Pizza Slice Price 2.1

Now with support for rectangular pizzas! Plus, the following new features:

• Fixed an issue with blurry icons.
• Honeycomb 3.2+ and ICS: New 7" tablet-specific layout.
• Pre-Honeycomb: Improved quantity and cuts dialogs to require fewer taps.

This update is now available on the Google Play Store.

Inflation Calculator March 2012

Now available on Google Play Store.

Pizza Slice Price 2.0

Pizza Slice Price 2.0
for Android 1.6+, best experienced in Android 3.2+, free

I have been redesigning Pizza Slice Price to take advantage of the wonderful new user interface options in Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich and to incorporate some elegantly designed icons by Electra Hui. I was able to make some of these changes backwards compatible with previous versions of Android, although unfortunately not all of them. I'm excited to bring out my best-looking app yet, with these new features:

• Added support for specifying a total order price.
• Completely new, easier to use, dialog-driven interface for selecting pizza characteristics.
• Honeycomb and ICS: One-touch no-typing dialog-driven interface for selecting pizza characteristics.
• Honeycomb and ICS: Holo theme support.
• Honeycomb 3.2+ and ICS: New tablet-specific layout.
• Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.1 where size was miscalculated.

The new app is now available on the Google Play Store. Note that I have opted to release this version of Pizza Slice Price as a new app. Although the previous version of the app was downloaded nearly 2,000 times, it received very low ratings and had a retention rate below 10%. Because this app has more features and a different, improved layout, and the Google Play Store does not support ratings-by-version, I'm giving this app a fresh start. The old version of the app will continue to be available on the Google Play Store through the end of the month.

Status Update

Hi!

Hopefully, you're visiting my site because you're an ESPN Fantasy Baseball player wondering about my app, the Fantasy Playoffs Predictor: the only place in the world where you can find out your odds of making the fantasy playoffs. Despite not being updated since December, the Predictor is fully compatible with new ESPN fantasy leagues, including Fantasy Baseball 2012. It will be able to make predictions for your league after the completion of Matchup 1, which I believe for most leagues is April 15.

I will check in on the Fantasy Playoffs Predictor come April 15 to ensure everything is working correctly with the new season. If everything goes smoothly, there won't be an update. The next changes to Fantasy Playoffs Predictor won't come until this summer, as I'm currently working on other projects.

What are those other projects?

Nothing new on the CPI Inflation Calculator, which will continue to receive monthly updates. I've received a lot of positive feedback about the app - a 4.7-star rating, over 3,000 installs, and over a 55% retention rate in just under a year. It's currently the top-rated and most up-to-date inflation calculator on the Google Play Store. Looks like people enjoy it for what it is - particularly the no ads, no data usage, and no permissions - so it'll be staying the same.

Instead, my sandbox work is happening on the Pizza Slice Price app, still the most fully-featured pizza slice/pie cost/price comparer on the Google Play Store. I'm learning about the design techniques introduced in Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich and will release an all-new layout for this app in April. I'm hoping that the experimentation I do in this app will help me deliver a great user experience, which I then plan to carry over into my other apps.

I'm also breaking ground on a new app this summer. It will follow in the footsteps of my other apps - providing a quick, user-friendly, well-designed analysis for a common situation. There are a couple other Android apps in this space right now, but most of them look like they were one-and-done projects hammered out in a couple hours. I'm hoping to blow them away with a more full-featured product. Coming soon!

Inflation Calculator February 2012

Now available on Google Play Store.

Inflation Calculator January 2012

Data for 2012 now uses real data instead of estimated data. Now available on Android Market.

Inflation Calculator December 2011

Now available on Android Market.