FRC Spyder 2014?

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

The updated version of FRC Spyder for iOS has been approved by Apple and is available now in the App Store. This version adds OPR, DPR, and CCWM to the rankings page and also adds the OPR-based Match Prediction feature.

And a little bit of a facelift! Looks great.

Pressing the "Go" button on the alert view to update the app in the iOS version brings the user to the Play store.

[Dave Flowerday]

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback!

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

Would it be possible to add stats to the teams from an event screen *before* the event starts?

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

If possible, I think this would be really useful as well, especially for the championship coming up.!

At this point we're all pretty busy with more important commitments, so it's unlikely there will be any additional features added to FRC Spyder this season.

Originally Posted by Zach O

Pressing the "Go" button on the alert view to update the app in the iOS version brings the user to the Play store.

Thanks for pointing that out, it was fixed earlier this afternoon.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[Dave Flowerday]

For anyone thinking of providing a free service to the FRC community (like we do with FRC Spyder), it may be worthwhile to keep in mind that, like us, you'll mostly just receive a steady stream of whining, complaining, and other un-GP verbal abuse. Very few people will ever say "thank you" (but for those who do, we appreciate it!). Mostly, you'll just have people telling you how things are broken (even though they're out of your control), people leaving you 1-star reviews with comments implying you inhale audibly, and so on (note that this is not at all limited to students; we've seen poor behavior from plenty of adults too).

Take, for example, this email we just received (note that it's likely the name and email are fake, so don't trust those):

Subject [General questions or comments] Your app doesn't work
From yesitisjoeykraut@gmail.com
To support@dwabtech.com
Date Today 6:47 pm

Richie Burgner sent a message using the contact form at http://www.dwabtech.com/main/contact.

Your app doesn't work at least for the San Jose regional and you are making the entire place unhappy, in fact we have started a boycott against your app in hopes that you will fix it. I don't care how hard it is I want to be able to check my rank so get it together or face legal charges

If by any chance someone knows the real author of this amusing email, perhaps a discussion of what FIRST's values are supposed to be would be in order.

Being involved with FRC Spyder has certainly proven to me that while "GP" is generally the rule of thumb on CD, it is definitely NOT a philosophy held by the general FIRST participant/spectator population.

[Bochek]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

For anyone thinking of providing a free service to the FRC community (like we do with FRC Spyder), it may be worthwhile to keep in mind that, like us, you'll mostly just receive a steady stream of whining, complaining, and other un-GP verbal abuse.

The last 2 weeks straight.

[Chris Fultz]

Dave & Mike -

First off, thanks for the app and everything it does.

Second off, I had no idea who was behind it, so thanks for letting us know. Very cool.

Third off, I never complain about free.

Fourth off, Can you add a "my ideal draft list" option? That would really make things easy for me.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

Richie Burgner: 'so get it together or face legal charges.'

I am laughing really hard. This person is either a troll and or extremely ignorant.

You guys rock, in case we haven't said it enough:

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

[blaze8902]

I wanted to make an attempt to express my gratitude as well. Spyder, while it is true that we still prefer to do our own statistical calculations, has been a near-essential tool for team 4265. A live update of schedule, results, and rankings makes the lives of scouts so much easier. (And helps our drive team out a bit as well!) A thanks from my entire team for all of the hard work you have put into this impressive application.