And there it is. I spotted the scaling bug running Froyo on my new Nexus One, but you may see some improvement in Eclair also, especially with smaller bitmaps like the included wallpaper "Eye"
Enjoy.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
VisiSense Froyo update on the way
I finally had a chance to test VisiSense on Froyo with a Nexus One and it looks like the background is offset to the right. Look for an update with a fix this coming week.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Free Version of KitchenCalc
I've just uploaded KitchenCalc Free to the market. This has all the features of KitchenCalc but is ad supported. The ad free version is still available for $0.99 if you prefer. I will continue to support both apps.
I also upgraded the AdMob jar in Skeedle so it's now up to version 1.8.
VisiSense Free has broken 10000 downloads and VisiSense Pro is selling about one every day or so as is KitchenCalc. I should break $40 total between ads and sales in the next few days. I still have a long way to go to break even, but so far things are encouraging.
The next app coming up is a spooky Android app with a rockin' App Engine back-end.
Stay tuned.
I also upgraded the AdMob jar in Skeedle so it's now up to version 1.8.
VisiSense Free has broken 10000 downloads and VisiSense Pro is selling about one every day or so as is KitchenCalc. I should break $40 total between ads and sales in the next few days. I still have a long way to go to break even, but so far things are encouraging.
The next app coming up is a spooky Android app with a rockin' App Engine back-end.
Stay tuned.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Skeedle 1.7 Released
I've just uploaded a new release of Skeedle. This has a new about page with support information and credits for the new logo by Nomine and for Michael Moorcock who gave permission to use the eight pointed star device. I also turned off religion and politics categories in the ads.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
VisiSense has more than 8000 downloads now
And it's still going strong. VisiSense Pro is moving along right behind it. KitchenCalc, after a slow start has sold almost as many apps as VisiSense Pro. Skeedle still turns in an ad or two, but it seems to have plateaued. It was my first app, so I'm chalking it up as a learning experience. I think it's a little too challenging and doesn't give back enough feedback. I may look at upgrading the graphics a bit and adding some sound later as an experiment.
Script Gadget may soon have tens of dollars!
From anecdotal evidence and comparisons by my friend over at Incisive Geek it looks like an app for the iPhone marketplace is likely to make about ten times as much as an identical app on the Android marketplace right now. That means Android users are likely to see many more ads than iPhone users unless they are willing to start parting with $0.99 every once in awhile.
The new Bugs feature in the marketplace is interesting. Right now it's not very useful, but it looks like once Froyo rolls out, I'll be able to see a stack trace with the bug report and that will be very cool. The only one I've seen so far is "Freeze: ANR Broadcast of Intent { act=android.intent.action.SCREEN_ON flg=0x40000000 }" from a VisiSense user. I you have more information on what was going on when you encountered that please let me know and I'll take a look at it.
I've had some good questions through the support email, so I'll be putting some of those and the answers up in a FAQ on this site. There's no room for that sort of thing on the Android Marketplace. Be sure to send me any support questions at the support email if you want a quick answer. I can't really even see comments on the Marketplace unless I happen to browse AppBrain.
One of the most common questions I've had is how to get Live Wallpapers working on a Droid or Hero phone. I'll post what I've found, but I please understand it means rooting your phone, probably voiding your warranty and possibly losing all of your data and or bricking your phone, so please use at your own risk. My suggestion would be to buy a Nexus 1. Sense is pretty but it's poison if it means you're not going to get clean Android updates.
Script Gadget may soon have tens of dollars!
From anecdotal evidence and comparisons by my friend over at Incisive Geek it looks like an app for the iPhone marketplace is likely to make about ten times as much as an identical app on the Android marketplace right now. That means Android users are likely to see many more ads than iPhone users unless they are willing to start parting with $0.99 every once in awhile.
The new Bugs feature in the marketplace is interesting. Right now it's not very useful, but it looks like once Froyo rolls out, I'll be able to see a stack trace with the bug report and that will be very cool. The only one I've seen so far is "Freeze: ANR Broadcast of Intent { act=android.intent.action.SCREEN_ON flg=0x40000000 }" from a VisiSense user. I you have more information on what was going on when you encountered that please let me know and I'll take a look at it.
I've had some good questions through the support email, so I'll be putting some of those and the answers up in a FAQ on this site. There's no room for that sort of thing on the Android Marketplace. Be sure to send me any support questions at the support email if you want a quick answer. I can't really even see comments on the Marketplace unless I happen to browse AppBrain.
One of the most common questions I've had is how to get Live Wallpapers working on a Droid or Hero phone. I'll post what I've found, but I please understand it means rooting your phone, probably voiding your warranty and possibly losing all of your data and or bricking your phone, so please use at your own risk. My suggestion would be to buy a Nexus 1. Sense is pretty but it's poison if it means you're not going to get clean Android updates.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Launching Script Gadget
Welcome,
Script gadget has been ticking along on idle or sitting on the back burner if you prefer culinary metaphors over automotive ones for about a year now. We started out with an ad supported Flash game, Plink, which did some interesting things but making money wasn't one of them.
So things have been on hold until the beginning of last month, when we launched a brand new Android phone game called Skeedle first as a paid app and now as a free, ad supported app. I'll be describing some of what we've learned along the way in posts over the next few days and tracking our results with AdMob. One very interesting thing that's already shaken out of this. According to the Android Market Skeedle only has four sales and one active user, but I've already seen 124 ad requests served by AdMob today. This makes me think it's already pretty widely shared unofficially.
We also have a simple recipe calculator, KitchenCalc and a free (no ads) live wallpaper,VisiSense. KitchenCalc has had four purchases at $0.99 and VisiSense has had about 4000 downloads so far.
Next post I'll talk about how we're reacting to what we've seen so far and then later we'll talk about the Android API and platform itself and what we've learned there with some code samples and links for more info.
It's looking like this might be a wild ride, stay tuned. <-- (Broadcasting Metaphor)
Script gadget has been ticking along on idle or sitting on the back burner if you prefer culinary metaphors over automotive ones for about a year now. We started out with an ad supported Flash game, Plink, which did some interesting things but making money wasn't one of them.
So things have been on hold until the beginning of last month, when we launched a brand new Android phone game called Skeedle first as a paid app and now as a free, ad supported app. I'll be describing some of what we've learned along the way in posts over the next few days and tracking our results with AdMob. One very interesting thing that's already shaken out of this. According to the Android Market Skeedle only has four sales and one active user, but I've already seen 124 ad requests served by AdMob today. This makes me think it's already pretty widely shared unofficially.
We also have a simple recipe calculator, KitchenCalc and a free (no ads) live wallpaper,VisiSense. KitchenCalc has had four purchases at $0.99 and VisiSense has had about 4000 downloads so far.
Next post I'll talk about how we're reacting to what we've seen so far and then later we'll talk about the Android API and platform itself and what we've learned there with some code samples and links for more info.
It's looking like this might be a wild ride, stay tuned. <-- (Broadcasting Metaphor)
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