FRC Spyder for 2012

[Mike Soukup]

thank you so much for your work on this app

Thanks, Mike!

Thank Dave Flowerday too, he writes the iOS version.

does the app calculate OPR with or without penalties?

FRC Spyder does not calculate OPR. Our focus is match results and rankings. Maybe in the future.

On another note, any news about a possible Blackberry version?

Nope. None of us have a Blackberry and we're too busy with work & other projects to take on another platform.

Will there also be an FRC Tracker this year?

That's not developed by us, but Tom tweeted a couple days ago that he submitted the new version to the App Store.

[johnmaguire2013]

To repeat what everyone else has said, thank you very much for this. I hadn't known about this last year, but it'll be awesome to use this year.

[pyroslev]

Works on the Casio Commando. Gonna be a nice addition to the traditional scouting arsenals.

[Rick]

Anyone have a direct download to the android apk? My market isn't working right.

[tim-tim]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

Will there also be an FRC Tracker this year? Both apps work well together in that Spyder lets you see rankings, but Tracker lets you see what the robots actually look like...

For the record...FRC Tracker 2012 is now in the apple app store

[CastleBravo]

Does anyone else have a problem with the app clearing favorites after refreshing stats?

[bladetech932]

Clears favorites everytime i update results and such. Otherwise its awesome great work!

[JosephC]

Originally Posted by stundt1

REFRESH REFRESH come on.

What I did last year was use the frc standings website and got the match scores before they posted them on the screen.

My teammates got annoyed because I would tell them if we won or lost a match before the scores were projected on the screen.

The best part was, no one knew how I was doing it for the 1st half of the district we were at =)

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

If you'd like to propose feature ideas anyway I'd say just put them here in this thread.

It'd be nice to put back the previous year's data. I used those a lot to refresh my memory of 2010 & 2011 while we were planning our scouting.

This is incredibly useful; thank you for making it available. At one point we had 5 people sitting in the same area trying to get updates on rankings, on 4 different phone models. :-) Thd problem was FIRST wasn't updating data; nothing to do with you.

[sandiegodan]

Love this app, thank you for putting in the time and keeping it going year after year. When I meet someone from the public just watching from the stands, this app quickly downloads and lets them see the bigger picture very quickly. They can follow the rankings, look up teams, see how things are going. I hope you and FIRST realize how much this portable "program" means to the public acceptance of this competition! They should be advertising this throughout the matches for audience.

Oh, and of course, everyone on Team Spyder loves the name! Care to share how you came up with it or is that in another thread somewhere? (We always give you credit when folks ask about it, and we get asked a lot!)

[Dave Scheck]

Originally Posted by sandiegodan

Oh, and of course, everyone on Team Spyder loves the name! Care to share how you came up with it or is that in another thread somewhere? (We always give you credit when folks ask about it, and we get asked a lot!)

Glad you like the app. Mike and Dave (other Dave, I'm not talking in the 3rd person ) put a lot of effort into making a valuable tool for the community and I know that positive feedback is always appreciated.

To answer your question about the name, the app was originally intended to be named FRCSpy, but there was already a CD feature by that name that we didn't want to infringe on and cause confusion with. We knew we wanted to keep the Spy aspect of it, and since the app is basically a data crawler, like a spider, we merged the two and Spyder was born.

FYI, if you're into VEX, there's a counterpart named VEX via for both Android and IOS available for their larger competitions, (Pan Pacific, Mid Atlantic Championship, US National Championship, and World Championship)

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by Jaxom

It'd be nice to put back the previous year's data. I used those a lot to refresh my memory of 2010 & 2011 while we were planning our scouting.

I took it out this year because my approach to get 2010 & 2011 to play nicely together was a quick, ugly hack last year. I didn't want to perpetuate the ugliness and I didn't have time to fix it properly, so I took it out.

[charlie.drummer]

I really love this app! Works great on my Droid X2.

My team is developing a computer program for scouting to handle the huge amount of information we get. We would like to have it get the match schedule off of the FIRST site. Where does your app get it's data from? I know they post the match schedule and the results in an html file, but do they store it in any other form other than html. We are really not looking forward to parsing html. Thanks!

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by charlie.drummer

...do they store it in any other form other than html. We are really not looking forward to parsing html. Thanks!

What language are you using? Unless you're using something obscure I'd be very surprised if you won't have multiple choices about which HTML-parsing library routines you use. There's no reason at all that you should have to rewrite such a common piece of code.

[charlie.drummer]

We are using java, and I know there are many libraries out there. We wouldn't have to actually parse it our self. I was just wondering if they store it in a form that would be easier to read and pick out the information we want from. I looked at the source for the match schedule page on the FIRST site, and it would be a pain to have to find the proper html table out of all the others on the page.