Pork 'n' Bunny

Hey Siri!  Wassup?  Heard you got quite a sense of humor and everyone either hates you or love you.  But we love you because you’re funny!  And because of that we’ve made an app just for you!

Based on Shit That Siri Says on tumblr, you can now see the latest siri print screens on your mobile devices.  Download our app today by clicking or scanning the image below!

Download our App today!

This was a great project for us.  Everyday we are learning more and more about Android Development.  The more projects we pursue the more we can improve our other apps.

Here’s a few things we’ve learnt:

Image Caching

Cacces allow you to speed up your app and reduce bandwidth requirements for your app. Here are some key oints about file caching you may not know;

• Manually managed
• Deletion of old files are up to the developer
• The system will delete caches when the app is uninstalled
• The system MAY delete some caches to free up space automatically but should not be relied upon.
• Google recommends about 1MB, although I’m not sure why that number was chosen.

Share via dialog

Siri says implements a share via dialog. This is a very simple one liner.

Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, url);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share via"))

Image density – This is a unit (dp) that helps resize image according to the screen device users have.  When creating images you want to know the bitmaps minimum pixel size so it doesn’t look blurry depending on screen size.  You’ll need this formula:

px = dp * (dpi / 160)

dpi measurements below

ldpi 120 mdpi 160 hdpi 240 xhdpi 320

Feature Graphic – It must be 1024 x 500 px.  This graphic will shrink for different purposes and devices.  So it’s important when designing these images that it should be simple, clear and big (less text as well) so that when it is resized you can still see and read the whole image perfectly.

Icon Design – Great icon designs will attract users. First impression are very important and will help your app stand out from your competitors.  I tried to make Siri look funny :-p  So far a lot of compliments from people!  The icon was the first thing they talked about!

Pork had his last day of full-time work today!

We aren’t earning money yet, but we have faith in the market and our skills that when it comes time to monetise, we’ll be doing it effectively and where everyone wins.

Here’s a guide on how to quit your day job and earn money from your apps by Google that I’ve recently read!

http://www.guidetotheappgalaxy.com/#/developersguide/ 

It’s a very cute guide.  I love the graphics of the website.  Very cool concept with the rocket and the space theme.