Android app FRC Spyder - 2011

[Mike Soukup]

As promised, FRC Spyder has been updated for the 2011 season. You can download it from the Android market.

The Android app pulls aggregated event data from our server into a local DB which the app displays in a convenient format. You can then view the results for every event and see where each team is playing this year. It also includes a widget and the ability to periodically update event results in the background. The app also includes archived data from the 2010 season.

The feature I'm most excited about is one we just wrapped up. We added the ability to register for push notifications for score updates for up to 5 teams. This means that you'll get a message in the notification bar when a match is scored for one of your registered teams, typically within 5-10 seconds of the match being scored. This feature requires Android 2.2 or later because it uses the push framework that was added in Froyo.

I hope you like it. If you want to get notified about future updates, follow us on twitter.

[Peter Matteson]

Mike,
Do you have an updated iPhone app on the way as well?

I really enjoyed the push notification that the app provided last year. It actually tipped us to the winner of many matches before FIRST revealed them in the Championship finals.

[Andrew Bates]

Thanks for the continued development of this App. It was really useful last year and I expect I will be using it a lot again this year.

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

Do you have an updated iPhone app on the way as well?

We're not making any promises about the iPhone version, but it's possible for next weekend.

I really enjoyed the push notification that the app provided last year. It actually tipped us to the winner of many matches before FIRST revealed them in the Championship finals.

Score push notifications are great, aren't they? I was envious of the iPhone version last year and was really happy when Google added push notifications to Android over the summer. I've been able to keep track of my favorite teams scattered across events while at work just by glancing at my phone when it beeps.

Thanks for the continued development of this App. It was really useful last year and I expect I will be using it a lot again this year.

You're welcome. I'm glad others find it as useful as I do. Don't forget to tell all your friends who are interested in the latest match results & rankings to install it.

[vhcook]

This is a delightful app, and I'm quite enjoying it. It does appear to have a glitch on three digit scores, though (or something has gone funky on my phone). Match 47 at FLR had a score of Red 122 to Blue 19. The app shows 12 to 19, with red winning. Q43 at FLR failed differently (0 to 102) and is showing 0 over a 10 in red and 2 in blue.

Oops. Bad engineer, no cookie. I should have mentioned I'm on an HTC EVO Shift running Android 2.2. I can provide more detailed versioning info if needed.

[Andrew Bates]

Originally Posted by vhcook

This is a delightful app, and I'm quite enjoying it. It does appear to have a glitch on three digit scores, though (or something has gone funky on my phone). Match 47 at FLR had a score of Red 122 to Blue 19. The app shows 12 to 19, with red winning. Q43 at FLR failed differently (0 to 102) and is showing 0 over a 10 in red and 2 in blue.

I can report that I have the same issues,

Moto Droid: Running Cyanogen Mod V 6.1.2

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by corpralchee

I can report that I have the same issues,

Moto Droid: Running Cyanogen Mod V 6.1.2

Me too. When will this get fixed? Oh yeah, that's my job. I noticed it when 2056 scored 102 points.

It's a problem with the size of the text box that I use to display the score. Last year's scores never got to 3 digits so I made it only 2 digits wide. I forgot to test with 3 digits this year. Oops. It's a simple fix; I'll push a new version to the market as soon as I get some time tonight.

[vhcook]

Thanks for the quick response!

[jason701802]

Have you gotten out the update to fix 3-digit scores? I'm still having a problem with them, or does it take a few days to make it through to the market.

The only thing that I wish this app had was a picture of each robot. I realize that finding a picture of each robot manually would be ridiculous, but you might be able to get the ones that people upload to TIMS. I also realize that downloading all those pictures would take a long time and take a lot of space, but making it so that the user can optionally download each picture individually from each team page or allowing them to download the pictures for all of the 'favorite' teams would be a good compromise. This is just a suggestion and I still really appreciate all the effort you have put into this great app.

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by jason701802

Have you gotten out the update to fix 3-digit scores? I'm still having a problem with them, or does it take a few days to make it through to the market.

I had an update pop up today and it looks like 3 digit scores are displaying properly for me (I didn't use the app yesterday so I never saw them display improperly).

[vhcook]

I went to the market and found the update this morning and it works fine now.

[Matt704]

This app was great when we were working on our robot backup pieces and couldn't watch the live Alamo regional feed because it was blocked by our school district. It was fantastic to get the live updates.

[jason701802]

I found my problem, my Market app didn't see my installation of FRC Spyder (even though I installed it through the market yesterday) so it didn't alert me to any updates. I reinstalled it from the market and now the 3 digit scores all work. Thanks again for this great app.

[Doc Wu]

Ditto on the thanks. I was wishing I had it this weekend, but never found time to look for it. Got it installed now and am ready for week 2!

[ATannahill]

Thanks for the update. Is there a way to bump up the number of teams we can get notifications for?