Hammock Android App -- Ideas?

**Deadphans** · 03-29-2011, 20:31

ROFL Patrick. NOOO how will you tweet! OMG the horrors

**JaxHiker** · 03-31-2011, 14:33

Originally Posted by Axolotl

Agreed on the actual usefulness of the app (let alone if i would even think to use it when i start hanging my hammock. Really, I'm just looking for an idea that fits my skill level. Best of luck with your future dev, if you have any questions, PM me and I'll provide any help that i can.

Thanks. Just updated the SDK. I might try dinking around with it this weekend since I don't have anything else planned.

**Axolotl** · 04-16-2011, 20:44

So, i just completed the icon and graphics and have published my Hammock Tools app to the Android Market (https://market.android.com/details?i...o.hammocktools). Let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements or if you find any bugs that need to be fixed!
Thanks.
--m

**JaxHiker** · 04-16-2011, 20:59

Just downloaded it. I'll measure my setup tomorrow and see if the app comes up with the same numbers.

Question: Why does it need full internet access permissions?

**Axolotl** · 04-16-2011, 21:07

doesn't need interent to run.. just to download the ads' images. It will still run without any internet connectivity.

**GrizzlyHackle** · 04-16-2011, 21:19

How about making one for the iPone?

**Axolotl** · 04-16-2011, 21:21

I've been considering it and have got a lot of requests for my first app (https://market.android.com/details?i...inthero.bacula) to be ported to iPhone but i've yet to learn the language iPhone apps are written in (objective C)... I'll post it here if i do make an iPhone version in the future.

**Diab** · 04-16-2011, 23:15

i will do the same as jaxhiker

**JaxHiker** · 04-17-2011, 07:52

Originally Posted by Axolotl

doesn't need interent to run.. just to download the ads' images. It will still run without any internet connectivity.

I figured it was for the ads. Just trying to be security conscious. Your description in the Market says "no internet" but the installation wants full internet. Food for thought. Remember that your average user won't differentiate between the two.

Developing iPhone apps also requires a Mac since Apple won't release the SDK on any other platform. The SDK for non-programmers is the Software Development Kit which lets developers know what features/functionality have been exposed. I wonder how many more apps there'd be in the iTunes Store if they'd publish it for Windows. I'm sure there are a lot of other developers out there like myself not willing to make the investment just to write some phone apps.

This is why I love the concept behind Android. Of course I'm a Java developer by trade (well, that's the current language I'm using) and I'm posting this from a Linux machine which is what Android runs on. I'm not tied to any platform and can develop any any one. Vive la Android! Eat the Apple!

**sir_n0thing** · 04-17-2011, 08:42

Simply creating an app yourself is a worthy goal, regardless of the actual usefulness of the app! The satisfaction of being self-taught and then creating something is good stuff.
I downloaded your app and will check it out.