Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Idiot proofing second try: Proxy Settings App v1.3 for Android is out!

Hey guys. this post should not have been necessary. The new update for Proxy Settings should not have been necessary . An entire weekend wasted for insert new other idiot proof checks should not have been necessary. But because "fools' mother is always pregnant"the following is what I did in the last days.


Here you are the new updated version of Proxy Settings, and this is more or less the changelog for version 1.3:



  • Changed the description of the application into the (Android Market) Google Play page, inserting another BIG FAT DISCLAIMER
  • Inserted a notification into the status bar for devices with API version < 11 (Android 1.x and 2.x), so all the users will be aware when the global proxy is active or not. 
  • Started the integration with APL. I know it's still in an unstable status (due to some still pending unanswered questions), but it's the easiest way to test is and to integrate it in a real application.

Now please, be patient and let me come out with this thing: this is for all the users that download a tool application, accept a WARNING DISCLAIMER without even reading it, and then give it a bad rating:



Please READ the application description!

Please READ the application disclaimer before accepting it!



It's really not my fault if the other application developers wrote their application without even considering the networks with proxy. So if you want to rate something, rate the applications that doesn't support proxy. My application only wants to allow you to setting it!

Ok.. I'm calm now. I'm sorry but it's really sad to read so many bad ratings from users that clearly didn't read the application description nor the application disclaimer. Do you have some suggestions how to solve this problem? Maybe having a possibility in the Android Market to answer back to the users rating could be useful. Who knows.

Anyway, enjoy the last update! I'll wait for your feedbacks!

Bye!


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