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Tick! A convenient timer!

Hi everybody !
After a year of lurking, i've published my first app !
It's called Tick! and it's a simple timer but i've worked hard on making it easy to launch.
Since there is no wheel selector on the sdk, I've developed one to set the number of minutes wanted. With three clicks, you can launch a timer to remaind you that your pastas or your eggs are ready !
Your comments are welcome !
Since I'm new on the forum, I'm currently not allowed to post external links, so if you want to try it, search for Tick! on the market or SlideMe. I will put images, links and QR-Code as soon as i will be allowed !
RabugenTom

Nice app. Any plans on releasing the source

Any chance for an APK for those of us without data?

Nice
Good Work Buddy works perfectly on Xperia X10i

Thanks for the replies ! I've added the apk posted on the market.
I'm working on an improved version !

Agreed, Great work RabugenTom. Love the custom wheel selection.
Have to admit, though, I'm dying to have multiple timers. I'm not sure off the top of my head how they would fit in with your snazzy countdown timeline, but I'm sure it could be done.
+1 for release of the source

Love the app... Mightve been nice if it worked with 30sec increments as well but that might just be me, and there are other more robust timer apps for when you need that i guess.
One thing I noticed though... If the app is open and showing on the screen (IE - not in the background while working on something else or on one of the home screens), Tapping the app notification (in the notifications pane) will "reopen" the apps interface, and this can be done multiple times.
Basically you end up with multiple instances of the same timer... So if youre looking to go back to whatever was open before - home screen or other - by pressing the back button, youll just close the last instance you "opened" via the notification, taking you back to the previous instance of that same timer, and so on until you reach the first one that was opened when you started the app.
It doesnt seem to affect the functionality of the app in any way that ive seen, but it is rather odd.
Sort of like tapping the notification calls on the wrong "show" function, opening a new window rather than un-hiding the original.

Thanks for the feedbacks !
I'm working on an improved version with pause mode, multiple timers and 30s increments. I will maybe release the source later, after a lot of cleaning !
For the notifications, it's the behavior of android which works by intents. Theses are sort of messages send to applications. Intents depends on something they call Context. This is very powerful since you can launch (or do whatever you want to) an application in different ways, and the behavior of the application can depend on the intent. For example, when you launch an application from the launcher on the home screen, you actually send an intent to the application.
In the Tick! case, when you click on the notification, you send an intent to bring back to foreground (if hidden) or relaunch (if closed) the application GUI (which is different from the counting "engine" which is a background process called Service). The intent sent from the notification is different from the one you used to launch it, thats why it relaunch the GUI because the system thinks it is a different context (which is the case).
You can try it : launch from the launcher, launch a timer, go back to the home screen. Now, the GUI is no more in foreground. If you open the notification bar an click on the notification it will relaunch the GUI as expected, and if you continue to click on it again, it will do nothing (as expected). That's because the second time you launched the app, you did it by sending an intent from the notificiation bar, which is different from the one from the launcher.
Now, i don't find this behavior very annoying, and I don't want to write 100 lines of code to handle differents cases! A trivial solution may exist, but I'm too novice with Android to look at it. If someone knows this easy solution, it will be a pleasure to implement it !

Very nice timer. However I have found two problems:
1. When selecting the notification tone, "Default" plays my ringtone when previewing, but when used for real it plays the default notification sound instead.
2. I used Tick for a five minute countdown several hours ago, and afterwards I exited the program and cleared the notification, but it still prevented my phone from sleeping all these hours, draining the battery severely. I had to use a process killer to get my phone to sleep.
Do you really need to keep the phone from sleeping, even during the countdown? A timer is just an alarm with a countdown, and alarms work even when the phone is sleeping. You just have to update the progress every time the phone wakes up. Right?

Hi,
1-I will look on the notification problem. It is quite strange since it always worked for me. Note that the parameter are set for the notification at the launch of the counter. Every change you make will affect only new countdowns. When you exit the app, it always save the last parameters, even made during a countdown, and restore them at a relaunch. So it is strange, and since i've improved again the counting engine, I hope this will be solved in the coming release.
2-You're right, I've found conditions when the wake-lock is not released at the end of the countdown. It's set now. However, the wake-lock requested is partial and does only concern the CPU, not the screen. I've tested again your version on my unplugged G2 and it behave just well.
The CPU is required to fire an alarm even in sleep mode. Thats because i don't use the alarm service of the device which only check every new minute if there is something to do.
And when it's in sleep mode, only a tiny service is counting. The GUI is stopped and it's memory given back.
May I ask what model of phone you use?

RabugenTom said:
May I ask what model of phone you use?
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I'm using an HTC Desire.

I've just added here (and on the market) the version 1.3 which resolves a lot of issues (for exemple, the service exits as soon as it's no more used, thanks to bugmenever) and adds a pause mode (long click on the button)

RabugenTom said:
Now, i don't find this behavior very annoying, and I don't want to write 100 lines of code to handle differents cases! A trivial solution may exist, but I'm too novice with Android to look at it. If someone knows this easy solution, it will be a pleasure to implement it !
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im fairly certain there is something simple out there to handle this, but as opposed to you being novice with android, i have 0 experience programming for it. and youre right, its not THAT annoying, and certainly not worth most your work time at this point.
Happy to hear about all those plans though! look forward to seeing them in action
keep up the good work!

[Q] how do you close apps?

so i found out how to force close apps under settings but theres gotta be a better way.
for example lets say i have browser, market, and facebook apps open. all showing under the window selection button. after time i get a ton of windows there and i don't want all of them open. how do i close them selectively without going through all the settings menu crud?
some apps let me close from within, most don't though and leave me stuck with a ton of windows (apps) open.

What you are asking isn't necessary unless an application has malfunctioned. There is no other way to close applications other than using the force close button in settings. Android handles this itself -- if this doesn't satisfy you download a task manager.

I don't think there is a way yet.
What Google needs to do is make those preview windows in the multitasking bar long-pressable for a menu to be able to close them.

modru2004 said:
so i found out how to force close apps under settings but theres gotta be a better way.
for example lets say i have browser, market, and facebook apps open. all showing under the window selection button. after time i get a ton of windows there and i don't want all of them open. how do i close them selectively without going through all the settings menu crud?
some apps let me close from within, most don't though and leave me stuck with a ton of windows (apps) open.
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There is no need to manually close out apps. Since 2.1, Android has done an excellent job managing memory. It's been written many times (some directly from Google) that micromanaging your apps will actually hurt battery performance. You'll essentially be working against the system as opposed to helping it.

I am not sure if my task manager is working on this device. I use AutoKiller and when I killed task it doesn't appear as though anything closes. Can somebody confirm?

atoy74 said:
There is no need to manually close out apps. Since 2.1, Android has done an excellent job managing memory. It's been written many times (some directly from Google) that micromanaging your apps will actually hurt battery performance. You'll essentially be working against the system as opposed to helping it.
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id like to point out thats NOT the issue.
the issue is the ton of windows you end up having to sort through unless you close them. its a quality of life thing, i don't like having unused unnecessary windows open that i have to sort through to get to the stuff i am using. its just bad form.

foldog22 said:
I am not sure if my task manager is working on this device. I use AutoKiller and when I killed task it doesn't appear as though anything closes. Can somebody confirm?
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It will most likely not work until its rewritten. The way 2.2 and now 3.0 allow access is completely different then 2.1 and below. Plus as said about 200 million task there is 0 reason to run a task killer. If you wanna clear them out, even though there is 0 reason, reboot.

Okay, I get the memory management issue, but as the OP pointed out, I've got all sorts of icons in the "task bar area" (bottom right hand corner) that just sit there or keep coming back.
For example, I haven't listened to any music on my Xoom since yesterday morning, yet I've got an icon down there for Music and Rhapsody. Also, there's no way to clear some notifications.
There's got to be a way to at least clear out the notification isn't there?

you tap on the little icon music for example and you will see a little x on the right of it, click that and it closes it from the notification system

There is absolutely no reason to use a task killer or manually kill tasks. 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, etc. handle memory and tasks extremely well. In many cases, task killers will only cost you more battery and more slowdowns than letting tasks just run out and sit in memory. Unless you're seeing rogue or malfunctioning tasks in the background causing slowdowns, there is no need to kill them.
I do wish you could scroll through the recent running apps rather than only being able to access the latest 5, but spam closing background apps doesnt help at all.

arrtoodeetoo said:
I don't think there is a way yet.
What Google needs to do is make those preview windows in the multitasking bar long-pressable for a menu to be able to close them.
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While I haven't used a task manager since I started learning how android actually works last year when starting to make apps, I can't help but want the same thing in honeycomb for malfunctioning apps. I think google left it out intentionally to discourage task-killing rampages by oblivious users.

Every time I read "you do not need to close apps" I want to scream. first hour of usage I had a second browser installed and it and the stock browser were conflicting with each other... all I wanted to do was a quick close of one of the browsers.
There are always a multitude of good reasons to want to close a background app. I completely understand the technical reasons why an app does not need to be closed, but from a user experience point of view, it should be made simple.

mjpacheco said:
Every time I read "you do not need to close apps" I want to scream. first hour of usage I had a second browser installed and it and the stock browser were conflicting with each other... all I wanted to do was a quick close of one of the browsers.
There are always a multitude of good reasons to want to close a background app. I completely understand the technical reasons why an app does not need to be closed, but from a user experience point of view, it should be made simple.
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Which is exactly why in my first post I said "...isn't necessary unless an application has malfunctioned" otherwise such a thing is barely necessary. And in your case, the classic "Settings > ....... > Force Close" would have easily sufficed.

So what you are saying is that a method to kill tasks is necessary, just not often. I, for instance, just had the xda app stuck on the splash screen. I killed it and restarted the app and all was good. There is a potential for harm if used over zealously but at times it would be nice if there was a more convenient way to close an app when necessary.
Applications do not always behave as they should so to say there is no need to kill am app is making a naive assumption that every android app is perfect.
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martonikaj said:
I do wish you could scroll through the recent running apps rather than only being able to access the latest 5, but spam closing background apps doesnt help at all.
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Oddly enough, if you turn to portrait, you get a few more. So, technically its not a hard limit on 5, but rather (literally) limited by space on the screen.
Anyone want to place a bet as to what rev we see scrollability?
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JanetPanic said:
So what you are saying is that a method to kill tasks is necessary, just not often. I, for instance, just had the xda app stuck on the splash screen. I killed it and restarted the app and all was good. There is a potential for harm if used over zealously but at times it would be nice if there was a more convenient way to close an app when necessary.
Applications do not always behave as they should so to say there is no need to kill am app is making a naive assumption that every android app is perfect.
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If this happens use the built in task killer, settings/applications/running tab.
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bwcorvus said:
If this happens use the built in task killer, settings/applications/running tab.
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I did and it worked. As I said it would be nice to have a more convenient way of force stopping apps that are not behaving.
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Closing apps isn't necessary for two reasons.
1. Android does a good job at managing apps on its own.
2. You have 1GB of RAM to work with.
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Watchdog does a considerable job since it only lets you know when an app is misbehaving. And since being on 2.3 its barely given me any alerts. Perhaps further proving the awesome memory management.
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[APP] Zlaunchy for Android 1.3

Hi,
Version 1.3 was released and also published on Android Market on 2011-07-03 - you can grab it here or from links below. The main change is fixing UpdateEntriesService which stayed running in certain cases and used up memory.
ZLaunchy was written mainly for those who like the way HTC and other third party dialers allows searching for contacts in a T9-like way - so that finding Adam means choosing 2326 in the phone application. ZLaunchy uses the same idea to run programs on your device. What it does is gives you a dialer keypad and when you type in a series of digits, it searches for all programs that match - for example to start Internet, start typing 4683 - Internet should show up in the result list.
In order to search for a particular text as beginning of words, type the specified digits - for example 4683 to find Internet. In order to search for specified letter(s) not only at beginning of words, add "1" at the end - for example 7371 will find Opera.
This application is free.
Changes in 1.3 release:
Fixed bug that caused UpdateEntriesService service not to stop after a successful update
This bug caused service to remain in memory and consume memory. Happened when "refresh items when inactive" was disabled/enabled.
Reworked logging mechanism
Reworked logging and cleaned up some of internals related to troubleshooting; should speed up the application a bit
Changes in 1.2 release:
Changes in contact handling to improve handling for certain devices
We have changed how ZLaunchy retrieves contacts, which should help support for some devices - users who had issues with contacts should try out the new version
Added option to always show menu when selecting a contact from list
It is now possible to choose whether ZLaunchy will open contact details or show a menu to select commonly used actions
As usual, you can download ZLaunchy from Android Market and our website.
Changes in 1.1 release:
Search in contacts' email address and telephone numbers and application's package name
QWERTY search for devices with physical keyboard
Ability to dial number
"0" button added on the on-screen keypad
Application details can now be shown on all Android versions
Preferences for global settings and profiles - you can now configure searching only for contacts, applications or both
Better APK install/uninstall integration
Download link: https://market.android.com/details?id=org.endorser.zlaunchy and http://www.endorser.org/en/downloads/android/zlaunchy

The idea is great, the app works well and faster then I expected 10/10
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Just an update - the main feature of 1.0 is ability to search contacts and bind to long press search button.

wow i used to have this feature in some old keyocera phone i had and i missed that feature since..
thanks alotttt

I like it better then go contacts nice work bro
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Simple and Good
Great application, and really fast.
If they can find also phone numbers will be great
6277 Will show you Maps and also all contacts with a 6277XXXXX phone number.
Good work, 5 stars for you!

Recognized the name straight away good to see is now available for android, cooked into WM ROM i'll have to test later, thx again

hamsterkiller said:
Great application, and really fast.
If they can find also phone numbers will be great
6277 Will show you Maps and also all contacts with a 6277XXXXX phone number.
Good work, 5 stars for you!
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Ditto...would be great to include contacts in the search.

morgej said:
Ditto...would be great to include contacts in the search.
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It does - searches both phone numbers and names. If you want to search for part of phone number (i.e. 6277 in +486277XXXXX) - just add 1 at the end.

great app! works fast, looks simplistic and clean, and definitely useful...
although i wonder where to find the 0... searching for numbers could get tricky without being able to type the zero.
and i couldn't figure out what the prev and next buttons do. since i have a desire s without any trackball i can just assume that's sort of a trackball-action, but in my case not functioning. any hint on that?

szallah said:
great app! works fast, looks simplistic and clean, and definitely useful...
although i wonder where to find the 0... searching for numbers could get tricky without being able to type the zero.
and i couldn't figure out what the prev and next buttons do. since i have a desire s without any trackball i can just assume that's sort of a trackball-action, but in my case not functioning. any hint on that?
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Initially it was only meant for searching apps - so I didn't think of 0. I also want it to allow dialing a number in 1.1 so 0 will be added for sure.
As for next/prev, it was meant to choose profiles (i.e. apps, contacts, specific folders, combination of these), but it's not done yet. So maybe it'll be changed to 0 and profiles button.
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I have some force close like 20 seconds after searching for an app.
Otherwise I am very happy to find this program, I loved it in Wm!

Nice! Just what I've been looking for. I use Launchy on windows and linux and this is just perfect.
Oh and I have an idea for improvement:
Apps/Contacts launched more often should get an increased weight so they show up on top. Like when you type at least X % of the App name, but there are like 10 others that match the searchstring, the results should be sorted based on their weight.

Sichroteph said:
I have some force close like 20 seconds after searching for an app.
Otherwise I am very happy to find this program, I loved it in Wm!
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Can you send a report about it? Then I'll see the stack trace and hopefully know more about it.
Thanks.

wojciechka said:
Can you send a report about it? Then I'll see the stack trace and hopefully know more about it.
Thanks.
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I apologize. It was related to my android rom, not your software.

Very snappy program, I am highly impressed!
As a long time user of Find and Run Robot, I would be using ZLauncher all the time if you were to implement filtering by typing with the physical keyboard. That would make this an absoultely killer app for me. I totally understand if you prefer to keep this T9 only though
Oh and it doesn't seem to respect the fact that I disabled auto-rotate (Desire Z running CM7)

This is an awesome program, love it. Finding myself using this more that the App Draw. Great stuff!

I can;t find any contacts using this app, it only displays applications

Hi,
First of all - good news - 1.1 should be out next week. There are still some bugs to clean up, but it is progressing really good.
Here's some text about it:
http://www.endorser.org/blog/mobile/android/50-zlaunchy-1-1
Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter - @EndorserOrg.
And Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/endorserorg/243303242940
KeauHou said:
Oh and I have an idea for improvement:
Apps/Contacts launched more often should get an increased weight so they show up on top. Like when you type at least X % of the App name, but there are like 10 others that match the searchstring, the results should be sorted based on their weight.
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That would be cool, definitely want to do this, but not in 1.1. Who knows - maybe 1.2...
Pickx said:
Very snappy program, I am highly impressed!
As a long time user of Find and Run Robot, I would be using ZLauncher all the time if you were to implement filtering by typing with the physical keyboard. That would make this an absoultely killer app for me. I totally understand if you prefer to keep this T9 only though
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Yes, it's also on my radar. Will be done for 1.1.
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Oh and it doesn't seem to respect the fact that I disabled auto-rotate (Desire Z running CM7)
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Yes, a bug in layout - also will be fixed in 1.1.

I am very stoked for this new release, it sounds like it'll be really great. Thank you for making this.
As for the feature KeauHou suggested, the previously-mentioned FARR implements this very well so you could take a look at the kind of algorithms it uses if you feel like it.

[APP][2.2+][Free] Tasks Together

Tasks Together on Google Play
Tasks Together apk
Change way you tackle task management on the mobile device.
Task Together has been designed from the ground up to help you not only with your own personal to-do lists,
but to share and solve tasks with your friends or colleagues.
Here are a few examples where other task management applications struggle,
but these scenarios are a breeze with Task Together:
- Working on project plan of your group has never been easier.
- Sharing a shopping list with your spouse.
- Relaying a call to your secretary or colleague.
- Get notified about a task at a specific location, relevant to the task.

Feedback
Any suggestions/feedback on this task management app? I would appreciate every comment. Thanks.

Cool app, good solution to a widely known problem. Will test this further.
I will however say another thing. Check out http://asana.com

Fine App, similar to SplenDO, but not so pretty
Is there any option to sync?

AnnaKeller said:
Fine App, similar to SplenDO, but not so pretty
Is there any option to sync?
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Disagree, this is much prettier!

You can sync your private task lists with Google Tasks (from settings). But when you send task to someone, theres no way to sync it for now.

I just installed the app, looks nice, with clean interface, which I like more than those complicated apps.
I have few comments that I'd like to see in future updates:
1- The apps misses an option for recurring tasks, sometimes I want to do the same task same time every week or month, like paying a bill or watch a TV show, etc... so it would be great if you add this option.
2- It would be great if you have more advanced reminder option, currently it just gives a notification with the default system tone, which can be easily missed. it might be better if we can assign a different tone so that when I hear it, I notice that this is the reminder for a task from your app. you might also add an alert window with some options like dismiss or remind later after 10 mins or so.
These 2 requests will make your app much better in my opinion. and I can say they are very basic, so if you want to make some Plus or Pro version these should be in the free versions, and other options can follow for the Plus one, like syncing, etc...
Good luck and thanks for the nice app

AnnaKeller said:
Fine App, similar to SplenDO, but not so pretty
Is there any option to sync?
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SplenDO looks fine, but I did not find the way to send tasks to my friends.

tmrbaset said:
I just installed the app, looks nice, with clean interface, which I like more than those complicated apps.
I have few comments that I'd like to see in future updates:
1- The apps misses an option for recurring tasks, sometimes I want to do the same task same time every week or month, like paying a bill or watch a TV show, etc... so it would be great if you add this option.
2- It would be great if you have more advanced reminder option, currently it just gives a notification with the default system tone, which can be easily missed. it might be better if we can assign a different tone so that when I hear it, I notice that this is the reminder for a task from your app. you might also add an alert window with some options like dismiss or remind later after 10 mins or so.
These 2 requests will make your app much better in my opinion. and I can say they are very basic, so if you want to make some Plus or Pro version these should be in the free versions, and other options can follow for the Plus one, like syncing, etc...
Good luck and thanks for the nice app
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Thanks for your comments.
1. Recurring tasks are on my task list. They should be in upcoming updates.
2. Good point with the custom ring tone. I'll try to implement it. Now there are action buttons in notification, where you can "snooze" the task for defined amount of time (settings). If you star the task and set due date, then no notification is shown but fullscreen alarm is displayed from where you can take action - you'll never miss that! You can try
Once again thanks for useful comments.

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pytel said:
SplenDO looks fine, but I did not find the way to send tasks to my friends.
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SplenDO doesn't have sharing tasks with friends, because it is task list for personal use only and in this case it is the best and most useful.
BTW, Still, one of the task option in SplenDO is "Share" in androidial meaning

Very nice application!
I think I found a bug though! When I try setting the location of the task on "walking"the app crashes! l have the version downloaded here on your post and I'm using a Note 10.1 on stock Touchwiz Rom android 4.1.2

pytel said:
Thanks for your comments.
1. Recurring tasks are on my task list. They should be in upcoming updates.
2. Good point with the custom ring tone. I'll try to implement it. Now there are action buttons in notification, where you can "snooze" the task for defined amount of time (settings). If you star the task and set due date, then no notification is shown but fullscreen alarm is displayed from where you can take action - you'll never miss that! You can try
Once again thanks for useful comments.
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I tried and yes the full screen reminder is awesome .. but there is no clue for the user that it's there for the favorite tasks, I missed it .. also I dont know why you chose to make it silent with vibration. it should have sound with the custom ringtone I mentioned before.
good work though

Mr-Kappa said:
Very nice application!
I think I found a bug though! When I try setting the location of the task on "walking"the app crashes! l have the version downloaded here on your post and I'm using a Note 10.1 on stock Touchwiz Rom android 4.1.2
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You found it! It is fixed now. The bug fixed version will be released soon. Thanks.

Thank heavens, shared shopping lists. Its about time. Testing this immediately! Thanks a million

Wow.. app looks awesome!! Installing now.. Will let you know how it goes after trying! Good job mate!!

Version 1.0.20
I've just released new version with some bug fixes. After several hours it should be available on Google Play

pytel said:
I've just released new version with some bug fixes. After several hours it should be available on Google Play
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I'm looking forward to trying this out.
When you get around to the reoccuring tasks, can you make that rather customizable?
The typical entries are:
Year/Month/Week/Day
If you could set the number, such as ever 10 days or 3 weeks, would make it able to handle a bunch of odd tasks.

maddbomber83 said:
I'm looking forward to trying this out.
When you get around to the reoccuring tasks, can you make that rather customizable?
The typical entries are:
Year/Month/Week/Day
If you could set the number, such as ever 10 days or 3 weeks, would make it able to handle a bunch of odd tasks.
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I'll try to make it simple and customizable so you can handle your every 3 weeks tasks
Unfortunately I can't guarantee you date when it will be released...

Google Tasks Sync
I installed the app and told it to sync with my Google account. It did the whole permissions and syncing thing, but then it only pulled two of my four task lists and they are both blank in the app even though they each have more than 20 tasks in them. It's been a few hours now and all of my other Google things have been syncing properly. Any ideas?

JamMasterClay said:
I installed the app and told it to sync with my Google account. It did the whole permissions and syncing thing, but then it only pulled two of my four task lists and they are both blank in the app even though they each have more than 20 tasks in them. It's been a few hours now and all of my other Google things have been syncing properly. Any ideas?
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It seems that our app exceeded limit for Google Tasks API queries per day. So all sync requests will fail. We sent request for increasing the limit. I hope this issue will be solved soon.

[APP - 4.1+] To-Day - the to-do list just for today :D

Another little utility app I've been working on
I'm a big fan of to-do lists apps but I was often finding myself editing the same list in Google Keep (my app of choice) everyday - adding new tasks, marking them as done, deleting them tomorrow to add new ones etc..
Also I thought it was a bit overkill to use a whole to-do app to manage just one list, and I found it annoying having to keep opening Google Keep, find my list for today & then edit it etc.. so I built To-Day.
In case the naming isn't as clever as I think, To-Day is an app to create a list of today's most important tasks directly from the notification drawer (for devices running Nougat & up). You can view the whole list directly in the notification drawer & swipe to mark tasks as complete directly in the notification drawer. Once the clock strikes midnight the list is cleared & you start again.
That's it. No bells, no whistles, nothing fancy - just productivity.
I've just published the app on the Play Store - Would love to know what you guys think..
And any bugs or issues you find please do let me know..
PS: If you find it useful a review would be MASSIVELY appreciated

I like the no-bs approach. I am a simple man and I prefer simple solutions
Personally I prefer your other app "Remindee" much more. My tasks quite often are situated within longer time span than single day.

isosika said:
I like the no-bs approach. I am a simple man and I prefer simple solutions
Personally I prefer your other app "Remindee" much more. My tasks quite often are situated within longer time span than single day.
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Appreciate the feedback buddy ?
I'm in a similar position, I guess this is more for those quick tasks that I don't particularly have a time except they need to be done today, in which case they don't necessarily need a reminder..
But hey use whatever you prefer best!! (After all I made them both ??)

New build is up, just some minor bug fixes

Yet another nice utility, many thanks! If considerable amount of users agree, 'task complete' checkbox could be handy,possibly?

axxbat said:
Yet another nice utility, many thanks! If considerable amount of users agree, 'task complete' checkbox could be handy,possibly?
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Glad you like it! Atm (apologies - it's not obvious) you can swipe tasks to mark as complete either from the notification or inside the app itself :good:

crazyfool_1 said:
Glad you like it! Atm (apologies - it's not obvious) you can swipe tasks to mark as complete either from the notification or inside the app itself :good:
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Got it, sir, thanks! Have got a little bit too many notifications, and To-Day tasks merged. Prevented merging notifications from the same app via interface, and discovered 'Swipe to complete' feature. Certainly, it's enough!

New build is uploading..
- Added option to set tasks for tomorrow
- Minor bug fixes & layout tweaks
Any issues/feedback - let me know

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- Added option to set tasks for tomorrow
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Interesting app.
Just wondering, if option set task for tommorow is enabled does it automatically add unfinished tasks for the next day if not completed or do you have to manually set it for tomorrow?
First option would be great.
Also, permissions does not match app description:
receive data from Internet
view network connections
full network access
prevent device from sleeping
Why internet?
Not in description:
To-Day lets you put your most important tasks right in the notification drawer.
Add new tasks directly from the notification drawer. Swipe tasks as complete directly from the notification drawer. Once the clock strikes midnight - your list is cleared & you start again.
No bells, no whistles, no bs.. just productivity ?
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Also, is prevent device from sleeping really required for app context?
I do not believe notifications really need this permission?

m0d said:
Interesting app.
Just wondering, if option set task for tommorow is enabled does it automatically add unfinished tasks for the next day if not completed or do you have to manually set it for tomorrow?
First option would be great.
Also, permissions does not match app description:
receive data from Internet
view network connections
full network access
prevent device from sleeping
Why internet?
Not in description:
Also, is prevent device from sleeping really required for app context?
I do not believe notifications really need this permission?
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It doesn't currently but that's a good idea! Maybe I could add that as an optional setting.. ?
Re permissions internet & network is required for Crashlytics (crash reporting), not sure about preventing the device from sleeping - that's not a permission I've declared so I'm thinking that's something added from the Firebase SDK. Either way the app doesn't do anything other than post notifications for your tasks so it shouldn't be keeping your device awake for any reason

Thank you for the quick response.
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It doesn't currently but that's a good idea! Maybe I could add that as an optional setting.. ?
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I believe there is at least two different methods to implement this.
Have a general switch in settings, enable/disable, when enabled all uncompleted tasks are automatically moved to the next day, as creating a task means it should be completed.
Have an option when creating task itself, per task "must complete" option, if task has this checked ( checkbox), then task is carried forward, if not cleared at the end of day

Any updates?

m0d said:
Any updates?
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Hey bud - sorry not yet as I've been working in a major update for another app, as that's now out I'll jump back on this.. probably tomorrow I'll have a build ready to test