Reflektorfalke | # 121 | 2010-04-18, 14:18 | Report

Yeah thats what I expected to hear from you, I think you already have a very good picture of this app in mind.

The things I noted where quite obvious, so I expected something like you described or that you simply haven´t paid attention to those minor issues yet.

I would also like to encourage the community to keep giving feedback and input, the more people contribute, the better the app will be!!!

pantera1989 | # 122 | 2010-04-18, 14:26 | Report

What I have to say so far with Q Sports Events.

1. This is just a suggestion. I would leave this app for football only. No other sports and rename it to Q Football Updates or something similar. It would be too confusing having every sport there. I would do seperate apps for seperate sports all with the same layout. This is just a suggestion though.

2. App sometimes fails to start. I press on the shortcut I put on the Home Screen, and the app seems to be starting, but never starts.

When it does start, the app starts but then goes back to the home screen for a second and then starts normally. It doesn't annoy me. I don't mind that it goes for a second to home screen. But maybe you'd like to know.

3. RSS / News isn't parsed correctly.

4. I can't stress this point enough...all text needs to be black. I can't see some of it due to the background. The background is nice though. I would keep that.

5. If the app is left idle and the phone locks, the app closes. I am not 100% sure if this is the case. Sometimes the app just closes on itself after some time. I don't know what's causing this. Seems absolutely random.

6. Selecting leagues in the first screen is sometimes confusing. You do not know if the selection worked or not. I would put some kind of large radiobutton to select them. I would also not leave the fields editable. Sometimes double pressing can accidentaly happen. If you want to leave the user with that power I would put an 'Edit' button near 'Add' and 'Remova' that enables double clicking. I would also make text larger so it will be more finger friendly.

6. The scroll bar arrows don't appear on first screen.

7. I would group the world cup games together. Or at least the group Stage together. It is very a bit annoying having Group A-H amongst other leagues. It will take longer to find and scroll to an item you want. This is one of the reasons why I said that this app should be about only football. Sports are so vast. It would be chaotic to ionclude more than one in one app. In the first tab, instead of:
Football (+) you could do example:

Spain (+)
Italy (+)
England (+)
France (+)
Germany (+)
UEFA Champions League (+)
UEFA Europa League (+)
FIFA World Cup (+)
Euro Cup (+)
etc..

Expanding them would be like:

Spain (-)
........La Liga Primera División
........La Liga Segunda División
........Copa del Rey
Italy (-)
........Serie A
........Serie B
........Coppa Italia
England (+)
France (+)
Germany (+)
UEFA Champions League (-)
........Group Stage
........Quarter Final
........Semi Final
........Final
UEFA Europa League (+)
FIFA World Cup (-)
........Qualifying
........Group Stage
........Quarter Final
........Semi Final
........Final
Euro Cup (+)

I also made an icon. If you like it use it. So far great work. The app looks great and functionality is awesome too.

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Reflektorfalke | # 123 | 2010-04-18, 14:50 | Report

Pantera1989 makes a good point here, definitly worth considering I think!
This way every user only installs the sports he is interested in.
Desktop shortcuts can be created individually for each sport as desired.
And in the end you can create a "Suite App" that provides a screen with all installed sports to choose from.

Reflektorfalke | # 124 | 2010-04-18, 16:04 | Report

Pantera, thanks a lot for creating an icon. I like the globe/ball merge idea.
But I fear when the picture is resized to icon size (think 48x48 or 64x64) there will be to much inormation lost to really recognize the desired effect :-(

boomer | # 125 | 2010-04-18, 16:10 | Report

Live score you can get from this RSS http://www.soccerstand.com/rss/soccer/en/today, but does not have all daily games.

pantera1989 | # 126 | 2010-04-18, 17:03 | Report

Here are a 64x64 and 48x48 versions. The 64 looks good. The 48 is not bad but that's the best I could do.

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boomer | # 127 | 2010-04-18, 17:38 | Report

Here are some ideas for icons:

boomer | # 128 | 2010-04-18, 17:50 | Report

Here is my idea for icon:

Reflektorfalke | # 129 | 2010-04-18, 18:12 | Report

Thanks for the icons Boomer!!!
And nice work! The golden globeball was also my favourite from your previous post

Storebox | # 130 | 2010-04-18, 19:08 | Report

This application is a must have for me. Unfortunately I do not know how to install this application (lol). Would really appreciate some help installing this app. New to Nokia N900, but eager to learn.

In advance, thanks!