As of 7/26/2010 I have released my SC2 Mapster application to the world on the Android Marketplace. This application is 100% free and contains no hidden ads. Also at the moment it only requires your permission to access the internet, your personal username and password are not sent anywhere or stored in in fashion so there is no need to worry about security risks. (At the moment logging you does require your username and password, however these are only used to login so it can store the cookies)
I am also releasing 3 other applications that are going to be used for donation purposes so that people can freely donate money to me. If you don't want to donate money then please feel free to leave comments on either the Android Marketplace or AppBrain along with a rating to help encourage me to keep on moving.
On the side note, please don't make comments about features that are missing and rate poorly because of this. I know these features are missing but I would like to remind you that this is an Alpha Build and each update will still contain the older version's comments and ratings.
PS: I WILL NOT RELEASE AN IPHONE VERSION! I do not and I will never have an iPhone, so I will not develop anything for the iPhone. None of the coding used for this application is compatible for the iPhone either so I will not be releasing the source.
it works on the new droid x i got yesterday. actually im posting on my droid x
It will most likely work on any Android Phone since it is built using the 1.6 Framework and there aren't any phones out there using the versions before 1.6.
It will most likely work on any Android Phone since it is built using the 1.6 Framework and there aren't any phones out there using the versions before 1.6.
Another 2 features you could add is irc client built in the app that connects to sc2mapster chatroom and a asset news ticket of all new assests loaded to sc2mapster.
Tossing in an IRC Client would be pretty fun. Could potentially just load up http://webchat.freenode.net/ within the app if you don't want to write you own...
I now have a new update that includes browsing the first page of forum categories!
The link to download the new *.apk file is the same as the one in the first post, just an FYI.
Changelog:
Long Tap on category brings up a window with the description, to get out of this just press outside of the window or hit you back button. (Going to be used for stats)
Short Tap on a category takes you to the view the first page of threads in that category, to go back to the category view just hit you back button.
Thread Viewer uses an updated HTML Parser of the old Category Viewer, this is more robust however it can be rather memory intensive for a few seconds.
Category Viewer uses an even more updated HTML Parser of the Thread Viewer, even more robust but uses up more memory for a few seconds.
Removed the Progress Dialog telling you to wait as it retrieved data, in future versions when JSON is supported data will be accessed much faster so there will no longer be a need.
Added some basic support for Read/Unread/Locked Status checking and changing the icon depending on the status.
Known Bugs:
The status icons for read/unread appear to be borked and don't display the status properly. I have no idea why this happens but I believe it is a server side issue caused by a client side issue. I think that the read/unread statuses are stored in cookies or something and I have reason to believe that this method of Parsing will not support cookies that well.
Changing the screen orientation results in some lag before changing all the way, this is due to the way that the Android OS handles screen rotations. Android destroys the Activity and redoes the activity, I will have to find a better way of storing the files.
Well as I said in the first post, I need someone to make an icon that is 100x100 and it should be formatted in such a way as you would use it for your desktop icon.
Someone post the basic SCIIMapster logo, and toss me a link where I can DL/Rip it. and Ill get ya setup with a basic icon.
EDIT: i thought the max size for an icon is 72x72 on the android platform?
Are you talking about the Website Icon displayed up by the url? That is the dragon used for installers and such not for WoW, and can be easily ripped from there. However I would prefer a custom-ish icon this way I will never run into a problem with using Blizzard's Artwork.
As for the max size there is none, it just scales down depending on what kind of display your using. I am scaling these down manually at the moment but having good detail in a 100x100 icon scales down to a pretty bad ass icon of any size.
I don't own an IPhone or plan on owning one any time soon, if anyone knew how to program for the IPhone I can send over the code uses for parsing the HTML since this is the only thing that would be usable for such a platform. However in the near future this code would become obsolete as this site starts to get support for JSON or XML to transfer data to such applications.
I have released the first update, it doesn't add much but it allows you to somewhat view the Map RSS Feed. For the moment I am trying to work on a way to view forum posts which is more complicated then it seems since I need to parse HTML in such a way where I can have some formatting.
Also it seems there are 58 Active Installs, meaning people are somewhat using it so please post your comments!
As of 7/26/2010 I have released my SC2 Mapster application to the world on the Android Marketplace. This application is 100% free and contains no hidden ads. Also at the moment it only requires your permission to access the internet, your personal username and password are not sent anywhere or stored in in fashion so there is no need to worry about security risks. (At the moment logging you does require your username and password, however these are only used to login so it can store the cookies)
I am also releasing 3 other applications that are going to be used for donation purposes so that people can freely donate money to me. If you don't want to donate money then please feel free to leave comments on either the Android Marketplace or AppBrain along with a rating to help encourage me to keep on moving.
On the side note, please don't make comments about features that are missing and rate poorly because of this. I know these features are missing but I would like to remind you that this is an Alpha Build and each update will still contain the older version's comments and ratings.
PS: I WILL NOT RELEASE AN IPHONE VERSION! I do not and I will never have an iPhone, so I will not develop anything for the iPhone. None of the coding used for this application is compatible for the iPhone either so I will not be releasing the source.
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$1 Donation
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I'm really excited about this, :).
@Sixen: Go
it works on the new droid x i got yesterday. actually im posting on my droid x
It will most likely work on any Android Phone since it is built using the 1.6 Framework and there aren't any phones out there using the versions before 1.6.
Another 2 features you could add is irc client built in the app that connects to sc2mapster chatroom and a asset news ticket of all new assests loaded to sc2mapster.
Tossing in an IRC Client would be pretty fun. Could potentially just load up http://webchat.freenode.net/ within the app if you don't want to write you own...
A link to the Maps RSS would be good too. http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps.rss
I now have a new update that includes browsing the first page of forum categories!
The link to download the new *.apk file is the same as the one in the first post, just an FYI.
Changelog:
Long Tap on category brings up a window with the description, to get out of this just press outside of the window or hit you back button. (Going to be used for stats)
Short Tap on a category takes you to the view the first page of threads in that category, to go back to the category view just hit you back button.
Thread Viewer uses an updated HTML Parser of the old Category Viewer, this is more robust however it can be rather memory intensive for a few seconds.
Category Viewer uses an even more updated HTML Parser of the Thread Viewer, even more robust but uses up more memory for a few seconds.
Removed the Progress Dialog telling you to wait as it retrieved data, in future versions when JSON is supported data will be accessed much faster so there will no longer be a need.
Added some basic support for Read/Unread/Locked Status checking and changing the icon depending on the status.
Known Bugs:
The status icons for read/unread appear to be borked and don't display the status properly. I have no idea why this happens but I believe it is a server side issue caused by a client side issue. I think that the read/unread statuses are stored in cookies or something and I have reason to believe that this method of Parsing will not support cookies that well.
Changing the screen orientation results in some lag before changing all the way, this is due to the way that the Android OS handles screen rotations. Android destroys the Activity and redoes the activity, I will have to find a better way of storing the files.
@7H3LaughingMan: Go
Amazing work :) logo should be changed to a speedling tho in my opinion
Ahahaha, it looks like a speedling, doesn't it...
Well as I said in the first post, I need someone to make an icon that is 100x100 and it should be formatted in such a way as you would use it for your desktop icon.
Someone post the basic SCIIMapster logo, and toss me a link where I can DL/Rip it. and Ill get ya setup with a basic icon.
EDIT: i thought the max size for an icon is 72x72 on the android platform?
any chance we get it for an iphone too?
Are you talking about the Website Icon displayed up by the url? That is the dragon used for installers and such not for WoW, and can be easily ripped from there. However I would prefer a custom-ish icon this way I will never run into a problem with using Blizzard's Artwork.
As for the max size there is none, it just scales down depending on what kind of display your using. I am scaling these down manually at the moment but having good detail in a 100x100 icon scales down to a pretty bad ass icon of any size.
I don't own an IPhone or plan on owning one any time soon, if anyone knew how to program for the IPhone I can send over the code uses for parsing the HTML since this is the only thing that would be usable for such a platform. However in the near future this code would become obsolete as this site starts to get support for JSON or XML to transfer data to such applications.
I am not an iOS app developer so I can't help you there :(
Maybe someone who does can
They're attached at the bottom of each theme.
Bumpage for release!
I have released the first update, it doesn't add much but it allows you to somewhat view the Map RSS Feed. For the moment I am trying to work on a way to view forum posts which is more complicated then it seems since I need to parse HTML in such a way where I can have some formatting.
Also it seems there are 58 Active Installs, meaning people are somewhat using it so please post your comments!
@7H3LaughingMan: Go
I have been using it TLM its very cool :) cant wait for more updates
Wanted to tell you before I forget, and I don't see you on the IRC... Can you add an Assets tab as well? ;).