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!

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.

Will be released to Acacia (Beer Fund Edtiion) once deemed stable.

As alwys, the Beer Fund Edition will follow in a couple of days when deemed stable.

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

This is the first public release of the app, that has been significantly re-written since the 0.7.x releases.  It also contains a few features requested by some of the fine folks who've bought me a beer - thanks!

This version will be pushed out to Acacia for general consumption, and to the Beer Fund Edition once deemed sufficiently stable.

Try it out, kick the tires, and drop me a line with any feedback.

• Applied work-around for Android 2.2+ infrastructure bug that caused Spinners to disappear at times
• Fix FC in Lens editor, although the Lens Management screen is still a bit of a mess generally.

The major rewrite is moving along, and should be released in the coming weeks. 

Once again, cheers to the guys who've bought me a beer - your feature requests are being incorporated.

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.