Android app FRC Spyder - 2011

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

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

Maybe after the second week of events. We're using Google app engine for our server and Google C2DM for push notifications, both of which have limits (CPU, bandwidth, number of messages per day, etc), some hard and some that lead to us getting charged. I don't want to set limits too high, then go over our quotas. Once we get a better understanding of how close we're coming to the quotas, we'll crank the limit up if we think it's safe.

I'm surprised no one noticed the small bug with RPs. I foolishly thought that RPs were a sum instead of an average, so we truncated the RPs instead of giving the value posted on the official rankings. I'm used to VEX's rules which use the sum, and IMHO is a much better method since it makes the typical "how many RPs do we need to overtake the team in front of us" question trivial.

Look for an update in a day or two that fixes the RP bug. It won't include any other changes since I need to help the team get ready for our first event in Wisconsin this weekend.

[Kevin Ray]

Mike,
In another thread FRC Spyder was mentioned as showing which matches minibots made a difference in winning the match. I'm getting old and can't seem to find anything about minibots. Was he mistaken or is my "old timers" acting up again?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Kevin Ray

Mike,
In another thread FRC Spyder was mentioned as showing which matches minibots made a difference in winning the match. I'm getting old and can't seem to find anything about minibots. Was he mistaken or is my "old timers" acting up again?

The reference was to FRC-Spy which shows the bonus points earned in each match

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Mike Soukup

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

That'd be great!

[caltemus]

Would it be possible to port this to webOS, much of our team has Pre's and this app often updates faster than the other available rankings.

[Hallry]

Would it also be possible to add an 'award' listing for each event as well? (As in Chairman's, Winners, Finalists, Woody Flowers, Rookie All-Star, Rookie with high Qualifying Points, Coopertition, Website, Engineering Inspiration, etc., all of those)

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by caltemus

Would it be possible to port this to webOS, much of our team has Pre's and this app often updates faster than the other available rankings.

Not going to happen, sorry. I don't have a WebOS phone and I have no desire to develop WebOS applications. I'm an Android only guy, my bi-weekly paycheck comes from Motorola.

Originally Posted by Hallry

Would it also be possible to add an 'award' listing for each event as well?

There have been a few requests for this, I'll see if I have the time to add awards.

[Cory]

While we're at it with the requests, how bout a widget to cycle through favorite teams instead of just favorite events?

Love this app Mike, everyone on the team with Android phones uses the heck out of it. Thanks for the work you put in to make it.

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by Cory

While we're at it with the requests, how bout a widget to cycle through favorite teams instead of just favorite events?

Now you're just piling on . Like all other requests, I'll look into it. It sounds like a great feature, but I need to read up on how to implement multiple widgets for a single app.

Love this app Mike, everyone on the team with Android phones uses the heck out of it. Thanks for the work you put in to make it.

I'm glad all the Poofs are enjoying it. Too bad San Diego wasn't pushing score updates to twitter this weekend. I wasn't able to get notices for 254's matches.

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by Mike Soukup

Too bad San Diego wasn't pushing score updates to twitter this weekend. I wasn't able to get notices for 254's matches.

Glad to know it wasn't just me! Thanks for the great app

[Travis Covington]

I'd still love to see an update to the iPhone version if possible.

Great app otherwise.

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by Cory

While we're at it with the requests, how bout a widget to cycle through favorite teams instead of just favorite events?

Love this app Mike, everyone on the team with Android phones uses the heck out of it. Thanks for the work you put in to make it.

How about an option to have all events marked as favorites?

[TPNigl]

Agreed with Travis, haha

[Navid Shafa]

Thanks for making this app possible. I've been using it tons and rely on this app to keep myself posted.

It was always great when I'd get the score before our alliance or opponents standing next to us, they thought it was crazy that I knew the score before it got posted on the board

I do have some suggestions/problems which I have noted during the regionals...

1) When you update the entire app from the top-tier, all of your favorite events and teams get wiped.

2) Saturday morning of the Seattle Cascade regional the scores stopped coming for some reason. In fact, it currently lacks most of Saturday's Quals and even the Elims...

3) Thursday night, when the FIRST schedule was released for the Autodesk Oregon regional, it was posted incorrectly (all of the matches). In fact, it continued to be entirely inaccurate until around an hour in on Friday (If I remember correctly). However, it got fixed and worked great the rest of the regional.

4) When you get pushed a score notification for a team's match, when you select that update bar, the notification goes away and does not bring you to the app to view the match. It acts only as a reminder for you to check your app for the results...

I don't want to sound as if these are complaints, I just wanted my feedback to be available. Like I said, I love this app and I use it a lot and hope it provides as much help in St. Louis as it has the rest of the season.

Thanks again!

[Stephi Rae]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

2) Saturday morning of the Seattle Cascade regional the scores stopped coming for some reason. In fact, it currently lacks most of Saturday's Quals and even the Elims...

Actually this was a problem with the FIRST system, not with the app. The FIRST website stopped updating, so no information was going through. I was trying to watch the scores very closely, and it was a little frustrating...

This app is so great to keep updated!