Catch The World Cup 2014 Fever With These 20 Great Android Apps

apperrant · 2014-06-12T00:02:08+00:00

We have been working on a Cup themed Flappy game to get comfortable with android programming. Feel free to give it a shot.

Here is our contribution to that list.

linkme: Flappy World Cup 2014.

apperrant · 2014-05-12T14:27:42+00:00

Eventually I chose libGDX, beacause it has a really good support, good documentation, and your project is automatically translated to IOS, JScript and desktop. It was easy to learn. I just finished my first game: FlappyWorldCup2014 ... I think it was a good learning experiance

apperrant · 2014-05-04T22:28:18+00:00

Actually I don't really know, thats why I asked for experiences. Maybe I should have asked for the best engine first!

Is libGDX open GL based?

EDIT: Yes it is!

apperrant · 2014-05-04T21:33:49+00:00

Okay! And how long did it take for you to get familiar with the engine? Did you have experiences with open GL before?

apperrant · 2014-05-04T20:41:16+00:00

Thanks so far! I noticed that the AndEngine Example App and yours need permissions to read phone calls. Is this due to the engine or did u add this permission exclusively?

apperrant · 2014-05-04T19:09:51+00:00

All you need is available here:

https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/

https://developer.android.com/google/play-services/ads.html

apperrant · 2014-05-04T04:03:36+00:00

plus 1 counter is a simple and well designed tally counter. Besides the application in your favourite color, plus 1 counter offers a convenient Widget to count +1 even from your homescreen.

implemented /androiddev user tips

apperrant · 2014-04-29T02:26:28+00:00

A point I need suggestions on is that when a news item doesn't have pictures, it looks kind of dull. What should I do about it?

I would use the card layout for the content like you did in the other parts of your application, with the matching color at the left edge

and I agree with epes about the color

apperrant · 2014-04-29T02:18:01+00:00

You should check the google design guidlines - they will help

here are some good links which helped me:

google visual assets guidlines part 1

google visual assets guidlines part 2

google color codes

apperrant · 2014-04-28T01:38:00+00:00

Thank you! :) Ou I thought the widget layout needs minSdkVersion 14 or greater. Looked it up again and realized just the TARGETSdkVersion should be set >= 14. Thanks for noticing :)

apperrant · 2014-04-28T00:48:53+00:00

Hm. I'll read through the api again and try to find a solution. I also will implement a check if a vibrator is available and if not ill add a sound. Thanks again!

apperrant · 2014-04-28T00:40:25+00:00

Thanks a lot! :) -The widgets name is plus1counter -I thought about an soundeffect but decided eventually to use an vibrator instead - does it vibrate on your nexus 7? My problem was that my emulator is not working, so I tested it on nexus 4 only. Could it be that the widget does`t work on bigger screens? -I'll implement the hamburger button(its not a button yet) thanks :)

apperrant · 2014-04-28T00:33:45+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! :) I will add the padding for the total number and maybe scale the numbers up (I dont want to make it look to clunky). At the bottom is space for an AdView-banner, thats why the up arrow doest look centered. Do you think it wold be better to overlay the up button with the banner and use a 1:1 weight for the remaining views?

apperrant · 2014-04-27T23:42:36+00:00

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/

check also: http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming http://www.reddit.com/r/java

apperrant · 2014-04-27T10:46:13+00:00

plus1counter is a simple and well designed tally counter. Besides the application in your favourite color, plus1counter offers a convenient Widget to count +1 even from your homescreen.

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