7,500 active installs exceeded

... also made some releases last weekend to fix more Jelly Bean compatibility issues.



One of the more pesky issues is the TTS.  For some reason this has always been a challenge to get working consistently.  When my Xoom got Jelly Bean it had the problem of asking to install missing TTS data, every time.  I installed Ivona TTS and all is good now.  Still looking into that one a bit more but for now the "fix" appears to be use another TTS engine that will actually report data status properly. 

2.8.8 update

2.8.8 release to fix compatibility issues with Jelly Bean.  Also exceeded 45,000 downloads now.



In other news, another developer turned the A2DP Connect project into a working Tasker plugin.  I made him a project owner of A2DP Connect now.

Exceeded 40k downloads

A2DP Volume now exceeded 40,000 downloads.  Here is the latest info.


40k was exceeded on June 10th.

The ratings also remaining very high.  I get a few people trashing the app because it does not magically fix issues it is not designed to fix. Here is an example:


This app does not manage paring and I guess he expected it to.

Other than a few of these, the app often received 5 stars. 

Pause

I will be swamped until mid-July so don't expect any progress on the app.  Hopefully I can catch up on issues in August and make another release.  A2DP Chat has not had any work done on it for a month now.  It is progressing slowly.  It would be great if another developer would find interest and help out.

A2DP Volume is approaching 40k downloads!  The old Android 2.1 version keeps dropping thankfully.  I guess I will just leave that one as is and let it die of natural causes.


The feedback on the latest A2DP Volume app is looking very good.  Here is the total feedback.



 Most of the bad ratings were from very early versions.
 

2.8.5 released to Play Store!

After a bunch of work I finally released 2.8.5 to the Play Store.  This is the first Play Store release since 2.7.2.  Here is a snapshot taken just after the release (no downloads of 2.8.5 yet).

Finally got Pandora to close properly!

After months of scouring forums, Stack Overflow, and other sites to no avail, and trying many things, I finally found a way to make Pandora pause so I could kill it.  My solution is now documented here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10326017/how-to-stop-or-pause-pandora-and-spotify
I also discuss it on issue 105 here: http://code.google.com/p/a2dpvolume/issues/detail?id=105 .  Basically I tell Android that the headset jack (audio plug) just disconnected.  Many music players respond to this common Android Intent by pausing the music.  This removes the notify icon and allows my app to kill it too.  You don't even need to kill the app though as pausing is really good enough in most cases.  Either way it will stop playing and that is the important thing.

Just hit 6,000 active installs

Just hit 6000 active installs.