Version 1.0.5
We have updated current version to 1.0.5. This is a minor release which however might make a big difference for certain Android phones: v.1.0.5 fixes application hangs and force closures which were experienced by some of our users (in particular Moto Droid owners).
Kudos to Michiel Helvensteijn who helped us tracking down the nasty problem.
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Version 1.0
We are happy to say that we have released ver. 1.0 of our Share Your Board which is now available on Android Market in ‘productivity‘ section.
Notes:
- This important update fixes for OutOfMemory issue and application startup crush problem.
- Share Your Board requires android firmware version 2.1
You can also find us by using search term ‘syb‘ in the Market.
Version 1.0 Release Candidate 4
We have released the RC4. In this version there are a couple of new features:
- Search-by-comments: start typing anywhere in the main Share Your Board view and the search box will pop up. The text you are typing in is used to search the images by their comments.
- Optional image processing steps: now you can turn on and off the image processing steps. Check the Menu->Settings.
We have fixed the color processing for the cases when a corner of the whiteboard was not captured. If the color correction is enabled it will be filled with white.
The phone should have it’s firmware upgraded to version 1.1 in order to work with RC4.
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Force Close
We have received a number of complaints that Share Your Board force closes starting from update ’1.0 RC3 r3′. In order to investigate this problem we have introduced a feature which allows Share Your Board to collect the diagnostics and send us a problem report if something has gone wrong. The program also asks user if he wants to send the information and allows one to review what is actually sent, so do not worry: the feature is not going to affect your privacy.
Once the feature was added we started to receive problem diagnostics explaining the ‘force closing’. To make the long story short:
- At some point we have used a built-in Android Market feature which locks downloaded application to the phone (copy-protection).
- It was shown that this feature does not protect the app enough (e.g: here), so Google found no better solution then ban Android Developer Phones from downloading the copy-protected apps.
- We remove the copy protection since we value every user and we do want developers to be able to use Share Your Board. Also we were asked by a few developers if we can help them getting the app.
- It turns out that changing the copy-protection state breaks the forward compatibility and there is no workaround for this issue now.
Unfortunately we can not do much about that issue except for proposing the following work-around:
- Open Settings on your Android phone
- Go to Applications
- Go to Manage applications
- Find Share Your Board in the list and click on it
- Click Uninstall
- Go to Android Market, find Share Your Board and install the newest version
Let us know if after applying these steps you are still experiencing problems.
Latest update
We have got a message on Android Market stating that: “Latest update force closes constantly”.
We are trying to figure out what could cause such problems; we have not seen anything like this on our devices yet. Unfortuantely the comment does not contain any additional details. Please let us know if you experience the same problems and if you do what is the scenario/error diagnostics.
Update: We have uploaded an updated version which is able to send a problem report if image processing has failed. We do not send any confidential user data and one would be able to review what is actually sent before filing a bug.
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Version 1.0 Release Candidate 3
We have released Share Your Board RC3 on Android Market (Applications->Productivity section). This release contains important fixes for
- edge detection
- geometry transformation
- color correction
We appreciate any feedback and proposals.
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Version 1.0 Release Candidate 2
We have published Share Your Board RC2 on Android Market; check the Applications->Productivity section. New in this release:
- Auto-focus. Camera auto-focus is enforced by Share Your Board now, no more blurry images.
- Performance. We have improved the image processing speed in RC2; geometry transformation is soooo much faster in RC2.
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Version 1.0 Release Candidate
We are pleased to tell that RC1 for the Share Your Board is available on Android Market in Applications->Productivity section. New features in this release:
- Improved algorithms. New algorithms allow to detect whiteboard edges more accurately while white balance and auto contrast steps does not cause images to fade out anymore.
- Increased image resolution. Supported image resolution was increased to 1200×900 pixels.
- UI. New UI replaces both List and Details views from the previous version with one-in-all mix.
- Accessibility. Images folder is rescanned after image processing now, so that your whiteboards are accessible via standard Pictures applications (part of default Android setup).
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Minor Update
We have got lots of feedback within a very short time frame since Share Your Board was released. Thank you all for sending us emails and leaving comments on the market. Our goal is to make the experience as natural and simple as possible, so we will do our best to fix all the issues and further improve Share Your Board.
Most questions we have received fall in one of the two following groups:
1. Back button. Why the application does not quit though I have pressed the back button?
We have fixed this particular issue and the fix is already available via Android Market: please upgrade to Share Your Board ver. 0.9.1
2. Contrast issues. The whiteboard edges were detected and the geometry transformations were smooth, but the image became unreadable after auto-contrast.
Thank you for letting us know, we are looking into this and we are going to release more updates improving the image enhancement algorithms in nearest future. We would like to strongly encourage you to send us any unprocessed photo samples of whiteboards on which you was not 100% happy with the quality of the Share Your Board work (support [at] shareyourboard.com) .
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Android Market Issue
We have been told that on some devices Share Your Board is being downloaded and installed automatically in some kind of a cycle. We have contacted Google to resolve the issue with the Market and will publish an update as soon as we will get any feedback.
Update I: We have found a post on Android Market forum describing somewhat similar issue:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=7ff38ea23c9b141c&hl=en
This looks a lot like Android issue rather then the app issue and we hope to get feedback from Android Market support soon. We will keep you updated.
Update II: We were contacted by Android Market support team and provided them with all the information they requested, we hope the issue will be fixed soon.
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