It’s been a while since I posted an update regarding Dindy. Dindy has been slowly evolving since its first release 9 months ago. It is now a relatively complete profile management solution for Android-based phones. It can be used for quite a few purposes, including: Simple profile manager for profiles like “silent” or “vibrate”. Auto-away [...]
Dindy’s sales have been dropping lately. I believe the reason is that it got some bad reviews and the current rating on the app market (3.93/5). Being unable to test Dindy on all the different Android phones prevents me from knowing whether claims of it not working are real or a misunderstanding on the users’ [...]
If you want to create a transparent activity in your Android app, add the following style In your res/values/styles.xml file (if you don’t have one, create it.) Here’s a complete file: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <resources> <style name=”Theme.Transparent” parent=”android:Theme”> <item name=”android:windowIsTranslucent”>true</item> <item name=”android:windowBackground”>@color/transparent</item> <item name=”android:windowContentOverlay”>@null</item> <item name=”android:windowNoTitle”>true</item> <item name=”android:windowIsFloating”>true</item> <item name=”android:backgroundDimEnabled”>false</item> </style> </resources> (the value @color/transparent [...]
I’ve been writing software for over a decade now and I think I’ve established a minimal, yet very effective, set of rules for writing software: Amit’s rules for writing software Make the users happy. Allow for known future modifications. Doesn’t seem like much, does it? But, much like code, the brevity of these rules says [...]
Ah, a moment of pride. A day after posting Dindy’s slow sales progress on my previous post 13 new users bought it in just 2 days, increasing sales by almost 50%. At first I thought it was because I posted an update to the market but then I realized that, again, someone gave Dindy a [...]
I haven’t made any further attempts to market Dindy and the sales have dropped a little bit – there’s a new user every 3-4 days. Google’s publisher statistics tell me that 29 people have downloaded Dindy and there are 18 active installs, which account for 62% of the downloads. From what I read this is [...]
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Dindy was released a month ago and now it’s time to review statistics, look back at my feeble “marketing” efforts and figure out how to continue. So far 17 people downloaded Dindy. Out of these 17: 3 people used the option to uninstall Dindy for a full refund (they’re allowed to do so during the [...]
Happy day today – the release of Dindy 1.0.0, my first mobile application ever, for the Android platform. I won’t repeat the specifics of what it does here because there’s a page for Dindy on this very site where you can read about it. Dindy costs UK£ 0.75 (don’t ask why it’s in British Pounds. [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been programming for fun. I haven’t done this in a very long time and I’m very happy to find a worthy purpose for my free time. I started implementing my call-again-if-urgent cellphone mode, called Dindy now (DND… Dindy… get it? oh well) on the Android platform provided by Google. [...]