Hot news: Windows 8 support!

We just released a new Windows package version 0.9.5-2. This new package also supports the brand new Windows 8. With 0.9.5 there was an issue concerning the internet game. Some players reported in the forum that PokerTH crashes on Windows 8 when an internet game starts. This should be fixed with the new package. So we hope you will enjoy PokerTH also on your new Windows 8 system. As usual, you can find the new PokerTH package in our download section.

Have a lot of fun!
Your PokerTH development team

pokerth.net relaunch

Today on 2012-10-19 we are happy to present you our new website for www.pokerth.net! Now the site is based on a very uptodate cms software and a fresh, technical powerful template with a modern look and feel. The new template is also optimized for mobile phone or tablet browsers.

With the relaunch we also provide a new chat service. Click Community -> Lobby-Chat to be able to read the PokerTH lobby-chat stream while playing an online-game

We hope you enjoy the new pokerth.net feeling. Any feedback concerning the site relaunch is welcome in the forum.

And now, as usual ...
Have a lot of fun ;)
Your PokerTH development team

PokerTH 0.9.5 - Android release

Today on 2012-06-21 we released PokerTH 0.9.5. The main feature of this release is the support for Android™ devices. We have ported the game with the help of the necessitas project which provides Qt libs for Android. If you would like to test the Android release, you simply need to download the APK file to you Android device (smartphone or tablet) and install it. Currently it is not available via google play, but as soon as the app is stable enough we will also publish it there.

For further information about the release please check the Changelog and Download pages.

And now have a lot of fun playing PokerTH on your phone or tab ;-)
Your PokerTH Development team!

PokerTH Android porting diary - UPDATE 2012-05

UPDATE 2012, May:
May time was also android time! After the first start of PokerTH in the android-emulator the GUI (Graphical User Interface) needs to be adjusted for the android display. The first steps were done on the start window and settings dialog.
The main difference between the android gui and the previous maemo gui was, that maemo users mostly uses the input pen for editing dialogs and input fields. Because android devices are mostly not shipped with input pens, and destinated to be used by finger touch input, many changes have to be done. Many buttons needs to be bigger to be catched also by "bigger" finger tips.
But there are also many dialogs with a lot of information like the settings dialog, which needs to be accessable on a clear widget space without rewriting the complete dialog. When we've found good compromises on the most dialogs the next big step was the gametable. Thanks to floty's maemo gametable gui changes, the main idea howto saving display space was already implemented. For the android version just a few adjustments are left.
So, one special may night the first gametable on a real android device shows up! Btw. the first android device with a running PokerTH app was doitux's Motorola Defy ;)

This article is about the long and difficult story of the PokerTH Android port.

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PokerTH-Heroes meeting 2012

Last weekend (2012-05-19) on a warm Saturday May morning the "Poker Heroes" Kai Schröder (our new developer) and Marcel "LuisCypher" Mudrich travelled to Gifhorn to meet the PokerTH Crew (Florian Thauer, Felix Hammer and Lothar May) on their "homefield" ;).

On the agenda we also had topics all around your needs and problems with the current ranking etc... 
After a good breakfast we started to discuss the idea to use webservices to improve the performance and stability of the system. Lothar and Kai agreed finally to implement webservices.

After the bad news in the 1st quarter of the year, where we lost our Poker Heroes developer Berthold, Kai was found and infected quite fast. That was the good news of the first quarters end, but finally he had to get into the code and make his own review. This took a lot of time and caused the freeze of development we have today. 

The focus of both teams is currently, to keep the system stable and in a good performance. Since a few weeks it seems we have a good condition. But we know that there is still a lot of potential to get better. We are on it.

Stability and performance is No1!
...but not all. So we went on to discuss the outlook till the end of the year. 

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