Thanks Redd.
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It contains the first letters of my, my wife, our son, and our dogsā names and our surname. On purpose, wasnāt just a happy coincidence.
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Now I have to go find a decent Android emulator and install it on my PC just so that I can also say āI was one of the first people on the planet to play Idle Observatoryā.
Any emulator suggestions?
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Underrated post. Deserves more likes.
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Just some things to consider.
- What did you use to design the mockups and do you have the assets?
- Do you plan on releasing this to the Apple AppStore?
- The AppStore has certain human interface guidelines in order to be considered as āpassedā in their QA process.
I can work on some improvements if you like, I can do this in Figma, Sketch or XD, each of which has collaborative support. Letās colab and get this looking slick af. We can even use this space to gather and guage feedback.
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So Iām getting a bit overwhelmed by the support from you all, in a good way. Iāve literally spent the last 3 months every day working on the app sitting on a small couch in a corner of the room for it now to be out in the open is scary. I need to drive now so Iāll collect my thoughts and be back later.
Thank you again to everyone 
Edit. Not collect my thoughts, collect my composure, or however you say it. You know what I mean 
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See! I know squat about idle games and I said exactly the same thing when @Entity showed this to me.
Whatās even more impressive is that you can change how many of a generator you want to buy and the countdown timer will show you how long it will take to get up to that milestone too.
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As @Entity knows, Im loving the game already, its fun, its pretty and I love the relaxing music
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I use LD player, so far so good, i also used Nox before but LD works better so far, they also have a nice faq and support section, as there was a while where I could not figure out why it wouldnāt run, and could easily find the answer.
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I clicked the download link
I touched the stars and found the secrets of the universe
I ascended and became even more efficien
I saw no videos for other games
10/10
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Thanks TT. Found and installed BlueStacks in between and it seems to work pretty decently so far. If I run into issues with it Iāll definitely check out LD Player.
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Ok Iām all sorted now and able to sit and go through everything here. I always appreciate any help/advice/critique but please donāt take offense if I donāt want to use a suggestion.
Thatās good, but feel free to mention anything you may see. I already have a bit of a list of things to sort out from people finding glitches but Iāll try fix them in updates and sort them out right under your nose without you noticing
Here, now that we have a dedicated area.
I used the Android Studio built in Layout Editor to throw the layouts together.
By āassetsā do you mean the images? or something else that I donāt know what youāre talking about?
I would like to maybe put it on the AppStore one day but thatās far in the future.
I did try my best to be guided by the Android Developer guidelines for things, but there are still some things I would like to tweak visually. I just made the app functional and would tweak the appearances later.
You can throw something together if you want. I do not know any of those softwares. I would just like to keep the style of the dark look of things. My biggest thing I want to change eventually are the big blue ābuyā buttons. Again, they were just to be functional to be āsoftenedā later. I even have ideas to put the gained production of each buy on each button. The ideas list is long.
I always wanted to know if I should carry on playing a game for a few more minutes to get an upgrade or if it was going to take hours because then I would close the app and come back later once it had offline generated. So seeing that I canāt do quick maths to divide the cost into the total funds I have I made it do it for me.
Thank you for giving it a try.
I also use Bluestacks as an emulator for testing, as well as the build in one from the software.
So Iāll post any updates here as I go as best I can. Post your progress screenshots if you want to see how you compare. PS. leaderboards and speedruns are part of my plansā¦
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I see you rocking those solid counts, 200, 100, 50ā¦ 
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OCD,
OCD.
Greg isā¦
OCD!
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Did you build it in vanilla Android, i.e. a language running on the JVM? Otherwise you can opt to rebuild it in something like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin or NativeScript. I suspect even Ionic (Angluar, React or Vue) would suffice for this game. All of those options will give you the ability to compile one code-base to native Android and iOS. The added benefit of Ionic is having a PWA right out the gate as wellā¦
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Bug Report: When I close the game and come back to it, the idle counter seems broken. I left the game alone for not more than 15 minutes, but when I got back it told me I was away for 11 hours, and I got all the money and findings for those 11 hours away. Definitely an exploit and one that you should look at.
Edit: tried again and it correctly calculated my away time. Not sure if this does it every time but honestly Iām not complaining, that boost gave me enough to get some good progress.
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Thats a weird one. Overnight on mine when I woke up this morning and checked it, it had said it was offline for 9 hours but only did 2 hours worth of productionā¦Howād you get 11 hours worth 
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Does it sync with the one on your phone? I donāt want to restart
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No idea. I donāt have an Android phone, thatās why Iām using an emulator on my PC.
(I honestly thought that was obvious to everyone, so sorry if I confused you) 
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