currently looking for a house to buy, and we had to plan our vacation this week. Anyway a few nice ideas came into my mind and I hope we can release an update soon. The fishes are now reacting to touch events and swim away if you click on one of them. Not too impressive but I like the fact that interaction is increasing now and we like to add a lot more...

ADC 2 Round 1 Scoring Complete

A little bit earlier as expected, round 1 of ADC2 has ended and we are waiting for the second round to start. The release of 1.6 might have something to do with the early ending. Some developers reported that the application they developed are broken for the new version and they feel a bit disappointed for not being able to fix that.

The official rules also state very clearly that there will be no option to send an upgrade for your application even for round 2. Actually I think that the voting turned out to be a very strange process. The post on the android developer blog made it clear to me, that applications where presented for voting until they had 100 votes and then disappeared. This explains for me why I have seen only very few interesting applications. All cool applications had 100 votes early in the voting process, thats just the way it works...

Meanwhile, I was able to increase the performance of Fish! a lot and me and my brother are working on an improved version. Also the feedback from the first release was great, I am already sure you will like the new version more *g*.

We also understand that creating a home background out of it would be great, unfortunately there is no API that does support that in a smooth way. If we find a way to do that, we will for sure release a version with that option.

Beo's Blog and ADC2

This is my firt Blog, and I am manly using this to post news about my Android applications and as a feedback option for everyone who wants to tell me how good or bad my applications are *g*.

So lets start with my first app "Fish!". It was actually created with the help of my brother so this one is basically a teamwork and most likly future applications will be as well. This opengl fish simulation was created for the ADC 2 (Android Developers Contest) and we decided to make it avaliable for free in the market so everyone can download it.
We might enhance the application later and create a benchmark application of it.

You might not see it, but we have used a very high level of details for the fish and the textures. So we are at the limit of the actuall devices. I hope you guys like it.