Maker Faire - The Official App

Without a printed list of lecture event we're depending on this app. So may venues had different agendas/speakers than what was on the app; especially Electronics. And, I had to look up outside sources to find the venue for at least one speaker because it wasn't included on the app! Worst experience!

App is standard for event based apps. nothing special. one big problem which caused me to miss an event. Received a push notification for a change in an event I planned to attend and it did not show correctly in Android or at all in the notification section of the app.

Ridiculous Permissions overreach. Bluetooth? Contacts? The app is meant to give me information not suck it from me.

For a technology oriented event, it seems absurd that it takes this long to post this data in the app.....

Well intentioned, but favourites don't work, map is slow and under featured. Favourites is the whole point of this app though and it doesnt even work, neither does the food link

I meticulously went through the list and favourites what I wanted to see but then it just kinda blanked out. I'm reinstalling and KMFX

I'd love a pure offline mode but hey, it's the 21st C CE, even at&t 4G should be fine by now, right?

Not really useful for navigating the venue and favorites didn't work.

Like how i can take notes on app. Can star events I'd like to see.

Apparently I can't turn the notifications off, and it's way too early in the morning for this. So, I guess I'm uninstalling.

Impossible to use to locate anything.

This sounds like it will be useful in the next makerfare i attend.

Catch everything you want to see

Won't run on Android N.

Useful app for experiencing the wonders of the Maker Faire

It's not bad

Its good

Just what I needed

Seems to work now. However some links e.g OpenPiano are dead . Be careful not to go back to the event selection screen as you may get locked out if they change their data again

Very helpful!

Helpful!

Unexpectedly sub-par app for such an event. It has multiple issues: - tapping on anything in the Discovery screen crashes the app - incomplete info; it's 10 days until the event and the venues were not updated, they are still TBA in the app (latest version to date) while on the website are displayed correctly. One could only pray and hope that the rest of the info is accurate... - adding the favorites to Calendar it's a pain, the calendar buttons are impossible to touch without also touching the scroll bar. It's a Nexus 4, so it's not the smallest phone in the world. - adding favorites to the calendar inserts them off by 3 hours. Really, nobody there knew that NYC is not on the Pacific Coast?

How do you disable notifications on this crap? Edit: Maybe also fix the worthless map. Enjoyed the faire, could not wait to delete this horrible app

This app helped me plan my day.

Very helpful to have at your local Faire.

How many fn years will it be before you build a zoomable map into the app?

Very good now (last year sucked).. With the exception of maps... Where's the map?

Only way to not waste time at world maker faire

Cool

Like the new features

Marked a bunch of sessions a few days before the event. But everything disappeared a day before the event so I had to do it all again. Also some sessions were missing from my phone but were visible on a friend's phone, and vice versa. Slowness (dropping frames on a note 4) when moving from one view to another. Sometimes considerable lag of >3 seconds. All content was all there and it worked well offline.

Years later and still loving it. Now on the Galaxy S6 without a problem!

Out of date/inaccurate/lacking info

New version - at least it works in Lollipop now. It takes three clicks (from the schedule) to see the description of an event - and it's truncated quite short. They either needed a bigger description field or to tell the people writing the descriptions what the limit was! Still, useful. Glad they got it out before the event. Some of the events have a map pointing to locations! There's a notification setup, but it only worked the first time I hit a calendar button - now it doesn't pop up any more.

Very difficult to find and download app from Google play store. This app does not come up straight from a Google play store search. And If searched for from a cell phone you won't find it either. The only way we were able to get the app downloaded to our Samsung Galaxy's was to go to the Maker Faire website from a computer and click on the app link and enter play store from that link and added app to our wish list then install to phone. This process is not realistic and should be fix.

It's embarrassing that Make Mag selected such a low quality app to represent Maker Fair. I installed a week before the Bay Area Maker Faire, selected all my fav sessions, only to have them all disappear... Twice it did this. At least they got the map to display now w/o causing the app to crash. However, the map comes up with ALL the Points of Interest turned on by default.

installed for the Bay Area Maker Faire. Added my favorites. would get notification of a favorite when the time came up to go to it, unfortunately every single time I open the actual app it would list in my notifications every single favorite I added - again, it would do this every single time I opened the app. imagine getting 30 plus notifications every single time the app is opened. This includes even after the event expired and even weeks after the faire is over.

The interactive map and ability to pick exhibits and link to the map is great.

Layout is user friendly.

Very thorough and easy to navigate on the phone.