Nov 1, 2010

Stupid F/C bug in 1.2.2

In Meridian Hermit 1.2.2 there's a major bug, which will make everyone turning data collection off force closes every time.
First of all I want to say I'm not forcing you to enable data collection. If I want to do so I'll just remove the option or doing that secretly.
Okay, so what's the problem? This is the buggy code:

  if (tracker != null) {
    // do tracks...
  }
  tracker.stop();


If user disable data collection, the tracker will be a null pointer. and thus F/C on a NullPointerException.
Yeah, very stupid bug. It of course need to be this:

  if (tracker != null) {
    // do tracks...
    tracker.stop();
  }


I apologize for the bug but all test phones I use was turning collection on :p
You know it's hard to develope and test everything by one man blah blah.
Sorry for the inconvenience again, in addition to tens of mails I got and replied X_X

Oct 14, 2010

New twitter account for Meridian

Since the old twitter account is shifted to my private social and using Japanese, here's the new account for Meridian in English:
http://twitter.com/#!/Meridian_Andro

But Google's support really sucks

The country problem took me ONLY five days to know how to handle, but now there's another problem:
  • Android Market console says it has payed out some money
  • Can see nothing in my AdSense account
  • Contact support again and this time get NOTHING helpful
  • Nine days ago, by the way
  • It seems like the support team can't understand my problem at all
  • I have reported a broken link but get no touch on it
  • My AdSense account's "payout history" becomes a broken link, for a week
  • NOW HOW MANY DAYS DO I NEED TO FIND WHERE IS THE ADSENSE CONTACTING FORM?

Aug 24, 2010

That's why I didn't want to make Meridian can be installed to SD card

Well OK, you guys want to install Meridian to SD card without knowleges, so Meridian is now installable to SD.
And for those can't find where the widget is, put Meridian back to your phone and reboot.

Jul 5, 2010

Google continues messing up Android Market

http://www.medieval.it/google-is-censoring-bluetooth-on-android-the-proof/menu-id-66.html

I think this is the point - Meridian requires bluetooth permissions (to play music through them), so it disappears.
My complains are same as theirs. Android Market team really sucks.

Jun 21, 2010

New App: Queek Music Shuffler

Just want to easy and shuffle play your massive lovely songs? Try Queek!
Queek is a great tool for people have lots of songs in their phone, and is tired to index them all the time.
Just play. Auto shuffle, auto skipping songs you don't like that much.
For indexing and play lists, please try Meridian Media Player.

http://market.android.com/details?id=org.sais.queek
qrcode

Jun 17, 2010

Bad news and bad news for Android

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/android-team-laser-focused-on-the-user-experience-for-next-release/

I wish this article is just an unreal rumor.
There are so many things and issues to fix and so many functions to make, and they decide to fight against their so-called "partners" huh?
Absolutely Google works so bad with cooperations, the Market payment region extending process is fucking slow, my app disappears from Market and I have no some more detailed information of what's happening, Google does not have a support mechanism, I just keep apologizing to my users.
And I'm still stuck with Android's weak multimedia framework, the AdMob component does not show up, the Google Adsense is another US only feature, blah blah.
It was a bright future to me a year ago, but now it's filled with darkness. Android is running toward a wrong direction.
Wish it's not too late to join Apple's side.