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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.

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:

1. At some point we have used a built-in Android Market feature which locks downloaded application to the phone (copy-protection).
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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:

1. Open Settings on your Android phone
2. Go to Applications
3. Go to Manage applications
4. Find Share Your Board in the list and click on it
5. Click Uninstall
6. 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.

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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