Darth Anovin
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Anyone heard when this is gonna be available?
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PDGA iPhone app
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NothinButChing
* Ace Member *
nope.
Sadjo
* Ace Member *
They should have looked at doing an app for a Droid first.
^Really? Post #3 and you are turning the thread in THAT direction????
Personally, I don't really see the purpose in the app other than adding visibility to the sport...I rarely need to look up tourney results on the go; and besides, PDGA's website is slow enough as it is.
Personally, I don't really see the purpose in the app other than adding visibility to the sport...I rarely need to look up tourney results on the go; and besides, PDGA's website is slow enough as it is.
Nuke
Birdie Member
Seeing as the app has course lookup based on your location, course information already built in to what looks like a really nice scorecard app, among some other features, I'd say his reply was pretty informative, as you've seemed to miss the point of the app based on your remarks.
I think I read on dgreview that they are hoping to get it out sometime in July, it was a post by a PDGA employee close to the app I believe.
Cgkdisc
.:Hall of Fame Member:.
They hope to have the app available just before the start of Am Worlds later this month. It's primarily a scorekeeper for personal, group and eventually tournament play that uses either courses you enter manually or download from the PDGA Course database. If you download from the PDGA database, it will calculate ratings for your group after each round.
They did the Apple app first simply because they had the programming capability inhouse. For Android, they'll need to contract out. There's no need to have the app look up PDGA results because any Smart Phone with Internet can do that now.
They did the Apple app first simply because they had the programming capability inhouse. For Android, they'll need to contract out. There's no need to have the app look up PDGA results because any Smart Phone with Internet can do that now.
Hows it going to do that since ratings can change due to the weather and other varibles?
Might not be a "need", but with the terrible performance of the website these days it would be nice to have a way to look them up that didn't take several minutes to load...
Cgkdisc
.:Hall of Fame Member:.
The website upgrade is underway now so we'll see if the Drupal upgrade does what it was supposed to in terms of improved web speed. It's certainly not going well today. But the load on 'ratings posting day' may always mean slower performance than normal.
The round ratings will be generated for fun and not as accurately as the dynamic method used for events that accounts for weather conditions using much larger fields than up to 6 players in the app. The app ratings will be calculated to the nearest 10 points and based on a composite of SSA values for courses in the database where we have them and use a default value if we don't. Users will at least be able to enter length adjustments from what the Course Directory has listed so you can account for different pin combinations before the ratings are calculated.
The round ratings will be generated for fun and not as accurately as the dynamic method used for events that accounts for weather conditions using much larger fields than up to 6 players in the app. The app ratings will be calculated to the nearest 10 points and based on a composite of SSA values for courses in the database where we have them and use a default value if we don't. Users will at least be able to enter length adjustments from what the Course Directory has listed so you can account for different pin combinations before the ratings are calculated.
mickas
Eagle Member
they should fix the problems with the site before developing an app for phones....
Cgkdisc
.:Hall of Fame Member:.
Different people involved in each.
mickas
Eagle Member
excellent
Cgkdisc
.:Hall of Fame Member:.
Here are 8 screen shots of the PDGA iPhone App starting here: http://discgolfer.ning.com/photo/routing-to-course Just click on 'Next' in the upper right corner of each photo to advance to next one.
GameDayTested
Par Member
I hope it's soon and I don't even have the iPhone. But I hope it has a positive response because I too want to see it on my Android based phone. It looks fantastic.
Cgkdisc
.:Hall of Fame Member:.
The final release has been submitted to Apple so it should be up soon. Someone said each Friday is when the apps either get approved or are posted. I think Friday next week is more likely.
Cgkdisc
.:Hall of Fame Member:.
I think this first version might be free and will be followed by a fee version like a lot of apps. Not sure what they've settled on or if they have finalized plans on feature sets in free and fee.
silverbullet
Eagle Member
the APP sounds sweet i cant wait to download it 
