On Oct 31, 2014, parkrocker wrote:
Sounds great! What about Android and Google maps?

On Oct 31, 2014, gyorkop wrote:

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On Oct 31, 2014, parkrocker wrote:
Sounds great! What about Android and Google maps?

Excellent question. First, Apple Maps is a built-in application, so it's installed on every spectator's iPhone, that's why City Prediction uses it instead of some third party maps app.

Android is very a fragmented platform and we did not want to take the risk to ruin the trick because of some custom app or settings. Nevertheless we will consider to support it in the near future.

Thank you for your feedback.

gyorkop

On Nov 1, 2014, daniltan wrote:
Hi Gordon. We've shared an exact opposite opinion on the app. That's interesting. Here in my area is very hard for me to target an iphone/ipad. I can easily target an android though. They're practically everywhere.

On Nov 1, 2014, GordonTheHypnotist wrote:

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On Nov 1, 2014, daniltan wrote:
Hi Gordon. We've shared an exact opposite opinion on the app. That's interesting. Here in my area is very hard for me to target an iphone/ipad. I can easily target an android though. They're practically everywhere.

In the long term I agree I would like to be able to target any phone. And I think it is possible but could be a little buggy.
But we should in the short term be able to transmit from any device considering it is just a special URL that transmits the info built into the app.

If they didn't have an iphone I just go into something else using their android.

On Nov 2, 2014, gyorkop wrote:
OK, so we have several different requests:

1, Transmit from any device
Transmitting from any device is not that easy, because if it would be just a special URL, anyone could ruin your performance by transmitting a different city. That is something you do not want so City Prediction uses a signature mechanism. The real solution would be to create the Android version of the app.

2, Make the layout iPad compatible
That is something that we should do, we just have to come up with a reasonable layout for the settings so stay tuned.

3, Extend the possible targets to Android users
We are going to do some experiments to find out if it can be reliable or not. Keep in mind that we do not want you to fail when performing the trick, so we want it to make it as robust as possible.

gyorkop

On Nov 2, 2014, DynaMix wrote:
I've absolutely slayed with this the past few days by integrating with "hotel" and allowing for ample time misdirection. Just nutty reactions! LOVE this app!

On Nov 3, 2014, GordonTheHypnotist wrote:
It may not be "easy" but it is possible I know because I have multiple apps that work on this "thumper" principle. You thump one item from a selected URL from any source; smartphone, computer, tablet etc. and in most cases the receiver can be any other source with the ability to receive that information. Now with your effect it makes sense that the receiver has to be an iOS product because they have the inherent feature necessary to accomplish the effect. To build an android version of this I assume it would have to be from the ground up. I don't expect you to do this unless you think it will be commercially viable.

But you already have created a way to make any device a transmitter and that is a uniquely coded URL with a specific identifier. Your receiver has a uniquely coded identifier why couldn't a transmitter? That is exactly how these other apps work. You either are given or have to create an identifier specific to you (the performer) and that way each person (performer) wouldn't be transmitting a different city because they would also have unique identifiers.


I understand the reasons you wouldn't want to do this.

Having an actual app makes it much more proprietary. But since in order to get the unique URL you would have to purchase the app (signature mechanism) I don't see this issue being major. I don't see anyone sharing their unique URL because that would ruin the ability to perform the effect exclusively. The only person I would want to share this with is my assistant. My assistant does not have any iOS products. Which means if I wanted to do one kind of particular performances I would have to loan him one of my devices. But the problem is use all of these in my performances. I can't justify giving him my iPad or iPhone to perform this effect because it means I could not perform one of the other effects without him physically giving me back my device.

It would be so much easier if I could give him my specific URL identifier and let him use any of his devices.

Please let me know if you would consider this. The only other thing that I would want if you can't do this is to cross device thresholds meaning the android app should change both iOS and Google based maps and vice versa.

Many thanks!

--Gordon