KATG iPhone App Take 2

[hayroob]

OK the even more dummy dumb dumb proofed version.

[s1lentslayer]

Or maybe don't even show the play button if it's not live.

[hayroob]

Originally Posted by s1lentslayer

Or maybe don't even show the play button if it's not live.

I have seriously considered that, but I don't want there to be a situation where the indicators that I use to determine if the show is live fail and the user can't access the play button to bypass the indicator. I prefer to just make it available instead of doing complicated fallback what have you or having some kind of show the play button button.

[hayroob]

Ok, just to try this, if people could send in emails requesting that app review give the app another look that might help. They completely ignore my emails, but maybe if there's a bunch they'll give it another look.

Here's a form letter you can send to appreview@apple.com

Dear Apple iPhone Review,
I have been following the development of the Keith and The Girl iPhone app and have seen that it has just been rejected from the app store. I and several others have seen the application and have tested it on our phones. The application fulfills the functions it was designed for well and I would like to see it approved. If you could give it further consideration I and many other Keith and The Girl listeners would appreciate it greatly.

The follow up code on the rejection was posted as 74074660.

Sincerely
YOUR NAME HERE

[Willeth]

Can you pull the next live show data from elsewhere and display it in the 'feed is not live' error box at all? Even if it's an expensive process I wouldn't care, because if you try to play the stream when you can clearly see it's not on you deserve it

[hayroob]

Originally Posted by Willeth

Can you pull the next live show data from elsewhere and display it in the 'feed is not live' error box at all? Even if it's an expensive process I wouldn't care, because if you try to play the stream when you can clearly see it's not on you deserve it

When I'm feeling like doing something, beside reading these swamp thing comics I just bought, I'll be adding a countdown timer on the main on air page so putting it in the error seems redundant.

[Emelath]

Sadly my iphone has done battle with the rain and lost! I sent it off to ipodjuice to get fixed. Once I get it back I would love to be in on the KATG app!

[Willeth]

Originally Posted by hayroob

When I'm feeling like doing something, beside reading these swamp thing comics I just bought, I'll be adding a countdown timer on the main on air page so putting it in the error seems redundant.

I agree, but it wouldn't solve the idiotproofing problem of 'if you press play when the feed is off, you are told it's not live'. If they hit it with the previous indicators, they'll hit it with the countdown timer.

Also, if you've not done it already, an option to set your timezone would be really helpful. I guess if it's a countdown then it's not much of an issue, but if you have the actual time displayed anywhere I would prefer to see it in GMT than EST.

[hayroob]

Originally Posted by Willeth

I agree, but it wouldn't solve the idiotproofing problem of 'if you press play when the feed is off, you are told it's not live'. If they hit it with the previous indicators, they'll hit it with the countdown timer.

Also, if you've not done it already, an option to set your timezone would be really helpful. I guess if it's a countdown then it's not much of an issue, but if you have the actual time displayed anywhere I would prefer to see it in GMT than EST.

The countdown timer and an error saying look at the timer will suffice.

As far as timezone, the app already corrects for time zone.

[hayroob]

So I downloaded the android sdk today just to fiddle and I gotta say

(Almost) COMPLETE SHIT

It's not intuitive,
it's not developed in house,
doing simple stuff like downloading and opening a sample app is shit
debugging is shit
shit shit shit

The phone apps are written in java, which is an ok language, and the frameworks are sensible enough, but until they come up a robust IDE I will be steering very very clear of android. Not sure how they arrived at eclipse (I guess it's popular) but I can't stand it.