Just wanted to post a quick note that I’ve released a full version of MediaDroid to the Android Market.  I’ve got lots more feature coming up and there’s a couple of bugs to iron out, but I think it’s feature complete enough for a first version.

Would love to get your feedback, good or bad!  More information with screen shots at http://www.mgmblog.com/mediadroid.

After many long months of thinking, planning, and thinking some more.  The flagship application of my grand scheme is out in the wild.  MediaDroid is an Android Application Widget which allows the user to create albums and add photos to those albums.  The selected photo is displayed on the home screen and can be changed at anytime by the user by selecting a different photo.

The current version of MediaDroid in the Android Market is just a trial version, and it certainly has some performance short comings.  But I believe in release early and release often, so time permitting I will be getting updates out soon, and when I feel it’s up to snuff I’ll release a full version.  The trial version limits the user to 2 albums with 5 photos in each.  The full version won’t have these limitations and other features as well.

A full writeup coming soon, along with screen shots, for right now, it’s way to late and I must get to bed.

 WARNING….really bad formatting follows!  I’ll try and make it a little nicer when I get a chance.

Could it be true???

This is what I got after I filled out the form with my private data.  The Merchant form is accessed off of  my main Android Developers page.  This is what the invitation looks like…

I haven’t figured out how to put a price in for an application yet, or if you can…but we are very close.  Guess I know what I’ll be doing with my free time this weekend!  The deck has been shuffled, the hands have been delt, how are you going to play yours??

(Update)

From the email I got from Android Market Support, it looks like the charging of apps will start mid next week.  I’m assuming that’s why I can’t actually put a price towards my apps yet.

From the email:

“Initially, priced applications will be available to end users in the US starting mid next week.”

Other news from the email, the Android Market will be open in Australia soon (Feb 15th) and Singapore in the coming weeks.

Also, paid apps are only supported in the US and UK Android Markets, but other countries will be coming online this quarter.  Another, quote from the email:

“We will also enable developers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, and Spain to offer priced applications later this quarter.  By the end of Q1 2009, we will announce support for developers in additional countries.”

For any of you developers out there who aren’t on the mailing list and didn’t get the following email from Google about the Android Market, I thought I’d pass it on.

Hello,

Thank you for your participation in Android Market!

Since we launched a couple months ago, the team has been working on
several significant updates to Android Market. I’d like to let you know
about these upcoming changes and what they will mean to you and other
members of our developer community.

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