City Status 2.0 - Pushtastic Pushes (iOS)
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Arkyaeon,
Posted on: 2012-07-20 21:32 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Won't lie, this is a very cool thing that I've wanted as a desktop gadget for years, but iOS makes it quite literally useless to me. I use Windows and Android-based devices (even my MP3 player is a Samsung Galaxy 4) out of a general distaste for Apple. So, while I WOULD happily buy this, the problem arises that it won't work with any of my devices.
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Originally Posted by Venture
I'd never use a nuke in a superhero universe. You nuke a city, you kill 1.5 million people minus one. The last guy not only gets superpowers from the explosion, but ones that let him survive a nuke...and wow, is he torqued off
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Thank you for taking the time to enhance an already fantastic application. There's already a fair number of folks at the studio who use your app, and this upgrade only makes it better.
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What is with the haters?! Great work! Thanks for the app.
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What haters? I only see people wanting it for other devices.
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This wasn't hate. I legitimately want this for Android, and again legitimately don't like Apple. I would absolutely love to use this app.
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Originally Posted by Arkyaeon
What is with the haters?! Great work! Thanks for the app.
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Originally Posted by Venture
I'd never use a nuke in a superhero universe. You nuke a city, you kill 1.5 million people minus one. The last guy not only gets superpowers from the explosion, but ones that let him survive a nuke...and wow, is he torqued off
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Oh, this is cool! Thanks for making this!
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Originally Posted by Kadmon
This wasn't hate. I legitimately want this for Android, and again legitimately don't like Apple. I would absolutely love to use this app.
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Agreed. I think this app is PANCAKING brilliant, but I despise the Apple Corporation and their iGarbage. And their phones are like glass!
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Originally Posted by Kadmon
This wasn't hate. I legitimately want this for Android, and again legitimately don't like Apple. I would absolutely love to use this app.
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Very cool. Would love to see a layout for iPad. (On the one I was writing, I just went two columns for the iPad, server status on the left, RSS feed of the news on the right)
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And yet, android and not, my iPhone has outlasted any two if not three of my brother's phones. (admittedly its a case of water and him don't mix)|
Originally Posted by Kirsten
Agreed. I think this app is PANCAKING brilliant, but I despise the Apple Corporation and their iGarbage. And their phones are like glass!
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*shrug*
I like apple. I don't go around bashing android whenever something comes up for them and not on an iThing.
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Some people like and have iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), some people like and have Android devices. The development systems between the two is completely different, so having done one for iOS gives no real advantage to doing a similar app for Android, and not everyone knows both (I know a little iOS and had been working on a similar app but City Status does it nicely and the notification when a server comes up is a killer feature - but have no knowledge about an Android device).
So, if there are any Android programmers out there, clearly there are those who would be very happy to get a similar app for there.
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Also, Windows Metro (the app runner for their upcoming tablet) will be out this fall, and there will be a few people interested in a similar app for the Surface and the Surface Pro. |
Originally Posted by GadgetDon
So, if there are any Android programmers out there, clearly there are those who would be very happy to get a similar app for there.
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I know a potential two already.Until then, I'm running this on the iPad, yay!
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IIRC, 8Baller was working on an Android CoH app.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=287358
Seems to have stalled though, since I've not seen much activity in that thread for a while.
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I'd have to agree with this sentiment, but I also acknowledge that they are two completely different platforms and thus would require 2-3 times the effort to make 'everybody' happy.|
Originally Posted by Kadmon
Won't lie, this is a very cool thing that I've wanted as a desktop gadget for years, but iOS makes it quite literally useless to me. I use Windows and Android-based devices (even my MP3 player is a Samsung Galaxy 4) out of a general distaste for Apple. So, while I WOULD happily buy this, the problem arises that it won't work with any of my devices.
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From the looks of it though you've done an awesome job!
Just FYI since I encounter this a lot:
Android development is a MUCH different animal than iOS - the conversion is not trivial. The absence of an Android version doesn't mean you've been snubbed. Android uses a completely different programming language, environment, and UI, so doing an app for both means developing it twice.
Nice work on the app though, I know just what a pain adding push notifications can be.
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Believe me, as someone who has dabbled in programming, I know how different the beasts can be. I don't think of this as Kitsune having shunned the entire Android-using community. I know full well that it would be... an undertaking, to say the least, to make this app dance for an Android device 
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Originally Posted by Venture
I'd never use a nuke in a superhero universe. You nuke a city, you kill 1.5 million people minus one. The last guy not only gets superpowers from the explosion, but ones that let him survive a nuke...and wow, is he torqued off
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Due to popular/murderous demand, I have written a quick port of City Status for Android (missing pretty much all the features, beyond seeing the server status, and being able to refresh the status... see the bottom of the initial post for a SS and .apk download link! Edit: now also a Google Play link). It's actually the second time I've written this for Android (the first one was over a year ago, and had basically the same set of features, although didn't look close to as nice... yes, it actually looked worse! ), although the first one was 100% Davlik app.
Also, for just for completeness sake, there's also some Windows Gadget over here (I don't think any of those support the merged server lists, though). Yeah, that I'm not gonna redo
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I'm glad people like it... even people at Paragon! That's quite nifty!
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
See bottom of post for Android
Download for Android (it's not on Play, just a straight .apk you can side load) Also, you can get it off Google Play now! |
I do not think that means what you believe it to mean. ;-)
Has anyone with the iOS client that set some servers to watch for received any notifications? I think I might have found a bug that would cause the pushes to not go through (because the app seems to be registering with the wrong APN server!). Either way, a fix for the issue should be finding its way down in the next few days!
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Originally Posted by WanderingAries
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I do not think that means what you believe it to mean. ;-) |
I think I'm going to have to rework part of the Android app as well... it seems that, at the very least, Android 2.3 doesn't support the necessary extensions to render the gradient in the background (although 4.0 renders it like total crap with horrible banding, as you can see in the screenshots!).
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Has anyone with the iOS client that set some servers to watch for received any notifications? I think I might have found a bug that would cause the pushes to not go through (because the app seems to be registering with the wrong APN server!). Either way, a fix for the issue should be finding its way down in the next few days!
Shh! Fix't I think I'm going to have to rework part of the Android app as well... it seems that, at the very least, Android 2.3 doesn't support the necessary extensions to render the gradient in the background (although 4.0 renders it like total crap with horrible banding, as you can see in the screenshots!). |
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Was 8baller the only other person that had worked on a similar Android app? Surely not.
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Well, the good news is I'm sure the carriers and manufacturers are more than happy to oblige in not letting you use Android 4.0 anytime soon |
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Don't get me started on Android 4.0.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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That it? Just a sever checker? What is wrong with going to CoH.com --> News --> Sever Status? In fact why not just log into the game and check?
What would be cool if I could look at my heroes to show my friends and family
PS, nice job on making an app
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The Android version, yes. And why not just do what you said? Because you don't have to load three large web pages first on your mobile device (so it's far faster), it's a more streamlined interface, and, especially important for anyone not on an unlimited plan, it'll use a microscopic fraction of the bandwidth that loading even one of those pages would use. Mind you, I wrote the Android version in just a couple hours in response to the demands of those in the thread (obviously there's a desire for such an app).|
Originally Posted by Power_NA
That it? Just a sever checker? What is wrong with going to CoH.com --> News --> Sever Status? In fact why not just log into the game and check?
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The iOS version includes push notifications. Push notifications are ideal for when, say, you come home only to find out the weekly server maintenance just started, and now you have two to a billion hours before the servers are back up, and don't wanna sit at the login screen / continually refresh the status page. The app will notify you when they come up (which ever server(s) you specify). No, it's not a revolution app that'll change your app... but it's also completely free
The Android version may gain additional features already found in the iOS app if there's enough interest, although I make no promises about that, as I don't use Androids (I didn't even dig my old one out until I already put it on Play... and then found out it didn't render correctly on it!).
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What would be cool if I could look at my heroes to show my friends and family
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Every mobile device already includes that functionality out of the box, usually provided by a combination of a little doohickey called a 'camera' combined with a wonderful 'liquid crystal display' (or, if you want to get fancy, an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode!).
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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See bottom of post for Android
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because they want an Android version, I spent the last few hours developing a quick and dirty Android client. There is no push support, you can't hide servers, nor even reorder them. Don't expect it to work wonderfully, especially if you have a different resolution screen 
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For those of you that never saw the original announcement, City Status is an app for iOS that allows you to instantly view the status of the City of Heroes servers. It's a native app that queries to see whether the servers are up/down, and shows it in a quick and easy to see format. You can reorder the servers in the list, or even hide ones you're not interested in seeing.
New in version 2 is the ability to mark one or more servers to be monitored. The next time one of these servers comes back online, you'll be sent a push notification, instantly notifying you such! The subscription isn't continual, so you won't have to go back in and disable it each time to stop being notified (you also won't receive 5 notifications if five servers you're watching come back up at once/in close succession!).
The ON/OFF toggle switches let you subscribe! You can even subscribe to servers you don't want to see (weirdo!
Download City Status now for free from the App Store!
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Download for the Android .apk, or, also, you can get it off Google Play now!
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