Contribute

Lucid Dreaming App is intended to grow into a free, community supported tool for lucid dreaming. You can help make it better and keep it both free and ad-free! Here’s the app’s google code project: http://code.google.com/p/android-lucid-dreaming-app/

Pre-update testing – help needed!

It takes me a few hours before each release to test the app for both upgrade and fresh installs. This pushes releases further apart.

If you want to make the app work better, please send me an email at [ bugreport at luciddreamingapp.com ] if you want to help with testing. Testing the app involves installing the app on your system and seeing if it works/doesn’t work, and playing with the new features that are coming up. If you are feeling particularly helpful, I will send you a list of steps to execute as a part of the testing routine.

Here’s a list of phones which experienced some issues that I cannot easily replicate on my phone. Without testing, the Lucid Dreaming App may not work on these devices:

  • Samsung Captivate – reported unable to collect accelerometer data in app version 0.6.9.2
  • Samsung Galaxy S – reported unable to play sound in app version 0.6.9.2
  • Motorola Cliq2 – reported unable to calibrate in app version 0.6.9.2
  • Motorola Droid X – reported unable to calibrate in app version 0.6.9.2
  • HTC Hero (Android 2.2) reported freezes after several hours in app version 0.6.9.2
  • Huawei Ideos 8510 – freezes after a few hours in app version 0.6.9.2
  • Acer Iconia A500 Tablet (Android 3.0) – reported crash to splash screen after exactly 1 hour in app version 0.6.9.2
  • Google G1, Android 2.2.1 “The Official” mod, unable to finish calibration in app version 0.6.9.2

Translation/internationalization help

The lucid dreaming app is rapidly approaching a point where the app’s interface may be translated. If you would like to see the Lucid Dreaming App in your language, please contact me at [ bugreport at luciddreamingapp.com ]. Translating the app’s interface requires translating ~600 sentences and word sequences. Additional help may involve translating simplified documentation and simplified Android Market description.

Application development help

The app is developed in an Android flavored version of Java Standard Edition. As of May 11, it has about 50 classes of varying degrees of complexity. Do you have anything that you would like to see in the app? Maybe you can help with coding the app? Handheld tablets are the way of the future, and having an experience like this may really help you acquire skills for the tomorrow’s job market!

Additional help

  • Understand Statistics? The app can benefit from better understanding of covariance and variance!
  • Know how to do digital signal processing? The output of an accelerometer is noisy and digital. There’s only so much I can do to clean it up and make it useful. Maybe you can help?
  • Know how to set up matrices for Kalman filters? That can help make the app more accurate.
  • Work as a sleep tech and can verify the app’s output vs real actigraphy, polysomnography, etc
  • Are you familiar with JQuery, HTML or Javascript? You can help make the app’s interface even prettier

 

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12 comments on “Contribute”

  1. Giorgio on said:

    Hi, I’ve some experiences with JQuery, html and Javascript… :) and I can translate in Italian language… Is it a kind of open source project or only free?? Thanks… :)

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  2. Giorgio on said:

    ps: it works on Iconia Tab A500, maybe the graphic could be better, but it works greatly!!

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  3. Jacmarpet on said:

    Hello.

    I would be willing to translate the app into Danish :)

    I have experience with Android development.

    Jacob.

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  4. Øpi Váli on said:

    I would love to help in you beta testing. I don’t have any special training, but I do follow directions well. I also have a DROID X. Your sound level part of the program does not appear to show the sound decibels in the graphs. I don’t know if that is because the program or the hardware can’t do it. It would be nice so people can better pin point the source of a sound that may be disturbing their sleep. Also some phones have a light sensing abilities can that be added also?

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    • Alexander Stone on said:

      Hi,

      I tested the light sensor on the device, and at regular light, it has very poor sensitivity. It can distinguish between light and darkness, but the resolution does not allow for any kind of meaningful data.

      I’ll find out how the sound may be filtered to show man made sound only

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      • Øpi Váli on said:

        I am willing to do functionality testing for you if you want. I don’t have any programming skills, but I can follow direction.

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  5. No. on said:

    Is it possible to make an application that can read the graphs on a computer? It’s kinda annoying reading it on a small screen.

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    • Alexander Stone on said:

      You can try to email yourself a screenshot using the screenshot function the screenshots are located in /application data/lucid dreaming app/screenshots . Alternatively, there’s a lot of data being kept by the app, if you have that enabled. You can plot it in Excel. /application data/lucid dreaming app/logs

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  7. Deniz on said:

    Mr. Stone I am writing from Turkey and sadly your app is not available in our country. Normally only paid apps are restricted this way. If you can fix this problem or publish up to date apk on googlecode I can test it on Samsung Galaxy Ace and possibly translate it to Turkish.

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  8. Jordan on said:

    If you had a donations page I would love to chip in. No one can work for free, you have bills just like the rest of us. Get a page up where if people want to help support in a way other than time we would be able to ;) paypal friendly please

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