[Android Apps and Games] Keripo:
Whoaaa, a lot of replies! Thanks for all the feedback. Lets try to go through all these posts one at a time...

Keep in mind that there is a new website and forum up - see xxsashixx's post for the links (since this forum account is too new for me to post links ><). Please use that to post further questions/comments/etc. as well as posting Beats-friendly stepfiles that you may decide to make. The website is new so please help it expand ^_^

Double check with your phone's level of multi-touch support. Some phones just have better multi-touch hardware than others (e.g. my Samsung handles multi-touch a lot, lot better and more responsively than my friend's Nexus One). Alternatively, you may want to make sure your phone is able to keep up with the app - its a very processor intensive app (music + graphics + touch-input) so old phones will encounter lots of problems. I'm doing my best to optimize things.

Thats a currently unimplemented feature. I don't have a pause function so pressing HOME just puts the app in the background (that's just what Android does) without pausing it. To exit the app, you have to press BACK twice - once to exit the song, and again to exit the main menu.

Noted and will be added as a setting in the "Misc" section. I personally like it since it tells me that the app has started (useful for development) and gets the phone's vibrator motor started up so the game won't crank and lag on the first miss.

If you're willing and have the free time, please do and post them on the beatsiidx forums! ; 3

The way I have speed currently only allows for intervals of 0.5, but I can definitely look into changing that for the next release.

The background is based on the song pack - download and try more song packs and you'll get whatever background the stepfile creator chose ; P

Would be really cool but.... I think a bit out of my field of expertise/knowledge >_> Beats is my very first Android app and I have not anyhow touched on supporting external hardware (I'm still much learning about ways for Beats to interact with the Android OS on the process level just for making things run faster/more optimized). Maybe in the (distant) future or if you can point me to the documents/examples ^_^

Its on the Market already as well as mirrored on beatsiidx{dot}com

Could you give a bit more detail? The only limitation I've set for the market is a requirement of API-3, i.e. any phone running pre-1.5 Android OS. If your carrier has decided to block it, you can always manually download the .apk from beatsiidx{dot}com and Sideload it onto your phone.

Thanks for the link, I'll add it to the downloads page at beatsiidx{dot}com/index.php?p=downloads

As of the moment, I'm only supporting dance-singles, aka 4-arrow steps. Maybe 5-arrows later, later on, but there's always the screen-size issue. Trying to press 5 arrows on such a small screen is... xD

ddrstep{dot}co{dot}uk went down recently unfortunately, but if you're willing to make Beats-friendly stepfiles, do register and post on the beatsiidx forums ^_^

I've implemented built-in .smzip/.zip installation functionality in the current unreleased 1.1b build, but .dwi implementation will require someone linking me to documentation on the .dwi format which, when I opened up a sample .dwi file with a text editor, looked horrendous. I'm sure its not that bad, but documentation is needed ; P

Also, thanks for the short guide, I've linked to your post here on the beatsiidx website (Download section).

Could you clarify this a bit for me? (a screenshot would be nice too) I assumed that my Samsung Captivate was considered high density/resolution, but guess there's bigger devices out there O_o

Currently the stepfiles are chosen manually as opposed to StepMania 3.9's pre-cache system. In the future, I may decide to rewrite Beats as a StepMania port (as opposed to the clone it currently is), which will mean a lot more features as well as stuff like that (the future version will tentatively be called "BeatsIIDX").

Seeing as songs are manually installed anyway (and your phone probably has limited storage space), I think it'd be better to just delete those songs you aren't planning on playing ; )

Edit: On those two items, I can try implementing a "queue" system where you can read a list of stepfiles from a playlist file (which contains the path to each .sm file) and plays them one-by-one. A lot of extra worth though, but definitely something I can try adding later ; )

Thanks again for all the feedback/comments/etc. and don't forget to visit the beatsiidx website that xxsashixx linked to (since I can't post links with my low postcount here). Look forward to the Beats 1.1b release, which you can check the current progress up on the FAQ page of beatsiidx website.

~Keripo