Kids Drag Finally Comes..

The Kids Drag mini game app for kids finally was done. Kids Drag is a simple drag-and-drop matching game. Once kids drag the colorful icons to the corresponding dark ones, words will be spoken out. Kids learn the drag-and-drop action of mobile devices and pronounciation through this interactive action.

Targeted ages of kids: 2 - 8 years old

Idea of the game: From my 3-year-old cousin who likes to play the I-phone :p. I wish to create a simple game in Android so that she can play with it and it comes out this mini game.

This is my first game app using Andengine to code. Feel free to give me comments : ).

Struggling and Vacation..

I am still struggling through the coding of the kids mini game. The progress is a bit left behind. I have to postpone the deadline to Dec 2012. Hope I can make it done in Dec although I have planned a vacation to Taipei and Yilan. : P Taiwan , I am coming...

During these days, I collected some feedback and recommendations for the Dictionary app and Parking app. I would like to summarize up here so that I can view and decide what to improve in the next version.

For the Dictionary app:
- English > Chinese dictionary is not accurate.
- the CE-Dict has a newer source

For the Parking app:
- some parking position is missing in the app
- better to include the street view
- better to allow personal editing of parking info

Thanks for your opinions and using the apps. I will keep improving them : )

Project for Sep - Nov 2012

My Chinese-English Dictionary App has exceeded 1000 downloads in one month!! Compared with the motorbike app, the number of downloads is growing much faster. One main reason is that motorbike app is a localized app for Hong Kong motorbikers while the dict app targets for foreigners who are learning Chinese. The number of potential users is much more for the dict than the bike app. Some app users suggested excellent ideas to the bike app. Thanks for that!! Sorry for that I still have no time to enhance the bike app now because I started another project which consumes my programming energy..

For Sep-Nov, I am trying to write a simple game app for kids using the ANDENGINE, which is a free android game engine developed by Nicolas Gramlich. In my idea, it is a very simple game with drag and drop functions for kids to learn. I would like to make it simple but FUN : ). It is hard because except coding, I have to deal with images and audio.  I would like to add some new features which outside apps still do not have....and am ... brain storming ... : p. 

My Chinese-English Dictionary App

My Chinese-English Dictionary App

MyCEDict is a Chinese-English Dictionary. There are 2 main functions, the dictionary powered by CC-CEDict and the translation powered by MyMemory. You can search with Chinese characters (both traditional and simplified), pinyin, english or using voice recognition. In case you want to translate a whole sentence, choose the translation tab and input the whole sentence. It is bi-directional, that means you can translate Chinese-English or English-Chinese. It would be better if you use written form rather than spoken form. e.g. use "I have had lunch" rather than "I've had lunch". Furthermore, you can jot notes by copy and paste into My Notes.

Number of vocabs: ~10,3000 Chinese vocabs.
Source of dictionary database: CC-CEDict (http://cc-cedict.org)
Source of translation API: MyMemory (http://mymemory.translated.net)
Thanks Cheong for database consultancy.
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Project for Jun - Aug 2012

The Motorbike parking app give me quite a lot fun and satisfaction during the design and coding. I use it myself to locate the position of parking place when I go to places which is crowded and easily been charged  if not parking "correctly" :o. But I was quite unexpected that I was charged parking at a place near my home where there is few people walking by and the place is not blocking others in this month : ( As sometimes even we can locate a parking place, there is no room for that...

Currently I am working on another app which is about the Chinese English Dictionary. There are some features besides the basic searching which I want to include in like translation function and let user to make notes in the dict app. There are a lot of challenges for the dict app especially in the searching speed and interface design ...The progress is a bit slow as in the same time I am involving in another project formed with my colleagues.

HK MotorBike Parking App

HK MotorBike Parking

App Description:

HK MotorBike Parking provides MotorBike Parking Information in Hong Kong. Input district or street name (in Chinese or English) and then press search. The parking info will be displayed in list. Press on the list and it will show the location on Google Map. It also shows the parking information in the same district and your location upon selection in the Map.
Source of parking information: Transport Department, 大笪地電單車資訊網

This is my first Android app. Feel free to give feedback : )

List view showing parking information

Parking location shown on Google Map