For the past week or so, I’ve been working on my very first application. I downloaded Adobe Flash Professional, and I learned object-oriented programming in order to create it. I aimed for the simplest, easiest to use thing I could think of, and this app is the finished project (for now ;)).
**EDIT:
A “brief” explanation of the app itself:
The goals were aimed to be placed in generally the same positions that they are when you watch a VEX Gateway match being played from the audience. Each goal has a red and blue sector for showing the amount of each colored object in that goal, and the circular goals also have two spaces on the left and right edges to show the presence of a doubler or negator barrel.
To add an object to a goal, tap the desired goal to select it. A yellow ring will show up around it to show that the goal is selected. Next, simply tap the desired color object you would like to place in the goal. You may continue adding objects to the goal until you are finished, but make sure that you add the first game object in the goal into the goal in the app first, as the first object of either color will automatically be given the bonus.
To remove an object from a goal, simply tap the small red “-” button in the lower-middle of the screen, it will be selected, and all colored “+1” buttons will be changed to show “-1”, until you tap one of them to remove a single object of that color from the goal. Once you have removed one object from one goal, all buttons will again be switched to “+1”, and the “-” button will be deselected.
The app will not allow you to place any more than 22 objects of each color, and no more than 2 of each doubler/negator. It also will not allow you to place doublers or negators into floor goals.
If you place more than one doubler barrel, or more than one negator barrel into the same goal, the region inside the goal for said special barrel will also display a “2”. Adding/removing doubler and negator barrels should work flawlessly with the app, always displaying the correct score based on what you place where and when.
The score for each alliance is displayed in real-time in the left and right portions of the screen, on the large red/blue rectangles. Also, finally, the circular “refresh” arrow button in the upper-middle of the screen is used to start over with a new match. In order to start over, you must tap the button once to select it, then another time to confirm the refresh. (This is so that you do not accidentally hit the refresh button and lose your current match score.)**
So, you all want the app. First, this is an iOS app, not Android (EDIT: Android version coming soon!). If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, this should work, but it has only been tested on a jailbroken iPod Touch 4th Generation. EDIT: This will only work if you have jailbroken your device and installed AppSync onto it. So, if you do test this out, and find it to work or not work on your device, please make a post and let me know what device you tried to use, and what happened. Thanks!
Finally, the app. I do not have a Developer Licence, so I could not put it up on the App Store. In order to get it, (and again, this has only been tested by myself,) you should be able to just download the .ipa file here. Then, once you’ve downloaded it, double-click on it to open it, and it should add it to iTunes, once iTunes opens. Now, plug your iPhone/iPod Touch into your computer, and allow it to sync with iTunes to install the app. (I had to unplug and plug my iPod Touch into my computer before syncing it with iTunes would actually install the app, so if it doesn’t work the first time, you may want to try that.)
Please let me know if it works, or if you have any problems! Also, feel very free to add complaints/comments, things you would like to see me add, or anything of that nature. Thank you all!
~Jordan
