Comments on thisismyrobot: Hiatus, features and a thank you

Yes, there is hope :) I will try to include 2.1 su...

2011-09-10T08:50:35.990+10:00

Yes, there is hope :) I will try to include 2.1 support in my next release.

So i never cant install SYNTHE to my 2.1 device? O...

2011-09-10T03:29:36.610+10:00

So i never cant install SYNTHE to my 2.1 device? Or i can to hope on you? Sorry for bad grammatics =)

Hey, (what follows is a bit of an essay :D) The ...

2011-09-09T14:45:00.967+10:00

Hey,

(what follows is a bit of an essay :D)

The reason that I have chosen 2.2 minimum is that the sound synthesis code is very simple (for speed) and generates pure 44Khz stereo WAV audio.

This audio format is hardware-supported on 99.9% of Android 2.2 devices, but only roughly 50% of Android 2.1 devices.

This leaves me two options - either massively complicate (and slow) the audio synthesis code to handle multiple WAV frequencies and stereo/mono audio or to have a simple "device not supported" dialogue at start-up.

Considering I intend to create a paid version later on I decided to avoid the issue of people either getting variable experiences for the same cost or having bought a non-functioning product by raising the minimum Android version.

I am open to change this if there is enough interest, but there seems to be dwindling percentages of 2.1 or lower devices according to my analytics.

Thanks for your comment.

Cheers,
Robert

Can you optimize SYNTHE to android 2.1? Or this im...

2011-09-09T01:11:49.745+10:00

Can you optimize SYNTHE to android 2.1? Or this impossible due to lack of libraries?=(