Competition For Tech Savvy Sikhs

[Sewadar]

Ground Rules*:

1. Must mentioned anywhere in the app "SikhSangat.com Prachar" competition.
   
2. If you need Techie mentor, please feel free to contact Amardeep Singh or Hardeep Singh of SikhSangat.com
   
3. Competition is being sponsored by Sanmukh (GuptKuri) - Admin of sikhsangat.com
   
4. Prizes value upto $200 per app (ipod touch/kindle fire valued at $200)
   
5. Additional help will be provided by SikhSangat.com upon contact.
   
6. Contact us before you start working on app. Requires pre-approval.
   

* we may modify rules or guidelines at any time.

[Guru_Da_Chella]

I do not understand this:

1. Must mentioned anywhere in the app "SikhSangat.com Prachar" competition.
   

Can you reword it please?

Also does the app have to do something with Dropbox or LinkedIn (Just asking because they are shown in the pic)?

[HDSH]

1. Somewhere in the app, it must be mentioned that the app was developed for a "Sikhsangat.com parchar" competition

Please ignore the pictures, the app does NOT need to do anything with any other apps out there right now. Although, implementing something like a dropbox may serve to enhance your app. It is definitely not a requirement.

I hope that clarifies the requirements

[Sarbat da Pala]

very interesting. does any body have good tutorials for android?

till when we have to creat the app?

[Balait_da_Sher]

I went through the android bootcamp series. Really good.

http://marakana.com/techtv/android_bootcamp_screencast_series.html

[noname27]

would an android app that lets you view videos sikhi related like prayers work?

only in the 9th grade but i think i can tackle this one :D

[HDSH]

Hanji Payareo, the app you are suggesting should be okay for the competition. However, we request that you please submit a design document before you start building the app. It does not have to be technical, we are simply looking for a high level overview of what you envision the app to be, how it would work etc.

Dhanwaad

[HDSH]

Please do not be put off by the requirement of a Design Document. If this is not something you are able to do, a small paragraph describing the app will be sufficient as well

[HDSH]

Get training on how to build good apps for Android for free

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[DalbirSingh]

Anyone want to work together? perhaps we can use a xml parser to give things of gurbani searching websites like www.srigranth.org, www.sridasam.org, www.sikhitothemax.com and www.searchgurbani.com maybe we could do a webmashup. Could do the design of the classes to program, maybe we should setup an opensource group have all the programmers work together.

Design some of the classes, objects, methods and attributes. Perhaps we could have a look at other similar existing programs to get a clue of the type of program we want maybe even things designed for other religions and so forth get some tips on programming techniques. Could feed in an entire pdf and bookmark it at some points or split it to work with the database to search it maybe using sql.

Could link it to audio as well maybe mahankosh. Or on the go loading using better fonts. We could work with better font styles. Maybe provide source code for easy adaptation to all platforms or could leave it a webformat to load into an applet. Design for blackberry, iphone and android platforms.

Even the sikhitothemax.com can be fixed up if they made it opensource... it has a few bugs that can be fixed. Well if you feed in an entire akhan paath we could make a program to play a select amount for an ang or tuk of bani. Does anyone have suraj prakash granth would really want to do something with that maybe a search engine. Could get a few tips off http://bible.cc or http://quran.com/