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Android

First Android App In Play store: Feedback Appreciated!

Hey Teamtreehouse!

I've decided to finally create and publish a little game to the Android Play Store. I would love feedback on it from the community here. The idea came from an SNL Skit and my interest in the music genre.

You can find the app here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.graywolf.bassdrop

This is the first of many more apps/games to come.

Thanks!

Congrats man !!!

yeah congrats

5 Answers

Hi Robert,

Great stuff. Congratulations on your first app and the video link was refreshing this morning.

Just a few suggestions though.

  • I feel the description of the app could have been a little more elaborate. I had to look at the support video to know exactly what was going around.
  • Also you might want to try some different color combination (flat Ui colors are in lately)

All in all I have already downloaded the app on my phone :) and see potential in this.

Thanks Gunjeet Hattar!

Good point, if people didn't understand the reference to the Saturday Night Live digital short, then they might be very confused :). Also, I agree about the design, it could definitely use a refresh and is something I am working on more as a personal skill. I was trying to capture the color scheme and feel of the song album art.

Also, wondering if I should call out more prominently the "Feature your drop/ Request a drop" action. Was thinking it could be a unique way for any artist to feature their music, or involve fans to have their latest/favorite song in the game.

Hi Robert,

On second thoughts Flat UI might not look groovy in a sense. The album art has a more DJ Nite feel to it. I guess that would work great.

I guess a more prominent feature should definitely help get the application stand out. But again this a very unique concept (searched for potential like applications but nothing close)

Good luck with it. Will wait for the next update :)

Hi Robert

Congrats. Love the animation on the home layout. A small thing I did notice is the active audio stream has not been set correctly and when trying to adjust the volume you only alter the ringer volume.

For music or game apps it is preferable to define the audio stream it is pretty easy to do there is good documentation on this in the link below:

http://developer.android.com/training/managing-audio/volume-playback.html

Great job though!!

Daniel

Hey Daniel Hartin

Excellent catch! I will definitely update this in the next release. It looks like on the Home Screen my hard keys (on a Nexus 5) only adjust ringer volume, but during the Play Screen the hard buttons do adjust the music volume. What device were you using the app on?

Hi Robert

I was using HTC ONE M7 running android 4.4.3. I think if you call the method setVolumeControlStream(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);

during your initial onCreate() method it will set the active audio stream to control the music volume for the entire app as you only need to call it once.

I'll be honest though, i'm not too sure, i've never used that function before! it's only what i've extracted from the android developer documentation

Thanks Daniel