Any client/server based app gets the server hit by google yet?

[blues]

I watch my server log all the day but don't see anything from outside
been logged yet.

Blues

[Dan U.]

It's hard to tell since I let other people in to test it. I have 4
accounts created today though.

[ConAim]

My app is Client/Server and not yet release to the public.
Last time I check, no one is trying to connect to my server yet.
Except myself ....grr..

[Muthu Ramadoss]

Google is feverishly working to get the apps to the judges. The judging may happen soon, but I don't think it has started yet.

--
take care,
Muthu Ramadoss.

http://mobeegal.in
find stuff closer.

[Jeffrey Sharkey]

Same here :) I keep grepping my Apache logs, but nothing yet. I'll
be sure to post here when I see something. :)

On Apr 16, 11:01 pm, "Muthu Ramadoss" <muthu.ramad...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Shane Isbell]

Check your stderr_2008041x.log ;). Sorry, man, I know that's mean.

 

Shane

[neilrhansen]

I haven't seen any connections other than my own. I'm sure they'll
start blasting soon!

[Incognito]

Good one!

On Apr 17, 4:15 pm, "Shane Isbell" <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Check your stderr_2008041x.log ;). Sorry, man, I know that's mean.
>
> Shane
>

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jeffrey Sharkey <Jeffrey.Shar...@gmail.com>

> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Same here  :)  I keep grepping my Apache logs, but nothing yet.  I'll
> > be sure to post here when I see something.  :)
>
> > On Apr 16, 11:01 pm, "Muthu Ramadoss" <muthu.ramad...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Google is feverishly working to get the apps to the judges. The judging
> > may
> > > happen soon, but I don't think it has started yet.
>
> >  > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM, ConAim <duane.ngu...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > My app is Client/Server and not yet release to the public.
> > > > Last time I check, no one is trying to connect to my server yet.
> > > > Except myself ....grr..
>
> > > > On Apr 16, 11:10 pm, blues <blues_capt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > I watch my server log all the day but don't see anything from
> > outside
> > > > > been logged yet.
>
> > > > > Blues
>
> > > --
> > > take care,
> > > Muthu Ramadoss.
>
> > >http://mobeegal.in

> > > find stuff closer.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[ian]

My application was not announced to public and I did get 1 visit (I'm
sure it is not me), so that I assume it is from google. It's on April
14, 2:00pm California time. Just F.Y.I

[j]

Ian, if you want to know for sure, you can lookup the IP address and
see what company the IP address belongs to. It could be from any one
of the OHA members or Google.

[ian]

Unfortunately, the log was not turned on at the ip level. The 1 record
was observed at the application level. No new hits since then.

[j]

Anyone getting any server hits? Please report.

appreciate it.

Since there are almost 1800 unique submissions, it would be
interesting to see how many minutes is spent on a single submission on
average.

[ConAim]

0, none, nada :(
I'm getting anxious here since my application does not yet support
Proxy.
I hope that the judges doesn't sitting behind firewalls.

[Viktor Marohnić]

No hits here :(. And we are checking it all the time

[Chris]

We still haven't got anything except from day 1, when we had some
strange activity from our WEB portal (http://groups.google.com/group/
android-challenge/browse_thread/thread/88ec8865e3dd87cc?hl=en#), not
the client -which concerned me they could be stuck behind a firewall.
But since then nothing....

[David Moffett]

Our Android submission requires access to our website and we have seen
no activity outside of our organization.

David

[keashF]

Hi all,

it seems like testing has begun!!

we've noticed someone accessing our webservice about half an hour ago.
It seems the IP is from California and belongs to a company that's
part of the Open Handset Alliance and they tested our application for
about 25 minutes. ( i will not give away IP or company for obvious
reasons, but rest assured it's true)
now, since we've not gone public yet, and we are located in europe, we
think that this was actually a judge testing our submission.

i'd like to take this opportunity to wish the best of luck to all of
you!!

cu
keashF

[Incognito]

About time.

> > >> Blues- Hide quoted text -

[Joa]

Somebody fired up my app a couple of times tonight. None of the
available features were called though. I figure this is from the crew
that loads our apps on laptop PC's.

So the experts shall look at it now. Which is scary. I guess I am
hoping they will be able to locate the "Menu" button on the emulator
(;->).

Joa

On Apr 16, 9:10 pm, blues <blues_capt...@yahoo.com> wrote:

[Incognito]

Maybe they were checking your application to make sure it runs.If so,
then it seems you've passed the first test, it runs in the android
emulator.

[Harsh Jain]

I got hit too..

[avirads]

It is almost April 24th and not hit to my client - server app yet...

i'm still waiting.. bob marley ;-)

[Harsh Jain]

BTW, did everyone get a hit ? I have one of my app, which doesnt seem to have been tested ?
regards,
harsh

[cirion]

No hits here... if they just started yesterday, it will probably take
a while to do even stage 0 on all 1700+ apps.

On Apr 23, 7:11 am, "Harsh Jain" <har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW, did everyone get a hit ? I have one of my app, which doesnt seem to
> have been tested ?
> regards,
> harsh
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Harsh Jain <har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I got hit too..
>

[Chris]

We got hit for about 30 minutes last night from 1:14AM to 1:52AM
California time. I wonder where the judge was from?

On Apr 16, 9:10 pm, blues <blues_capt...@yahoo.com> wrote:

[finnk]

My application has gotten hits from 2 locations. Though neither user
hit every feature, I'd say about 25%-50% of the features were used
(though different sets from the 2). One US, and one international.

Finn

[David Moffett]

Our app finally got hit today but not for very long. I could spend
paragraphs analyzing that what means. :-)

(+) http://www.vizzvox.com

We built an Android player for VizzVox. Plays back user built stories
from the web based on location. We don't have a website for the
Android player yet.

David

[Joa]

It seems there's a staggered approach where apps are run through a
pipeline. Or perhaps early on some of the guys who are preparing the
rounds of evaluations have the leisure to check things out. Who
knows...

[blues]

Looks like everybody gets hits now. But still no hit for my server.
Starting to be worrying.

Maybe my submitted application gets lost.
Maybe it's not attractive enough, and the judges are not interested to
open it.
Or maybe the firewall there blocks my http request which is at port
8000
but not 80.

OMG!

On Apr 23, 7:12 pm, David Moffett <davidbmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Our app finally got hit today but not for very long.  I could spend  
> paragraphs analyzing that what means.  :-)
>

> (+)http://www.vizzvox.com

>
> We built an Android player for VizzVox.  Plays back user built stories  
> from the web based on location.  We don't have a website for the  
> Android player yet.
>
> David
>
> On Apr 23, 2008, at 7:48 PM, finnk wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > My application has gotten hits from 2 locations.  Though neither user
> > hit every feature, I'd say about 25%-50% of the features were used
> > (though different sets from the 2).  One US, and one international.
>
> > Finn
>
> > On Apr 23, 11:08 am, Chris <crhu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> We got hit for about 30 minutes last night from 1:14AM to 1:52AM
> >> California time.  I wonder where the judge was from?
>
> >> On Apr 16, 9:10 pm, blues <blues_capt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >>> I watch my server log all the day but don't see anything from  
> >>> outside
> >>> been logged yet.
>

[Brian Kao]

There were also no any hit in my server.
Oh, God, please do me a favor.

[xing.ye]

My server have got a submission, but i already open my source on
google code, so i can't figure out who submit it. -_-~~

[joos]

Also no hit yet on my side (except for my own), I am sitting on
needles. I support a proxy as well. For Client/Server calls I read the
proxy settings from settingdb and use them in the call. It worked for
me (with proxy and without) mostly, but I am not 100% sure that it
works everywhere. The best would be to test it without proxy.

Greetings,
J

[q2dm1]

This is what I did: I'm logging any server activity and additionally
tcpdump'ing the important ports. The logs are duplicated and a cron
task (invoked every 5 minutes) mails a diff of the current files and
the duplicates to me and eventually replaces the duplicates with the
current logs. This way I don't need any additional functionality in
the server besides logging and have instant updates when someone
accesses the ports in question.

No hits yet tough.

[arnouf]

No log on my server yet...

[ddm]

OK, I am ready to pay juges for testing my app.

I offer $0.2 per click.

[q2dm1]

I REALLY hope this is not the case. Any comments from Google on
outbound connections on other ports than 80?

[ddm]

OK, I am ready to pay juges for testing my app.

My offer : $0,2 per click

[joos]

I got hits!!!!

Every hour or so today I checked my log and nothing happend - now I
hit the refresh button and saw that I had about 40 hits from one IP
address in Japan (one Open Handset Alliance company).

I am sooo happy that it works!!! This made my day!!

Good luck to you all!!

[q2dm1]

Are you making standard port 80 requests?

[mickrobk]

I don't have a client/server app, but 2 people accessed my website to
watch my demo video yesterday. (California and Boston.) This was
definitely a pleasant surprise, as the video I included with my
submission was much lower quality due to size constraints.
Unfortunately I don't have access to the server logs, and Google
analytics, for what I assume are privacy reasons (no associating IP's
with data), don't show enough data for me to really be as obsessive
about this as I want to be.

My submission is (for now) private, so I'm fairly confident that these
are judges... :)

[Zun]

I am wondering if the submissions are ordered by the time (same the
id) they are submitted.

I submitted at Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:03:25 -0000 UTC time. Or 14 Apr
12:03 am california time.
No hit to my server yet. :-(

Can someone post your time? No matter got hits or not. Both submission
time and hit time.

> > My offer : $0,2 per click- Hide quoted text -

[joos]

yes

[mickrobk]

I got a response from my last submission at 11:10 pm april 14th (MST -
california time)
I couldn't tell you exactly when my website got hit but it was
sometime between april 22-24

[ian]

I have 4 apps that log information at the server. So far three of them
were hit seperately (California Time):
April 22 7:41pm
April 23 4:10pm
April 23 1:20am

Seems only one judge looked at each app and the function is not fully
tested so far. Will all the 3-4 judges in the panel take a look at the
apps that assigned to them? Seems to me the judges are still screening
the apps.

[q2dm1]

Just got a hit from Japan, I can sleep again :D

[Finn Kennedy]

That is exactly the experience that I have had, 2 judges actually loaded the app and used a couple of features.  I am hoping it is just a first pass, though if that is the case heres to making it past the screening.

I also had a hit on the web site before going public (based on company name I am guessing a judge, separate countries from the first two), but nothing more than a page view.

Finn
http://www.teedroid.com

[Michael Johnston]

We've seen some activity but so far they only seem to access from 5%
to 20% of features.

On Apr 25, 7:22 am, "Finn Kennedy" <finn.kenn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That is exactly the experience that I have had, 2 judges actually loaded the
> app and used a couple of features. I am hoping it is just a first pass,
> though if that is the case heres to making it past the screening.
>
> I also had a hit on the web site before going public (based on company name
> I am guessing a judge, separate countries from the first two), but nothing
> more than a page view.
>

> Finnhttp://www.teedroid.com

[arnouf]

Hi all!

I had a connection yesterday night (french time GMT+1) from sunnyvale,
but none activity! I asked to myself if judges test really apps (full
functionnalities)...We are the 26th, it stays 10 days before results.
If today my app hasn't been tested, on 1788 apps, I have some
stressed !

Arnaud

[q2dm1]

Same here, they probably tested mine for 3-4 minutes...

[Dollar...@gmail.com]

I got hit twice:
April 24 - Japan - spent 33 mins - all features of the app tested :)
April 26 - Taiwan - spent 16 mins - 75% features of the app tested :|

I remember in one thread Dan mention that there will be atleast 4
judges testing each app - so i have to wait for the rest 2 judges to
test it out.

Steve

[Dan Morrill]

Judges have been instructed to perform judging on non-proxied networks.

- Dan

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:42 PM, ConAim <duane....@gmail.com> wrote:

0, none, nada :(
I'm getting anxious here since my application does not yet support
Proxy.
I hope that the judges doesn't sitting behind firewalls.

[severian]

Sigh, so am I the only one left to get no hits at all? :(

[Brian Kao]

Severian,

It's not a good news for me, but I do not get any hits neither.
:(

[Kevin]

I've been watching my logs. So far I've had two unique hits. Neither
was for more than a couple minutes. Neither finished the user setup,
which is pretty frustrating. I've also supplied a complete user for
evaluation. Neither used that user. Someone above said they think it
might be somebody making sure the app was working, but I don't think
that's the case. My logs are also not doing IP address, which was
just plain laziness on my part in the setup. Correcting that now,
although I can't shake the feeling that my app's time in the sun is
over already.

I had another long post about the topic, but here's the summary. What
do you do if the judges who look at your app aren't really "looking"
at it? I'd wait till the end and see if it gets a full look, but at
that point, there's really nothing you can do. Not that there's much
I can do now (other than email the guys who tried the app and supplied
their actual email addresses, which would be completely
inappropriate ;)

In my case, the specific screen that seems to have stumped the two
users had one button on it, which was labeled "Next". Neither clicked
that button. All other input on the screen was defaulted to something
that made sense. The problem is I have a bug. The user menu becomes
available before the user setup is complete. One of the evaluators
seems to have clicked on that menu and played around in the app. The
other one seems to have just stopped (that one *might* be a guy
setting it up).

[Joa]

On Apr 26, 8:36 am, Kevin <kgalli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What
> do you do if the judges who look at your app aren't really "looking"
> at it?

Well we can only worry about what we can control. Although I'm
starting getting a little frustrated as well.
From what I can see from my end... There's been multiple startups
between 22-Apr and 24-Apr, but noone - judge or engineer - has called
an application feature yet. And there isn't even logon or anything
complicated required. All it takes is push the Menu button and select
a menu item... I get the feeling the challenge as a platform to get us
independent developers off the ground isn't going terribly well...
given 1800 submission I figure everything just drowns in noise... I
start wondering if the Alliance is going to set up an effective
marketing channel for us.

[Kevin Galligan]

Look at the "Five days of challenge" thread...

http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread/1b56a2c80dfc752

It looked like I had two people on, but Dan from google told me there
had been only one actual review, and the others were "spot checks".

I was a little surprised that the reviews would be so short, but it
wasn't an actual review, so no big deal. As stated in that thread,
I'm OK to lose, but only if somebody's looking at it.

"I get the feeling the challenge as a platform to get us independent
developers off the ground isn't going terribly well... given 1800
submission I figure everything just drowns in noise... I start
wondering if the Alliance is going to set up an effective marketing
channel for us."

I don't think the challenge is really for "us". The challenge is to
get some sweet apps for the platform, and generate press for the open
nature of the platform. In that regard, I think its going to go very
well. When the winners are announced, you'll get all sorts of free
press (which is why I thought doing this might be worth it). I don't
know about the marketing channel, but I wouldn't worry about it much
just yet. Considering there are 1800 entries, I'm a lot more
concerned about getting in the first 50.

As far as marketing when the phones come out, it is going to be a
little strange. A lot of the submissions I've seen are going to have
serious chicken/egg problems. The platform will not be huge numbers
of phones out of the gate, so anything that requires lots of existing
users (social networking), or require large coverage and participation
of service providers, is going to require web based or other access
outside of android. You know what I mean? I think we're all going to
be the first people we know with an android phone.

Explaining to people why this is cool is very difficult. Hence the
contest. I have a feeling when we see the set of apps that come out,
explaining why android is cool will be a lot easier.

I was also thinking, we might have a little surprise at the end. Lets
say for the sake of argument there are more than 50 really good ideas,
or at least more than the 20 or so that would make it past phase II.
It wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for them to just toss them out.

[StevePotell]

Finally someone is testing my app. Based on what Dan says we should
all start seeing activity this week.

Good luck all.

Steve

PS: my server logs say they are hitting everything that is important.

[everfriend]

My server log shows some judges accessed two of my applications
briefly.
( I do not use "test", as it only touched less than 10% of all the
functions available on my applications)

1. Application One: 2008-04-25 14:51:45 for about 10 min
2. Application Two: 2008-04-26 20:42:02 for about 15 min
3. Application Two: 2008-04-27 01:10:53 for about 2 min

It seems to me that these accesses only for verifying the applications
are executable and ready for test.

The judges seems have other full time job, and trying to do some test
in weekends/evening.

I guess the formal judging/testing process will start soon (or is
starting....)

Best,

Ever

On Apr 23, 9:08 am, Chris <crhu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We got hit for about 30 minutes last night from 1:14AM to 1:52AM
> California time.  I wonder where the judge was from?
>

> On Apr 16, 9:10 pm, blues <blues_capt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I watch my server log all the day but don't see anything from outside
> > been logged yet.
>

> > Blues- Hide quoted text -

[Incognito]

Dan Morril mentioned in a comment that some applications already have
scores so that means that the judging has already started. I hope they
really finish by May 5th, the suspense is killing me.

> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -

[Kevin Galligan]

Yeah. I've apparently had one review (according to Dan).

I saw some activity on the server tonight. Looks like its from the
west coast. Not a lot of stuff, though, so maybe more spot checks or
whatever.

It'll be an interesting week.

[Joa]

On Apr 27, 5:03 am, "Kevin Galligan" <kgalli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think the challenge is really for "us". The challenge is to
> get some sweet apps for the platform, and generate press for the open
> nature of the platform.

I suppose all who submitted entries would only agree to an extend.
There's certainly the idea to get one's own shop off the ground, in an
ideal world.
It'll be interesting to see how things play out over the next years
and who's going to come through Cinderella-style vs. those who keep
rainmakers on their payroll and a group of cheap developers somewhere
overseas.

[Joa]

On Apr 27, 5:03 am, "Kevin Galligan" <kgalli...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Look at the "Five days of challenge" thread...
>

> http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread...
>
>

Thanks for the link. Still way to go.

[blues]

What a sticky post I have created.
I wish all the 35 authors in this thread will be in the top 50 list,
of course not including Dan. And the remaining 16 give to non
connected apps. :-D

[whitemice]

My logs show that an American switched on my Snowball client for about
two minutes late on Sunday night (West coast time). It seems like
someone at Google is burning the midnight oil, trying to get all the
submissions ready for the Judges in time.
Good luck to them.

[keashF]

i think, we've had our first real review where important functionality
was used, everything seems to have gone fine.

it happened yesterday, sunday at roughly 5 or 6 am (their local
time)!! wow, they really work hard to meet the deadline! way to go,
judges! keep it up & thanks for testing! Now i can rest easy, knowing
that our app has been tested properly :)

cheers
F

[Aleksander Kmetec]

I got hits from 3 different IPs so far, with several restarts/revisits from 2 of them.
But I couldn't say how much time the judges spent testing, since my app only fetches some data when it starts up.

[Zun]

I also got hits from 3 IPs so far.
One is about 15 mins. Anohter two are about 5 mins.
Most of them were during night time or weekend.

No hit today. 4 business days to go. I guess the top 100 are selected
already? So if you get more hit, means you are in top 100?

Cheers


On Apr 28, 5:28 am, "Aleksander Kmetec" <aleksander.kme...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Finn Kennedy]

I got hit by a fourth evaluation session today.  None of the sessions on mine have been very long, only one judge actually went far into the application.  As far as I can tell they encountered no errors.  I don't know what to say, the evaluations seem very brief.  All I can hope is that they saw what they needed, but I am definitely worried.  Especially after having put in a lot of work on it.

I would also guess that if there are hits later this week or hits past 4 judging sessions (since google said 4 judges per app I believe) you are in the top 100.  Though it could be the spot reviews that were talked about earlier too I guess.

Good luck everyone,

Finn

[Muthu Ramadoss]

All these judges activity seem to be inline with my prediction, that judges will not be using more than a few minutes to test each application.

If an application has received a longer attention, it means one of the two things:

1. The judges love it.
2. The judges are desperately trying to get it work.

I would side with number 1 since thats a more likely scenario.

Good luck droids!

--
take care,
Muthu Ramadoss.

http://mobeegal.in
find stuff closer.

[Incognito]

I don't think so. They will probably narrow down to the 100 apps by
May 3 or 4th. In fact, I'll be really surprised if they complete on
time. My bet is that they will be done after May 5th. Like May 8th or
10th.

> > fetches some data when it starts up.- Hide quoted text -

[Incognito]

> If an application has received a longer attention, it means one of the two
> things:
>
> 1. The judges love it.
> 2. The judges are desperately trying to get it work.
>
> I would side with number 1 since thats a more likely scenario.

I also believe it is #1. If their first impression of the application
is that it stinks then they will probably not be very interested much
time on it given that they still have to judge some 50 other apps.

On Apr 29, 12:35 am, "Muthu Ramadoss" <muthu.ramad...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> All these judges activity seem to be inline with my prediction, that judges
> will not be using more than a few minutes to test each application.
>
> If an application has received a longer attention, it means one of the two
> things:
>
> 1. The judges love it.
> 2. The judges are desperately trying to get it work.
>
> I would side with number 1 since thats a more likely scenario.
>
> Good luck droids!
>

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Finn Kennedy <finn.kenn...@gmail.com>

> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I got hit by a fourth evaluation session today.  None of the sessions on
> > mine have been very long, only one judge actually went far into the
> > application.  As far as I can tell they encountered no errors.  I don't know
> > what to say, the evaluations seem very brief.  All I can hope is that they
> > saw what they needed, but I am definitely worried.  Especially after having
> > put in a lot of work on it.
>
> > I would also guess that if there are hits later this week or hits past 4
> > judging sessions (since google said 4 judges per app I believe) you are in
> > the top 100.  Though it could be the spot reviews that were talked about
> > earlier too I guess.
>
> > Good luck everyone,
>
> > Finn
>

> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Zun <zen_xu2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > I also got hits from 3 IPs so far.
> > > One is about 15 mins. Anohter two are about 5 mins.
> > > Most of them were during night time or weekend.
>
> > > No hit today. 4 business days to go. I guess the top 100 are selected
> > > already? So if you get more hit, means you are in top 100?
>
> > > Cheers
>
> > > On Apr 28, 5:28 am, "Aleksander Kmetec" <aleksander.kme...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > I got hits from 3 different IPs so far, with several restarts/revisits
> > > from
> > > > 2 of them.
> > > > But I couldn't say how much time the judges spent testing, since my
> > > app only
> > > > fetches some data when it starts up.
>
> --
> take care,
> Muthu Ramadoss.
>
> http://mobeegal.in

> find stuff closer.- Hide quoted text -

[Muthu Ramadoss]

They'll not extend the May 5 deadline, my guess is May 5 stands.

[Incognito]

Deadlines exists to be broken. We'll see if you are right. I'll be
really surprised if you are.

On Apr 29, 12:43 am, "Muthu Ramadoss" <muthu.ramad...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> find stuff closer.- Hide quoted text -

[Muthu Ramadoss]

Incognito,

We should form a review team reviewing Android apps? LOL.

We'll be the siskel & ebert or is it rupert & ebert? Ah, never mind they are the two thumbs up guys!!

[Muthu Ramadoss]

Woah, you are fast. Let me see how fast you reply to this ;-)

[Kevin Galligan]

I'm trying not to speculate too much myself. I'd like to sleep
semi-normally this week.

I've been keeping an eye on mine. Its a little confusing because I
submitted 2 apps. One is the big one, and one is an api that I used
for building stuff. The api has had a few hits, but the big one has
had only one real "review". I don't know about all the top 100
business. I think there's some fact and a lot of speculation.

But, maybe that was stated somewhere? Not sure.

Regardless, good luck to all.

[Kevin Galligan]

My replies take forever.

Uh, +1 here. Remember the deadline was March 3rd, then suddenly 4/14?
Somehow extending the soft deadline of 5/5 seems like nothing
compared to that.

[Incognito]

> We should form a review team reviewing Android apps? LOL.
>
> We'll be the siskel & ebert or is it rupert & ebert? Ah, never mind they are
> the two thumbs up guys!!

If only I knew who they are.????

On Apr 29, 12:45 am, "Muthu Ramadoss" <muthu.ramad...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Muthu Ramadoss]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Movies_with_Ebert_&_Roeper

[Incognito]

Thanks, never seen their show though.

[Chris]

Muthu, I'm with Incognito; deadlines exist to be broken.

Not saying they won't announce on time, but I'm not going to be
surprised if we get something like this "Due to the overwhelming
response and high quality of challenge submissions, the judges are
having a hard time sorting through so many great entries and will need
a couple extra days to complete the process"

[Muthu Ramadoss]

Chris,

There's a chance the deadline might be extended. But i doubt it.

And don't agree with your reasoning:

"Due to the overwhelming response and high quality of challenge submissions, the judges are having a hard time sorting through so many great entries and will need a couple extra days to complete the process"

The response was not overwhelming. As someone said its only a quarter percentage of the total SDK downloads. 1788 submissions is not a huge number.

[Incognito]

>The response was not overwhelming. As someone said its only a quarter
>percentage of the total SDK downloads. 1788 submissions is not a huge
>number.

Well, not everybody is as cool as we are. Just submitting an entry is
a big acomplishment for many. I'm sure there were 1000's of developers
that wish they could compete but they just don't have the stamina nor
endurance to commit every free time they have to a project outside of
work. We may take it for granted we can do this because I'm sure that
it comes naturally to many of us but believe me, most people cannot do
this. Also, many simply don't believe they are good enough to enter a
contest like this. Not because they do not know how to develope
applications, but rather because they don't think that their ideas can
win. I may have a very slim chance of winning, but I will not lose
hope until the last moment.

>The response was not overwhelming.

I personally believe it was overwhelming since my initial estimates
were around 150 entries only.

> find stuff closer.- Hide quoted text -

[Shamim]

I also didn’t get any hit to my server. But I am excited by reading
this post group. I feel like reading thriller book or watching
thriller move. People are writing the hitting news like that they have
got some gems/diamond in the Forrest. It’s really amusing, let it be
for few more days, because only 50 will be happy and other will
dishearten. Lets thrill be longer since “the hope is the most
navigator of the our life”. Wish you best of luck for all including
me.

On Apr 29, 12:45 pm, "Muthu Ramadoss" <muthu.ramad...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> find stuff closer.- Hide quoted text -

[Cow Bay]

i like your touching comment about stamina and endurance!!!!!

[blues]

No more hit to the server this week. I guess it's in phase 2 judging
now. And I am out of the top 100. :(

[Incognito]

I think that if there were any server hits, people are simply not
telling.

> > Blues- Hide quoted text -

[Muthu Ramadoss]

If there are server hits now, you are definitely in top 100.

Another possibility is since the judges have scored the apps by now, they might be using different criteria now to select the top 50.

[keashF]

We still have hits, hard to tell if they are more than "spot checks",
though.
well, at least we still have hits :-) my hopes are up!

> finwelld stuff closer.

[Kevin Galligan]

Well. Yes and no. I don't know. I haven't been getting any traffic
this week either.

However. I've read in a number of places there were to be 4 reviews,
and I absolutely didn't get 4 reviews yet. I have 2 submissions. The
main one has had, at best, 2 reviews. Its possible 2 judges hated the
idea so much they didn't bother, but I'd be shocked if they didn't at
least kick the tires a bit. There might have been an error on the
client end, but I haven't seen anything on the server.

Summary? It may be over, but don't shut off your server just yet ;)

[Dollar...@gmail.com]

So as of April 28, 2008 - I had two new hits and the total raises to 4
tests of my app.

The last 2 were from USA and leading companies as well that are in
good relation with Google.

So after 28, April there are no hits - not sure if Google people are
agreegating the scores to rank the Top 100 to run the tests again.

Will reply in here again if I get any test hists on my servers.

- Steve

On May 1, 9:57 am, "Kevin Galligan" <kgalli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well. Yes and no. I don't know. I haven't been getting any traffic
> this week either.
>
> However. I've read in a number of places there were to be 4 reviews,
> and I absolutely didn't get 4 reviews yet. I have 2 submissions. The
> main one has had, at best, 2 reviews. Its possible 2 judges hated the
> idea so much they didn't bother, but I'd be shocked if they didn't at
> least kick the tires a bit. There might have been an error on the
> client end, but I haven't seen anything on the server.
>
> Summary? It may be over, but don't shut off your server just yet ;)
>

[arnouf]

Hi!

I think that I'm out too :(
I had a connection one week ago, but just on the website not on the
application.
I think (very sad) that I'm out too and it's a little bit hard to
accept: 5 months hard work...

Good luck for people with the second part of ADC.

Regards
Arnaud

[ian]

Arnaud,

You're not alone. I have four apps submitted that are
client/server. Here is ALL hits so far (from to Apr 24 to Aprl 28):
App A (1 hit)
App B (2 hit)
App C (3 hit)
App D (3 hit)

What I can conclude from the log I have:

1. Not all the four judges (if there are) looked at
each app by actually running it. (I have finished all
submitals 1 months before the deadline and they were well
polished, so that the chance of crash at the test
phase is very low)

2. The review by running the apps were very quick (probably less than
10 seconds, except one hit) and verysimple (seems only the
home screens were reached)

I think there are three possibilities here:
1. I am out
2. The judges did not have time to look carefully at
the apps by running it before scores were made. That
means the readme is extremely important. If I knew
that, we would have put lots of our dream features into
the readme.
3. The judge process is still on going. We need to be
patient and I hope google can give us some update and
put off rumors and worries.

Don't be discouraged. As a developer too, I believe all
developers and their works deserves respect. Even the
submital ranked as 1788th could be a master piece one day.

Good Luck, everyone.

[Net Competency]

Our server get NO hits ... it is likely that our app can not make HTTP connection to our server (port 80) ... Are the judges get enough how-to set the emulator to be able to connect to the Internet --- seting proxy etc ?

Our application make assumption that the application inside emulator can make a HTTP connection to a server on the Net without taking care about proxy :((

[joos]

I see two possibilities of the current state of the contest:

a) Judges were instructed to use the READ ME files to get the idea of
the app if possible. If they know enough, they don't even open the
application and give the score right on the info they receive. A very
detailed README + plus a good idea might lure more judges to actually
test the app to give a higher score.
In my case I have a fairly detailed readme/documentation (16 pages
with screenshots and everything) and I received >4 hits.

b) The second possibility is that judging is really behind schedule
and they are still in the first batch of judging.

However, I believe, the number 1788 contains also resubmits (?) and
google is a very focused company. So I think (hope) that they are
actually on schedure and are already in the second round of
judging. :)

Good luck to u all!,
J

On 2 Mai, 08:54, "Net Competency" <netcompete...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Our server get NO hits ... it is likely that our app can not make HTTP
> connection to our server (port 80) ... Are the judges get enough how-to set
> the emulator to be able to connect to the Internet --- seting proxy etc ?
>
> Our application make assumption that the application inside emulator can
> make a HTTP connection to a server on the Net without taking care about
> proxy :((
>

[Incognito]

> Our server get NO hits ... it is likely that our app can not make HTTP
> connection to our server (port 80) ... Are the judges get enough how-to set
> the emulator to be able to connect to the Internet --- seting proxy etc ?
>
> Our application make assumption that the application inside emulator can
> make a HTTP connection to a server on the Net without taking care about
> proxy :((
>
>

They are not behind a proxy.

> > Good Luck, everyone.- Hide quoted text -

[Incognito]

> I see two possibilities of the current state of the contest:
>
> a) Judges were instructed to use the READ ME files to get the idea of
> the app if possible. If they know enough, they don't even open the
> application and give the score right on the info they receive. A very
> detailed README + plus a good idea might lure more judges to actually
> test the app to give a higher score.
> In my case I have a fairly detailed readme/documentation (16 pages
> with screenshots and everything) and I received >4 hits.
>
> b) The second possibility is that judging is really behind schedule
> and they are still in the first batch of judging.
>
> However, I believe, the number 1788 contains also resubmits (?) and
> google is a very focused company. So I think (hope) that they are
> actually on schedure and are already in the second round of
> judging. :)
>

No resubmits. All unique entries.

[Kevin Galligan]

Not discouraged per say. I'll hold judgment till the end, but if only
one person barely looked at my app, I'm going to be pretty angry about
that. I put off a lot of stuff while working on this. I'd make a
list, but it would be embarrassing. I don't expect to win. I do
expect to be seen. Right? I'm not the only one.

I assume they wouldn't drop the ball like that, but there have been
rumblings about this all day, and there has been no response. Over
the weekend there was similar concern, and we were getting "official"
word pretty much right away. No news isn't always good news.

I'd suggest for round 2 they make it a little more transparent.

I had a couple hits from a different IP today, but it turned out to be
somebody scanning for a hack.