I released DroidAlone on the market in the early summer. You can find a description at the following url DroidAlone - Missed call for Android
It is a paid app, and it costs something like 0.99 euros. It has been downloaded something like 150 times since then.
I also had some issues in choosing its name: at first it was homealone, but I was afraid to Mr Culkin knokin' to my door for royalties, then it was phonealone but there was already one, and then it moved to DroidAlone. So what I suggest you is to look for your name after you choose it: you won't have to change everything just only because you discover too late that somebody else chose the name before.
However, today I decided to release its source files on https://github.com/fedepaol/DroidAlone/
Why did I choose to do that? After all I spent some time working on it, and I think it's a quite nice application.
Well, first of all, I must be honest. The money I am getting from it is not that much, and I don't think releasing the sources will affect my sells in a negative way. Even if it gets more popular, it would be quite hard to stop piracy. Finally, this is not my primary job, so I don't depend on it for living.
Apart from this, there are other reasons. One of them is that the only code I wrote and made public is the one from geotagger. It was my first experiment on android and with java as well. I think I got slightly better with droidalone, and I wanted to show it.
My android and java skills are still improving, but since I am now working with other people it will be hard to opensource the stuff I am working on now (and please remember I do android only outside my daytime job).
So, I really hope it may help somebody, it has some nice stuff in it, like sms and call handling, and mail sending.
So, enjoy. I'd really love to hear feedback..
Federico
It is a paid app, and it costs something like 0.99 euros. It has been downloaded something like 150 times since then.
I also had some issues in choosing its name: at first it was homealone, but I was afraid to Mr Culkin knokin' to my door for royalties, then it was phonealone but there was already one, and then it moved to DroidAlone. So what I suggest you is to look for your name after you choose it: you won't have to change everything just only because you discover too late that somebody else chose the name before.
However, today I decided to release its source files on https://github.com/fedepaol/DroidAlone/
Why did I choose to do that? After all I spent some time working on it, and I think it's a quite nice application.
Well, first of all, I must be honest. The money I am getting from it is not that much, and I don't think releasing the sources will affect my sells in a negative way. Even if it gets more popular, it would be quite hard to stop piracy. Finally, this is not my primary job, so I don't depend on it for living.
Apart from this, there are other reasons. One of them is that the only code I wrote and made public is the one from geotagger. It was my first experiment on android and with java as well. I think I got slightly better with droidalone, and I wanted to show it.
My android and java skills are still improving, but since I am now working with other people it will be hard to opensource the stuff I am working on now (and please remember I do android only outside my daytime job).
So, I really hope it may help somebody, it has some nice stuff in it, like sms and call handling, and mail sending.
So, enjoy. I'd really love to hear feedback..
Federico