Hey guys, I'm trying something new - every Monday, I round up all the new app and game releases from the past week and post them in a format that I think makes it easy to navigate them and keep up among all the garbage.
This week's roundup is here: Last Week’s Best New Android Apps And Games (10/4/10 – 10/10/10), Now With Screenshots
Please let me know what you think of the format and usefulness of such endeavor.
Great idea. hope you keep it up in spite of the underwhelming response.
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this is great
thepolishguy said:
Great idea. hope you keep it up in spite of the underwhelming response.
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Actually, it's one of the highest traffic posts of the week, so don't worry - it'll be up every Monday
That's a lot to test and compare each week so I appreciate the effort to do this.
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This is great, I'm always on the lookout for great apps I'm not aware of. I'll be looking for these posts every Monday
Excellent thank you for taking the time!
Thanks dude thats really appreciating
Cheers man, really appreciate it. Found a lot of great apps/games!!
Great job!!
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Very useful and appreciated.
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Hi guys,
I've finally got my first app to a standard I'm 'happy' with so wanted to share it with you all to get some feedback and suggestions for improvements. (It is actually my second app but we don't like to mention the first one!)
My app is inspired by the old Logo programming language (and a weird desire to draw crazy patterns!). I couldn't find an easy to use app on the market so tried making my own.
Am enjoying building apps so far! Couldn't have done any of it without the huge support on the net!
Hope you like it and I welcome your opinions.
Search in market for "Turtle Graphics". It's free of course (but it does have ads to help the beer fund!)
Thanks guys!
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Hahaha, really? I'll have to install this, it'll be.... about 23 years since I last used this.
Awesome DarkGadgeteer! I can't wait to try this out too as it has been 27 years since I last touched logo. I hate getting older by the way.
Just installing. Will try out later when I'm done with regular boring Java work.
No way...
I can't believe I would ever see this again..
Awesome!
Mint! Will seek and install
Needs a save function for the resulting image!
Yeah!!!
Old school!!!!
Nice work! Didn't think anyone would ever bring this back
This was like one of the first things that made me get so interested in computers.
Dear lord, I used to do this in primary school. I had not expected to ever see this again. :')
Thanks very much for all the feedback guys, it's very encouraging.
Really sorry for making some of you feel old, if its any consolation it did it to me too!
Have taken note of the improvement suggestions and will get on with them, just may take a while as I have to fit it in-between my wedding preparation! Can't afford to upset the missus too much! ;-)
Please keep the feedback coming!
Thanks again!
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If only we had a turtle with the pen nib attached and bluetooth installed!!
this is so awesomely old school, great work!
i think simple variable handling would be great, to use something like LEFT 2*x
I was thinking about the variables. What would your suggestion be on what increases the value of x? Number of repeats or just each instruction?
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[App][Update] Turtle Graphics
Hi guys,
Found a few minutes (read hours!) and added a simple variable into the commands to create even more pattern craziness. Please try it out and let me know what you think!
Turtle Graphics now at 2.6 in the Market
Thanks again for all the encouragement and good ideas!
(I'm really liking the idea of a bluetooth turtle! Anyone got a spare Lego Mindstorms? )
DG
Super awesome, this totally rocks!
Just a heads up to everyone, as I get a lot of PM's (which I don't mind, normally). The job that feeds my family just dumped a new project on me and I have to do 2 months worth of work in the next 7 days. You can imagine how happy I am about that. This is going to kill my days / nights and even my weekend.
I am going to release 4.1.0 today / tonight, and after that I will only be checking the site in the evenings, most likely. After this project stabilizes, I'll hopefully go back to my usual access / response time.
Apologies in advance.
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Just a heads up to everyone, as I get a lot of PM's (which I don't mind, normally). The job that feeds my family just dumped a new project on me and I have to do 2 months worth of work in the next 7 days. You can imagine how happy I am about that. This is going to kill my days / nights and even my weekend.
I am going to release 4.1.0 today / tonight, and after that I will only be checking the site in the evenings, most likely. After this project stabilizes, I'll hopefully go back to my usual access / response time.
Apologies in advance.
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Good luck, I know what tight deadlines are like.
Thanks for the heads up and hard work. Good luck with your deadline, I feel ya.
Good luck and come back soon We need you here
I'm not going anywhere - I just want to set expectations for the next week.
I know this might sound like I'm being self-important, but I do get a lot of PM's and I'm on the site daily, so I don't want people to think I just disappeared off the face of the earth.
Work? What's work? Is that some new word in the dictionary Haha! I love being retired!
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I'm not going anywhere - I just want to set expectations for the next week.
I know this might sound like I'm being self-important, but I do get a lot of PM's and I'm on the site daily, so I don't want people to think I just disappeared off the face of the earth.
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Don't get upset about the suggestion, but maybe it'd be better to hold off the new release until you're not in this situation?
Just a suggestion...
Jim
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Don't get upset about the suggestion, but maybe it'd be better to hold off the new release until you're not in this situation?
Just a suggestion...
Jim
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I thought about that, but it was already in flight so I wanted to get it out. That one thread, and my PM's, will be the things I will consider "high priority" items to look at at least once a day.
Well if viewsonic would just give you the $M you deserve for improving user experience you could just coast
Handle your business and I applaud your dedication to the G Tab.
Thank you
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I'm not going anywhere - I just want to set expectations for the next week.
I know this might sound like I'm being self-important, but I do get a lot of PM's and I'm on the site daily, so I don't want people to think I just disappeared off the face of the earth.
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Hey now worries! The day job is what pays for the toys Just take care of what needs your attention... we will all survive until you free up again! I just came off one of those projects so I understand what ya gotta do to keep the lights on !!!
Good Luck!!!
You left us in good hands. TnT Lite 4.1.0 is working well. Good Luck. I've lived through many of my own unreasonable situation at work.
roebeet - you've done as much for this community as anybody, if not more. No need to feel bad about taking care of your real job and, in turn, your family, for the next few weeks. We appreciate all the time you've devoted to making the G Tab a great device.
Not to mention but while your gone.... You have all of us to answer ALL the questions! We will hook you right up! In just a matter of days we will have everyone thinking TnTLite is what controls the Space Shuttle, and there car. The market will work and it will all be free, and the G Tablet will have GPS and actually know where it is!...
You sure you want to do this?
Have fun at your real job... This little old tablet will be fine
Thanks Roebeet!
roebeet said:
Just a heads up to everyone, as I get a lot of PM's (which I don't mind, normally). The job that feeds my family just dumped a new project on me and I have to do 2 months worth of work in the next 7 days. You can imagine how happy I am about that. This is going to kill my days / nights and even my weekend.
I am going to release 4.1.0 today / tonight, and after that I will only be checking the site in the evenings, most likely. After this project stabilizes, I'll hopefully go back to my usual access / response time.
Apologies in advance.
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Thanks for all your hard work! Job + family always come first! Take care!
I also want to a add a big thnanks to all the power users, here
Most of the time, you answer noob questions (ie. in the TNTL thread) before I even get to them and I want to say that I really appreciate it.
As a proud super noob. Sure take some time off. We all be here when you get time. GODSPEED
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As some of you may have noticed, I have been very inactive in the Android world over the past month or so. I wanted to take the opportunity to let everyone know what is going on.
My wife is 8 months pregnant, and starting about a month ago she has been having some issues. Nothing too serious, but it means we have to go to the doctor several times a week to make sure she and the baby are not getting worse. She is also not supposed to leave the house if possible. As much as I enjoy the playing around I do with Blackhole, my family has to come first.
The Baby could be born any time now, and I simply don't have the time to devote to Android like I used to. I will admit that what little free time I have left now goes to extra sleep (cause I know I won't be getting any for a while after the baby is born). Lets face it, I'm no Adrynalyn or Jcase. For me Android has always been a hobby, and I do what I do mostly for myself, but just decided to share it.
I do plan on getting back into things once my life has settled down a bit, and if something major happens (Official GB upgrade anyone?) I'll try to make the time to release an update, but don't expect anything from me for a while.
I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported me with kind words, donations, suggestions, testing, bug reports, etc. over the past 9 months or so since I started developing on the Fascinate, and I want you all to know how much I appreciate you.
TTFN
Good luck with the little one coming
Thank you for all the work you have done so far
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Hope everything goes well for the rest of the pregnancy. That's is absolutely your first priority. The things will settle down a couple of months after your little one is here.
Good luck as you await the birth. I'll keep you and your family in prayer. Our first born turned 15 months this week and they really are time consuming, but so worth it.
It's good to see you have your priorities set.
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I'm sure the community appreciates everything you have done. Good luck with your wife and child and your right, you probably won't be getting much sleep do nous a good time to catch up.
Family comes first man. Do what you gotta do to take care of them! Hopefully all goes well and you have a great healthy baby!
Good luck dude, family first
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Good luck bro. I'm in the navy so i understand about family life. It comes first always.
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Thank you all, I'm glad you understand. That's one of the benefits of working with Android, a generally more mature community than the iTeens.
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Thank you all, I'm glad you understand. That's one of the benefits of working with Android, a generally more mature community than the iTeens.
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Psht aint that the truth!
I too am a military guy and my wife is about to pop with our 2nd daughter so I totally get the not much time thing. Again good luck with the new child! Exciting times are ahead!
Family first! Wise you are, hmm.
All the best & best of luck with the wife and child.... Thank you
Thank you so much sonofskywalker3 for all the hard work and contributions you have brought to the TB community. Best wishes and congrats to you and your family as well.
Really? If this is a mature audience, I'd hate to see an immature one.
Nothing against you and I hope everything with your wife goes ok, but a lot of devs for android are not even out if high school.
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Really? If this is a mature audience, I'd hate to see an immature one.
Nothing against you and I hope everything with your wife goes ok, but a lot of devs for android are not even out if high school.
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True enough, and we certainly have our share of drama queens, but overall I think the user base for Android, and especially those active in the Modding community, are much more understanding when it comes to the important things. Sure we've got people who will pitch a fit if things don't go their way, but I've seen nothing but support when I'm letting everyone know that I'm taking a major break. No "But wherez my r0mz dud3!!", just well wishes and genuine concern.
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Thank you all, I'm glad you understand. That's one of the benefits of working with Android, a generally more mature community than the iTeens.
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Good luck sir, I will be looking out for your roms whenever you have time to release one.
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Thanks for all your work and I hope all goes well with you and your family. As a father of a 14 month old myself, it's good if you are already acclimated to getting little sleep. Who'd a thunk that developing would be good training for fatherhood!
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True enough, and we certainly have our share of drama queens, but overall I think the user base for Android, and especially those active in the Modding community, are much more understanding when it comes to the important things. Sure we've got people who will pitch a fit if things don't go their way, but I've seen nothing but support when I'm letting everyone know that I'm taking a major break. No "But wherez my r0mz dud3!!", just well wishes and genuine concern.
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That's cool. Take care of your family. Seems like there is quite the dev family here on the thunderbolt so I'm sure there will be plenty to play with in your absence.
Despite Miketoasty's distasteful example to the contrary, I still believe the Android community is generally mature...
hey folks,
I started a new blog dedicated to Android gaming news and reviews. I know what you're probably thinking, yet another gaming blog. Even so, I would love for you guys to just take a peak. It's called The Android Arcade. I know there have been folks trying to start up a blog but fail to make it through their first month but my team and I are seeing this to the end. I have staffed the site with great writers and we publish articles at least twice in a day (more as folks start discovering us).
We have also created a dedicated game section where you can quickly see which games are worth your time. Think of it as a curation of the noteworthy games. The list is scarce at the moment but we'll be adding a lot more soon. The game section could be found at:
http://games.theandroidarcade.com
So I hope you guys stop by and check us out. If you have any suggestions or games you'd like us to cover, please let u know. A phone/tablet app will be released in the next couple months
Cheers!
I've seen your posts on /r/Gaming every now and then. Keep it up, man! I check every one of your posts! My username on Reddit is Noontoker17.
Not very professional, I know.
I appreciate the support. We like the /r/androidgaming subreddit to be sure to check us out there too!
Yeah, that's what I meant. /r/AndroidGaming. Whoops.
Looks a lot more professional than Droid Gamers
Hey, I've got a few games up on the Play Store. Two of them are in my sig. Any chance of them getting coverage on your new blog?
Be sure to hit the contact us button on the site to submit games. Thanks!!
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Looks good - you might want to consider doing percentages and recommendations. Works really well the way they do it on theregister.co.uk and when the stick a "recommended" sticker you take note - especially if you're covering a large number of games.
Always good to have some more decent reviews!
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Be sure to hit the contact us button on the site to submit games. Thanks!!
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Sent you a message on the website! Thanks!
Great looking website there mate
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Looks good - you might want to consider doing percentages and recommendations. Works really well the way they do it on theregister.co.uk and when the stick a "recommended" sticker you take note - especially if you're covering a large number of games.
Always good to have some more decent reviews!
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Thanks for the feedback. We'll definitely take this into consideration.
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Great looking website there mate
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Thank you
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Great looking website there mate
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ohhh.. greating website man... favorited
Hey guys! I just wanted you all to know that I have finally moved away from the Thunderbolt.
I wish you all the best of luck with the development! Thank you to all of the developers who still carry on development for the device. Without you guys, I would have left the bolt over a year ago... but you guys kept it cool and worth staying with.
Also thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way.
I recently moved and the Thunderbolt no longer maintains even WiFi for some reason... so I was forced to move away from it.
Again, thank you all for everything!
Have fun with your new device.
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Take care bud, was always a pleasure having you around!
Enjoy your new toy. :good:
See you around
Sad to see you go bud, was fun having you around, and a few of your posts really cracked me up (see dickmode). Enjoy your new device!
Haha! Yeah, we had some good times on here for sure!
Thanks for all the memories and help from all of you!
I'll still pop in every now and then I'm sure. Hope to cross roads again with you guys later on!
Take care everyone!
Well, I also left the ranks. My family has been pressuring me to get them their first smartphones, and by the time we were through at the cell phone store, I had one too. While I really was hoping to get the next great phone (eg, a Nexus 4x with replaceable battery, SD card, and LTE), we all went with what I think is still the best combination of size, speed, and features (replaceable battery, memory) while also having a community for future, um, er, rooting fun. The Samsung Galaxy SIII. I was tempted by the Note 2 but the thing is just too big; the S3 almost seemed too big, but it is also nice and thin.
Anyway, I will miss the Thunderbolt. I was really fortunate with my ROM choices (SOAB, Thundershed, and Santod's ICS Eternity). SOAB was a good entry to rooting, Tshed was bulletproof, and Eternity was fast, smooth and awesome in features and performance. But most of all I will miss the awesome developers who contributed to their talents and time to make the Thunderbolt better that what HTC and Verizon could ever do. And the great community here and on other bulletin boards. People like QuickDraw, who has always been quick with the advice or support.
I have some Thunderbolt accessories free for the asking. A Rezound battery. A slightly broken Platinum holster case in black (one small piece of the case broke off but it doesn't seem to effect the use at all and you wouldn't even see it if you didn't look) and a virtually unused PowerSkin case. Let me know if you want em and I will ship them to you. At some point I may even give up the Thunderbolt itself.
Thanks again everyone...
RBarnett09 said:
Hey guys! I just wanted you all to know that I have finally moved away from the Thunderbolt.
I wish you all the best of luck with the development! Thank you to all of the developers who still carry on development for the device. Without you guys, I would have left the bolt over a year ago... but you guys kept it cool and worth staying with.
Also thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way.
I recently moved and the Thunderbolt no longer maintains even WiFi for some reason... so I was forced to move away from it.
Again, thank you all for everything!
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Ooh! Which device are you on now? I hope you'll come visit us Bolters every so often. Perhaps we should make an Off Topic Bolt thread hahaha. Anyway, I hope it works out for you! I'm still new to Xda, but I'll miss you! Hahaha
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