We just added real French translations to version 2.3.6. The app now supports German, French, and English.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Just passed 10,000 downloads!
The main A2DP Volume app just passed 10,000 downloads on Android Market.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
I just created a new version of A2DP Volume and I need help testing it. If you have an Android 2.2 or later device, please download and install A2DP Volume 2.3.4 currently available only here:
http://code.google.com/p/a2dpvolume/downloads/list
This is a test version but it is signed and will install on top of older versions fine. If you have an older version of A2DP Volume installed, backup your data first but selecting [Android menu button] (while in A2DP Volume main screen), [Manage Data], [Export database to SD card]. Sometimes Android Market will see this as a different version and revert you back to the latest on Android Market automatically, which will clear your database. If that happens, you can simply import your data back.
Please report any issue to the issue list: http://code.google.com/p/a2dpvolume/issues/list
I need to test the text message reading feature on various devices before releasing this to Android Market. You can see the changes summary here: http://code.google.com/p/a2dpvolume/wiki/Updates
http://code.google.com/p/a2dpvolume/downloads/list
This is a test version but it is signed and will install on top of older versions fine. If you have an older version of A2DP Volume installed, backup your data first but selecting [Android menu button] (while in A2DP Volume main screen), [Manage Data], [Export database to SD card]. Sometimes Android Market will see this as a different version and revert you back to the latest on Android Market automatically, which will clear your database. If that happens, you can simply import your data back.
Please report any issue to the issue list: http://code.google.com/p/a2dpvolume/issues/list
I need to test the text message reading feature on various devices before releasing this to Android Market. You can see the changes summary here: http://code.google.com/p/a2dpvolume/wiki/Updates
Monday, August 22, 2011
A2DP Volume A2.1 version
I really want this old version to just go away. I have no desire to support 2 versions. I only created this to cover folks as they were struck on Android 2.1 and complained A2DP Volume was written for 2.2 and up. Below is the current distribution of the old Android 2.1 version of A2DP volume.
Only 35% of the users are on 2.1 still. I presume that most of these are just people who installed it before they got the 2.2 upgrade. I suppose it could be a bunch of new installs too. So, today I released a new version of the old app A2dp.Vol21. This time I marked the min and max API version as 7. This means it will only show up on the market for people with Android 2.1. This should eliminate installs on Android 2.2 and later. While I was at it, I removed all other language support since these old translations were done by Google Translate and were bad. So, at least if you are stuck with Android 2.1 you are no longer stuck with the bad translations.
Please, if you have Android 2.2 or higher do not install this old version (A2DP Volume A2.1 version). Instead, install the latest version from Android Market (Simply A2DP Volume).
a2dp.Vol21
| 1 | Android 2.2 | 43.4% (334) |
| 2 | Android 2.1 | 35.3% (272) |
| 3 | Android 2.3.3 | 20.1% (155) |
| 4 | Android 2.3 | 0.3% (2) |
Only 35% of the users are on 2.1 still. I presume that most of these are just people who installed it before they got the 2.2 upgrade. I suppose it could be a bunch of new installs too. So, today I released a new version of the old app A2dp.Vol21. This time I marked the min and max API version as 7. This means it will only show up on the market for people with Android 2.1. This should eliminate installs on Android 2.2 and later. While I was at it, I removed all other language support since these old translations were done by Google Translate and were bad. So, at least if you are stuck with Android 2.1 you are no longer stuck with the bad translations.
Please, if you have Android 2.2 or higher do not install this old version (A2DP Volume A2.1 version). Instead, install the latest version from Android Market (Simply A2DP Volume).
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Languages using A2DP Volume
As of right now, the only langauges supported in A2DP Volume are US English and German. I am hoping to get the French translations soon and there is a person who said they would do the Spanish translations. Those are the top languages used in the app today so that makes sense. If anyone would like a language added, just drop me a note or respond to this post. It is not difficult to add a language. I just send you a file called strings.xml. It is basically 2 columns of data: ine for the software variable key name and the other a text string. All you have to do is replace the English text strings with the proper string in the Language to translate into.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Installs rising much faster
As of this morning A2DP Volume has had 9010 installs, and 2279 active installs. That is double from just a month ago. The new features, the real German translations, and improved localizations are helping. German is now the #2 country of the active installs and we have not even completed translations of the descriptions in Android Market. Hopefully the French translations will make it into 2.2.5 which is already underway.
Not only have many new features been added, but many robustness improvements have been added as well. 2.1.0 was a bit buggy, as were some of the previous versions. 2.0.8 had many bugs as well. We now have some more eyes looking at this code, including professionals. That has resulted in better code.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
2.0.16 now has real German translations. I have removed all machine translations after getting complaints from several users. The Google Translate tool in Motodev is really handy, except for the translated strings.
I have been cleaning up a bunch of inefficient code, smalls bugs, memory leaks, etc so the minor version number keeps incrementing. I am hoping to get that all stable soon and publish to a new Android Market soon. Then I will work to implement the SMS test-to-speech reader.
I have been cleaning up a bunch of inefficient code, smalls bugs, memory leaks, etc so the minor version number keeps incrementing. I am hoping to get that all stable soon and publish to a new Android Market soon. Then I will work to implement the SMS test-to-speech reader.
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