Archive for June 2011

Enhancing Art Academy

June 28, 2011

Just one week after the launch of our app on the Android Market, we have released a new version including new functionality (revision 1.4). There were some updates during the week, but minor, nothing significant concerning the functionality.

Some users told us that, in many cases, they were not able to remember the names of some of the painters they like, and therefore, it was not that easy for them to have access to the information. They suggested that we should include an index, so they could easily browse through all the available painters. And that is what we did. Now, both in the painters and museums sections, there is a button that, when clicked, displays the corresponding listing. As you can see in the pictures below the entries are grouped alphabetically and you can see the number of entries in each group on the right size.

In addition to these, some other improvements, also suggested by our users, have been made:

  • Landscape orientation is now supported both in the slideshow and zoom modes
  • The search results are not closed once the user has clicked on one of them. It is possible to go back to them pressing the back key. Same for the bookmarks.
  • When searching by name, if the user clicks on one of the suggestions it is immediately displayed. No need to click on the search button in that case.

Thanks for the feedback. Your comments have been very useful. Hope you like the app a bit better now.

We are currently in some other interesting features and improving the content we are providing. You will hear news from us soon.

Cheers,

Merdroid Development Team

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How to Promote Your Android App

June 22, 2011

We just released our first app so we are currently involved in the process of getting some promotion for our app. So far we have gathered some ideas that might be interesting for other android developers and we want to share them with you. Here they are:

  • Start a blog for you app. Use it to keep the users informed about its features and the changes included in the new revisions.
  • Make you app noticed submitting posts to the Android Reddit or other popular android forums. Most of these forums have specific subforums for Android App Announcements. Generally there are some rules when posting there, try to stick to them.
  • Ask for a review of your app on sites specializing in Android.
  • Submit you app to other markets, such as the Amazon App Store.

Here is a set of android forums where you can promote your app:

  1. Android.net
  2. Android Forums
  3. Android Central
  4. Everything Android
  5. Android Community
  6. Talk Android
  7. Android Development Community
  8. AndroidPIT

And here you have a couple of sites where you can ask for a review:

  1. Android TAPP
  2. Android Listings
  3. Mobilestartupz
  4. appeggs
  5. droidappoftheday

Hope this information helps.

We are looking forward to hearing from the ideas you have to promote an Android app.

Have a nice day! :)

Merdroid Development Team

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Welcome to Merdroid site!

June 20, 2011

Art Academy has just been released!

Art Academy on the Android Market
Download Art Academy for Android

Mervia was founded back in 2008 as a company aiming to deliver quality Internet services to its customers. So far, we have specialized in providing consultancy services, but some time ago we decided to explore new business areas and began getting into the Android market. The outcome of this was the creation of a small team designing and developing Android apps: Merdroid.

We chose Android because it is just…. cool! Android has completely changed the way the user interacts with mobile devices and the way they access content on them. Information is no longer delivered on a tiny browser window as Android gives us the chance to display it in more suitable ways.

Today we are happy to announce that we have released our first Android app: Art Academy. For our first Android project we wanted to come up with something pretty and didactic, so we went for an art reference app. We hope that art lovers all over the world will enjoy it :) .

We have included below some screenshots of this new app.

If you are interested in knowing more about the app, please have a look at the Art Academy page on the “Applications”. We look forward to getting your feedback and suggestions once you have tried the app.

Enjoy your day! :)

Merdroid Development Team

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