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GAA news for Android

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  • 13-10-2010 9:13am
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    maceocc2
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I just finished my first Android App, it's called GAA News.

    It provides Football and hurling news pulled from an RSS feed, it has a pitch locator, video feed and fixture lists.

    The reason I'm posting here is to try and get some feedback on it to see if the UI or functionality can be inproved upon or if there is anything i've missed. It's called "GAA News", search in the marketplace, it's the only GAA one available I believe. TIA for the help.


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    Random
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    Nice and simple. Very responsive. The font colour on a selected tab is a difficult grey to read though.

    Will look more through it later.


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    Collumbo
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    just download it - simple and easy to use (bit like the way most things should be!). Perfect for a first app for sure!

    some very nice testing gadgets on your own personal site too.


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    Atomic Pineapple
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    Collumbo wrote: »
    just download it - simple and easy to use (bit like the way most things should be!). Perfect for a first app for sure!

    some very nice testing gadgets on your own personal site too.

    Link? :D


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    Collumbo
    Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭Collumbo


    draffodx wrote: »
    Link? :D

    pm sent ;)


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    maceocc2
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    I do a lot of PayPal stuff as well, so if you ever need help gimme a shout.


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    Collumbo
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    Yip - saw that on your site maceocc2. Very useful stuff to know and your test harnesses for the various functionality could be very useful... i've got you bookmarked. Thanks.


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    Gargled
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    Nice app maceocc2. What way do you pull in the RSS?

    Starting up developing apps at the moment.


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    maceocc2
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭maceocc2


    Gargled wrote: »
    Nice app maceocc2. What way do you pull in the RSS?

    Starting up developing apps at the moment.

    It just pings the URL and parses the response XML into Element objects and extracts the bodies. I have a basic starter App that I use that pulls an RSS feed, you have it to get started it you like. One thing to note though is the Date format seems to change depending on the RSS feed so watchout for that, it's easy to fix.


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    maceocc2
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭maceocc2


    Thanks for all the feedback on this, I got the lastest version up now. With a good few changes for the better (hopefully).


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