The first Android production version of the dpora app is done and has been submitted to the Google Play Store yesterday and to the Amazon Appstore today. There were a few added features, bug fixes and design changes during the testing phase. Everything appears to work but I would expect some things to break when in actual, real-world use. Unfortunately, those breaks cannot be discovered until real people are actually using it in a wide variety of unanticipated conditions, hardware specifications, Android or Fire OS versions and behavioral interactions. Thank you first adapters!

For everything to “appear to work”, there are now some minimum requirements: Android 5.1 and a 1080 pixel resolution width (left to right). Fire OS versions is not an issue since they can be updated to the latest release, similar to Chromebooks. By the way, this Android version (1.1) of dpora has been tested on a couple of Chromebooks too, and it works fine.

The app is set to launch (as soon as tomorrow) in around 20 countries and territories where English is an official language. Hopefully on-the-fly language translations and world-wide availability will be in the next app release or the one after.