Android Coh App - Anyone Interested?

He's asking if there's a character build planner for the Android.
I don't think you want to get THAT involved.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

I like this idea and would be willing to help test, as much as I can, work keeps me so busy.

I don't know if it is possible to incorporate the protected forums but I would like to browse those, especially this forum, currently my dolphin browser for whatever reason wont stay logged in. So I can't see stuff while I'm on the go.

Mids is a terribly challenging thing to incorporate into an app. Not because of coding and numbers but because the interface would require quite a bit of work. It could probably be an app unto itself. Similarly a badge tracker.

That and the people responsible for those programs and websites might not be interested.

I'm a real downer today, sorry. best of luck to you 8

A character planner.....ahhhhh. Good idea but yes that gets pretty involved. Let's start off quick and simple and see how things go. We'll go with a quick interative process. So for now I'll file that under "Great Ideas", but holding for a future release.

@Kheldarn: Good point. I have a Fire as well so I'll be more than happy to give it a shot.

@the_fox_Rox: I'll poke around the forums...if there was an RSS feed for the forums it wouldn't be a problem...but I haven't noticed anything like that so far. But I'll take a closer look. At the very least I could provide a link to the site and you could gain access to the forums from there.

Moving pretty fast I realize, but do y'all have preferences over "HeroNet" as a name or "Citadel" as name?

Thanks,
Todd

Design/Style wise, if we're creating an app for City of Heroes then it would make sense that it would have the same look and feel of CoH correct? Currently working on two designs...one is very CoH, the other is more "inspired by".

It's just the more I think about it, the more I think the CoH look and feel just makes more sense.

Thoughts?

Looks Like is an easy way to identify it, provided Paragon Stuidos and/or NCSoft don't mind.

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You could always call it TPN.

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Ok. So here's a look at the initial overall look and feel, with some indication of features.

First up, I did a little quick research and found quite a few interesting quotes centered around heroes. I thought that might be a good way to start while things load up. I've gathered a few from some pretty interesting people; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Miller, Will Rogers, Christopher Reeve (one of my personal favorite heroes), and even Elvis.



Following that to the main menu. I didn't spend a lot of time on the logotype since it's still up in the air. I thought maybe we have a few random background images, and I threw in the image location time and temp at the bottom just for fun.



Next is the CoH news feed. Not much gloss here, just info.



Then, in no particular order, is the server status page. Green equals good. Red equals...well it's pretty obvious.



Last but definately not least is the Heroic Art section, cause I have to admit I have a bit of a soft spot for that. Ol Lego States is thrown in there cause he was handy.



I figure that's enough screens to show a general direction. I'll IM Zwillinger and get their official take on things. Hopefully it will be green lighted and not red lighted.

Thoughts?

Todd

Holy goodness does that look cool!

Definitely keep the location and temp! Perhaps you could have few options that are randomly selected form the Isles, Paragon and Praetoria... maybe a "Shadow Shard.... Temp: -Error-".

Only suggestion would be to sub the www for a globe icon.

As for the name? Its starting to grow on me as is!

Oh, just thought of something... you don't have the Euro servers in that list. Also, would it be possible to add some kind visual icon to the server list? Maybe a colored arrow (up for up?).

So far, it looks great. And if I can get my next Android phone sorted out soon, I may be able to test as well.

Just want to point out something though before you get too far down the design process:

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Originally Posted by 8baller Then, in no particular order, is the server status page. Green equals good. Red equals...well it's pretty obvious.

You're missing the European servers from your list.

EDIT: Bah, ninja'd. Serves me right for replying before waking up.

Looks good, but it reminds me of Champions instead of City. I'd suggest using the font Red Circle, since it's the CoH Font, and is available on the main website in the Fansite Kit.

The name is pretty much perfect. It's not a Named Character from CoH (and won't cause any issues, like naming it Citadel or Castle might), and it's not a Named Character from any comic book. And it pretty much sums up what it is.

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Agree with all the praise--sweet logo, BTW. Looking good and willing to dl when you have it going. While red and green work for simple up/down is there a way to incorporate the load as well. three stars low/med/high with appropriate color. Just a thought--may be not doable with feed you're using.

Looks great!

Thanks all.

About the US/UK servers I'll see if I can't get them included as well...sorry they were omitted.

@Kheldarn: Actually the look and feel is very directly from the new CoX character creation UI. I am using Red Circle...it's just the version I downloaded doesn't include an 'italic' character set (thus the straight up and down characters). The other acception is the button label for the sections. I did prefer the hand written comic type...I thought it made it a little more well...'comic'.

But I have to admit I haven't played Champions since the beta...so I don't know what they UI looks like. I probably should look at the fan kit since I haven't seen it in a while.

@ddgryphon: As snow globe mentioned afterward...the data I can get unfortunately doesn't include server load, just 'up' or 'down'. That would be cool though.

I IM'd Zwillinger to take a look, and give any input but with it being a weekend and all I haven't heard anything so far. But I'll continue forward and see if I can't get some of this operational.

Thanks all,
Todd

App looks great

Hope Paragon Studios have no objections to you making it.

Ok, version 0.1 is about ready for initial testing.

For those interested this is what you'll need.

1. An android device...it can be a phone or tablet.
2. a Dropbox account, it's free and it's a great service anyhow. Create your account at www.dropbox.com (again, it's free)
3. Download the dropbox app to your Android Device.
4. IM me via the forum IM and include your name, forum name, and the email address you used to create the dropbox account. That way I can send you an invite to share a specific folder on Dropbox (where I'll be sticking the app).

That's pretty much it. For those with a Kindle Fire, you're welcome to test (I have one and I'll give it a shot)...but compatability is iffy with the license I have. There is not a Dropbox app for the Kindle Fire, but you can hit the shared folder via your web browser on the Fire and download from there.

In fact, I guess anyone could skip step 3 and just use the Dropbox website to download the app, it's just not as convenient and fast.

Any questions?

Thanks,
Todd

Update: Here are some screenshots in the Android Simulator. They look identical to app running on my Android...it was just easier to take screenshots in the sim.

Having a little argument with my "Futura" font right now, as it doesn't want to play well with Corona. That's why there's more 'comic font' in place of where it should be Futura.

I still have to write a custom parser for the server status xml since it's not formatted in any kind of standard rss format, but the rest of the data is live.

The forums section may have to go since I'm getting some odd formatting/character encoding from that feed, and that's out of my hands data-wise. Too bad to, cause it almost works.

Intro Quote


Main Menu (with a new logo). The 'forums' section may disappear if I can't find a way to clean up the data.


Fan Art


News


Fan Sites (placeholder list of sites until I can aquire permissions from each)

Hiya! This looks great! I am very interested. May I suggest "HeroWeb", with the "hero" in blue and the"web" in red, as an alternate name for your app? Web for Arachnos and red for villains, blue for heroes. And, perhaps, changing the "reticle o" to a spider web looking "o"? World Wide "Web"

Doh! You already changed the"o" to a Statesmen "Star". Nice choice. Good luck with the app.