Hi All,
First i would like to start out by saying that this forum is the best place to be if you are a WM (HTC) phones passionate user or developer and people here are really great and has a lot to offer.
Second.. As i see in this forum (Development and Hacking) that there a lot of developers who give a lot and ther who want to give a lot but don't know where to start. I see lots of potential in the applications being developed here and potential for lots of other applications that can be developed. MS in the past has kind of misunderstod the power and usage of touchscreen by making the UI of WM not really finger friendly, although they are starting to realize that (maybe after the iPhone came out) but we wont see that for another year or so when they come out with WM 7.
Anyway to cut the story short i wanted to say that almost everyday there's a new Finger Friendly app being developed and added to the forum and people with great ideas want to come up with new applications. We definitly have 2 killer applications PocketCM and PointUI that the developers have made a wonderful job in the UI, finger friendly and espetially the window transitions. They have conqured where MS has failed (so far) in providing the right controls for developers espeically UI controls to develop rich UI applications on their platform.
I was thinking why dont the developers of these applications share their platform with other developers here in the forum instead of each developer having to start from scratch everytime a new finger friendly application to be borned? especially that these applications are all free for download (that is if the developers of these application will keep providing these apps for free and not start charging like some other did)
That's just my thought and i would like to hear what other developers in this forum think and definitly would like to hear the opinion of the 2 wonderful fingerfriendly apps.
Thanks for you time in reading this and sorry for the long post.
Happy New Year 2008
cheers
Here's an idea that I have that maybe the moderators and the rest of the community can help me expand on.
Since it's award season (e.g. Grammy's, Tony's, Oscar, Golden Globes, etc) I was thinking that we should have an annual xda-developer's awards.
I was thinking that a group of moderators could take cash donations thru paypal or some other means and hand out cash prizes for the awards voted best. The monies could be collected thru out the year that way by award time there should be plenty of money to "hand out as cash prizes" Maybe T-shirts could be printed for nominees.
I was thinking that moderators could choose the nominee's and then the community could vote on the winners. I think it would be counter-intuitive to have the community vote the nominees.
Some of the categories could be as follows:
Best ROM (To include sub-categories for different handsets) and then one overall ROM of the Year.
Most Creative App: (This categories could include apps that aren't IPhone knock off or sims; Trackme and Advanced Configuration come to my mind quickly)
Best IPhone SIM (e.g. IFonz, itask, S2U2, many others)
Best Skin
Best Finger Friendly Application
Best App collaboration (Many people are not just creating apps on their own)
Developer of the Year (Many devs create more than a few apps or create a killer app and should be considered for this award). This allong with APP of the Year should be considered the TOP awards
Can I get some feed back from any mods or the community? Suggestions on prizes and additional categories? Or even if this idea stinks that's cool too.
Ahh we would need a clever name for the awards as well..or would XDA-Developer awards suffice?
Just my two cents.
Great idea!
Really cool idea..I think this way will surely motivate all developers to work even more harder
+1
It should not be so bad! I'm in.
Awesome idea!! I'd love to see this happen.
Some good ol' recognition never hurt anyone. That sounds like a fantastic idea
Best Finger Friendly Application
A_C's S2XXX apps - that's my vote.
Best Rom for the Wing/Herald
I nominate ttran for his Open Touch 3.0 lite
Far Superior to the Stock T-Mobile Rom.
Love it . All of them will rock.........
A_C for best dev ever.
That's really a nice idea, but I don't think it's the way to go. I really don't know why, but it seems that it will cause some trouble at a point. Maybe, it would be better to just simplify by just awarding the title to the respected person(s).
Plus, this is online. You never know if forgery, any or any mishap will come up. Anyways, just a thought. Can't really explain what I'm trying to say. It's all mumbo-jumbo-ed.
think if this is managed properly it could be a brilliant idea
any mods have any views as you guys would have most of the work?
Count me in too. Can't wait for this to happen.
This is a fantastic idea! Even if the reward is just a speacial rank on this site it would help dev's feel as though they have accomplished something and it would also encourage people to daonate.
And for best ROM dev I would nominate YUC for his O2 XDA Stealth ROM which no one eslse has been able to do!
Some one should do a poll in this thread!
Made this into a poll here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=373965
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I'm looking to contribute to ROMs/Theme Packs/APP Interface designs/etc anything relating to graphics.
I know After Effects so I am able to do some complex Boot Animation screens as well. You might have seen my work on Cezar's Captivate ROM (I do his bootscreens) as a prime example.
I'm looking to learn and grow within the XDA community and want to be of use by painting the ROMs and Interfaces out there with streamlined, clean, and professional looks.
Not really looking to make money, but a contribute to donate would be awesome.
I am looking to be a part of teams or just move between to give you that look you are needing. I have an online portfolio upon request and some examples of my work.
PM/E-mail me [email protected]
Take care.
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Two years ago we released BlurKit to create fast blur effects in Android. It was simple to use and filled a need for many Android developers. Since then, development of BlurKit has slowed as our attention moved to other projects such as CameraKit.
Today we are bringing back support for BlurKit in a big way. We've released v1.0.0 and will work to squash bugs and roll out new features in the coming months. If you want to contribute or see our roadmap, check us out on GitHub! We've made a blog post about this here: Medium - but wanted to share with XDA for any direct feedback! Thanks in advance everyone.
A couple of years ago I needed to create a blur effect in one of the applications. For implementation I used renderscript. Everything worked very slowly and this idea had to be abandoned. Does your library work in a similar way or does it use something new?