The Org App... need more testers...

[Corran]

Once it's ready, I see no reason to NOT put it on the marketplace. There are likely TONS of members with Android devices, but not all are going to be as comfortable as we are with rooting our phones/tablets. Having the app available on the marketplace ensures that nobody is left out if they don't have the tools or desire to root their device.

You don't have to root your phone to install it. Just have to tell the device that non-market apps are ok to install.

Except the ones where the carrier has disabled sideloading...

Are their other carriers aside from At&t that did this? Amazon's app store has sort of forced AT&T to change their policy.
http://techland.time.com/2011/05/16/att ... es-report/

[Pwolf]

I wasn't even aware carriers had been disabling the option >.>

My original concern for not wanting it on the marketplace was because of possible bad exposure. I really don't know if it would produce any exposure at all, good or bad, but it's more or less the reason I asked for input on the subject. I'm not worried about any personal liability but my biggest concern is pushing updates and making the entire user experience more uniform with all the other apps someone might have installed. From a developer point of view, it makes a lot of sense but as a long lasting member of this community, I'd rather see what the community and administration thinks before I make that decision.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Since it'll be one of a million free apps on the market place with limited appeal and limited exposure to anyone that didn't already know about it from here, I don't see a risk in putting it up from a "glaring public eye" point of view. It's also not going to cause any site bandwidth issues.

[Pwolf]

Since it'll be one of a million free apps on the market place with limited appeal and limited exposure to anyone that didn't already know about it from here...

That was my initial thought when I started to rethink my reasoning. The app is very specialized for our community and anyone who doesn't already know what an amv is probably wont think twice about not downloading it. At best, someone searching for "AMV" in the marketplace will find it. If someone/an organization wanted to find us and shut us down by searching for the keyword "amv" they would've used google and found us a lot faster by now.

Of course that's all speculation. There's no guarantee something or nothing will happen from it.

[Kariudo]

I'll talk to the other mods/admins about putting this in the marketplace.

On a separate note, how hard do you think it would be to port this to...say, windows mobile? (6.5 in my case)

[Pwolf]

how hard do you think it would be to port this to...say, windows mobile? (6.5 in my case)

Not difficult at all, it's just finding the time to actually do it. I also don't own a Windows Mobile device (6.5 or 7) so i guess that does make it difficult. I've got a bunch of stuff lined up so if i were to start developing for WinMo 6.5 and/or WP7, it wouldn't happen for a while.

[Begi]

I think it would be fine to put it on the marketplace. Like you said, if someone was trying to shut us down I doubt they would go through the marketplace in order to find us.

[Kariudo]

The council has spoken

This app may be put on the marketplace once you think it is ready Pwolf

[BasharOfTheAges]

Give him an API-like hook for star ratings and QCs so there's more functionality. *nudge*nudge*

[Pwolf]

Give him an API-like hook for star ratings and QCs so there's more functionality. *nudge*nudge*

Wait until I send out the next update (later tonight hopefully) The next update will most likely be the Release Candidate so, for those wondering, I'm looking at an August 1st release date.