When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

[Andrew Henshaw]

Thanks again for the details Ben,  ive been through them and...

- The softbar on the Kindle Fire

I hope ive fixed this issue,  its difficult to tell without a real device but ive tested on the honeycomb emulator which is similar as it has soft buttons and it seems to work.  

The problem however is that on most of my phones the working screenrect is returned as exactly the same as the screenrect,  even though there may be a top statusbar showing.  On the honeycomb emulator and from your Fire details it looks like they are returning the real working screen area so this might be something Runrev want to look into to make sure the real working screenrect is returned for every device.

- The rotation

Ive added portrait upside down to the list of supported orientations, and now on half my devices it now rotates,  on the others its fixed.  Id guess that is probably an Android thing!  Hopefully on the Fire it will now rotate!

- The icon

The larger icon is apparently delivered by Amazon for apps through their store (114px),  and any apps that are 'side loaded' to use their terms cant have the larger icon,  so thats a no go,  but its not a bug or something livecode can fix,  its just an Amazon thing.

- The refresh

Not much I can do about this one either without a physical tablet,  it sounds like an engine issue though as I have no code doing anything at that point.

Ive also added code in to try to have some basic support for 800x600 and 1280x800 tablets.  Its pretty nasty as they really should have the iPad tablet style interface but as I cant see a way in the store to prevent the app listing for tablets and phones it would need to work on most tablets before I could release it,  so ive fixed that.

Thanks again for the feedback,  it really is appreciated!

Andy