QSportsEvent

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Introduction

This is a page that will hold information about the QSportsEvent app. The initial versions are targeting updated scores and tables for football (soccer). Future versions will include other sports and additional features. The objective of QSportsEvent is:

To maximize the experience of following sports events by leveraging the capabilities of the mobile device.

The data is retrieved from the SoccerDB site. You are encouraged to make donations to that project. The community is encouraged to suggest additional data sources.

The thread to follow on talk.maemo.org is QSportsEvent - FIFA World Cup and Football App.

Installation

Do not install QSportsEvent from extras-devel at the moment as you are likely to encounter dependency issues. The long story is long, the short story is that Qt apps need PR1.2 to be released.

Fremantle (Nokia N900)

  1. Manually uninstall any previous versions first (I've never tested installing on top on an existing one)
  2. Your database will be replaced, so you will loose all your favourites and all URLs you have entered (I will try to figure out a solution for this...)
  3. The app does use your Internet connection and there is no 'optimization'. The pages and data downloaded are not huge, so there should not be a big problem, but at least you've been warned...
  4. There is a dependency on libqt4-webkit. If you need it, you have to be root and once you are, you can do:
    apt-get install libqt4-webkit
  5. Install the .deb file manually from this post and launch it from the file manager.

If you don't know how to do that you should probably wait for it to appear in the repositories.

Diablo (Nokia 8xx)

For Diablo it IS possible to download from Extras-Devel! Some users have reported issues with the 'SQL plugin' (insert link to relevant post here.), however, some are able to use the app.

User Guide

  1. Select
  2. Favourites
  3. Matches
  4. Table
  5. News
    This will render the URL that was selected for the current league. Please share the most relevant sites and/or RSS feeds in this section.
  6. Update Score

Future versions of the User Guide will be written as Google Docs.

Future plans

Version 0.0.5 was downloaded 99 times.

Version 0.0.6 was released on Tuesday 27th April. The main changes are:

  1. It is now possible to download full league information from SoccerDB, both current and historical data. Two new 'tabs' are available for that purpose: 'Downloaded Matches' and 'Downloaded Table'.
  2. It is possible to select the round of matches to look at.
  3. In the 'favourites' tab it is now possible to select a default league. That will be the one that will be opened when QSportsEvent is launched.
  4. Background images should now be correct in all tabs. They were not in 0.0.5.
  5. This version will NOT be uploaded to Extras-Devel (except for Diablo) due to the well known issue with Qt based applications and the non-release of PR1.2.


Version 0.0.7 will include the following. Tentative release date is 5-10 days after 0.0.6:

  1. Flag icons instead of country name in the 'regions' of the 'Favourites' tab.
  2. New about page, potentially with a link to this Wiki.
  3. In the 'Downloaded Table' tab, it should be possible to view the table standings for a specific round, not only the most recent situation.
  4. In the 'Downloaded Matches' tab is should be possible to select by Team as well as by round.
  5. When a RSS URL is selected, a CSS will be applied to it to render it in a more readable fashion.
  6. Some surprises? We'll see what time will allow...
  7. If PR1.2 is released, this might make it to Extras-Devel, but don't count on it too much...


Version 0.0.8

  1. Bugfix version only.
  2. This will be the candidate for pushing to Extras-Testing. Help will be needed for testing this one.


Version 0.0.9

  1. Reserve version


Version 0.1.0

  1. This is the one for Extras-Testing and (hopefully...) Extras


Version 0.1.1

  1. Make use of some features from Qt4.6, most notably portrait mode where it makes sense


Version 0.1.2 and others...

  1. tbd...


Version 0.2.0

  1. This is the 'World Cup ready' version with all the features to allow us to fully enjoy the FIFA World Cup 2010!.

How to report issues and feature requests

At the moment, the best way to report issues and suggestion is to post them to the thread on talk.maemo.org or to send an email to qsportsevent@gmail.com.