[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Update

Hi Folks,

To keep you updated, I've made a decision....

I've spent the last week creating a UI for utter! and a framework that on installation considers all eventualities of your device, OS version, default voice engine, installed voice engines, installed voices, available voices, languages, locales, TTS settings, local Sphinx support, pitches, utterance IDs etc etc etc - but 3/4 of the way to being finished, I QUIT!!!

Now, don't worry, I don't mean I quit developing utter!, I mean that I've realised that this is not at all what I should be doing...

A week has gone by when I've done absolutely nothing towards enhancing the logic or functionality of utter! and I'm now looking back in anger! :mad:

I need to play to my strengths and for those that have followed my Tasker posts, you may (hopefully) concur that my strength lies in the logic behind the application and its functionality, NOT in making a UI look pretty...

So, I've abandoned the test apk release and I'm going to focus on the getting the Kickstarter thread done.

In answer to a post a few pages back, I am concerned with how utter! makes its first appearance - I want it to provide at least the functionality demonstrated on the YouTube video. I don't want to release a crap alpha version that does nothing more than what is already out there... What would be the point..?

In order to ensure a fully functional first release, I need dedicated Java support and the only way I can get that (hopefully) is by raising funds with a Kickstarter... (I won't shake hands with a funder that only wants to place targeted adds every other click or request you make).

On my device, I can compose a voice note to Evernote and have utter! proof read, save, then upload it to a specific Dropbox folder. To release an application that does the same for you has to consider all sorts, such as missing or incorrect login details and the UI/utter! prompts if that is the case, or perhaps a lack of or limited data connection... etc etc

When my device is unpaired/docked from my car utter! records the GPS coordinates so I can find my way back to it in a car park (if needs be) - but what if your device doesn't allow GPS to be used? What if it can't get a lock?

On my device utter! intercepts superuser requests - but what if you don't have superuser Elite like I do? Do I need to refer to the package name..? What if your binary doesn't support rebooting to bootloader...? What if your device isn't rooted!?

utter! sings happy birthday to me (yeah, a bit sad), but what if you are born on February 29th?

The above examples off the top of my head I could take months to code correctly, but I don't want to get involved in that... I need some very experienced Java developers to be able to construct it for me, whilst I keep piling on the list of things to do!

I envisage utter! including such functionality as this and perhaps her for the visual UI :) or maybe just this... Who knows what can be integrated....?

So, my decision is that I shall continue to enhance the development of utter! even if only on paper for now and should the kickstarter prove successful, then I hope there will be a release a few months after that.... but in the mean time, it's going to be pretty quiet in this thread as far as a release goes :(

I'm sure I'm doing the right thing folks!?

You have my word that when a release is ready, there will be no private beta, utter! will be posted here for you all to test - I'm determined to make sure the wait is worthwhile for you though!

In the mean time, please do continue to air your opinions on what you'd like to see utter! do - I do read this thread when I get a chance and ideas that are just flung around are often the best...

Hope you all agree that I'm doing the right thing!? :confused:

brandall