I’m still getting lots of comments and emails about Pokédroid, which was taken down from the Android Market last month due to a DMCA notice from The Pokémon Company. (See these posts.) Most of my blog traffic still seems to come from Pokédroid-related searches, which is not surprising given the more limited appeal of my [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pokedroid’
26 May
On Pokédroid’s Removal
I posted the short version of this story to Pokédroid’s page on the Android Market: Pokédroid will be removed from the Android Market shortly. A legal representative of The Pokémon Company has responded to me via email. He has confirmed that TPC would like Pokédroid, and all similar apps, to be removed from the Android [...]
11 May
Nintendo used Takedown! It’s super effective!
UPDATE: I was in error when I wrote this post. Apparently, all Pokémon-related Android apps were cited in the DMCA takedown notice, not just paid ones. Every Pokédex app has been removed by Google except for Pokédroid and Pokédex Companion. It’s not clear why. Today I received an email from Google explaining that Pokédroid Donate [...]
6 Apr
Your Froyo users are an army of testers
The error reports page in the Android Market Developer Console is one of my favorite additions to Android 2.2 (Froyo): It gives you a nice, organized view of the stacktraces reported by users when your app has crashed or frozen. This is great because, for the most part, users are not particularly eloquent when describing [...]
3 Apr
Why it’s still your bug, even when it’s not
In the previous post, I talked about a workaround for a bug that occurs when integrating with the Facebook Android app. It brings up an interesting question: when software A integrates with software B, and software B has a bug, whose responsibility is it to fix it? Intuitively, you might answer B. “It’s B’s fault. [...]
1 Apr
Respect your users by treating them like idiots
Working on Pokédroid in the middle of a huge boom in its popularity (it’s gaining 3,000 installs a day – not downloads, but cumulative installs) while reading Joel Spolsky’s User Interface Design for Programmers is teaching me a lot about designing UIs. You can read some chapters of the book for free online; I especially [...]
