Sure it’s only an alpha release but Dead End is finally on the market! I mainly put it there to have an easy way to tell people to test it for me. Plus a lot of the game isn’t in there yet so it doesn’t matter if random people download it.
Funny how you put “don’t download” in the description and it makes people want to download your app. I figured that would happen and it’s actually helped me out a bit.
- I needed to correctly set the minSdkVersion in the manifest. I had it set at 3 which is for 1.5 and my code is compiled for 1.6.
- I was missing the permission to read the phone state. I need to close the game when there’s an incoming call and without the permission, the release app was force closing.
- It apparently works with the Droid Eris. I was worried that the Eris’ lack of a floating point processor and HVGA screen were going to cause slowdowns that would make it unplayable. However, according to a comment on the market it does work with the Eris. I’ll still have to test it further but that’s great news!
- From the people that have played the game, they all seem to think it has a lot of potential.
In the future I’ll probably password protect my releases as more and more functionality gets added. That way I can control who’s able to test it. Either that or do a time limited release.
Anyways, I needed to start this site off with some kind of post and I guess this is as good as anything.