2.3.14 Released

See update log here: http://code.google.com/p/a2dpvolume/wiki/Updates

I finally figured out how to get this app to show up in the market for non-phones.  It required some changes in the manifest.  It is now available for more than 850 devices.

I added some checks to ensure the GPS listeners were cancelled.  I was never able to verify there was a problem to begin with but I had a couple comments saying that A2DP Volume was keeping the listeners alive and reducing battery life.  I have seen other apps do this though.  I suspect that services might get killed on low memory and the listener does not get killed properly with it. 

I made a few other robustness improvements based on crash reports from the market.  This is why it is so important for users to send crash reports.   Developers can then see the nature of the problems and fix them.

Here is an update on the current installs:

1	English (United States)	49.2% (2,156)
2	French (France)	8.4% (370)
3	English (United Kingdom)	7.3% (321)
4	German (Germany)	5.6% (247)
5	Spanish (Spain)	3.2% (141)
6	Spanish (United States)	3.2% (139)
7	Russian (Russia)	1.9% (85)
8	English (Australia)	1.6% (69)
9	Chinese (Taiwan)	1.5% (65)
10	Dutch (Netherlands)	1.2% (53)

Many thanks to the folks who helped with translations!  French and German have a much larger percentage for this app than typical apps in the same category.

4,000n Active Installs

There are now over 4,000 active installs of the main version.  Feedback remains positive too.

Released 2.3.10 to market

Comments reached 100 on the main app.  The Android 2.1 version is slowly dropping active installs, thank goodness.  I am hoping to just dump it completely before the end of the year as the vast majority of devices are now Android 2.2 or higher.  The ratings are mostly positive for the main app too.

I released 2.3.10 last night.  The only change was to complete issue 64: have the SMS reader read out the contact name instead of the number the text came from.  I tested it on the emulator, Droid 3, and Bionic.  It was a small change.  Thought it would make a nice Christmas present.

Passed 20k downloads

The main A2DP Volume app passed 20k downloads today.  Now that 700k Android devices are activated a day it seems downloads are following.  The are 97 ratings too, getting close to 100.  The active installs are 3875.  Below is the language breakdown.

French now exceeds UK English

Check this out.  French now exceeds UK English and becomes the #2 language.  This shows to me that good language support is very important.  Not only does the app support French properly but there is also a French language description page on Android Market.  So far the Android Market description page is only supported in English and French.  I think if we had that page in German that we would get more German installs too since the app does have good German translations already.  Many thanks to the work of Uwe and Sebastien on the translations!

a2dp.Vol

1	English (United States)	54.3% (1,657)
2	French (France)	7.1% (217)
3	English (United Kingdom)	6.9% (210)
4	German (Germany)	4.5% (138)
5	Spanish (Spain)	2.6% (79)
6	Spanish (United States)	2.2% (66)
7	Chinese (Taiwan)	1.9% (57)
8	Russian (Russia)	1.5% (46)
9	English (Australia)	1.4% (44)
10	Dutch (Netherlands)	1.3% (41)

Another milestone

A2DP Volume exceeds 15,000 downloads and 3,000 active installs.  There are now 83 feedback posts too.  Android Market made some changes to the way they count active installs which caused a big dip in the reported active installs.  It did show over 4,000 before the change. 

French language now accounts for 7% of active installs and German 4.3%.

Just a short update on the download and install rates. It seems to be continuing rather strong. As of now there have been 12878 downloads and 3670 active installs. Just a couple months ago the active installs were about 1,000.

The language distribution has changed as well. French is now 5.3% of active installs and German is 4.5%.