yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Hey Guys,

I wanted to notify you, that Blue Hunter has reached Alpha state. Until now there is a support version available on the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maksl5.bl_hunt_sup.

This will help, keep me motivated to make something really great out of this project, so be sure to check it out. :D

Blue Hunter now has achievements, which will let you get a permanent boost of EXP, when finding a new device. Also here be sure to check that out! I updated the first post on this thread. There you can find the information.

Now I will focus on the social aspects of the game. Like I said, I want, that you can make 1vs1 games against other players in a specific time period. This also applies to clans, that you can lead or enter. You will have the chance to get friends and write them messages or to boast with your statistics. This is where I wanna have this game and I will concentrate on that for now.

Until this, I really have to ask that stupid question again. Do you have time to translate? :D Write me a PM. I'm very thankful for that. :)

Greetings, have a nice day!
[Android Apps and Games] Marc.:
Thanks for updating the app again! It's fun to play it now because you can achieve something. For the translation, please send the untranslated strings by PM to me :)
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Hey MaksI5!

Nice that you are still on this project!

I can do the translation into Swedish and proof read English if needed (I will look into it). How do you want the translation? Just plain translation by editing the strings.xml file on Github? How do you want me to handle Swedish letters å,ä,ö?
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
[MENTION=3299548]Marc.[/MENTION] & NRK77:

Thank you for the time! You can find it here: https://github.com/Maksl5/blue-hunter/blob/master/res/values/strings.xml. Again this file is mostly updated with new strings on each version increment. You just have to send me the translated strings back via PM here or mail, what you like most. Specific characters are no problem. You can use them in your translation. I will check it and then handle it, like Android needs.

Thank you again! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
No problem at all! I like this game, hope there will be as many players as in SMBD.

I've begun the translation, it will take a week or two to complete.

One error you might look into: I have the automatic check for updates option on. Every time I start the app, it says there's a new version. It says my build is 1143 and 1144 is available. If I download 1144 and install it, the app still tells me the same as before: I currently have 1143 and 1144 is available.

One other problem I'll write in a PM. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Maksi5, are you still around? Ich hoffe dass du nicht in dem deutsche Wald verloren ist. :)

[Written by my thumbs using Taptalk 4.]
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
So guys, after some delay, I'm starting to develop further. Sorry for that, but I had many things to do for a while.

I just could integrate a new small feature. I don't talk about much, 'cause pictures say more then words:

Screenshot (Dropbox)

The whole social aspects thing... I did not touch it. But I will. Be sure.

[MENTION=4383042]Snah[/MENTION]:

This is a bug that automatically occurs, when I'm too dumb to compare and check the version numbers of the apk and the actual AndroidManifest.xml. Don't worry about it, it fixes itself in the next nightly.

BTW: What do you think about saving geo coordinates when finding a device to show them on a map at a later time?

Greetings!
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Nice Idea !!!
[Android Apps and Games] 97_3:
+1!
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Great to have you back, Maksl5!

Great thing in the pic.

For me, social stuff is not too important.

Map is also good idea!

Maybe add some more achievements?

[Written by my thumbs using Taptalk 4.]
[Android Apps and Games] Fr!fti:
Hi,

What is situation of this game?

Any updates etc coming at the near future?
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Hi,

Current situation is bug-fixing. So for all here around, have you noticed any bugs ? I was searching and found alot, but I think there are still more. Next update is coming.

In this version you can find the searching functions working again. They were broken.

Any feature wishes? Sadly, I have no ideas atm.

Btw: The support version will be updated aswell with this update.

Greetings!
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Disabled Bluetooth if I exit the App!

Show on start whether position move up or down.

...
[Android Apps and Games] Marc.:
Great to see that you are developing again!

I still have one big request: Being able to restore your score. I have multiple names in the list all which I can't use anymore...
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
[MENTION=907600]Dtrieb[/MENTION]: The first point is the first thing I'll do now. The second point is already implemented.

[MENTION=3299548]Marc.[/MENTION]: For that issue please contact me via PM.
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Good to hear from you again.

Sent you an email with some bugs, feature ideas and an updated Swedish translation.

The bugs were for the latest free version. Since I'm now running the donation version (Google Play), it would be great if you could update that first.

Also, I think having the free version on Google Play as well would be good to increase the number of people playing the game. What do you think?

Bugs and feature ideas coming right up!

Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110!

---------- Post added at 04:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:00 PM ----------

This should already be there, but you must make a login first, then you can sync the database (from the server, not to it).

Bug:

Old player still remains, like for me two Snah.

Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110!

---------- Post added at 04:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:08 PM ----------

I numbered bugs and feature ideas just to make them easier to refer to. They are not in order of what I think should be prioritized.

BUGS

Note:Some of these might already have been fixed in the free version.

1. Sometimes I get the question to enable bluetooth twice.

2. If there's no Internet connection, Blue Hunter crashes.

3. Somehow BlueHunter interferes with the Wifi on my Samsung Galaxy S4. If BlueHunter is running and I turn on Wifi, it can't connect to a router until I shut BlueHunter off

4. Since the Swedish translation, I get zero points for devices where the manufacturer is unknown (free version)

5. The "Happy New Year!" message from last year is still there.

FEATURE IDEAS

1. More achievements.

2. Improve/add some achievements for finding devives of a specific brand or model. Some devices are more uncommon than Siemens, like older Nokia, SonyEricsson, devices from unknown brands outside of Europe/USA; TV:s GPS devices and other devices which aren't phones. BlackBerry is virtually non-existent in Sweden.

3. Achievement for finding devices in more than one country.

4. A leaderboard for found devices besides the points.

5. To see what bonus players have in leaderboard for points.

5. Give translators HUGE bonus! ;) (Achievement)

6. Simplify some settings and "design" of setting.

7. Proof reading of English translation.

8. "Compress" texts , ie make them have less words but say the same thing.

9.When searching is turned off, ask if Bluetooth should be turned off. When program exits, turn off Bluetooth if it was off when BlueHunter was started and vice versa. There should be an option to save choice for next time.

10. Is the RSSI really interesting/important? I think not. Instead, I suggest to remove it to avoid line breaks where points are shown for each device in found devices.

Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110!
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
[MENTION=4383042]Snah[/MENTION]:

For the bugs read below.

I said in the last post, that the paid version (Support Version) will get an update with the next update for the free version! :o

But at the moment I do not think releasing the free version on Google Play is good for Blue Hunter. It's because the people think, oh it's free so let download it and they do not read anything in the description or anything else. So they do not know that this version is still Alpha and then rate the app with 1 star. And this is what I want to avoid.

Regarding Marc, I don't think that he means that. But you're right there is already a restore function, so be sure to sync the data with the server to always have a remote copy of your found devices. Then in need there is always the possibility to insert a backup manually, if the apps restore function does not work properly.

Bug section (checklist :D):

1. Tried to reproduce, but I couldn't. More info needed.

2. Same here, in my case if internet is down all things work (ofc internet functions do not).

3. This is a known problem and is not software related. I want to link to a post in past: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23027750&postcount=198

4. This is fixed in the oncoming update.

5. Haha, I might keep it until next Happy New Year. ;)

Feature ideas:

1. That's obvious.

2. & 3. There I have to have more experience with device spread globally to add new, but with more users this will come of course.

4. Is coming, but not now. I think in late Beta stages.

5. Is not possible, because device experience will get bonus experience that is depending on the current bonus (at the time of founding the specific device).

Next 5. There will be a sort of bonus, but eventually not that what you think of. :p

6. & 7. & 8. Shorten text is one of my main problems, there I need help.

9. Like I said today in the last post, this is coming in the next version.

10. It could be important to see. Because it is a numeric value nobody can do anything with it. But in fact it is the Received Signal Strength Indicator, which pretty much shows how near or far a found device was. Of course signal strength has other factors that influence it. In the next version I will exchange the numbers with a little nice graphic to show the signal strength. I think this will be ok.

And now I have to work, greetings! :laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] Fr!fti:
Hi,

Could you specify what is the point of " Boost" feature?
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Boost=bonus. When you find a device it gives you points, say 30 points for example. The bonus percent of the points you get are added as extra points.

Maksi5,one thought I get is to change "boost" to "bonus" . What do you think?

Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110!
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
I understand why there's no free version on Google Play now. Not releasing a unready app is a good argument.

BUGS

1. It happens a couple of times every day, not every time though. Game loads and question to start BT comes up. I press yes or no and start screen shows. Still I get the question once more.

2 & 3. Ok. Impossible to fix? Other developers maybe have a solution.

4. Perfect! So the points were added anyway?

5. Yes! Changing messages every year is so tiresome. I'm thinking maybe change the message to "Happy New Millenium!". :)

FEATURES

1. What is obvious to me might not be obvious to you. ;)

2 & 3. Ok. Btw, where do you find the info about which make and model a certain MAC address is? Today BlueHunter found my first Murata, which I believe must be a Spanish fish. :)

4. But that shouldn't be too much work, should it? But good you prioritize. Better to do that and not get overexhausted.

5. But if BH only shows the current bonus besides the name of the player? Would be interesting to know.

6, 7 & 8. I said I could help a couple of months ago! Now I'm abroad for the winter. As soon as I get hold of a decent ADSL, I'll see what I can do.

9. Great! It's working fine.

10. The graph takes a lot less space. It will not interfere with the text and make it line break now, I think.

One new suggestion:

11. Put a "remember choice" on starting device discovery also.

Mue trabajo! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Thank you Snah for your feedback! I will look into all of these points closely.

The manufacturers are registered and you can search for each mac address in the documents that are public and free on the website of the IEEE.

For the BT & WIFI issue there is a workaround, that I will implement soon.#

However I also got a PM by [MENTION=5558896]DEVPAR[/MENTION]. He suggested a feature on which I immediately started to work, because I like it.

Thanks again!

I won't say anything about it, but here you can see a screenshot:

Greetings!! :D
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
You're welcome, Maksl5! Looking forward to all developments.

Am I thinking right DEVPAR's suggestion is to add a " Devices/points since BlueHunter was started"?

I got a problem I can't solve myself. My last discovery was Saturday November 30th 14:32:08. Since then, BlueHunter can't discover more devices. It happened all of a sudden while driving a car, I don't recall me even using the phone.

BlueHunter starts and BlueTooth goes on. BlueHunter says it's searching. The notification also says searching. When the phone goes to sleep and wakes up again, the notification still says searching, but when I go to BlueHunter searching is off.

I made a backup with TitaniumBackup. Tried restoring BH + data: same result. Tried restoring only BH (new profile) : it can find a few devices, then back to same result. This makes me conclude my phone's BlueTooth is ok.

I know my password, but BH says it's wrong, so I can't get my profile from the online DB.

What can I do?

Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110!
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Did here happens something or did you discontinued the project? [MENTION=2774080]Maksl5[/MENTION]
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Yes new server is online. Now your data can be synced again.
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Hey guys.

Today I got a big update on Blue Hunter. I just wanted you to notify about it. As always download link is in the first post.

You may notify that you can't just overinstall the new version. That is because of a signature change. You will have to uninstall und reinstall the new version. When you do this you will loose all application settings and data. So before you do the update be sure to force sync all data in the profile settings and of course keep your password in mind.

New version includes found devices in current discovery and much more!

Be sure to check it out.

The support version on Google Play Store also got the update and does work again now, as the server addresses were corrected.

Questions? Ask, I'm there. :)

Thanks for your attention. :o
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Nothing new in almost a year. Did you end the project, Maksl5?

[Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110.]
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Since I have a full time job there is not much time for development and so I was not doing much.

However project is not stopped. Yesterday I began to rewrite server-side synchronizing scripts for better handling of your synchronized data. This especially will affect users with a large number of devices found. Synchronizing will be much more efficient and more "bugfree". With this I'm trying to reduce the long starting time of the app for users with large found device numbers, which is probably a problem with achievement checking.

I'm trying to offer a new version asap.

Edit:

As of now the app should not work on Android 6.0 because of API changes! So be aware of that!

Greetings!!
[Android Apps and Games] 97_3:
These are wonderful news!

AKA Bomben X on Blue Hunter
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
If you guys are interested in a development video stream where you can watch how I'm writing new code and bring new things into Blue Hunter, then you can.

With that u are able to chat with me and bring some good points into discussion.

When I'm streaming it will mostly begin at 4:00 PM GMT on weekdays.

Here is the link: Twitch

Greetings.
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Some days have passed and in that time I got 2 updates on Blue Hunter, which brought it to version 0.3.3.

For further development I really need your feedback on the last versions. I can not go further, because if there is something wrong I want to fix it now.

This especially is the case for users with a huge number of found devices.

I need to know, how long the network connections are taking, how long is the starting time of the app.

This are really important things for now.

Thanks and have a nice new week.

Greetings!
[Android Apps and Games] 97_3:
Check your inbox for a performance test!
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Hi all.

Yesterday i released a new version which finally fixes the long start time and ui lags for all cases. For this I want to thank both DEVPAR and 97_3 for their performance feedbacks!

Now we are heading to pre-beta state and for this I want to implement some more features. I would appreciate if you make an entry into the Issues Tracker for feature wishes, so I can decide, what makes it into pre-beta.

Thanks & Greetings!
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Hey Maksi5!

Nice to see you started development again.

With the latest release, I cannot scroll the leaderboard or found devices list up and down. It is static at the top. I'm running LG G4 with Lollipop 5.1.

Two suggestions:

1. Make an option to start discovery as soon as the app is started.

2. Possibility to remove the text shown at start. It gets annoying after a while. :)

Thanks for a fun game!

[Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110.]
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
I have the scrolling Problem, too.
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
New version is released, which addressed the bug. :)

Greetings!
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Great and fast work! Scrolling works again and the option to don't see the text at start is nice. Is it possible to make BlueHunter autostart discovery?

[Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110.]
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
I'll add an option for this in the next version. :)

Could you answer my PM, Snah?

Greetings!
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Great! Really glad you're "back" developing. [emoji4]

XDA has been unreachable by Tapatalk, so I've missed your PM. Will answer right away.

[Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110.]
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Hey guys!

What did you think about my idea.

The leaderboard will reset every week or month and the 3 first place earn boost.

So everyone had the chance to become the first one on the leaderboard.

New players have also a chance.
[Android Apps and Games] 97_3:
I like the leaderboard the way it is now. Maybe add some sort of "most found this week"-charts and keep the standard leaderboard?
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
This was what I was going to suggest too before I read your post.

How about different leaderboards like lifetime, year, month, week?

[Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110.]
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Yay, we got pre-beta stage! Be sure to check out the new update, there are many changes.

For the discussion, I have an opne mind about it. However we should not go too far. Server capacity (still) is limited for Blue Hunter. And since those periodically leaderboard types have to be done on server side I'm not sure if it could take yearly, monthly and weekly leaderboards together.

By all means I did read through your posts and thought about an additional weekly leaderboard, which awards additional boost-% for the podium for 1 week after the cycle. How about that?

Greetings!
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Great work, MaksI5! The autostarting discovery is very good, only a click needed to begin hunting.

There's still something wrong with the bonuses related to time. Read my PM about it.

Of course there can't be more load than the server can withhold. Your suggestion seems good for now.

The moving in "circle" when switching pages is annoying for me. In most launchers you can set how switching should look, so I feel the movement should be reverted to its original state.

I feel the loading of found devices takes a little more time since it was updated some time ago.

What is the background image option for?

What is the condition for a found device being old or new?

What are the conditions for what points a device gives?

Thanks for your work!

[Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110.]
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
Thanks for your feedback.

The animation for switching pages is reverted to old one in the next version. I just wanted to try something out.

Since loading of found devices takes place in a background thread, this thread never gets as much cpu time as the UI thread gets. This can result in a slightly slower loading of found devices, but is still better than a unresponsive UI.

If background image option is turned on, the app should show a background image. Simply as it states. :)

Old devices are devices, which you already found, but are refound in current discovery session.

This is my own decision. I try to balance it right. Manufacturers, which have many mac addresses registered will grant lower exp than manifacturers with only few.

Then I want to notify you, that this week there will be a new version with the new weekly leaderboard implemented. Initial start of the weekly leaderboard will be on Mon 14th Dec at 0am GMT. Before you'll already see users in this leaderboard, but there will be no bonus for the rest of this week.

Bonus will be granted 7 days after one weekly cycle.

Bonus will be this:

1st place - 100% Bonus

2nd place - 50% Bonus

3rd place - 25% Bonus

Hope you'll like it! :)

Greetings!
[Android Apps and Games] Snah:
Cool! Understand you want to try different things out. :) Is it the same with the background image? Possibility to add an own in the future?

I just feel the loading takes longer, but I've found some thousands more devices too. Discovery doesn't seem to start before loading.

Do you mean devices that are already found or manufacturers? Or do we get points for finding the same device again?

Of course, totally your decision. Just fun to know. Do you check the reports about what manufacturer unknown devices have? I seem to find trillions of those poor BT security Apple products marked unknown, while the name says "iPhone" or "Apple".

The weekly top list sounds awesome! Waiting for it.

Aren't you going to release a free version on Google Play soon?

Keep up the good work!

[Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Nokia 3110.]
[Android Apps and Games] Maksl5:
The background image option was there long time ago. So there wasn't changed anything. I think why not giving user this possibility. We'll see, I'll write it on my list.

How long does it take for you? How many devices have you found?

I mean devices you already found. They are just shown in the discovery list for information. Of course you won't get points for finding the same device again.

Yeah, at some time I check these and add them into the game.

It's pretty difficult to keep track of new registered mac addresses since they seem to register new mac addresses several times a week. I'll try my best. Just be sure to report the unknown mac addresses and if I can make an assigment to a manufacturer they will be added for sure.

There is already a free version on Google Play Store! Just search for Blue Hunter and there you go. Since I stopped putting nightly apk's on Github due to IDE change the only way to get an up-to-date version of Blue Hunter is to install the free version from Play Store.

Some preview of the next version, which introduces the use of the Material design introduced in Android 5.0:

Screenshot

Greetings and happy holidays!!!