Gasbot $7.00???

Yeah, great to see a developer here on our forums.  Welcome to TmoNews and good luck with your apps.  I agree it sucks with that horrible restriction Google has put on your character limitations.  I have not had the best experience with accuracy of the gas prices in my area (Lawrence, KS) but I realize that isn't your fault.  Besides the information that is out of your control, the app itself is very good and since the first rendition, has done a much better job of finding my location.  I also love the new ability to enter the address for those times when I'm indoors and just can't get a GPS signal.  On that note, might I recommend trying to use the general location service that the G1 has using cell network for another "My Location" option when GPS isn't an option.  That would be just easier then entering in my address.  All in all though, nicely done.  I am starting on my own apps (very basic right now) and hope I can make something this polished.

Gasbot,

You get karma for showing up and explaining, I also want to say kudos on your app, I also want to apologize for all those ignorant comments that are left to any of you app developers, the comments section is supposed to be a place where you can get feed back and not tirade of stupidity with  things like "first post' and my political or religious view is better than yours as well as the low ratings from ppl who just seem way to ignorant to post anything when their silence would be appreciated more than their 12 words of illiteracy.

Thanks man, yeah the comments are often garbage, but I know it's just the kids having their fun with anonymity.  Hopefully it doesn't turn off other developers, but I have to admit it did make me think twice about whether I made the right move engineering GasBot for the Android platform for a moment.  Google is getting hammered pretty hard on their help forums about having some kind of comment moderation and thus far they're kind of resisting it, but hopefully they wisen up a bit and realize that without it, the kids are just going to run wild and end up ruining it for everyone.

Yeah, great to see a developer here on our forums.  Welcome to TmoNews and good luck with your apps.  I agree it sucks with that horrible restriction Google has put on your character limitations.  I have not had the best experience with accuracy of the gas prices in my area (Lawrence, KS) but I realize that isn't your fault.  Besides the information that is out of your control, the app itself is very good and since the first rendition, has done a much better job of finding my location.  I also love the new ability to enter the address for those times when I'm indoors and just can't get a GPS signal.  On that note, might I recommend trying to use the general location service that the G1 has using cell network for another "My Location" option when GPS isn't an option.  That would be just easier then entering in my address.  All in all though, nicely done.  I am starting on my own apps (very basic right now) and hope I can make something this polished.

Yeah actually what it tries to do is if the GPS location is turned on, it asks the GPS system to let it know when it has a fix.  Then it waits 20 seconds and if the GPS receiver hasn't responded by then, it'll ask the network location api to let it know which is usually instantaneous.  I originally had written it so that if GPS was off, but network location was on, then it would just go straight to there for the loc, but I believe I've found a bug in the LocationManager API where if the GPS is off and you try to query the network location, it gives an unhandled exception even when wrapped in a try/catch.  So if the GPS is off, but the network location is on then it'll just pull from the last known location like it used to do all the time in the 0.6 - 0.8 versions.

Let me know if you need any help with your apps, I know I had my fair share of trials and tribulations while writing GasBot!

Kansas City

$1.38

***Found with Gasbot

+1 to Gasbot again

Kansas City

$1.38

***Found with Gasbot

+1 to Gasbot again

Damn!  I haven't seen gas that cheap since I was 16!!!  I just saw a station around here that had it for $1.40!  I think the gas companies are finally giving us a break.  I'm afraid to see what happens next summer though!

i think that's where your application comes in,  hmm i wonder if gas stations will price match????

i think that's where your application comes in,  hmm i wonder if gas stations will price match????

Haha if only!  That's where I've gotten most of my value out of ShopSavvy is pricematching!  So far i'm undefeated when it comes to showing a cashier my phone and saying that it's cheaper elsewhere so I want them to discount it!

Kansas City

$1.38

***Found with Gasbot

+1 to Gasbot again

I don't know man, that's a BP....need to be careful with their gas.  What was it, about a year ago that the BP on Iowa St here in Lawrence ruined a bunch of people's engines because they put diesel in it or something?  I had almost gotten gas there that day, too.

I imagine they've learned their less by now though. 

A buck thirty eight though....damn!  I think we're still in the buck fifties over here - I hate Kansas gas prices.

Out here in Cali the lowest we seem to have is about $1.69.  Hell, we were filled with joy when it hit $1.99.

Regarding the program, so far for me it's been accurate although it seems like not every station is reported on everyday.  I've noticed that the longest a station here has not reported is maybe 1 or 2 days at the most.  I'm sure that's something that is probably out of the author's control considering that the information is from other sources. 

That said, I've found it to be a very handy application and gladly paid the $7.00 for it last week.  I figure out here in California, $7.00 was close to a gallon and a half of gas not more than 2 or 3 months ago....so it's a small price to save some money.

Out here in Cali the lowest we seem to have is about $1.69.  Hell, we were filled with joy when it hit $1.99.

Regarding the program, so far for me it's been accurate although it seems like not every station is reported on everyday.  I've noticed that the longest a station here has not reported is maybe 1 or 2 days at the most.  I'm sure that's something that is probably out of the author's control considering that the information is from other sources. 

That said, I've found it to be a very handy application and gladly paid the $7.00 for it last week.  I figure out here in California, $7.00 was close to a gallon and a half of gas not more than 2 or 3 months ago....so it's a small price to save some money.

Thanks for the support man.  From what the data providers tell me, they pull their prices from people using credit/gas cards.  I guess somehow they've tied in with the stations and can get that somehow.  Now my guess is that it's probably certain gas cards cause otherwise you'd think that the data would be updated on an hourly basis and every single station would be in there (except Costcos who don't allow anything but amex or debit cards.)

I got if for $1.36 on 39th near independence center mo

I got if for $1.36 on 39th near independence center mo

Holy crap!  I'm going to fill my pants if it hits .99c per gallon anywhere this winter.  (Don't hold me to that)

I got if for $1.36 on 39th near independence center mo

Holy crap!  I'm going to fill my pants if it hits .99c per gallon anywhere this winter.  (Don't hold me to that)

It won't happen....

I got if for $1.36 on 39th near independence center mo

Holy crap!  I'm going to fill my pants if it hits .99c per gallon anywhere this winter.  (Don't hold me to that)

It won't happen....

This is true.  However I was hoping some oil exec would see that post and drop prices to that in an attempt to force me to publicly crap my pants.

Although, after checking my search logs.  It looks like the lowest price of gas found anywhere in the country was $1.09 a gallon for unleaded somewhere in Roanoke, VA!!!  That's only 10 cents away.

A buck nine??  Incredible....

I don't believe it.  Does your provider take into account discounts and stuff that people can get?  Like for example you can get 3 cents off a gallon at walmart gas pumps if you use a gift card or walmart credit card.

A buck nine??  Incredible....

I don't believe it.  Does your provider take into account discounts and stuff that people can get?  Like for example you can get 3 cents off a gallon at walmart gas pumps if you use a gift card or walmart credit card.

That is possible.  I've seen it with Safeways where if you use their card you get 3 cents off a gallon.  So the price they had in their system was with that 3 cent discount.

But even so, that would mean that it was at most like $1.19

EDIT: I'm also seeing $1.12 in Ellensburg, WA.  Seems like the coastal states are getting some breaks.

i was thinking about this and it is really cool and engaging to have a developer over in our beloved tmo forums... be cool to see tmonews also turn into a semi official app developers forum, and interact and give feedback to the developers, becuase those commentsin the market are rediculous , it almost deters me from commenting in them and if we had a way to interact on a tmonews forurm id say it would be pretty productive as this forum has taught me alot in general and we usually dont have the spammers and "1st" posters.
even if getting the devs to come over to tmonews is impossible google should really start an official forum for serious questions and comments to the devs and kind monitor and weed out the "weeetards".

and to those who complain about paying for apps, that is just crazy as why the hell would anyone wanna write cool innovative time consuming apps to give away to the very ungrateful public for free...
As of right i have alot of respect for the developers who are working hard right now and then instead of getting constructive critism are getting bashed and humilated, thats insane and very detering to anyone in that business.

Thanks for the kind words Justin.  I'm definitely here to hear what you guys think, what you'd like to see in future versions of the app, and what you think is wrong with the current version.

Well, you won me over GasBot.  I just purchased my license.  I do have one question/concern.  Is this a subscription that will automatically renew after a year?  If so, how can I disable that.  I'd prefer to just decide in a year whether or not I'd like to buy another license, rather then forgetting about it and being charged without realizing it.

Edit:  Reading the confirmation email, it seems to indicate I will automatically be charged.  If I login to my PayPal account and cancel the subscription, that will still allow me to use the year I already paid for right?

Well, you won me over GasBot.  I just purchased my license.  I do have one question/concern.  Is this a subscription that will automatically renew after a year?  If so, how can I disable that.  I'd prefer to just decide in a year whether or not I'd like to buy another license, rather then forgetting about it and being charged without realizing it.

Edit:  Reading the confirmation email, it seems to indicate I will automatically be charged.  If I login to my PayPal account and cancel the subscription, that will still allow me to use the year I already paid for right?

You got it.  You can cancel the subscription at any time and it'll allow you to finish out your year that you paid for.  You'll just get another license expired message next year.  Thank you very much for your support and like I said, if there's anything you'd like to see in the app either post it here or send me an e-mail to chris [at] gasbot [dot] net.

Well, you won me over GasBot.  I just purchased my license.  I do have one question/concern.  Is this a subscription that will automatically renew after a year?  If so, how can I disable that.  I'd prefer to just decide in a year whether or not I'd like to buy another license, rather then forgetting about it and being charged without realizing it.

Edit:  Reading the confirmation email, it seems to indicate I will automatically be charged.  If I login to my PayPal account and cancel the subscription, that will still allow me to use the year I already paid for right?

You got it.  You can cancel the subscription at any time and it'll allow you to finish out your year that you paid for.  You'll just get another license expired message next year.  Thank you very much for your support and like I said, if there's anything you'd like to see in the app either post it here or send me an e-mail to chris [at] gasbot [dot] net.

As long as I notice you are still hanging around here, you bet I'll be give you any feedback I can think of.  It's a well put together app you've made with a nice UI, so I have no complaints so far.

I may even bother you sometime with questions about developing if I ever get around to making a Market worthy app, since you seem to know what you're doing, ha.