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Morning /r/Android, I Just recently released <strong>Zeus™</strong> and it isn't another flashlight app, or is it?
Well, it uses your flashlight and creates a strobe light effect by listening to the music around you, by breaking down the audio and identifying percussion (beat mode) or by analysing the decibel level (music mode)
Here's <strong>Google Play Store Link.</strong> Not impressed? Do check the promotional video and the Play Store page, it might convince you otherwise.
Could definitely use some feedback and suggestions, and opinions about how to take this further.
I think you should put links for apple and android apps in the youtube link....
So basically it's a strobe light to the music...
Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sev7en.zeus
By button do you mean actual button or just a button on the screen? Zeus lets you hold a button on the screen that you can hold and release like you ask in addition to other modes.
>I was only asking what intelligence it had if all it did was read from the photos data.
I don't think I'm making my point clear.
To oversimplify, if you have pictures of cats or dogs, or a day at the beach Curator tags it as "Cat","Dog" or "Beach" intelligently using Image Recognition or Computer Vision. No Gallery available on the Play Store right now does the same offline. Google Photos is the only other intelligent Gallery that does it only if you upload your images to the cloud.
> You plug your app on reddit with no official website and only stock photos as screenshots
The screenshots aren't stock photos. They're produced by me, the images that you see in the screenshots are stock photos. It is not common practice to have a website when you have a Play Store Landing page. Nonetheless the website is in the works and can be viewed right now.
>You ask people not to leave reviews.
This doesn't stop anyone from leaving reviews. You can review the app if you'd like to. The reason I've asked my users to not review my app just yet is because there are some known bugs, and this is beta software. So if it doesn't work don't give it a 1 star and say it doesn't work, because I haven't promised it'll work yet.
>There's no information about what you are doing with personal data or permissions the app needs
The Android OS clearly states the permissions Curator uses before you install. An app cannot use features unless explicitly allowed by the user. The OS controls this.
>The app doesn't really do more than just read from existing photo data so it would have only taken a tiny bit of time to build, if that's all it does
I've already mentioned what it does on top, but about the time to build: there are clear aesthetic and functional differences from any other Gallery you find on the Play Store. Please do run a comparison.
Additionally, look me up and check my other apps on the Play Store. Over half a million installs for Zeus (4.3/5) and Gen-Y Pad (3.75) should probably add to my credibility?
Thanks for your comment though, I hope this reply makes it clear to anyone else who has similar apprehensions.
And If you haven't tried Curator yet, please do so that some doubts can be cleared before you can ask!
Concepts are always ambitious like a concept car would be while the actual product that you might deliver would have to compromise on certain things in order to usable in the real world.
Also I'm not just a designer, I'm a developer who has experience building apps and websites for over 7+ years now and understand the gap between ambitious design and actually being able to convert design to into a usable product. And so, all your points are entirely valid, but it was not lack of foresight that this design fails but instead my personal opinion about marketability that makes it fail, which you've made very clear to me now.
Given my capacity to code, I'm aware of ways in which this design can be amended in order to be able to scale on any device appropriately - font size, kerning, colors, weights, actions, white spaces, layouts, and more and ensure that the design guides the user into making decisions that you want them to make and so like I mentioned earlier I have to invest more time into being considerate about these factors instead of focusing on appeal over functionality since it might disappoint the client that the concepts do not match the products I deliver.
Before we get into further dialogue about this, your criticism is very important and I appreciate it but maybe I can make amendments or get your feedback over the next design since I was aware of some of these failure points even before I made the post.