I still need to get back to improving SudoTape. I have some things I want to improve, the top two things:
- reorganize some of the strings so that I can get localized versions
- improve the performance of drawing the markers when zooming
for issue #1 I noticed that there are a number of users in Latin America using SudoTape. To be honest the majority of comments about the app directly have been in Spanish so I think there is likely some value in getting the app ported to Spanish, by reorganizing the strings.xml that will be much easier to do. It helps that I work with people who are natively Spanish so perhaps I can persuade them to convert the app to Spanish if the content is laid out easy in my source.
For issue #2 it bugs me that zooming in is sluggish in SudoTape if you have a few markers defined. I have an idea where the slowdowns are but I haven’t spent much time optimizing it. There will be some value in optimizing it as personally I have a few project images that I defined 2-3 markers on and the app seriously slows down when zooming.
I also bought a tablet this past week. woot.com had a sale on a Viewsonic gTablet which on paper is very similar to the highly touted Motorola Xoom, except it was less than 1/2 the price. Sadly Woot wouldn’t ship to Canada but my parents are snowbirds and live in Arizona during the winters so I had the device shipped to them.
I’m pretty excited (being your token male gadget lover) but I won’t receive the device until Easter at the earliest. I guess it will give me time to do some reading and think of writing an app for the thing. Luckily XDA has a great following for the device so there will be a lot of fun had modifying it as well.