ARRstatus Android AppFollow

Greetings all!

I wanted to pop in and announce the ARRstatus app for android that I've recently published. My goal was to expand on a couple of things that my website couldn't do on its own, and make something folks would find useful. :)

The app enables folks to keep close tabs on the status of the FFXIV servers by including the following:

• A refresh'able list of all the FFXIV servers and their statuses.
• A Ping utility that allows users to see the latency between their network and FFXIV servers.
• Individual homescreen widgets for each server that allows users to get the current status upon tapping.
• A push notification system that allows folks to be notified any time their chosen server changes status.

You can check out the app for yourself here: ARRstatus App

And please feel free to message me or post any questions or comments about the app below.

Haha thanks for the love! :3

Of course there is always a way, the better question is how long will it take and can I find the time hehe. I'll make a note of this and see what it would take me to pull it off when I look to add more features. :D

Will you be doing an iOS version?

Yeah this looks awesome, but I switched to iPhone myself about 6 months ago and probably will never go back... if there's an iOS version please let us know. I might be able to download it on my Kindle Fire when I get home for use while playing though...

Great job by the way!

$2 for this is outrageous.

Relevant:

I don't think it's necessarily bashing. I don't think the benefits that this app provides me is worth $2. After all, do I really need to know the status of the servers from a mobile device? The only time I really care about the status of the server is when I'm at home to play the game. And if I have access to my PC or laptop to play the game, I don't really need to pull up a mobile app to find out if the servers are up or not.

I don't need a mango, at any price. That doesn't mean the price of a mango is outrageous though. It's a niche product which most people don't need or want, but if they do need or want, 2 bucks is pretty cheap.

Sure, if you ignore all facts and details $2 is pretty cheap. I, however, am incapable of living in make-believe land like that, so here are the facts. One, most apps are free to begin with. Two, even pay apps tend to be only in the $1 range. Three, most free apps do more than this app does, as do the typical $1 ones. Four, as so lovingly provided upthread a free option is available so the so called "niche" doesn't really exist, unless the niche you wish to speak of are fiscally immature morons. So two bucks for almost no function at all is not "pretty cheap." To bring it to terms that you might understand, it'd be like planting a mango tree in your backyard, and your neighbor charging you $10 per fruit.

For the record, this guy wrote that website too. Not sure if you knew that or not.

I don't think he should be vilified for charging for it, you don't have to buy it and he's providing a free alternative. As a programmer myself I'm always willing to support other developers who's creations I find handy. Development takes time (and sometimes investment, it's $100 to publish software on the Apple App Store not to mention the cost of a Mac to develop on) and for some reason people think it should be free. At the moment I probably won't buy this, but down the road I might if I find a need for it.

So a tree you planted in your backyard charges you a dollar? Or are you just ignoring facts as well? Here's another fact: Any phone that can run this app can also run arrstatus.com. The point, which so many of you seem to miss so completely, is that you're being charged for something that you don't need to be charged for at all.

I understand the app isn't for you but I'd still like to respond to a couple things. :)


Most free apps may be "free" to the user, but make up for it by forcing people to view advertisements, something I'm not very fond of, but to each there own. Not all apps are created equal, and the system I had to set up to support the automatic notification system will require constant resources of my own each month, and most apps don't require anything like that and exist entirely on the device they're installed on.


As far as I know there isn't another app on the store that includes everything my app does for FFXIV players and fans. I made sure to see what was available to folks before I put in the significant time investment into crafting the app. I wouldn't do so if there was already an app like mine.


I'm not too sure a person spending 2 bucks on something they find useful qualifies them as a moron. O.o

Well let's see, you had to pay for the tree. You had to pay for the water. You had to pay for the pesticides. Then somehow your neighbor is charging you for your fruit? That's not even an accurate analogy. It doesn't even make sense in the scope of the argument. I thought you had just made a grammatical error and meant that you would be charging $10 a fruit, but if that's not the case it's just a completely unecessary and inaccurate analogy for the following reason:

Arrstatus.com is very difficult to use on a phone. Most of the info doesn't show up without an incredible amount of scrolling, I can't customize it to show what I want, and it takes a good 20s to even load the whole thing because of the background and fancy imagery. This app allows customization on the phone and simplifies what the website offers for ease of use and functionality (ie, simple user interface). The app was designed for a phone, the website was not. There's your "niche".