I’m happy to announce a new update to Rainy Days! This version adds new features, improvements, more coverage and bugfixes. One of the new features is the so called stop-and-go mode, where you can pause the animation by tapping the screen once. Once paused you just swipe left to go back in the animation (earlier) or swipe right to go forward (later). You can also use the trackball or the menu to control the animation. …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Reaching your Android users
Now that I’ve released my android app to the market it’s time to optimize :) I’d like my app to work on every device and I also would like every user to love it ofcourse. But this is not as easy as it seems… For example, while the Android Market allows a user to comment on my app it doesn’t allow me to respond, moderate or even view all the comments from the market developer …
My Google App Engine experiences so far
For Rainy Days I needed something to process the weather data that gets sent to the Android device, because some of the processing is simply to much for a mobile device. Since I had played around Google App Engine already I picked it as my PaaS of choice, besides I didn’t feel like mucking around with virtual servers on AWS anyway :) Because I already had invested in some Java code that I also use …
Hello Scandinavia! Rainy Days update adds more coverage
I’ve released another update for Rainy Days in the Android market, this time adding Scandinavia coverage, courtesy of vaderradar.se. This new version also has other improvements and fixes, like new about screens and better management of the download cache. Also credits for the images are now displayed on the map in the bottom right corner. As usual here are some screenshots and the barcode for downloading the app from the market. Have fun and let …
Rainy Days in Scandinavia preview
Here’s a quick preview of the Scandinavian coverage in Rainy Days!