After a way too long period of silence on my website, I can now return to tell you that I've begun working on Googles mobile platform: Android. It all started with me getting quite interested in the new HTC Android smartphones. And of course, being a gadget guy I, of course, had to have one. This also seemed like a good alternative to the infamous iphone.
Well, to be honest, the iphone is not really an alternative, since I could never dream about getting myself an iphone. yuck. :-)
Anyways, I quickly got into the Android platform (and hence Java), and decided to create a calendar widget. This decision was taken after hearing lots of people not fully satisfied with the calendar widget that HTC had delivered (which only displays 1 event).
After little over a week in development I am now almost at a point where I feel it's
*almost* ready for an "official" release, and below is a screenshot of how the widget looks right now.
EDIT:
The screenshot below is from the first official release (v1.0) on Android Market.
I am planning to redo the design, however I need a better design before doing that.. ;-)
Google Calendar Widget v1.0
I'll let you know once it's released to the public, but until then I will do a small changelog.
It's released. Go get it.. :)
UPDATE
Version 1.0 (11-10-09)
- Released on Android Market. Have fun!
Version 0.993 (30-09-09)
- Changed: The way the events are displayed. Font and size.
Version 0.99 (28-09-09)
- NEW: Added EULA
- NEW: Added ability to view weeknumber instead of weekday
Version 0.98 (19-09-09)
- Bugfix: Accidentally set the time to 00:00 on events happening right now
Version 0.97 (13-09-09)
- Changed: Agenda list from current day till current week agenda
- Changed: Some functionality in the new API making it more efficient and fast
- Changed: Allday events will have their time shown as 00:00
Version 0.96 (08-09-09)
- Changed: Opening the HTC calendar is now done by "clicking" on the current date (left side of the widget)
- NEW: Now able to opens the HTC calendar on todays agenda list by "clicking" on the events (right side of the widget)
Version 0.95 (08-09-09)
- NEW: Now opens the HTC calendar (month view) when "clicking" on the widget. This will most likely only work if you have an HTC phone (not testet on other phones)
Version 0.94 (05-09-09)
- Added: More update intervals (15/30 minutes). NOTICE: Selecting an update rate below 1 hour *may* cause an increase in battery usage (battery usage not tested)
- Changed: Added a zero to dates (in the event list) on dates before the 10th
Version 0.93 (05-09-09)
- NEW: Added completely new CalendarAPI. This API gets it's data from the built in Calendar (if one exists) instead of going online and getting them through HTTP. NOTICE: The actual content provider in Android is still "private", so the API may break when the next version of Android arrives (should be fixable though should it happen)
- NEW: Automatically determines which API to use. If you have the internal calendar, that calendar will get priority. It will ask you for login credentials if using HTTP API
Version 0.90 (not released to test)
- Bugfix: Widget would not update properly after a restart (Thanks Espen)
Version 0.89 (not released to test)
- Changed: Functionality regarding the network availability check
Version 0.87 (31-08-09)
- Bugfix: Issues with the event comparer caused it to sort wrongly (Thanks to m.klinge for helping me out)
Version 0.85 (31-08-09)
- Added: Network availability check. Should prevent the HTTP connection from timing out, causing the widget to override itself with "No events coming up.."
- Bugfix: Sorting was wrong when dealing with recurring events
- Changed: When adding the widget the first time, the "current date" is updated right away, instead of waiting for the events to finish
Version 0.80