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Android and cats

Alex — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:57:13 +0000

Sprint came out with entertaining Nexus 4G commercial introducing Android and cats.

SAT Vocabulary on Cellular South

Alex — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:22:06 +0000

SAT Vocabulary was selected by Cellular South to be promoted on their Online Discover Center (Lifestyle section).

It’s been a while since it was published. But downloads number still grow as well as active installs ratio is not bad (65%). In the mean time I am starting to work on version 2.0 for Android 2.0 .

Android: Droid Commercial

Alex — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:14:28 +0000

It is not that I don’t like iPhone but Verizon Wireless has started a very aggressive campaign against iPhone while promoting a new Android powered phone Motorola Droid. Verizon seems to be the first who will unveil Android 2.0 although Donut (i.e. 1.6) has just been released for T-Mobile Customers.

Android: SAT Vocabulary

Alex — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:35:28 +0000

Simultaneously with GRE Vocabulary I decided to release SAT Vocabulary. Applications have the same core and the same features. However SAT Vocabulary has its completed A-Z list of almost 5000 words.

At the same time GRE Vocabulary covers only letter A-D but already includes about 1500 words. I am still working on GRE words list and it looks it is going to be 10K+ words and definitions. But unfortunately downloads went extremely down – from about 200 on the first 24 hours it is hardly 20 per day now after 7 days on the Market.

Will see how it will work for SAT Vocabulary. It is already about 200 downloads in a few hours on the Market. Perhaps there are more people who is preparing for SAT rather than for GRE. Another advantage of SAT one that it has ‘all letters’ words.

In any way there is still a lot of work on some new features for both applications.

Update 7/12: SAT Vocabulary appeared to be more popular than GRE one. It was downloaded almost 1000 times in a week on the Market which is already more than GRE Vocabulary after 2 weeks.

Android: GRE Vocabulary

Alex — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:28:26 +0000

Here I promised some experiments in software development.

And I’ve started one recently. A beta version of my first Android application was released early today. It is my first ‘production’ written on Java application too.

The application is simply called GRE Vocabulary. Its goal is to help to learn words required for verbal section of GRE exam which tests knowledge of words and their meaning. Unlike other similar applications it is free and going to contain comprehensive list of words – not just 50-100 ‘preview’ words. Current release has only letter ‘A’ words but it includes 475 (!) words and definitions!
There is no doubts that user interface is not perfect but it is only beta. I have a good list of future features. Hopefully user’s feedback will help to prioritize it.

Feel free to comment on this post or leave your suggestions at Android Market.

Update 6/30: about 350 downloads after 2 days on the market. Added 184 letter ‘B’ words. Working on a feature to mark words.