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Aaron,

Glad you are back. Disappeared on us for a while there.

I've come across a new bug with the widget recently. I think this has happened before too.

I have the Mets as a favorite. Right now, the widget is showing Marlins at Mets 0-0 Top 1st. If I click the widget, it takes me to a game from 8/8 showing the Marlins showing 0-0 in the 1st.

This has been occurring for a few days now. When the Mets game does start tonight, the widget will update correctly, but after the game ends, it goes back to this Mets/Marlins game.

Can you please take a look at that?

chrlswltrs said:
I would love a preview. I am hoping for a changeable notification sound and push notifications :D:cool:
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Especially with football season starting and baseball still going on, I'd love to see different notification icons for different sports. Didn't sound like that was high on the agenda, but that would be a great surprise.

What would push notifications get us? Notifications seem to be pretty timely for me as of late and I don't think it's killing my battery. Would true push notifications improve both of those slightly then?
 
aarontharris said:
Funny that you mention it - we actually planned to release Android Sportacular 2.0 yesterday. We decided to postpone another week to add some polish on a few bits.

It's coming very soon!
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YOURE ALIVE!!!!!!!! haha thats good. i thought for awhile that maybe you abandoned ship. cant wait to test it out!! you should should do beta testing with all of us before releasing on the market. :)
 
lexluthor said:
What would push notifications get us? Notifications seem to be pretty timely for me as of late and I don't think it's killing my battery. Would true push notifications improve both of those slightly then?
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Im pretty sure that push notifications would eliminate the app 'polling' data, which requires more cpu usage/more data. therefore, helping battery.

also we wouldnt have to wait for the app to search for any scoring changes, push notifications would automatically push an alert out when anything changes. Therefore, helping them to be more timely.

That's my understanding of how it works. i could be missing a few facts though. someone correct me if im wrong
 
FlyersKid said:
Im pretty sure that push notifications would eliminate the app 'polling' data, which requires more cpu usage/more data. therefore, helping battery.

also we wouldnt have to wait for the app to search for any scoring changes, push notifications would automatically push an alert out when anything changes. Therefore, helping them to be more timely.

That's my understanding of how it works. i could be missing a few facts though. someone correct me if im wrong
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You are correct on push notifications, and they have been available on android for over a year. I am really sad to see that so few apps actually use it!
 
lexluthor said:
Aaron,

Glad you are back. Disappeared on us for a while there.

I've come across a new bug with the widget recently. I think this has happened before too.

I have the Mets as a favorite. Right now, the widget is showing Marlins at Mets 0-0 Top 1st. If I click the widget, it takes me to a game from 8/8 showing the Marlins showing 0-0 in the 1st.

This has been occurring for a few days now. When the Mets game does start tonight, the widget will update correctly, but after the game ends, it goes back to this Mets/Marlins game.

Can you please take a look at that?


Especially with football season starting and baseball still going on, I'd love to see different notification icons for different sports. Didn't sound like that was high on the agenda, but that would be a great surprise.

What would push notifications get us? Notifications seem to be pretty timely for me as of late and I don't think it's killing my battery. Would true push notifications improve both of those slightly then?
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Sorry about that, I'll forward the bug on to the widget guy.
 
Sorry about the absence guys, I know its been awhile.

This release won't include push notification, we're still polling. However, we are actively looking into it. The issue with push is, unlike apple, android apps must provide their own push back-end, and CD2M requires Android 2.2, we have supported Android 1.6 in the past. This release will only support 2.1+. Once we have Android 2.2 as our minimum support we'll definitely be in the right place for push notifications.


FlyersKid said:
Im pretty sure that push notifications would eliminate the app 'polling' data, which requires more cpu usage/more data. therefore, helping battery.

also we wouldnt have to wait for the app to search for any scoring changes, push notifications would automatically push an alert out when anything changes. Therefore, helping them to be more timely.

That's my understanding of how it works. i could be missing a few facts though. someone correct me if im wrong
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Something like this ^^^ is common, but we've evolved to a fairly efficient system over the last year+ that we've had alerts.

Our polling doesn't have to do a search, all the work is done on the server just like push notification. The only difference is, with push notification, the phone maintains an open connection to the server and the server does the polling at a faster interval while the phone waits. With polling, we just check back with the server every 3 minutes. The battery usage is nearly zero. What you may see is some "wake lock" time, but that's not because the cpu is working, its because the system is waiting for a response from the server after it has requested data. That "wait" uses effectively zero cpu, its just an I/O block on the background thread while the background thread must operate within a "wake lock" otherwise the Android OS could kill the background and you won't get your alerts.
 
aarontharris said:
Sorry about the absence guys, I know its been awhile.

This release won't include push notification, we're still polling. However, we are actively looking into it. The issue with push is, unlike apple, android apps must provide their own push back-end, and CD2M requires Android 2.2, we have supported Android 1.6 in the past. This release will only support 2.1+. Once we have Android 2.2 as our minimum support we'll definitely be in the right place for push notifications.




Something like this ^^^ is common, but we've evolved to a fairly efficient system over the last year+ that we've had alerts.

Our polling doesn't have to do a search, all the work is done on the server just like push notification. The only difference is, with push notification, the phone maintains an open connection to the server and the server does the polling at a faster interval while the phone waits. With polling, we just check back with the server every 3 minutes. The battery usage is nearly zero. What you may see is some "wake lock" time, but that's not because the cpu is working, its because the system is waiting for a response from the server after it has requested data. That "wait" uses effectively zero cpu, its just an I/O block on the background thread while the background thread must operate within a "wake lock" otherwise the Android OS could kill the background and you won't get your alerts.
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hmmmm. if the hit on our batteries is very minimal - close to none, then have you thought about programming the app to check back every minute, instead of 3 minutes???
 
^^^ the frequency is a matter of server load, not batter usage. We did run the frequency at 2 minute polling for awhile. 3 minutes seemed to be the best overall with an average lag of +/- 90 seconds.

2.0 release is on schedule for Wednesday.
 
aarontharris said:
^^^ the frequency is a matter of server load, not batter usage. We did run the frequency at 2 minute polling for awhile. 3 minutes seemed to be the best overall with an average lag of +/- 90 seconds.

2.0 release is on schedule for Wednesday.
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ok gotcha. atleast now im educated on how the app works and how much work you guys put into it!! CANT WAIT til the update! good job guys

is this release more cosmetic?? or feature packed?? a little bit of both?
 
lexluthor said:
I've come across a new bug with the widget recently. I think this has happened before too.

I have the Mets as a favorite. Right now, the widget is showing Marlins at Mets 0-0 Top 1st. If I click the widget, it takes me to a game from 8/8 showing the Marlins showing 0-0 in the 1st.

This has been occurring for a few days now. When the Mets game does start tonight, the widget will update correctly, but after the game ends, it goes back to this Mets/Marlins game.

Can you please take a look at that?
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I am experiencing a similar issue - I have the Phillies as a favorite and it has been stuck on the bottom of the 6th inning from 8/19 for a few days. I've tried deleting and recreating the widget and it doesn't help. However, my problem doesn't go away during an active game and then come back later, it stays there all the time. I am still getting my normal notifications.

UPDATE: I've cleared my cache and application data, deleted the widget and reconfigured all of my settings. I recreated the widget. It seems to be working properly now.
 
Great App. I used to carry 5 sports apps, and now down to just yours.

I don't have the latest updates yet, but I have been very happy with it, even the notifications. There are other good ones, but this one is the least buggy, most up to date and prompt on notifcations. It's easy to use. I love having my favorite teams pop up first and easy to check out the standings.

I still haven't found a read good widget that I like. Scorecenters looks the best, but it it is badly floawed and rarely works. deleted it.

Like I said, your app is the best out there, and it is really close.....
 
Hi Aaron,

Just got on here...I have lots of apps for sport scores but would like to see an app for watching live sports, i.e. South Carolina Football. Any help/advice is appreciated. Thanks for all you do!
 
holmes.j said:
It's out.

That one took way too long. Hoping to have another mini-release in a week or so.

Any comments on the styling?
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Overall I really like the new styling. It looks much sharper than ScoreMobile's layout, and I like that the game scores are organized by favorite/live/scheduled. One feature that keeps ScoreMobile on my DroidX/Asus Transformer is the "recap" option; if Sportacular had this, I could ditch SM (I can live without the push notifications).
 
Sorry to hear that a widget with all scores for selected leagues is not in the works. The widget could have the option to show favorite teams only or you select which leagues you want displayed. I care about the whole league not just a couple of teams. This is the only thing keeping me from dumping ScoreMobile as they offer this and using your app exclusively, please make it happen.
 
holmes.j said:
It's out.

That one took way too long. Hoping to have another mini-release in a week or so.

Any comments on the styling?
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Im actually in love with the new styling efforts. <3. haha all joking aside, the ONLY things that I truly room for improvement is the news sections and standings and to add stats for all leagues.

I think the standings screen should be within the app. not a webpage within. Then highlight our selected favorite teams in the standings. :) wishful thinking.

And I know aaron did say that the news sections was going to get a makeover that wouldnt open my browser, so im not going to really go into that.

Two bugs that i found within the NHL teams, the Atlanta Thrashers are no longer an NHL team. They are Winnipeg Jets. Logo is correct, but not the team name.

And also in the widget, the phillies had a rain delay awhile back against the marlins. therefore i guess because it was never played, it stays on the '0 th inning'. but when theyre playing the next game on the schedule it does jump to that game but only when its in progress.

^^^ I still would like to see the widget move on from the previous games of my fav teams alot sooner then theyre next gameday! for football, i have to wait for a whole week until it changes. and also, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let it not display teams that are in the off-season even when i still have them selected.

If I didnt make something clear enough, let me know. GREAT update though guys.
 
I like the new styling, it is a big improvement.

I have to say that after all this time I am still very disappointed that something as simple as choosing a notification sound has not been implemented :(
 
chrlswltrs said:
I like the new styling, it is a big improvement.

I have to say that after all this time I am still very disappointed that something as simple as choosing a notification sound has not been implemented :(
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isnt there some sort of way in changing it with root explorer? or does the app itself have to setup a different way?
 
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