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Acacia (Free) Removed from Google Play
The free version of Acacia was just unpublished from Google Play. Google felt that the "Buy Me a Beer!" button was deceptive advertising (believe me! I spent it on beer!). Acacia was a fun project, but it's pretty long in the tooth now -- it's old enough that it is compatible all the way back to Android 1.6 (!), predates tablets (!!) and just isn't that great on modern devices. So rather than publish a new version with the "beer" reference removed, I'm just pulling it. If anyone's interested, I can maybe post the APK here. Keep rolling! |
Update
It's coming up on a full year since I last published a new version of Acacia, so I thought it time to provide an update to the handful of you out there listening. Development has slowed down significantly on Acacia. While I have a handful of very cool but only partially-implemented features in progress, the unfortunate truth is that developing Acacia has become more of a chore than a labour of love. There are a few reasons for that. When I first started developing Acacia, the target platform was Android 1.5 - that's really, really old now. I had to jump through awkward hoops to overcome limitations (and outright bugs) in the API, and the result was a pretty ugly code base. That I had never programmed in Java, let alone for a mobile platform, did not help. Acacia was originally conceived as an app for smartphones. My development device was an HTC Magic (which looks tiny compared to my Galaxy Nexus!). Android tablets weren't really on the horizon yet, and so the whole workflow was designed around having very limited real estate. Users complain about the weird, awkward, ugly interface, and they're right - it just wasn't designed for the way people want to use it today. Today, tablets are everywhere, and quite frankly, probably make more sense as a device for Acacia than a phone. The upshot is that the whole thing needs to be re-written from the ground up, ideally in a way that could make it portable to iOS, and that's just not likely to happen. Our second-born child is just a few days older than Acacia 0.8.5, so free time is a precious commodity. I can picture completing the new features eventually, but doing Acacia the justice I think it deserves doesn't seem to be in the cards. If you're an avid user and you'd like to see further development, drop me a line. We'll see what we can do. |
0.8.5, "James" released
Handle failure to open camera more gracefully. Will be released to Acacia (Beer Fund Edtiion) once deemed stable. |
0.8.4, "Donna" released
Fix persistence problems with lens markings and units/frame settings. As alwys, the Beer Fund Edition will follow in a couple of days when deemed stable. |
0.8.3, "Norma" released
Fixed aspect ratio distortion problem in Digital Viewfinder, and fixed broken Confim buttons in several dialogs. |
0.8.2, "Heidi" released
Minor release - a number of functional fixes, as well as a new experimental compass overlay in the DVF. |
0.8.1, "Shelly" released
First mainstream release of the new codebase, which is a major step towards an official 1.0 release: * Improved media management and slate * Split Scene/Shot fields * Lots of internal fixes |
0.8.0, "Bobby" DEV SNAPSHOT released
0.7.5, "Leland" released
Minor maintenance release:
Once again, cheers to the guys who've bought me a beer - your feature requests are being incorporated. |
Still cranking...
Still in the middle of a lot of clean-up. I'm hoping a new release will be available by the end of the year, but I'm not positive that's going to happen. |
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