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kudaisi:
@ Ballantyne Kudos, you app seems to be a good work. Please enlighten me on the statement you made as quoted below:



I'd like to know the book or instructor that told you that it is not possible to put a ListView and ScrollView in the same Layout ?
Are insinuating that the below code will throw an exception. Cause i can't seem to get my head around the point you were trying to make.

  <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:weightSum="2" >

        <ScrollView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="#000000" >
        </ScrollView>

        <ListView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="#000000" >
        </ListView>

    </LinearLayout>

I wasn't the one that posted that. Though he may be right. you should run your code and see the outcome first.

dhtml18:
Errr, is that another way of getting rid of programming stress? I dont understand the correlation (or regression) with programming?

Someone said he has sex. You should ask him this question.

toshodei:
As you all know election is coming up. What if we had an app/website that could compare President GEJ and Buhari as well as Senators, Governors, and etc. We could look at their past deeds, accomplishments and etc.

What exactly should an app like that accomplish? Where will the data come from?

So... ermm.. nobody jerks off? Nobody? seriously?

that's disappointing.

mgb4reel:
I really love the way you address the question. My market is students; majorly university students. People who have seen it, say its nice but may not need it; they may not be students you know. ballantyne, That should not discourage you from downloading if you are student. Trust me, you will like it and if you are not student, please tell a student to tell another student. Thanks to you all for the comments.

It is a good app. However, you should aspire to create apps that can get say at least 300-400 downloads per day.

mgb4reel, notice how people say your app is a nice app but you haven't gotten up to 50 downloads?

Tolzeal:
There is alwaya room to upgrade whatever skill you've got.

The dude is right. Flashing A custom Rom will boid the protection.

If the phone is not rooted, flashing a custom Rom won't work. What will work is flashing an earlier version of the phone's stock Rom then poof! goes the protection.

BedLam:
I use LG g3 and it comes with its own voice ish and I must say it's super awesome. the bittch do tell me gotta things about Nigeria.

You only use it to search about Nigeria?

blaquemyc:
it's not always accurate since our accent is not the same as theirs but overall, its been fun using it. I use when I feel lazy typing.

You think it is reliable?

There are no custom Roms available for this device. Boring.

I am addicted to light. Wherever there is me, there is power.

That counts as an addiction right? Right??

Based on the title of the thread, you will think that the man ran and ran till he died of some unknown cause.

Clearly, falling inside a well killed the man.

The top mobile operating systems of today always market their inbuilt voice assistant as a very good and useful feature of their OS.
Apple - Siri
Google - Google now
Microsoft - Cortana
My question now is in reality, how many times have you had the need to use them? or how many times has it solved a problem for you?

I use an android device (a high-end android device) running android Lollipop and my experience with Google now hasn't been very nice. I would launch the Voice assistant service with "Ok Google" and then "yell" my command to it. Sometimes it gets it right but that's only 10% of the time, other times, it just mutilates the request and does a very different thing.

So, I think "Maybe it is because I am African and my accent might make my English less understandable to the service". I go to the settings and change the voice settings to South African English (since it is the only African English there). This improved the accuracy somewhat but it is still not usable. I say "How to create a file with python" it hears "How to create a cellphone".

I cannot recline in my seat and give instructions to my device on my desk without seeming mad. Even when I yell, I can't guarantee that the command will be processed right.

Has it been useful for you? Do you have any tips on how to use it?
Those on other platforms, do you experience this issue as well?

Please share your experiences.

Borwe:
Wow, google is slowly becoming closed source. Wait and see, new android verions from 5.2+ will become as shitty closed as apples iPhone and MacOS.

I am curious about how you managed to get to this conclusion,

Github won.

Does this startup have example apps to showcase their vision?

donniemc:
Thanks.
Clearly you do not have much experience in building apps. Am guessing you are one of these designers that have never written a line of code. And if you have, certainly you have not made anything serious.


90% of the suggestions you made are pure crap. They do make Ui sense but they are seriously lacking any user experince(UX) wisdom or coding sense.

I would have loved to counter all your suggestions one by one. But am afraid time won't permit. My only advice to you is to engage in making more apps. Clearly you have not being doing that.

Thanks anyways for the feedback.

No man. I have no interest whatsoever in what you think of me. You either accept what I posted or you don't or you point out the reasoning behind your design choices.
We are all here to learn.

Which Language and platform do you plan to design this program on?

The title of this thread should be: "Here, we try to show off for flavor his Gym photos".

WTF

Not that I am an Ifa worshipper or anything but what has that man's attitude got to do with worshiping Ifa. I understand the charms part but I think beating people has more to do with the man's nature and not his religion.

Nice effort but you really should read up on Material design rules and guidelines.
Your color palette broke some of those rules like your primary status bar color and the action bar color (or did you use a toolbar?), I don't think you used the right color variation. The tint on your status bar is too much. more than the one prescribed by the material design guidelines. it made the feel of the app a little bit off.

when I launch your app, I am shown an activity with a banner that takes up a quarter of the screen. This does draw the attention of the user to the artist shown there but why is it not scrollable?.
it has to be scrollable because The image forces users to use only a small percentage of their screen. This makes for bad user experience. Also, once a user starts scrolling, the user no longer has any interest in the image displayed, so, it makes sense to hide the image whenever the user starts scrolling. maybe gradually with an animation.

You should consider moving your app label, icon to the actionbar at the top of the screen, it makes sense there, I don't see any problem that it solves at the center of the activity.

your menu being at the center of the page is good for making users access app content easily but do you really want the first thing a user sees when he launches your app be a menu? The best thing to show here will be the juicy stuff. Top Music, new music, any category that will draw your user in. You should use the navigation drawer provided by android for displaying menus. Implementing this will also eliminate the need for your user going back to the homescreen every time he wants to move to another section of your app. This will help big screen device users.

icons, text sizes. those should get adjusted as well.

Material design guidelines: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html#
Material design inspirations: http://www.materialup.com/

Good Luck.

MacPython:
we are trying but we are not making any effort in real brain storming and ingenious programming most of us copy edit codes. i have check nigeria ranking in Google code jam festival in nothing to brag about we are not in first 1000 since the coding competition started

Maybe the current generation should aspire to create something monumental that will inspire people of the next generation to get really interested in programming.

Screen shot below.

Full BBM DP: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ballantyne.fullbbmdp

Creates images that you can set as a display photo on BBM and it appears as is without being cut.
Post your memes and screenshots without losing portions of it.

Though the image quality will be affected if the image is really long.

Full BBM DP: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ballantyne.fullbbmdp