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Official PAX Prime 2011 Mobile App!
SmallLady
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Official PAX app is now live!!
If you access this page with a supported mobile device, it will automatically take you to the application download.
The app is available for iOS, Android & BlackBerry phones
Note: If you find any errors of bugs, please post them in this thread. Thank you. The appropriate parties will be checking this thread.
If you access this page with a supported mobile device, it will automatically take you to the application download.
The app is available for iOS, Android & BlackBerry phones
Note: If you find any errors of bugs, please post them in this thread. Thank you. The appropriate parties will be checking this thread.
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In order,
PA Media Q and A @ 9 AM in Raven
Testers vs The Game, Round 2 @ 10:30am in Unicorn
Penny Arcade - The Series: Season 2 @ 1PM in Kraken
GameTrailers.com Presents: Bonus Round LIVE! @ 1:30pm in Unicorn
EDIT 2: I realize when I remade this post I did not post my device info: Asus Transformer running Honeycomb 3.2 :END EDIT 2
1: Most screens in app force my tablet into portrait mode (main screen, all listing and details screens). About page and the maps themselves switch back to landscape mode.
2: Maps have a flickering that happens that makes them completely unusable. See this image for what it looks like (just one snap of the flickering) http://i.imgur.com/pmOUX.jpg
3: No pinch-zoom on the maps. Not sure if this has something to do with the flickering issue.
4: My adventures when clicking "Scan" button:
- When I clicked "scan" it took me to black screen and popped up with message telling me I needed to install "Barcode Scanner" and asking me if I would like to install it.
- I clicked "No". The app then remained at this black screen until I hit "back" to go to main screen of app.
- I clicked "Scan" again and this time, clicked "Yes" at the prompt
- I followed the Android Market steps to install "Barcode Scanner". After the installation was complete, I manually switched back to the PAX App and was again presented with the black screen. I hit "back" to go to main screen of app.
- I clicked "Scan" again and it launched the Barcode Scanner app. I then hit "back" from Barcode Scanner and was taken to the black screen once again. Again, I had to hit "back" to go to main screen of app.
(I bring up the black screen issue because at first I did not know if it was doing something or just waiting for me to hit a button somewhere)
EDIT:
I had sent an email to the support email located in the about page within the app before I made this post, and only had the first two items listed on there. Here is their response:
Sad
I am on IOS by the way, not sure if it matters but just there to help.
I'm using the iOS, too. No issues, but the schedule is a bit off. There's two Dorkness Rising/JourneyQuest panels (the only one is supposed to be on Saturday morning), one on Saturday morning and one on Sunday morning. :S
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I suggest looking at the guidebook app then comparing it to this app. Add in things from there where making my own schedule would be possible and adding a todo list and other things like that. Then it would just be way better. Also don't just put the time the event starts also put when it ends on the schedule list.
Anyway, the PAX Assistant app should be getting updated soon, or so it's creator told me recently. I'll likely end up using that, but I'll keep this handy too and prepare some feedback.
it gets to a screen where it says "please wait. information pertaining to your locale needs to be downloaded. this may take several minutes depending on your network connection's speed." from there, it will ether stay at 0%, jump up to 39% instantly and no do anything, or jump up to 70something% and not do anything.
the one time it has gone past, I went into maps, and they partially loaded, but were really kinda too slow to be useful. (though I'm not sure if thats a app issue or a my phone sucks issue, because my phone isn't really that amazing anyways)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rileybrewer.android.apps.paxmapapp
Example: the Friday night concerts are scheduled from 8:30pm on Friday until 1:30am on Saturday. They're graphed out as lasting from 1:30a-8:30p on Friday.
Same deal with the Fallout: Nuka Break screening; scheduled from 10p Fri-12p Sat, graphed as 12a Fri-10p Fri.
Still, seems like a decent app. I've been poring over the maps intently.
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Edit, on second though....
This runs like hell on my 3GS
Passes: ☑ ▬ Hotel: ☑ ▬ Flight: [color=red]☑[/color]
The lack of a custom personal schedule really diminishes the usefulness of this app for me. "My Favorites" isn't the same. The background blue is kind of eye burny, not something I really want to be looking at much. Area Map loaded as Expo Hall level 4, Expo Hall level 4 didn't load, and Expo Hall level 6 loaded the Area Map, World Map doesn't load. Also, what is the Profile section for?
I do, however, really like the running @Official_PAX twitter feed at the bottom, and the section of the schedule organized by speaker. Really, really, like the ability to search by speaker.
But...for now I'm sticking to the unofficial guidebook guide, at least until PAX Assistant is updated. It isn't a strain on the eyes, it has a personal schedule option, and separate sections for major events, such as Halo Fest and the Omegathon. Overall, the official app just isn't that useful for me at this time.
Edit: and scaling is all it does well on my Transformer. Keeps crashing just on load and when you try to do anything. Oh well, guess I'm using Guidebook.
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That's my main thing with the app, only I have a Milestone 1/ Droid 1 so it's probably worse. I dunno if the maps aren't working because there's no more room on my phone?
I'd like to see what the profile/attendee list does... will we be able to "favourite" attendees (i.e. make and track new friends
Which BB version should get used for a Storm 9530 or won't it support BB touchscreen? I'm honestly surprised BB is supported over WP7, usually it goes the other way.
Didn't look at much else as that was a "deal killer" for me I'm afraid. I've deleted the app (at least for now).
PS Android 1.6+ is supported.
http://guidebookapp.com/getit
m.guidebookapp.com for other web devices.
Yeah, I will totally be using your app during PAX. The official app can't hold a candle to you guys.
- Takes quite a long time to load in the beginning.
- The icons look jagged/pixelated instead of smooth.
- When I left the app (pressed Home button) and then returned to it, the Twitter feed disappeared after reloading.
- The time blocks allocated on "Your Schedule" seem to be sized wrong/don't fill out the right time periods. For example, I had favorited the Mega64 panel which begins at 7 PM. Instead of filling out the slot between 7 and 8 PM, it seems to fill out 7:30 to 8 PM instead. The events that start at half-hours (i.e. PAX Prime keynote at 10:30 AM) seem to be filling out the full hour (in this case, 10:30 to 11:30 AM) correctly, though. The ones that start on the hour are half as large, and don't show the time on top of the blue box.
- The maps seem very large and unoptimized. On occasion, they run slow and choppily. Hang-ups and crashing seems to be common when browsing the maps.
- The "Seattle Area Map" could really use an icon/locator for where the convention center is located.
- For some reason, there seems to be a schedule (and events) for Monday... Is there a 4th day of PAX that I haven't been told about?
I definitely enjoyed aspects of the guide, but it seemed unoptimized for my device. Perhaps this is not the case with the iPhone 4, however.
I see lots of people mentioning GuideBook, so I just went and tried it out...
Unfortunately, I think that will be the app I will be using. It runs extremely well and fast, and has a lot more depth at this point in time. It is really well optimized, and works like a dream. Maybe after a few updates, the official app will be on par with GuideBook. I wonder if there will be enough time for that to happen, though.
Yeah, Guidebook is definitely a superior app. I will likely be using some combination of it and Nick Swar's PAX Assistant when it gets updated.
Also, someone else mentioned the quite silly bug with the schedule time Spanish being reverse and not differentiating AM and PM. Case in point, the concerts, while stating a time of 8PM to 1AM, shows on your personal schedule grid from 1PM to 8PM...
I'm sticking with Guidebook, sorry... Maybe if an update comes before PAX I will reconsider.
Also: his works with my old POS Behold 2 Android 1.5 phone.