I love you guys, But your android developers suck!!!

I just started using DB again and I am disappointed to see that after 6 months you still DO NOT have an android application. In case you haven’t noticed, Android phones have already started taking market share from apple and are only getting bigger. More and more android phones are being activated every day on every carrier and its plain BS that you guys still don’t have an application to support the majority of DB users who would like to track their fitness on their android smartphones.

While there are a few knock offs on the android marketplace that use your API, they are generally poorly coded and don’t work very well. Please get this in gear and start/finish the app for android that you promised us so long ago.

Thanks,
Jamie

I totally AGREE!

I have the iPhone and the app, but I prefer to enter it in on my computer… I just find it easier. If that helps at all.

Taking marketshare from Apple? Says who?

http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal-te…

Apple’s growth in the smartphone market with the iPhone has stalled. In the same three-month period, it increased only from 25% to 25.2%. At least Apple didn’t lose market share.

Now keep in mind that’s just phones.

Now add in the iPod Touch which runs the same iOS hence it runs DailyBurn’s app. For every iPhone sold there’s an iPod Touch sold.

Next add in the iPad …which runs the same iOS and sells millions per month.

I think DailyBurn should in fact support Android but not because of some fallacious notion that Android is actually beating iOS but because there are enough Android users to make the effort worthwhile IMO.

I was told almost a year ago that an Android app was “in development”… might as well just rename the site iDaily Burn.

Jamie, I agree the apps available on the market that use the API are not that great as far as functionality and design. As posted in another topic, I am developing an android app that also uses the API. I have an extensive programming background as well as graphic design experience and have been making some good headway on my app. Dailyburn does have an app, but it is in beta testing stage (has been for a while) and not available to the public. Whether DB releases their app soon or not, I am determined and should have something substantial to release by mid summer at the latest. As an Android user I feel your pain in not having a great app to go along with this incredible site!

@hmurchison : yes, I think it is not true that Apple is losing market share right now. But Android has now a bigger market share than Apple, and it is growing.

Just look at the latest study from Gartner:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20051610-17.h…

By the end of this year, Gartner has Android at 38.5% compared to Apple’s 19.4%.

Even if you take iPads and iPods into account, there are probably more Android devices than iOS devices worldwide. And this tendency will only grow over time (according to Gartner).

In the end, I must agree with others… it is hard to understand why a 3rd iPhone app was released by dailyburn, while the first Android application has yet to come. There might be some very good reasons for this, but I fail to see them.

Ooops… I saw that there are actually 4 iPhone apps, not 3. But only 1 is free.
From what I was told, Android users are less willing to pay for an app than iOS users.
So that would explain that.

Oh well, I guess we’ll have to be extra patient. :P

Actually be wary of Gartner. Any media that takes money to put you on a chart or magic quadrant isn’t the best place to get honest answers.

Android may very well be a larger markeshare now, but I wouldnt go by Gartner.

Gartner’s predictions historically haven’t been good but nonetheless I agree that Android is the next platform that DB should be supporting.

The new Android app DGT-GTD is a good one. As we can see, an Android application is defined using one or more of Android’s four core application components. Two such application components are defined in this package: Activity and Service. The other two components are from the android.content package: BroadcastReceiver and ContentProvider.

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Don’t swallow the Iphone Cool-aid. Yes, right now, they have a significant market share, but Android is exploding and 20 million devices should be plenty of market share to justify Daily Burn getting off their butts and making a USEFULL android compatible app. You argue all you want about how many Iphone and apple devices are out there but it really doesn’t address what Daily Burn has become since they were bought.

http://www.bgr.com/2011/01/13/canalys-android-w…

“Ooops… I saw that there are actually 4 iPhone apps, not 3. But only 1 is free.
From what I was told, Android users are less willing to pay for an app than iOS users.
So that would explain that.”

Well, not quite. So called “free” apps that display ads generate far greater revenue over time than paid apps.

Of course Android users overall are less likely to buy apps. Many Android owners got Android not because their intentions where to utilize the web and applications but because their cellular provider was giving them a free phone.

iPhone are never free so every user walked out of that store having shelled out the cash. Android is a platform to benefit Google with the advertising. Sure advertising will make money if you have an Angry Birds class app but if you’re not Top 250 in apps you’re probably not seeing that much money from advertising.

I personally know 12 people in my organization and many more friends and family, some of who gave up their Itoys for android devices. NONE of them were given their phone for free. Their is apparently some misinformation out there.

Some of them switched during the dark days when Iphone was only offered on the substandard network of AT&T. Some of them gave them up because of the whole hand interrupting reception stuff. Some of them, like myself and 4 guys I work with gave up our Ipads for android compatible tablets because of the Flash issues and the convenience of having a USB2 port. Many people I sit next to on the many plane flights I take each year have Android or Blackberry because their company IT administrators refuse to support the Iphone. This isn’t one or two people. It’s a boat load.

And on the issue of adds on apps. I’m in the gym 5 days a week. Nearly everyone is using Pandora which, surprise, has adds. The only reason for an app not being used enough to make a profit from adds is if the app is not worth using enough, for instance the Daily Burn app.

Some people, will continue to be Apple apologists now matter what. Yet, still, Daily Burn doesn’t address the fact that you can’t update your workouts in real time while at the gym with their worthless app.

I fail to see how being an Apple fan addresses the fact that Daily Burn did issue an Android app that is substandard. Why even bother?

Regardless of what exact percentage Android and iOS have in the marketplace….the fact is…Android is a major competitor to iOS that equals if not beats iOS in number of people using it. Whether or not someone paid for their phone/tablet does not matter…what matters is: is that person a worthy person to market the daily burn brand to through an app for their device. They’ve had plenty of time to release a worthy app to draw in Android users (and for that matter, take care of their current Android users)….but have failed to do so. Right now it is clear that Daily Burn doesn’t value their Android users as much as their iPhone users through their release of a substandard app. Until they do release something that is as good as their offering on the iPhone they will continue to get trashed by their Android users.

It’s part of the reason why I don’t bother signing up again for a Pro membership…why should I if I can’t make full use of Daily Burn services no matter where I’m at? I used to be able to do that on my iPhone 3GS, but can’t now because I switched to a Nexus S (which I thoroughly enjoy and will be replacing with a Nexus S 4G on Sprint tonight (out for UPS delivery now)). Why should I pay the same amount as I used to pay for substandard service? I’ll remain a free user until they get their act together and release a decent app for the Android platform.

The most expensive app I’ve bought so far for my HTC Incredible and Acer Tablet was $6.99. I would gladly pay three times that for a USEFUL Daily Burn app. It’s that important to me. It is also, apparently, equally unimportant to Daily Burn.

According to Neilsen, Android is exploding. Knock, knock, hello….

DailyBurn, are you in there?

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobi…

Hey Ed – what are some suggestions that you have for the current android app?

I really need to be able to track my workouts in detail. I use Jefit to do that now. I stopped tracking my workout info in DailyBurn because I got tired of writing it all down as I do it and then inputing it when I get home.

Ideally, I’d like to call up one of my predefined workout routines and have the app tell me what exercises to do, in what order, and how much weight I lifted for each set the last time I worked it. Then I’d like to enter what I do for each of these exercises in real-time with the app and have it populate the DB database by pressing a “synchronize” button.

I don’t need to have the app show me suggested exercises or routines, or provide motivation. I just want to be able to track what I do while I’m at the gym instead of having to do it when I get home. If the app did this, I would gladly pay $10.00 or more for it.

And thank you for asking Kate. It had been so long since I saw any posts from you I was thinking you had moved on.