While dragging a list item, it will appear duplicated as you move it around the list. Probably just a simple UI fix.

Add game round number to a corner of each player. This would allow one to see at a glance any player in which a score entry was missed. Currently it is easy to miss entering a zero value for a player when playing a game in which a score must be entered for each round for each player.

That would be sweeeeet!

Need to fix the UTF-8 content type.

It would be cool to export all your games into a CSV file so you can check it out in Excel or Google Docs. Games on the Y axis, players on the X axis, etc.

A global "Undo" button might be nice. It's conceptually simpler than the whole "long-press on the history, and then undo the last score."

It would be nice if games could be saved to an xml file on the sdcard and then reloaded later.

The score history column isn't wide enough for 4 digits. It will display the first 3 digits and the +/- sign on one line and the fourth digit on a second line. Even better if it could auto-adjust its size to prevent wasting space.

Need to test extra-small screen sizes to see what's wrong.

Sometimes historical score chart lines for some players show breaks.

Currently autosuggestions only pop up when at least one character is entered. I'd really like to see constant autosuggestions - it would make it easier to start up new games, when you always play with the same players.

It's not cool when the interface just freezes for a second before saving the game with the edited players.

Allow 2-8 players rather than 2-6. Suggested by Mike from the Android Market.

Some users have asked for this. Round totals are apparently necessary for certain games, and then there's also another user who requested:

One feature that it could benefit from would be the ability to show the average score for specific or all players.

The XML file should be automatically backed up, if Dropbox is installed and this setting is used.

Could be useful for Catan, Carcassonne, etc.

I think it's a screen-size problem; the app works well with my friend's smartphone (sony xperia arc s). I have a sony xperia miro. If I play with 7 or 8 players, then it works because the numers are smaller on my display.

There is a lot of wasted space in the 2-player view. The increment buttons from the popup window (-1, 1, 5, 10) could easily fit in there.

Hi, and thanks again for the great app!

I have a feature request:
It would be great to add the ability to customize the value of the + and- buttons (to the left and right of the current scores in the attached screenshot.)

The game we play counts by 5.

Thanks again,

Pete

They can fit if the layout is flipped to portrait view.

Currently, the increment buttons only show up in 2-player mode, but they could fit in 4 or maybe 6-player mode on tablets. As one user suggested:

"Also, is there a way to add an option to have the four buttons you can select the value of get copied onto the main screen, rather than +/- the two biggest numbers?"

Should pop up a screen saying, "Highest score wins/lowest score wins" (could create multiple winners), manually select winner(s), and optionally name games. This gives people a way to keep track of who won what games.

In the Load Game screen, the name of the game would precede the list of players, and the winner would come first (bolded).

Currently KeepScore can destroy a phone's battery, because having the screen on eats a ton of power. During a two-hour game of Rummy, the battery on my Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.2 dropped almost 20%.

Turning the screen off entirely is not an option, because we don't want to make users unlock their lockscreen over and over again. (Especially because your friends probably don't know your password.) But dimming the screen after a certain timeout might offer some battery savings.

Hi, could you please implement the following simple feature, I would be very grateful if you would.

Could you allow an option in the settings for only 1 player to score in each round. For example, in a game like boules or bocce, only 1 player can score in a round, and a player may win several rounds (frames) consecutively, with the other player of course scoring 0. The reason I'm asking for this feature, is that the history would reflect the flow of these games with it.

Thank you.

Ability to automatically resort players by score or even by turn, with high/next player at upper left corner, would be very helpful in some games.

From a user:

The second thing is perhaps a place to manually place a new score in after you've gone a couple of rounds...like, if I realized I need to edit a score from round 2, but we are already on round 4, I can't easily go back and change that with the current app

a round based mode would be useful for games like scrabble, where you have up to four players, could still make good use of the many-button-interface, and players only score in sequence.

round based mode could look similar to two-player mode, with one of the players replaced with a list of players in sequence with their score, an indication of whose turn it is, and a button for "next player". explicitly selecting a player should also be possible, optionally moving the "current turn" indicator.

in round based mode, there should not be a timeout for committing a change to history; instead, history should be written whenever the player is changed.

There should be categories with titles like "Today," "Yesterday," "Last Week," etc. Also, the dates displayed should be friendlier, cf. Google Docs.

Some of the terms are poorly translated.

The "Reset" dialog is confusing. It should be replaced with Reset/Copy buttons.

Either have a "delete all" menu button or allow the user to "select all" and then delete.

For some reason, on my HTC Magic running Eclair, the buttons and lines don't stretch properly. This is a change introduced with the ViewStubs post-v1.1. Need to investigate.

The physical buttons on a phone are usually at the bottom. In KeepScore, the "+" button for a player on the right side of the screen is too close to these physical buttons. The score history should be moved to the right to give a nice buffer of space.

Current behavior: upon entering the score screen, the app forces the device to landscape mode.

Proposed behavior: do not change the screen orientation at all. Instead, just follow whatever orientation the device has (portrait or landscape). This means that, for some devices, a single-column layout might be better.

The user should be able to drag and drop players wherever they want.

The games take a long time to load, and it's because the XML layouts are very inefficient. This needs an overhaul, preferably with liberal use of the , , and tabs, as described here:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/03/android-layout-tricks-3-optimize-with.html

Users seem to be confused by the options to manage the increment buttons, and the fact that the buttons in the popup are managed in the same way as the buttons in the 2-player layout. They should be managed separately.

As one user said:

"Hi, just trying your app and found that button settings are not working 100%. Please see the attached screen shots. Otherwise it looks good, but how about an undo? Maybe it is there already ..."

Current behavior: popup buttons (-1, +1, +5, +10) show up if the user long-touches the -/+ buttons.

Proposed behavior: also show those popup buttons if the user touches the score itself.

Modify on-screen score buttons to allow zero value. This would speed the entry of zero values for games requiring a score entry (including zero) for each round. Currently one has to click and hold the score history column, then select "Add zero". If one is not careful, the "Delete Last Score" may be pressed by mistake.

Example: I would like to set the on-screen buttons to "0", "5", "10", "20" for use with the card game "Five Crowns" but currently buttons must be a "non-zero" value. Otherwise, this is the best score-keeping app around. Great for visually impaired too!

This way, you don't have to press backspace in order to delete the 0 before entering a new value.

Users are reporting that their scores are being erased. My guess is that this is due to certain Android builds killing the AsyncTask that is launched from the onPause() or onDestroy() method.

The only solution I can think of is to have a background AsyncTask to periodically save the game.

Could you please add a timer option in the app ? For limiting the time take by each player ?

Suggested by Jordi. The black-on-white color scheme drains the battery more heavily than white-on-black would. It would be nice to have something in the Settings to allow the user to change this.

It's got a face only a mother could love.

For certain games, it would be cool to have a saved set of templates with values that work well for that game. For instance, for Magic the Gathering, you could have two life counters and two poison counters. Or for cribbage, you could have four players and certain score increments.

These could be shared across devices, people could create their own and share them with each other, etc.

The score history column doesn't seem to be wide enough for 3 digits. It will display the first 2 digits one one line and the third digit on a second line.

I can't tell you how many emails I've gotten from people who don't seem to understand the simple fact that KeepScore saves all your games and you can access them at any time from the "Load Games" menu.

Answer: it's not the users who are stupid; it's KeepScore. Saved games shouldn't be hidden behind the "Load Game" button - they should just pop up on the main screen.

For instance, for new users the screen could just be the gigantic icon with a big button saying "New Game." Once a single game is saved, though, the screen has a smaller icon with the list of saved games below it, and a "New Game" button at the top. Or something like that.