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It requires GPS. Crashes on my tablet.

Also, see their Facebook. They publicly post GPS location of winners, together with StreetView. Is that stated in the app? It can be a privacy concern.

  com.carrotpop.www.smth         E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
        java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: requested provider gps doesn't exisit
        at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1429)
        at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1379)
        at android.location.ILocationManager$Stub$Proxy.requestLocationUpdates(ILocationManager.java:646)
        at android.location.LocationManager._requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:660)
        at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:482)
        at com.ansca.corona.CoronaSensorManager$1.run(CoronaSensorManager.java:163)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)


They are assuming all Android devices have GPS. Is it common for tablets to have GPS?

btw, I see com.ansca.corona.CoronaSensorManager in the exception stack trace, suggesting this app was written in Lua using Ansca Corona.


man, you've tried it with tablet! How big your tablet is? I think they should appropriately rescale scores for the weight and aerodynamics of the object being thrown.


>the weight and aerodynamics of the object being thrown

Somehow I doubt that's included in the Android API. ;)


aerodynamic is calculatable from deceleration which is sum of gravitational "g" plus aerodynamic "Cx" multiplied by square proportional to the speed. The weight is known for a given model of device.


>The weight is known for a given model of device.

By "known", I assume you mean "known, assuming you want to track down (an trust!) the specs of the ~4,000 different Android devices", correct?




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