iPhone app: testers needed
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murraycu
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Hi. I wrote the new android app for Galaxy Zoo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.murrayc.galaxyzoo.app
I've almost finished writing an iPhone version. If you'd like to test it before it's released properly, please email me at murrayc at murrayc.com to let me know your Apple ID (usually your email address).
Here's a screenshot of the unfinished app so far:
https://github.com/murraycu/ios-galaxyzoo/blob/master/screenshots_for_translators/screenshot_iphone6_classify_portrait.pngPosted
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murraycu
translator
Surely someone is interested in an iPhone app for Galaxy Zoo?
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vrooje
admin, scientist
Ooh! Sorry, I missed this before -- definitely interested. 😃
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Capella05
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I would volunteer to help - but I only have an Android smartphone.
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jackity
😮 I want!
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murraycu
translator
@jackity , if you send me your email address (see the first message here) then I can add you as a tester.
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Missybee35
I have an iPad not an iPhone 😦 However, I have an Android phone, about to search and download the Android version, super excited! Thanks!
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Capella05
moderator
Hi everyone,
Glad you are all so enthusiastic about testing the i-phone app, but please remember not to post email addresses, contact details etc... in the thread - rather PM the original poster with details 😃
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murraycu
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The iPhone (and iPad) app is now finally available on the App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/galaxy-zoo/id363499733?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4Please try it out and let me know of any problems. Be gentle with me.
Any developers who want to get involved can find the source code here: https://github.com/murraycu/ios-galaxyzoo/
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ElisabethB
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Since I don't have anything 'i', I won't be of use at all.
But, good luck ! 😄
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I'm so used to doing everything GZ on my IPhone now i think i've really no use for an app, sorry.
Anyways forgot istore pw so no go anyway 😃
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Rick_Nowell
There is a thread started on Zooniverse Talk about citizen science and smartphones.
Citizen science on a smartphone: Participants' motivations and learning.
https://www.zooniverse.org/talk/14/53394Posted
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wandr
Bit late to this conversation, but I'd like to make 2 comments about the app, which I have downloaded both on iPad and iPhone.
1- on iPhone, the image is small and it doesn't seem possible to make it bigger (zoom in on), so I've given up on it as I feel it's harder to judge (as a neophyte, maybe)
2- This may be a bit more involved, but it would be interesting to press an image and be shown examples of what that particular feature might look like. For example, what a "lens" or "arc" may be. I'm so new, I was a bit shy of hitting that "talk" button for fear of bothering someone 😃
Now I know better...
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ironic
I am only using the GZ website in a browser (on Linux Mint), but find the classification path a touch confused. I wasn't sure how to contact the developers, but it seems to me that the 'round/cigar-shape' could easily be a disk viewed at intermediate angles, then further down in one path thru' the classification process, you ask for the type of 'oddity, but 'Done' is part of the oddity class, instead of being a separate button. My thoughts are rather muddled on this, and I don't know that much about galactic types, but it seems to me that there are more phenotypes than allowed for in the site.
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Budgieye
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Usually a nearly edge-on disk has a more pointy end. But if different people vote different ways, it means that the galaxy is hard to classify, and that is useful information in itself.
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super interested!
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