Hello Guys, I created an android app that allow users to watch and listen to motivational videos of great speakers and authors in various category of the choice.
Your suggestion is needed and please rate it for me.
Download on : Play Store
Nice, but I hope you know there are playlists on YouTube that serves this purpose, right?
Does the app download the motivation videos or just allows one to stream it? Becos YouTube allows users to stream and download videos. I would have tried it out but I use a Windows phone and it seems no one wants to develop apps for usš
We could post pictures on Facebook before instagram came up andā¦ we all know what happened. Nice @ OP
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Smh to this post. My people never just get it. Instagram: Facebook is not anything like this. But if you donāt know that, just never mind. Have fun.
I donāt know how you made your comparison but i wonāt argue. I wouldnāt usually leave a comment but i guess i had enough. Every time someone puts out an idea here, someone is quick to say why the project should not be continued all because someone started first. Iām sure if the guys at snapshat put there idea here first someone would have said thereās instagram, if guys at hitwe put there idea here first someone would say thereās badoo. but some how the apps i mentioned are co existing with their predecessors.
I guess my pain exactly is if you said something like, " put the videos on YouTube first to get audience then the app " it would have been better.
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Itās quite funny how people are so quick to dismiss other peopleās ideas
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Totally wrong man. Motivational content is something one can get anywhere from FB to Instagram to YouTube. I am sure the OP knows this too. I felt it would have been easier if you helped him explore avenues to improve his product and not reminding him that he wasnāt inventing fire.
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In late 2012, I met with Jason Njoku, and I was telling him about my event ticketing startup at the time. His words were: Bro, there are easier ways to become a millionaire.
I didnāt listen at the time. I spent another year, listing events and getting cinemas so I can make 5-10% over ticket sales many Nigerians will buy any way offline, and event venue.
Point Iām trying to make is, there is a place for encouraging a player to keep pushing. And there is a place for brutal honesty. When you see the road ahead, and you find itāll be a hard rock to beat, say it as it is.
I could easily comment and say: he should keep aggregating motivational contents off vimeo and YouTube, but to what end? He likely will be better off, reading my message clearly and direct his talent and energy in another direction or pursuit.
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Its not up to any single entity to determine the kind of place Radar should be. Its a natural thing and it will evolve in the direction the community want it to.
Its a learning process bro. Everyone has a unique learning curve.
Thatās not what Iām stating about encouraging or being honest with feedback. Iām talking specifically about projects. Nothing about Radar.
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I donāt see anything wrong in @akindoluās initial comment.
He complimented the OP first, then went ahead to ask him a question.
The question he asked on the surface had an implication (not at all hostile): āwhat is different about yours?ā He wasnāt attacking anyone. He wasnāt even the least bit rude.
Or did you guys come here with some sort of bias against @akindolu?
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May luck shine on OP 
I have learnt that NO EXPERT is right about your startupās future. You need to stick your gut out yourself and learn your lessons. AND if you fail (there is 99% chance of that happening), pick the next challenge and run with it.
While @akindoluās wise words are worth heeding, I have realized that it is possible to succeed when you execute om your ideas (typically, your chances are like 0.005%), for example:
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AfriTicket is in the same market that @akindolu could not fully scratch. Funny, I attempted a ācloneā of Eventful.com which I almost stupidly spend N11Million to create in 2010/12 before I came to my āsensesā ALSO,
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@JasonNjokuās IrokoTV became successful despite Sim Shagaya failing at a similar model earlierā¦
My 50 cents.
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Alright. Letās keep feeding the beast. Please OP, keep going with the motivational video app. Iām sure these fellas will refund with the time and resources if things donāt work out. Out now!
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Your app is not fine
Knowing how to use the support library is not enough. Please hire a designer. -
Your floating action button (FAB)ā¦ What does it do? Google recommends that you use only familiar icons in those buttons so as not to confuse your users.
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Speaking of confusion, I donāt seem to understand the flow of the app. the FAB keeps carrying me upandan the app.
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Login. The app tries to log me in without entering any details into the text fields. Authenticate your users on the client side first before attempting any communication with the server. Alert the user if any of the required fields are not filled.
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Action Bar. You have a Search menu icon and an UPLOAD text. Choose one for consistency. You can decide to have only icons, or have only text (as seen in the Medium app).
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Please see the image below. Itās not an Android Design pattern to have the tiny chevron-right icons in a list. A better way of displaying this will be to increase the list-itemās height, have the image span the whole width of that list and then display a tiny block of text on the image with the title and video length.
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I have to give you some credit here. You handled some use cases when there was no internet connection, but not all of them. Please check how your app responds to empty states.
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Your app is not fine.
Please hire a designer, or check uplabs.com for design inspiration.
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While not trying to de-motivate the OPās efforts, Iāll amplify akindoluās thoughts here. I find that itās easy for me to launch the YouTube app across several devices and search āmotivationalā which will yield a plethora of satisfying results. Even better, YouTube will track my interests (using my Google account) and suggest related content during subsequent visits.
This brings me back to the question: what are you doing differently? Are you sourcing for and sharing scarce, unique content that people are looking for, but canāt find online? What exactly does this app do? I guess the application (which I havenāt downloaded) answers these questions but I want to be convinced itās worth installing.
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Well said, moyin! Many people seem to think that using the support libraries us all there is to design.
And I canāt count the number of times I see Android design guidelines violated in most apps I use. (Iāve violated them a couple of times, myself).
I think, even if youāre the sole person handling a project (dev & design), the least you could do is read through (the necessary parts of) Googleās design guidelines.
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You didnāt answer my question so Iām asking again. Does the app allow users to download and save the motivational videos or does it allow them to only stream this videos?
Thank you all for the reviews and criticisms, i know it is for the purpose of making the app better
thank you for taking out time to check out the app, initially, i was testing the app on my samsung tab with large screen size, so i didnt suspect the textview would overlap on a smaller screen device. thanks for pointing that out.
concerning your comments, i guess i would just do the ffg.
- remove all FABās
- work on the authentication page, and
- invest in the design.