I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce WizBiz (and WizBiz Lite); New apps on the market.
So you've played math games. Maybe you've even played word scramble games. I've combined them.
The object of this game is to unscramble the word (3 letters to 7 letters). But! first you must find the letters. Where are the letters you ask? They are hidden behind target numbers.
You use simple math equations to hit the target numbers. SOME of them are hiding a letter. When you hit one, the letter pops out and drops to the word line. Find all letters to unscramble it and advance to the next level.
This is a fun way to increase your vocabulary while keeping sharp with basic math!
I invite you to try it out. Full game instructions (with a screen shot) are posted on my blog. (jrdevapps.blogspot.com)
If you do try it. Please leave feedback. If it's good feedback...leave it on the market. Bad feedback (or constructive criticism) can be added to this thread
Thanks, and enjoy
hey I tried your game and it's really fun. But what's the circle of letters on the top left for?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
That's for when you think you know the word before uncovering all the letters behind the target numbers. You can drag letters down from the letter wheel to try and solve the word.
It may help you if you are having difficulty doing the math
Hi guys,
Just released my app called The Typist: Quick Typing Tests! It's fairly straightforward, it measures how fast you can type on a phone or tablet and can chart your typing speed results over time. Also supports Google Play leaderboards. I couldn't find a good typing test app so I ended up just making my own.
Features:
Test your typing speed with different speed tests based on popular books
1, 2, and 3 minute tests for the ultimate in typing test flexibility
Detailed results page: see your words per minute score, total number of errors, and most frequently mistyped letters
Track your progress with a chart of your past typing test results
Compete against your friends with a local high score list and Google Play Game Services leaderboards support
Compatible with different keyboard layouts - try them out with The Typist and see which ones actually help you type faster
Works well on both phones and tablets
Free updates and support for life
Straightforward permissions: The Typist requires internet, network state, and Google Play billing to serve ads and the ability to purchase the ad-free version. We don't need access to your contacts, location, or your Facebook account! (but if you want to upload your score, you will need to use your Google Plus account)
Want to support The Typist's development? Please rate it and/or unlock the full version of The Typist (removes ads) within the app. Thank you!
Available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thetypist.typingtests
Compatible with 4.0+/ICS and above. Free/ad-supported and in-app billing for the paid version (removes ads).
Please check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Nice little app, needs some ironing out to do
Hey bloggert,
Frist of all, it's a sweet app and since there seems to be a famine of good typing test app on touch screen devices, it's a really good one.
I came upon this thread because I was going to embark on the same road to develop myself a typing speed tester.
The UI of your app is "A" grade and I just loved it.
That said, there are also a few shortcomings of your app. You seem to have designed a typing speed analyser for a full machine at it's core, just like the others. Your app tries to keep track of each character the user types, and that actually defeats the purpose of the app on a touch screen device. Also your app seems to disable the predictive auto-completion of many of the keyboards which actually is the biggest selling point of such ones like "swype", afterall typing in a touch screen device is completely different from the keyboard, so why apply the same methodologies?
What I think the app must do?
1. Let the user type-in a whole text and provied a button that says "submit" and the app should just time it all. This is essentially to let the user correct all the words which went wrong with the auto-correct and auto-complete and all other shinanigins. Maybe your app can also keep track of the time taken by the user to enter the last word and hit the submit button, may be help user to clock the time it takes to fix the stupideties( I am not sure though if this is such a great idea) and provide feedback of somekind on the same.
2. Once the user has submitted the text, now your app does what it already does, check for the characters, are all good, what was the accuracy (most probably it would be hundred, if the user is not dumb), and now you can give the speed.
How will this help?
I think this will help user do justice on the various keyboards out there who rely on various methodologies to input text and probably help the creators of various kinds of input methods to judge the usefulness of there methods when speed is the question.
Am I stupid?
Maybe....:silly:
Hope to hear your comments on it all.
flide
Not stupid at all. This is good stuff and I appreciate the feedback.
You are correct in that The Typist tracks every character. However, the app actually only cares about certain characters (namely spaces, since these determine where words start and end, and I need these to know where to highlight the current word and the last incorrect word). So it's okay if a keyboard uses auto-completion (or any other feature that inserts words), as long as it or the user inserts a space to indicate that the word has ended.
With that said, I'm not actually sure why auto-completion doesn't work. It's definitely not disabled on purpose, and I never noticed this before. I've tried a number of keyboards and typing in partial words and then selecting it from a list above the keyboard works fine, as well as swyping methods, but auto-correct never seems to kick in. I'm going to look into this later today but it should be fixable.
As for the going back and correcting words - I'm a little hesitant about this, and the app does prevent the user from going back or selecting old text (beyond using backspace) on purpose, mostly because in testing the potential to mess up the word tracking and cause errors was too great. In the end I figured that possibility of things screwing up was more important than the need to go back and change a word, and so the cursor selection block was put into place. I don't know if this is the right decision, as I still don't have enough feedback really to really judge. This is why I didn't originally go with the option 1 suggestion.
For option 2, The Typist actually does do this already - the real error checking is done after the test has completed (checking all of the words constantly during the test is pretty time-consuming, and so the app only shows you the last mistyped word) as well as the speed counts.
flide said:
Hey bloggert,
Frist of all, it's a sweet app and since there seems to be a famine of good typing test app on touch screen devices, it's a really good one.
I came upon this thread because I was going to embark on the same road to develop myself a typing speed tester.
The UI of your app is "A" grade and I just loved it.
That said, there are also a few shortcomings of your app. You seem to have designed a typing speed analyser for a full machine at it's core, just like the others. Your app tries to keep track of each character the user types, and that actually defeats the purpose of the app on a touch screen device. Also your app seems to disable the predictive auto-completion of many of the keyboards which actually is the biggest selling point of such ones like "swype", afterall typing in a touch screen device is completely different from the keyboard, so why apply the same methodologies?
What I think the app must do?
1. Let the user type-in a whole text and provied a button that says "submit" and the app should just time it all. This is essentially to let the user correct all the words which went wrong with the auto-correct and auto-complete and all other shinanigins. Maybe your app can also keep track of the time taken by the user to enter the last word and hit the submit button, may be help user to clock the time it takes to fix the stupideties( I am not sure though if this is such a great idea) and provide feedback of somekind on the same.
2. Once the user has submitted the text, now your app does what it already does, check for the characters, are all good, what was the accuracy (most probably it would be hundred, if the user is not dumb), and now you can give the speed.
How will this help?
I think this will help user do justice on the various keyboards out there who rely on various methodologies to input text and probably help the creators of various kinds of input methods to judge the usefulness of there methods when speed is the question.
Am I stupid?
Maybe....:silly:
Hope to hear your comments on it all.
flide
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More thoughts
well thinking about it again, I will say that the idea of allowing the user to correct all the text after it's done is... well not so brilliant, and I will let it go at that.
And about the predictive text feature, for my keyboard the top bar which is suppose to show the possible pridicted words is not visible, so I am not able to use them... don't know if that is a problem with your app or it is a problem with my keyboard (8pen) because it does not show up also when i am trying to use VIM. May be you can check on that if something in particular triggers that kind of behaviour.
Also, you should look up for klavaro. It has 3 criterions for typing : Accuracy, velocity and fluideness, and to tell you the truth I like the concept very much, specially fluidity. Here's the link : "klavaro[dot]sourceforge[dot]net[slash]en[slash]manual-en[dot]pdf"
Will be appriciated if you can think of something to accomodate the fluidity angle, might be difficult but let's try. If something comes to my mind compatible with the touch input, I will share.
Let me know your thoughts.
flide
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I more request.
Can you include a few texts in plain english, I mean all small case, minimal punctuation, no symbols or numbers... something message like. just to test how good you can hold for every day tasks.
Just a thought.
flide
Ergonomics
One more quick idea.
It's a pain to keep looking at three different places while typing using most keyboards (not 8pen though ), namely :
1. What is supposed to be typed
2. The Keyboard
3. What am I typing
I think the 3rd point can be eliminated if app is somewhat modified. Rather than a text box to enter the displayed text, the user can actually override the displayed text... let me try and explain a bit more clearly.
The text, that needs to be typed, is initially displayed in BLACK. Now, rather than highlighting the next word to be typed, the already typed characters should be in BLUE, and all the wrong ones in RED. This mechanism essentially solves the 3rd problem, the user has just 2 places on the screen to strain his/her/it's neck, there is an inherent highlighting as to what needs to be typed (the first BLACK character), what has been typed correctly previously, in BLUE, and what was typed wrong, in RED.
THINK ERGONOMICS!! :cyclops:
Thanks for the updates
Since you never replied again, I thought you forgot all about your app... But you were hard at work and YES, now my predictive options are visible again. :victory:
+1 for the update and you should not bother to appologise for adding a ad in the app. It's your hard work and you have the right to earn over it.
flide
Hi, I was wondering how about like Antutu you could add a leader board to this which mentioned a username(like it already does) and his device and the scores.
I think it'll make the app much more popular and probably turn it into a benchmarking app for one handed usability of Android cell phones. While individuals will battle it out for the top spot, the addition of their device in the table will show which device feels best for typing.
TLDR; Add a 4 column leaderboard
Position -> Name -> Device -> Score
its multilanguage?
I thought the auto complete was disabled on purpose because then it would not be accurate on how we are typing, because technically we would be letting the device type for us. I rather like the fact we have to actually type every letter ourselves, because then I think its more challenging and more honest. So I would actually be bummed if you did allow auto correct or auto complete to work in this app.
I found nothing wrong with it aside from the fact you have to manually allow your score to be added to the leader board. The first time I did it, I got my best score since trying it a few more times but cannot add it to the leader board because I did not press the "add to leader board" on the top left, I had not even noticed it, until the 2nd go around.
Possible addition
KyleSforza said:
TLDR; Add a 4 column leaderboard
Position -> Name -> Device -> Score
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I think the leaderboard should also have the "input method" column stating the keyboard used for the test.
BUG Found!!
Hi bloggert,
I think the a bug/error has been introduced with the update 1.2. I have attached a screen shot for reference.
As you explained in one of your post that "spaces" are monitored to highlight the current word.
You are correct in that The Typist tracks every character. However, the app actually only cares about certain characters (namely spaces, since these determine where words start and end, and I need these to know where to highlight the current word and the last incorrect word). So it's okay if a keyboard uses auto-completion (or any other feature that inserts words), as long as it or the user inserts a space to indicate that the word has ended.
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In the input method I am using, there are 3 predictive options available to type when I am not in the middle of typing a word namely : , . ?
After I type a word a space is automatically inserted as soon as my finger up, but if i select any one of these then that automatic space is removed the character is inserted and space is set again in the wait of the next word.
What your app seems to be doing is, whenever i utilize any of the three the current word shifts one step ahead and there is a mismatch between the "actual" correct word and the one being highlighted in BLUE.
Please look into the issue. It's very distracting.
flide
Hey!
This is a cool app; I've been missing a typing test for some time. Some additional feature requests:
Dark theme (for amoled users)
Practice mode: an additional untimed mode where we can import our own texts
The latter, in particular, could be very nice in training for the usual tests!
Thanks again for the app!
Hi,
I'm using a Samsung tablet with a floating thumb keyboard.
The Text does not recognise that and still says in the middle of the screen, behind the keyboard. (See added Screenshot)
Also would it be possible to highlight the wrong words red in the existing text and not in the written text?
IMHO that would be better....
Your app got hacked
A good app
Hello community
today i want to present my 1st app that called Clash words.
Here you can download: http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codedigitals.clashwords
Here is a description:
Words have a lot of power. However, each word composed of several letters. Are these letters only confused strung together, the word no longer makes sense. A reasonable conversation will be destroyed without proper words.
So help to solve this problem in Clash Words by CodeDigitals, where you bring letters in the correct order so that real words arise. Form as many words as possible, to reach the maximum number of points. How many words can you form until the field is crowded? Find out and start playing Clash Words today.
TUTORIAL
Swipe with your finger in any direction to move the letters in the desired direction. In the process always appears a new letter. Once a correct word was formed, simply wipe back across the field, so that you can continue with the next letter get the points into. You have to form words with each letter of the alphabet. The game is lost, if the playing field is full and no more words can be formed.
Hello!
It's my first decent android application, which took something from Spritz and a bunch of similar apps from Google Play market. When I saw that there's no suitable android app for me, I decided develop it myself. Results are below :laugh: :
Readily is a speed-reading android application powered by RSVP(Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) technology. With it you can read up to 1200 words per minute instead of 220 when reading normally.
MAIN FEATURES
Parser of a text:
Normalizes: parser checks text for and fixes bad characters and duplicates of punctuation, proper spacing before and after punctuation. Also it splits too long words in smaller ones. After that text is becoming easier to comprehend.
Emphasizes: every word is processed in order to choose emphasis position - red letter's one, which gains maximum of your attention and helps you recognize the word in the fastest way.
Sets delay(optional): when you reading on such a speed, you can miss an essence of sentence. Therefore, parser sets gentle delays before punctuation, on digits and on long words to help you grasp information clearly.
Handy controls:
You can change speed on the go - just swipe to top or bottom.
To pause or play just tap the reader's window.
Storage of incomplete readings:
Preview of next words in a paragraph (opitonal).
Dark theme to comfortable reading in the night.
Optional font size.
SOURCES OF TEXT
Clipboard: you can simply paste text to Readily.
Internet: read your favorite articles from the net or share them from other reading application.
File storage: choose .txt, .epub or .fb2 file to read using Readily.
LANGUAGES SUPPORTED
English
Russian
Ukrainian
If you know some other language and want to help - please, contact me, I'd appreciate it a lot!
LICENSE
This app is under MIT License
THANKS
Libraries and code:
Paul Burke and Ian Lake for aFileChooser
Peter Karich for snacktory
Paul Siegmann for epublib
daimajia for AndroidViewAnimations
Artwork:
Griko Nibras for Flex
Ideas and inspiration:
Spritz
Catherine Lyubchenko
Dayana Shevchenko
Lesha Sushkov
Anton Bredykhin
Kizka Alexander
Do not hesitate and tell me your ideas, impressions or critics, I'd like to expand this list!
Change log
1.0.2
Optional font size - you can now set if in settings.
Dark theme - reading in night became more comfortable.
1.0.1
Added simple .fb2 support
Added info line below reader window
Several bugfixes
1.0
Launched
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When I get 10 posts, I'll post links to Google Play and GitHub. Now you can download it here Hope you'll enjoy it
Nice app, clever idea! Downloading now..
Hello and good day!
I would like to use this forum to show you my application for android and i would be very happy to get feedback and critic from you.
This is my first project and there is so much to learn – and different viewpoints are more than needed. English is not my first language so i hope that the following description is not too 'german-sounding'.
The name of my app is: x=1: Learn to solve equations! and you can find it directly at the google play store (i am not yet allowed to post links).
What is it about? (with a twinkle in one's eye)
Solving equations often causes difficulties, either in math class or later in life. At first glance they consist of cryptic characters, which are also subject to strict rules! It gets even worse: Every time we take a step to find the desired X - we have to note down the whole equation again!
But x=1 will save your day! Use it for fun, to learn or to refresh your knowledge - you can now try to find the hard to catch X without any paperwork at all! All you have to do is to connect two parts of the equation step by step - of course only if the mathematical principles allow it. Additionally, you are free to use the equal sign as you like, so you can move things from one side of the equation to the other.
In x=1 you'll be able to solve equations build with the basic arithmetic operations + -, *, /. To spice things up, the rules of bracketing are also included. 40 preset equations gradually teach you the mathematical principles - after that you'll be released into the huge world of equations to puzzle over an infinite number of randomly generated ones!
I am realy happy about your feedback and (honest- this is important) star-ratings in the Play-Store!
With mathematical regards
Daniel Gronau
First of all a big thanks to all who played, testet and contributed to x=1 with invaluable Feedback!
The first update x=1 Version 1.1 is now ready and features the first step of developement to honor your feedback.
What's new?
There are now an unlimited number of randomly generated equations! You can solve them as long as you like.
Improvements:
The calculation with fractions was simplified and you don't have to solve a big equation if you add two fractions with the same denominator or if you multiply it with 1 or 0!
With mathematical regards
Daniel Gronau
Mathematical regards!
Version 1.2 is available and improves the handling of divisions, brackes and signs. But first a big thanks to all who played x=1 and provided invaluable feedback! Thanks to you it can get more refined in every update.
Improvements:
If a bracket is expanded, the single element is now multiplied to the specific side of the participants inside the bracket. For example: (1+2)*5 -> 1*5+2*5 (to the right side) and 5*(1+2) -> 5*1+5*2 (to the left side).
Finally, no calculation will be done when adding 0 to a division.
Also a minus before a division won't be moved inside: 1-(1/2) will not turn to 1+(-1/2) but stay as 1-(1/2)!
Mathematical regards!
Version 1.3 is available and brings a new mathematical operation!
New features:
You can now reduce a division if it is simplified by the operation.
More detailed error messages added! This is only the first step. The next update will get you a detailed explanation of every mathematical operation or error.
It is now possible to use the back-button of your device to discard your last operation.
Improvements:
Some rare errors were addressed, concerning the size of some texts and the disappearance of the interaction arrow.
DOWNLOAD from playstore
Thank you for posting the link! May i ask you if you tried my app? I would love to recieve feedback, this very important!
Daniel
Nice graphics and fonts! I spent so many time trying to find something like this.
Mathematical regards!
Version 1.4 has arrived and I poured my heart and soul into it, enjoy!
Improvements:
- New explanations for every action + an extended tutorial
- New design across the board (also for tablets)
- Improved the generation of the later equations
- Removed the need to sum 0 to it if you add an element to an empty side
- The biggest division-sign is now always in line with the equals-sign
Nice font and visual style! I really like stylization to blackboard.
Thank you very much! Feel free to tell me anything that can be improved!
Mathematical regards!
A small update (version 1.5) that hints strongly to the things to come!
Now you'll be able to scroll your equation around - which is very useful for large equations.
On the topic of large equations - maybe you'll be able to create one yourself in the next update?
Improvements:
- Every equation can now be scrolled around
- Performance improvements, especially for large equations