Extended Hiatus

I'm not yet dead, but the project has halted in development due to outstanding circumstances and lack of motivation.

Perhaps one person is doing too much at first.

I am currently recruiting friends to assist me, but I feel that I am trying to cater to a very small market. Therefore, this app will be released free, instead of paid or ad-supported, just to get my name out there.

I am trying to contact the administrator of Magiccards.info to obtain permission to use his work in my application. Ideally, I would like to be the "MagicCards.info Android App" of choice.

Time to sit down and write up the next project. Ideas?

Andrew

Whoops!

Erm.. should really pay attention to my own blog. Should set it to my homepage or bookmark it or something.


Anyway. AndroidMTG alpha v0.01a.

Tested on Android 1.6 (Donut).

At the moment, it is a simple application that can search the magiccards.info database and display the first card in the search. It has implemented the logic for rolling dice (as a completely random number and not a true physics logic) and flipping a coin. Also, it is very handy for counting life totals.

UI will be changed. I promised to deliver an alpha. And here it is. Just connect your phone to the computer and use the command "adb install path-to-AndroidMtG.apk". There is a way to install via the sd card, but I am not sure at the moment and I need to go to class in 5 minutes. Hope you enjoy and looking forward to your criticism.

P.S. Don't criticize the UI. This is an alpha. UI can come later. Implementing the useful stuff is more important. And I will release this as a free app on the market for 1.5 and later.

EDIT~Here is the download link: http://www.MegaShare.com/2062179
I think this might work better, no waiting: http://www.MegaShare.com/dnd/2062179/eb9967de9d95fe64da381eae72e5f1f4/AndroidMtG.apk

MTGApp Hiatus

Not that anyone is following the blog yet, I did want to let you know that MTGApp (name to change) is on hiatus due to full-time school and full-time work. Expect an alpha to hit this blog by the end of the year. Beta will be released to the market shortly aftwerward.

Well, I haven't posted much here in a while. Sorry for making the one of me wait. (This is really just posted for posterity, seeing as no one is reading this yet.)

I killed KidDesk by accident. I deleted the source files while trying to upload them to Ohloh. Whoops.

(You can follow me on Ohloh. twilightwolf90)

Anyway, my programming for the Android platform has been spurred by me procuring a device. Introducing my first app to hit the Android Market:

MTGApp

This app will assist Magic the Gathering players everywhere. Its features include:

• Card lookup
• Deck Builder
• Rules lookup
  
• Life Counter
• Coin Flipper
• Dice Roller (d20 compatible)

Even though I am a huge open source fan and advocate, I do want to make a little money off of this app, because I am working so hard on it (and to offset the cost of the device/the cost of the market posting). This is my on-the-side project, so don't expect it to update often or even come out soon. Expect to see it by the end of the year.

Twilightwolf90's Developer's Blog

Hello to those who read this blog.

If you saw my other blog, then you may be wondering why I created yet another one. The reason is that this one will be used for marking my development of programs and software that I either create or modify. This blog will have any freeware or shareware I release first.

I am a Senior in high school in Northern VA. I am skilled in programming on the Java platform. I am familar with HTML, XML (not DTDs though), Python, Actionscript 2.0 (3.0 is on my wishlist), and C++. (does sh count?)

I am using a Dell Studio 15 with x64 Jaunty (Ubuntu Linux) and Netbeans as my primary IDE. I am familar with Eclipse and Emacs as well.

Right now, I am programming for the Google Android platform. My current project, though stalled due to classwork, is an all-in-one adventure game suite. It would include a dice sim (D20 system), a counter app that can display multiple counters and save, and calculator (no, I am not going to reinvent the wheel... I am going to try using an Intent). My other project, also Android -based, is to write a fully functional text editor (possibly with syntax highlighting?). Combining it with ssh (i.e. ConnectBot) will let you remotely edit files on the go. Maybe I'll write an Android (yea... I know its javac/dalvik/apk etc.) web compiler that you can send your app to...

The possibilities are endless...

The only complete project that I really want to publish is my KidDesk application, but the GUI elements need refining. Not to mention that Java is a poor language for this kind of application. I will port this to Python and tk (or C++ and Qt) when I get the chance.

~twilightwolf90