[TBA] The Blue Alliance 2016 Season Updates

[Eugene Fang]

Greetings from your friends over at The Blue Alliance!

As we head into the 2016 competition season of FRC, we'd like to announce some improvements and new features we've been working on for a while now.

Website

• Refinements and bug fixes for the whole web stack to make sure everything's running smoothly
• You can now submit Imgur images for use as team/robot pictures
• Keep an eye out for more myTBA integration throughout the site in the coming weeks

Android
Version 3.0 was launched last fall, as many of you probably saw. The big feature: a rewritten data layer that should make the entire experience better, faster, and more reliable
Version 3.1 is now rolling out. It includes…

• Fixes for a host of bugs that cropped up during Week 0
• Support for displaying Imgur images
• An event-specific GameDay live ticker for each event so you can see what’s happening in real time
• We’re planning to add native team image uploads. From within the app, you’ll be able to take a photo and have it automatically uploaded to Imgur and submitted to the admins for review

If you have an Android device, be sure to download the app or update it if you already have it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....androidclient

iOS/Windows
We’ve had an iOS app in the works for a while now, and there’s been some interesting in starting development on a Windows 10 app. If you’re a developer for either platform and want to help get these apps out into the FRC community, we’d welcome your contributions.

As always, The Blue Alliance is fully open-source, and we welcome contributions from the FIRST community. If you have any experience with web development, design, Android, iOS, Windows, or you just want to learn any of the above, we'd love to have you on the team! Check out our GitHub repositories to get started: https://github.com/the-blue-alliance

We hope you enjoy the enhancements we've made across all of The Blue Alliance! If you have a feature suggestion or bug report, let us know in the comments, or file an issue on our GitHub page: https://github.com/the-blue-alliance.

Good luck to everyone in the 2016 season!