FRC Spyder 2014?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

The other pony would be to include each team's robot images that are indexed on thebluealliance.com (what few there are). I'm a visual thinker, so I cannot keep team numbers straight in my head for the life of me

If you have an iPhone, FRC Tracker has a photo database. There are almost 1000 photos in it. You can also take a photo with the app and associate it with a team.

Back to Spyder, I like going up to people on the end of Friday as people huddle around the pit display either taking pictures or writing stuff down and telling them that there's an app for that.

[nuclearnerd]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

If you have an iPhone, FRC Tracker has a photo database. There are almost 1000 photos in it. You can also take a photo with the app and associate it with a team.

That's cool! Unfortunately I have an Android phone. I wonder if the FRC Tracker people would share their photo database with FRC Spyder and/or thebluealliance?

[TimN]

Any chance of making this app available on the Amazon App Store for the Kindle Fire HD?

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by TimN

Any chance of making this app available on the Amazon App Store for the Kindle Fire HD?

Unfortunately none of us have Kindle devices, so we don't have a way to test it.

[dodar]

I dont know if its just my phone or if anyone else is having this problem, but Spyder doesnt update information anymore. The "loading" circle just constantly spins and I have to force stop the program to get it to stop.

EDIT: I uninstalled and then re-installed the program and now it updates perfectly.

[Dominick Ferone]

Do you think next year it would be possible to add,
Pit Map: so at a regional if everyone isn't in sequence there is an easy way to find a team then having to memorize where they are.(NYC is all a scrambled mess for pits)

Awards: so people could check what awards teams have won(with that maybe have it update you if a team you watch won an award.)

Live stream integration: Blue alliance won't always work on my phone to let me watch matches.

Team note tabs: when you walk to a team you can put a note tab next to them to later reference.(in pit scouting notes maybe and then be able to send them to each other. And to make notes on how well you played with them, or other important notes.)

Those are some ideas i had I don't know if other people have the same ideas or would like them integrated. I understand they may not be possible. Thank you guys for the great app i have been using for years now. It is the go to app i tell people to check out when they say they wanna keep an eye on us at competition.
Keep up the good work!

[jlmcmchl]

Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone

Do you think next year it would be possible to add,
Pit Map: so at a regional if everyone isn't in sequence there is an easy way to find a team then having to memorize where they are.(NYC is all a scrambled mess for pits)

Awards: so people could check what awards teams have won(with that maybe have it update you if a team you watch won an award.)

Live stream integration: Blue alliance won't always work on my phone to let me watch matches.

Team note tabs: when you walk to a team you can put a note tab next to them to later reference.(in pit scouting notes maybe and then be able to send them to each other. And to make notes on how well you played with them, or other important notes.)

Those are some ideas i had I don't know if other people have the same ideas or would like them integrated. I understand they may not be possible. Thank you guys for the great app i have been using for years now. It is the go to app i tell people to check out when they say they wanna keep an eye on us at competition.
Keep up the good work!

The feature creep is strong with this one.

More seriously, that's a lot of work for a FREE app, and multi-platform at that.

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by jlmcmchl

The feature creep is strong with this one.

Originally Posted by Zach O

I'm all for ideas, but uh... Spyder isn't magic.

What they said. I should hire you two as spokesmen.

We'll consider more features for next year, but we're currently too busy with paying jobs to add anything else this year.

[billylo]

Originally Posted by Mike Soukup

What they said. I should hire you two as spokesmen.

We'll consider more features for next year, but we're currently too busy with paying jobs to add anything else this year.

Hi, Mike,

If there are any interests, I can volunteer to work with the 610 programmers to port it to BlackBerry BB10 for the community. A little giveback to FIRST and the Canadian smartphone pioneer. BB10 can run many Android apps with a simple wrapper.

Billy.

[Zach O]

I'm all for ideas, but uh... Spyder isn't magic.

Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone

Pit Map: so at a regional if everyone isn't in sequence there is an easy way to find a team then having to memorize where they are.(NYC is all a scrambled mess for pits)

The pit layouts are planned out by individuals at events, and that data isn't available online. Due to the difference in layouts between venues, it would be almost impossible to have a standard template and have people map them out manually.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone

Live stream integration: Blue alliance won't always work on my phone to let me watch matches.

Spyder would have the same problem as your phone, for the most part. Your best bet usually, if TBA doesn't work, is to use the streaming service (Livestram, Ustream, twitch, etc) native app and watch from there.

Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone

Team note tabs: when you walk to a team you can put a note tab next to them to later reference.(in pit scouting notes maybe and then be able to send them to each other. And to make notes on how well you played with them, or other important notes.)

[shameless plug]
I actually wrote an app that does this for this season (Android only, I don't know iOS) that does just that. Take a look!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ks.frcnotebook