My First Non-Game app with Gideros

OZApps

I am happy to announce the approval (and soon to be available on the Apple App Store) non-game app made using GiderosSDK called Re-Counter https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/recounter/id850985110?ls=1&mt=8

The app is a simple counter or rather upto 4 on-screen counters that can be used to count anything, scores, vehicles, people, etc. The idea behind it is to demonstrate that Gideros can be used for non-gaming apps too. Since the app is simple, no plug-ins are used (though they are compiled with the plug-ins as I could not remove them without errors at the time).

Some things to note are the gestures - Long Press, I had Double Tap; worked for a single counter, but when touches are across multiple counters, it worked quite erratic. The sliding Menu Popup Colour picker (limited). The app was more so for demonstrating a couple of things. There could be a series of articles that document the easy and not so easy bits that were experienced while making this app including the issues and the work arounds for the weird font glitch.

I do not have an Android version because there are issues with the values that are returned by the Android device. I do not have all android devices to test the app. The issues can be noted here at http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/4703/results-returned-when-using-getdevicewidth-and-getdeviceheight-on-androids#Item_7

This is not the app that I am holding my breath to make it to the charts. Screenshots can be seen in an earlier post at http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/4698/truetype-fonts-issues#Item_9

The next app or a newer version could have more features and functionality, let's see.

I forgot to mention, you can save the counters and the settings, the counters can be set to count upwards in increments of 1 or custom increments. Swiping left is a gesture that decrements the counter by 1 or a custom value if you so choose. Long Press resets the counter to the start value which can also be set according to a custom set values. The colours and the label of the counter can be changed too.

ar2rsawseen

You? First? Really?

I thought that is your main topic with Gideros (non-game apps that is )

keszegh

looks nice, you should bring it to android too.
also to be useful for playing scrabble etc, there should be an option to add a specific value. so far i use Paper Points Counter for this, and probably in functionality it offers much more, but your app looks much nicer so it would be a good alternative.

OZApps

You? First? Really?

Yes, I have been using Gideros but never released anything, always had concept videos. So bundled this one together and posted it on the app store to check for so many things, will outline those in a blog post later.

So this is the first Published/Released App on the appstore

The first Game app with Gideros was Chopper Res (cue), the game from my book. So now I have two published apps with Gideros one in Gaming and one non-gaming.

OZApps

looks nice, you should bring it to android too.
also to be useful for playing scrabble etc, there should be an option to add a specific value. so far i use Paper Points Counter for this, and probably in functionality it offers much more, but your app looks much nicer so it would be a good alternative.

I want to publish for the Android, the different screen sizes are the issue that I want to manage properly. So maybe soon.

With 'Paper Points Counter' you can store information like those paper tape calculators, which store every added detail (is that correct?).

In this app, you can increment the score, if you make an error, exit and start again, the last saved data is displayed. If your increments are right, save them.

You can increment the counter by a specific value as you can see in this picture
http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/ef/9c/58/ef9c5877-f8ee-0bd3-7cc8-d084f1e05939/screen480x480.jpeg

If you mean add different numbers everytime, that is then different, more like a score keeper and not a counter. Will note that functionality for the next update and see how it can be incorporated.

keszegh

yeas, something like that in that screenshot there would be a 'custom value each time' option and then each time clicking on the score it would pop up a window where you can add your specific value. (paperpointcounter's calculator area is quite ok, but even a simpler one would be enough, like buttons for 0...9 and a button to increment the tens (+10).

i think in most cases you are not that interested in score history, only last value, so in that respect your app does what is mostly needed.

OZApps

Maybe in the next release, I will put a button on the right on each counter that would popup a numeric pad to help add a custom value.

keszegh

that sounds good.

agnes

You found the secret. X))

MikeHart

Congrats on the release.

OZApps

Congrats on the release.

Thanks