New Tile Scoring App

VEX Robotics Competition Discussion VRC > Spin Up (22/23)
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I’ve been wanting to learn to code apps for mobile devices for awhile and I figured this would be a good place to start. I am attaching the apk file for android. If there is enough demand I could probably get an IOS version out as well. This is intended to help scorekeeper referees keep track of covered tiles while scoring the field or for teams to do the same while practicing.

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It is not intended to replace the TM mobile scoring app, only to supplement it. I have done some light testing, so feel free to offer suggestions for future versions. Download the APK (install) file here

Instructions for use:

  1. tap a tile to turn it red, tap again for blue, tap again for purple (covered by both teams), and again for back to grey.
  2. Tap reset to return all tiles to grey

Instructions for installation:

  1. Download the apk file to your android device
  2. Use your file explorer and there should be a category for “installation files”. Alternately find the file by other means.
  3. simply run the file for installation. There will be a lot of warnings that pop up. Android doesn’t like you to install files outside of the play store.
  4. It has been lightly tested with no issues, but this is a beta version so use at your own risk.

@9MotorGang @9MotorGangsGirl

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Good resource! I prefer this over using physical red and blue objects to track who has covered each tile so field reset has less to keep track of.

One suggestion that would reduce the number of inputs needed, have a toggle at the top that let’s you switch between scoring for red and scoring for blue. This would allow you to follow the string of a particular alliance and only have to tap once on each tile instead of twice for blue (or three times for shared). If both alliances are on the same tile, it automatically switches to purple, so the display output could remain the same.

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Interesting @Nathan_Rossi … I’ll think on that.