[APP DEV] Calendar Droid. Would like some feedback on my new app. - Android Apps and Games

I'm developing a calendar app to replace the stock app for Google Calendar.
Link to app: https://market.android.com/details?id=dk.alxb.calendardroid
The app is in BETA stage and I would love to get some feedback from you guys. You can write here, or you can email CalendarDroid [AT] gmail com and I will respond quickly.
I would love to weed out the Google Calendar related bugs on the BETA and focus on adding new great features.
The philosophy behind the app is a calendar that is easy to use, clean, intuitive, and highly customizable.
What is currently implemented:
Month View / Week View / Day View / Agenda View
A few settings to customize
What needs done before release:
Removal of all bugs
Search
Custom "add/edit event" windows
More views (14 day?)
Selection of shown calendars
More intuitive navigation
National holidays
WIDGETS! Lots of them. (Might be Paid version only)
Your suggestions!

Hi there,
Very nice app,better than stock
I would like to give you some suggestions. If I were you I would do these.
If you compare your app with others, they are similar in view aspect. Since screen is not that large for everyone, the word "presentation" for ex. wouldn't fit the box and square boxes appear nice too instead of rectangle. Something like iphone calendar ( I appreciate what is good in ios or android)
To solve the space issue, you could put color codes or words and make them customized.
PPl can assign red to school, brown to office....
When you click them, a window pops up and shows the complete schedule
Note I have exaggerated things on images, not all boxes should have too many colors, by using square you can use the extra space down there for quick note or whatever you like. Didnt have time to make eeach box different
Again Im sure you can find better ideas, You can sell more if show something extra
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adam2010 said:
Hi there,
Very nice app,better than stock
I would like to give you some suggestions. If I were you I would do these.
If you compare your app with others, they are similar in view aspect. Since screen is not that large for everyone, the word "presentation" for ex. wouldn't fit the box and square boxes appear nice too instead of rectangle. Something like iphone calendar ( I appreciate what is good in ios or android)
To solve the space issue, you could put color codes or words and make them customized.
PPl can assign red to school, brown to office....
When you click them, a window pops up and shows the complete schedule
Note I have exaggerated things on images, not all boxes should have too many colors, by using square you can use the extra space down there for quick note or whatever you like. Didnt have time to make eeach box different
Again Im sure you can find better ideas, You can sell more if show something extra
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Wow thanks for your suggestions. The color coding for the events you mention are just different calendars right? I for example have a Google Calendar for school, one for work, one private and so one. Each with a different color. Color coding of individual events would take some time to do manually.
You mention a window popping up when you click on one of the square day fields. What about making the lower part of the screen a scroll view with events of the day you have pressed? Then if you press on the square again you go to day view, but this way you can more quickly see the events for the day without loading a new view.

bvoid said:
Wow thanks for your suggestions. The color coding for the events you mention are just different calendars right? I for example have a Google Calendar for school, one for work, one private and so one. Each with a different color. Color coding of individual events would take some time to do manually.
You mention a window popping up when you click on one of the square day fields. What about making the lower part of the screen a scroll view with events of the day you have pressed? Then if you press on the square again you go to day view, but this way you can more quickly see the events for the day without loading a new view.
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No problem at all.
You can for ex say you just wanna see work schedule, so instead of general window, u see a new one with let say brown color and only work related. new window for school and so on.
If you wanna see everything then you can have a general window that shows everything together.
Cuz it's hard to fit all the words inside the box (like in my first image) you can use colors or words or any other shapes you prefer.
Yes that's better idea use the extra space for scroll i like that may be more buttons, shortcuts, it has so many potentials. This way you keep it really clean, easy to access and havent seen anyone doing it

Make copy and paste of events possible and easily done from one date to another. Please see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2618 for a list of people who are angry this isn't already implemented. This is a pain if the event does not regularly reoccur thus has to be entered over and over by the user or the user has to go to a desktop or notebook to fix it from the web client. My Razor did this so it is just weird it can't be done on stock Android.

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Make copy and paste of events possible and easily done from one date to another. Please see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2618 for a list of people who are angry this isn't already implemented. This is a pain if the event does not regularly reoccur thus has to be entered over and over by the user or the user has to go to a desktop or notebook to fix it from the web client. My Razor did this so it is just weird it can't be done on stock Android.
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Thanks. That is a great idea. I think my next larger feature is custom add/edit event windows. Right now I use the ones from your default calendar.
With my own customer views for adding and editing events the possibilities are endless. Of course copy and paste will be a simple thing to implement. Then there are the ability to make more advanced recurrence rules, easier selection of dates (on a month like view), and much more.

Yeah! A useful month view!!!!
IMO, the month view is the winning feature. I can actually see is going on! What this isn't stock if beyond me. Thank you for, well, using your brain.
- Custom "add/edit event" windows
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You will win a lot of people if you handle the full range of recurring event options.
- National holidays
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I wouldn't waste time implementing this in the app. I don't know about other countries, but there is a Google calendar for the US. I just subscribe to it.
- WIDGETS! Lots of them. (Might be Paid version only)​
I am curious to see what you have in mind, but, IMO, these could wait. I currently use Android Agenda Widget, because it integrates with Astrid.
Anyways, I think you are off to a great start. I look forward to see what you cook up.

Calendar functionality: Holidays
bvoid said:
I'm developing a calendar app to replace the stock app for Google Calendar.
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What needs done before release:
National holidays
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I most definitely agree with @weareallkosh that national holidays are not worth investing your time (at least not at this point, there are many higher-priority issues to deal with in the stock calendar app).
Since even Google couldn't implement holidays right in their calendars you can subscribe to (and they declined to answer why), I think your time is best spent elsewhere. So many people were complaining about the defects in Google's "US Holidays" calendar, most particularly that it does not extend far enough into the future that I created one from scratch that incorporated "recurring formulas" for all future dates, and I generated and merged in all "irregularly repeating" holidays, such as Easter, and "nudging" dates such as "Tax Returns Due" to the following Monday when April 15 falls on a weekend day, etc.
Since anyone can subscribe to this (or any other nationality/ethnicity/belief-based) calendar, there's little incentive for you to duplicate the effort. Also, particularly if you wish to support multiple nationalities, cultures, contemporary versus traditional versus orthodox religion variants, and so on, you can quickly get bogged down in endless debates over which dates ought to be included in which calendars, as well as having to investigate frequent reports of "your calendar shows X falling on Y date, but that's wrong", many of which are inaccurate. Just sucks your time away from more urgent issues.

Cant wait to test this app. Will the calendar have a bi-weekly event capability?

@weareallkosh, @tgi007
Thanks guys. I will put national holidays way in the back. Your solution is much better tgi007, and hopefully someone will make something like it for other languages and traditions.
From the input I have received I have decided that the next feature is custom add/edit event views. This will make copy/paste of events, advanced recurrence rules, and intuitive date selection possible.
@Rico ANDROID
With the next feature implemented I will look into the best way to specify advanced recurrence rules. I have read the specification for the recurrence rules and biweekly is possible in the standard together with many more features.
The hard part will be how to specify these rules because the standard is really flexible. But I think some templates to select from is the way to go. Like the stock calendar, just with more options of course. AND the possibility to specify an end date to the recurrence or the number of recurrences.
But maybe I find a great way to specify it without making it too hard to understand.
Thanks all. More feedback is welcome. This is great!

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[App] TV Show Favs, Help us beta test it!

Hi guys, an app I've been working on for the better part of 6 months has been released into the market as a free beta. It's called TV Show Favs and lets you manage all of your favorite TV shows.
It shows you a personal schedule for all upcoming shows of your favorites, has a top favs for all users, allows you to track every episode you have watched, and it even has a custom notification manager where you can either choose to be notified for all your shows, or just the shows you want, or even at an episode level. You can choose to be notified at a default time (5 min up to a week), or select an individual episode and choose the exact time/date. Also, everything is stored online, so you never lose any of your data, and once we eventually have a website to manage online, and potentially an iphone app, your info goes with!
In less than 3 days we have had over 1000 downloads already. I am working my butt off to fix any bugs that are reported and implement any feature suggestions. Any feedback is great! Thanks!
Here is our website - www.tvshowfavs.com - which has some info about the app as well as some screenshots, and the link to the app in the market. If you are too lazy to go to the site, here is the market link: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.tvshowfavs
Here are some screen shots:
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Hi, I just downloaded your app and it looks great. I cant wait to try it out.
Do you have any plans to make a widget showing upcoming shows.
I love this program. You should incorporate reviews and user ratings from IMDB or something... and the ability to write reviews directly in your app and post to IMDB (if possible). Also, if you could mark all shows on all seasons watched at once instead of tapping seasons/season 1/menu/mark all watched... meaning eliminate one middle step... seasons/menu/mark all watched, that'd be sweet too.
Awesome. Just downloaded, will post impressions soon. I really liked droid series, but no notifications hurt.
Quick impressions:
Interface is amazing for finding and searching shows
It looks like it will be invaluable for keeping on top of things (most of my shows happen to start this week, so I get lost!)
In fact, the only problem I have with this app, is it doesn't look like it will be that good at keeping up with old series your going through. To fix that, I'd like to see
In the page, with the show, under seasons tab, there is a list of all seasons. Under the season number, I'd like to see "x unwatched episodes"
I'd like to be able to mark the entire season as watched
An option to mark multiple seasons watched at once
Droid Series does these things excellently, if you want a good example. However, yours is far better at keeping up with current shows. Fix the above problems, and I would for sure be a buyer. Otherwise, I'll still be stuck with two programs for TV.
Its a good app, and i saw that you added calender integration? I'm not sure how to sync it with my calender though. Is this actually a feature or something coming soon?
I definitely plan on having an upcoming shows widget down the road.
thesecondsfade said:
I love this program. You should incorporate reviews and user ratings from IMDB or something... and the ability to write reviews directly in your app and post to IMDB (if possible). Also, if you could mark all shows on all seasons watched at once instead of tapping seasons/season 1/menu/mark all watched... meaning eliminate one middle step... seasons/menu/mark all watched, that'd be sweet too.
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We do have plans on doing user reviews and ratings within the app. We also plan on having relational suggestions, as well as comments for shows and episodes. These are things that will likely make the main release, possibly the beta. Also, in the next update (Sunday or Monday), we will have the option to set a show as watched and a season as watched. As for IMDB, this is a great idea and I will look into it.
E_man5112 said:
Awesome. Just downloaded, will post impressions soon. I really liked droid series, but no notifications hurt.
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What exactly do you mean by no notifications? There are notifications in the app, in fact the most customizable notifications of any app I can imagine.
E_man5112 said:
Quick impressions:
Interface is amazing for finding and searching shows
It looks like it will be invaluable for keeping on top of things (most of my shows happen to start this week, so I get lost!)
In fact, the only problem I have with this app, is it doesn't look like it will be that good at keeping up with old series your going through. To fix that, I'd like to see
In the page, with the show, under seasons tab, there is a list of all seasons. Under the season number, I'd like to see "x unwatched episodes"
I'd like to be able to mark the entire season as watched
An option to mark multiple seasons watched at once
Droid Series does these things excellently, if you want a good example. However, yours is far better at keeping up with current shows. Fix the above problems, and I would for sure be a buyer. Otherwise, I'll still be stuck with two programs for TV.
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Thanks for the suggestions! Like I mentioned, we do plan on the option to mark shows/seasons as watched. I do like the idea for showing how many unwatched episodes though, so I will add that to my todo list!
johnjohn25 said:
Its a good app, and i saw that you added calender integration? I'm not sure how to sync it with my calender though. Is this actually a feature or something coming soon?
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To add an episode to the calendar just select any episode in a list (List of episodes in the episode list view, episode on the schedule) or select the "Add To Calendar" menu option in the menu on the episode info screen.
m_kranzler11 said:
What exactly do you mean by no notifications? There are notifications in the app, in fact the most customizable notifications of any app I can imagine.
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I meant droid series (the app I used previously like this) had no notifications, and that was the biggest drawback to it. Loving the notifications/schedule on this app
I like it so far. My only complaints would be that instead of episode information I see pictures and that the color scheme (grey and dark blue) is a little ugly.
m2thedeep said:
I like it so far. My only complaints would be that instead of episode information I see pictures and that the color scheme (grey and dark blue) is a little ugly.
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Kind of thought the colour scheme was pleasing to the eyes personally
avgjoemomma said:
Kind of thought the colour scheme was pleasing to the eyes personally
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Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand dark color schemes because not many people coordinate colors properly. For me, light grey color schemes are best because they're easy on the eyes and it's easy to find complementing colors. The android app market is a good example of a well designed app.
I can't find it in my market I'm using HD2 with Desire HD Android port. Can somebody help me. I'm a total TV shows junky. The app looks veeery nice!
I was just needing this app...
With all the good shows on several different networks and the seasons of the shows hard to keep up with, I was wondering if there was app that could keep up with my shows and here it is. Can wait to put it to the test this week.
jaka.erc said:
I can't find it in my market I'm using HD2 with Desire HD Android port. Can somebody help me. I'm a total TV shows junky. The app looks veeery nice!
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Did you try using the direct link either via the barcode on the website or clicking the barcode on your phone? If so, it is very possible that since it is a leaked rom some apps don't show up. I have had that issue in the past when installing custom roms. Usually it requires the rom maker to modify something on the rom to make it work.
I really like it, I've done my video review with a few requests in
http://hemorrdroids.net/tv-show-favs/
Main one being, can you make an option to add all shows to a calendar of my choosing? I would then make a new calendar for TV shows
Really enjoy this app, does a lot of things I like. For some reason I couldn't find anywhere to link the schedule to my calendar? Running 2.2 (FroydVillain 1.5) on Hero. A couple of suggestions:
1) Option to turn on an additional button next to the "Watched" button in the schedule, named "Downloaded". So you can track which episodes you have downloaded, and then which of those you have watched (not for illegal use, most broadcasters let you download episodes from their websites legally, eg BBC). This button probably isn't needed by everyone, but having the ability to turn it on would be nice
2) A friends button. Allowing you to link to other people using the app to share Favs, and see who has watched what episodes (if they plan to share this information).
3) Comments. Would be great to be able to add comments to episodes, so your friends can see what you have said about an episode (add a tickbox for spoilers!). So when you click the "Watched" button, it gives you an option to add a comment.
4) Facebook (or Twitter) link. To post a status on Facebook/Twitter including your comment, for example: "Zebwen just watched House Season 6 Episode 1 and thought: Wow! About time!" (With a little pic of the House show image next to it, and a link to the show on TV.com or somesuch).
As it stands, this app is a great tool, these are just some suggestions that I would love to see for my own use. Keep up the great work!
Zeb

[APP] Agenda Widget (Official thread)

Update Feb 2012: Agenda Widget 2.0 is just around the corner, check out the dev version now: http://www.androidagendawidget.com/development
Cool new features include Grid View, Quick actions for event clicks, Ultimate Todo support, Due Today support, more customization of the widget layout, easier to use preferences... Woohoo!
Agenda Widget is a highly customizable home screen widget which shows events from the Google and Touchdown and tasks from SSI gTask, Dato gTask, Google Task Organizer, Got To Do, Astrid, Ultimate Todo, Due Today, Calengoo, DTG GTD and Touchdown.
It has scrolling in ICS, Honeycomb and alternative Launchers such as ADW, Launcher Pro and anything else that supports launcher plus.
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The free version is fully featured with no time limits, soon I will be putting advertisements in the settings.
The plus version has a few exclusive features such as task list filtering, ability to modify the background color, a gridview display type and the ability to have tasks per widget
Finally:
If you like the app, rate it high in the market!
If you want to help translate I use myGengo String (tell me your language when you request an invite!)
Screenshots attached (some are mine, some are users)...
Help me keep bugs out of the market and test the latest RC of Agenda Widget! If you try it out, please report back how it went and if you are a new or existing user!
http://www.androidagendawidget.com/development
It looks nice, will have a look at it!
Nice one man, let me know what you think
Wow, this application is fantastic! The options are endless and cover any config for looks or device. I am definitely going to purchase this one.
Great job!
I've been using this app since a long time and I really love it. Before a few weeks, I've bougt the pro version to support the developer.
Everything is working fine, but one thing:
It's terrible to change the theme. It's great to have that function, but I really don't know, what I'm doing there.
Click here, click there, look - no changes. Click there, click here - changes. But why?
The settings are really hard to use. I hope, that you can makes this theming easier for us^^
This is one of the few app I have never uninstalled. I think because it is so darned customizable. and that it has always been actively developed. Glad to be able to check out the newest features. Thanks
One of the few true "must have" Android apps. Thanks for all your hard work!
I've also been using this app for several months. Keep up the good work!
So am i,
I thing i would is like a button on the button or top thats opens agenda,.. or does it have it already and that is missed it?
Keep up youre good work
Gr.
I have compared a bunch of calendar widgets, and I this was the best one . I have been using it for kind of a long time now. I love how efficient it is about space, allowing me to see as much as possible in a limited amount of space. And of course scrolling.
Good job!
I've been using your app for a long time and I love it.
Here's a screenshot of it on my Nexus One:
There is problem with the time on my device. I get tasks from Google Calendar and they start one hour too early. If I got an appointment at 8 it shows as if I got it at 7.
just wanted to say ive been using the pay version of your app for some time on my G2 and I absolutely love it. ive tried almost all the calendar/agenda widgets out there and none come close to yours in customization. big thanks and looking forward to future updates. no bugs here for me so far.
This App has become my new homescreen calander/agenda. I use to use calwidget (great app by the way) by came across agenda widget and fell in love. Love how you can scroll with ADW.
Only complaint is the UI needs some cleanup and tweaking. Took me an hour to get it to look the way I wanted it too.
Example:
Wow that was a lot of replies in no time!
First, thanks to everyone for the kind comments!
I'm glad to continue working on an application people use so much and the positive comments give me motivation to fix the bugs and add new features! I will now reply to the "support" questions in reverse chronological order:
ilhe1s said:
Only complaint is the UI needs some cleanup and tweaking. Took me an hour to get it to look the way I wanted it too.
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I am working on this at the moment, did you try the dev version with the new appearance settings?
I also cleaned up a few of the themes and tweaked some scrolling appearance bugs so they look a bit nicer to start with.
Flashern said:
There is problem with the time on my device. I get tasks from Google Calendar and they start one hour too early. If I got an appointment at 8 it shows as if I got it at 7.
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I like your screenshot! Thanks for submitting it to the website. This could be a bug where Calendars->"Override calendar UTC offset" was setting itself automatically, please check it is set to none?
dakkie said:
I thing i would is like a button on the button or top thats opens agenda,.. or does it have it already and that is missed it?
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It has this function, you might need to override the date click action in settings->buttons and toolbars. This will become more automatic and easier to set in one or two releases as I have a nice little wizard half written which forces you to choose settings for click actions that will work
Formel-LMS said:
It's terrible to change the theme. It's great to have that function, but I really don't know, what I'm doing there.
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This should be fixed in the new version with a preview in the settings?
I was planning to release the free version to the market today (version 1.6.3), if anyone has time to check it doesn't break anything by upgrading the the dev version from the current market version it would be much appreciated!
roflharrison said:
I like your screenshot! Thanks for submitting it to the website. This could be a bug where Calendars->"Override calendar UTC offset" was setting itself automatically, please check it is set to none?
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Nice, that fixed the problem!
I've tried the developer version now and I like the preview setting though i still find the whole color/transparency settings a bit confusing (now you can set the transparency inside the color setting?).
I also think I found a bug here - when you change something "error compiling widget" begins popping up at the top but you probably know.
Keep up the great work.
Flashern said:
when you change something "error compiling widget" begins popping up at the top but you probably know.
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Yep, someone told me about that.
I am going to change the way the preview works so it can also preview scrolling widgets, once I do this I hope it will automagically fix the weird error compiling widget problem.
I've been using this widget for some time and it is the best agenda widget out there!
Thanks!
I would like to have a separate tasks and agenda widget. This is completely possible except that calendars are global whether 'use global settings' is ticked or not.
I updated to the dev plus version and I've encountered no bugs that haven't already been mentioned. The preview is brilliant saved exiting settings for every change
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jambamkin said:
I would like to have a separate tasks and agenda widget. This is completely possible except that calendars are global whether 'use global settings' is ticked or not.
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Hey man,
The calendar list is stored in a database (rather than preferences like everything else) so there is a separate preference to handle the calendar list per widget called "widget calendars independent" in the calendars preference branch. There are some instructions on the wiki that should help.

[App] [Beta] Weebo - Automate your phone

A lot of people would have heard about automation apps. Apps which help to, in their crudest sense, simplify various functions of your phone and many would believe, over-simplify your life. Apps like Tasker and Llama have made a great deal of progress since they were initially launched. Both of these apps were able to exploit the hidden strengths of android to a great extent. Being open source, the Android OS enables users the freedom to tweak it and customize it in any way they want, way more than any other mobile OS out there. By combining an insane number of triggers, actions and related parameters, Tasker, and to an extent Llama, have for years now let us Android geeks make our phones our own, in every sense of the word.
Let’s face it though: as powerful as Tasker may be, it is quite the devil when it comes to usability. I didn’t say Android “geeks” above in any lesser way; the learning curve with Tasker is known to be pretty high. Scores of users have picked it up like children pick candy in a candy store, and then let go of it because they found it too bitter for their taste. Over time apps like Llama have taken care of those users- simplifying some things while removing the tougher bits. Along with these two apps, the play store is rife with many others, each trying to offer the user some sort of advancement over the other. Apps like Actions Pro, Chronos ad Locale being a few of them.
So the question is, amongst all this glut, is there really a need for another automation app? Well, Weebo would beg to differ. Sure, having too many choices is never a really bad thing, but also, what does it offer over the others which should make you, the user, take up this app over all the others? In this series of posts, this being the first one, I would take our readers through some of the capabilities of this particular app, developed in-house. In future posts, I will elaborate more on particular functions and what we can expect in the future.
THE HOME SCREEN
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The Home screen, as you can see in the above screenshots, is essentially a list of all the rules available in your app. It includes all the rules created by you, as well as (if any) pre-made ones. Toggling the context key will bring up the sub menu, which gives you two options – “Add location” and “Weebo App settings”. Also, an automation app is nothing without the rules one creates, and as time goes and you become more comfortable with the said app, the number of rules also tend to increase. Therefore, we decided to add a an advanced selection of any rules that might be stored on your phone by their general category. By easily clicking on the (by default) “All”, you can therefore find out rules based on location, battery, utilities etc simply by changing the category. Simple and easy!
Also, to select a particular rule to activate it, all you need to do is click on it. The default colour changes to dark yellow for that particular rule, providing a visual indicator. Also, if you look closely at the screenshot below, you will see a tiny edit button alongside the selected rule. Clicking that button will enable you to directly make changes to the rule, in XML format, but more about that later.
ADD RULES
On swiping towards your left, you are greeted by the Add Rules page. Designed for most power users, it enables you to add your own rules, letting your creativity a free reign. Of course, a downside to it would be that most people don’t know XML coding or are not very savvy with it. Unfortunately, as of now, we don’t really have any workarounds, but yes, its being looked into.
Now a little about the XML page by itself. As I said earlier, in the screenshots here you can see how easy it is to add your rules. At the bottom, you get four options, update, cancel, create new and delete. I presume most of these actions are self explanatory. All in all, this is a very simple, but incredibly powerful tool. In time, we are looking to streamline this functionality in order to encourage a more expressive utilization of these rules.
LOCATIONS
The core of weebos functionality comes from the inherent use of location tracking, utilizing cellular towers around you to triangulate your location with better accuracy. To that extent, we have enabled the user with adding as many locations that he would want.
From the screenshots above, you can see that two locations are already present, Home and Work. by clicking on “start tracking” when you are at home or at work, you get the option of choosing the amount of time you would want to be tracked, which stretches from 5 minutes to 8 hours. When tracking for the stipulated time, the app is able to triangulate your position to an accurate degree, and save it for its own future reference. Once added, this can easily be used to set up rules such as ” switch on Wi-Fi when I get to Office” or ” Switch on Ringer when I get to home”. This is just a small example of how useful this location tracking feature could be, once properly used. You can also, at anytime you want, edit, delete or reset a particular locations cell ID’s if you think it needs better accuracy.
RECENT EVENTS
The final tab you can access by scrolling to your left is the “Recent Tab”. It shows all the functions and rules that you might have used recently, and allows you to search through your most used rules easily.
Follow this link to create your own rules - Link
Weebo apk (Push it as system app) - Link
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New tasker, amazing, and it is so easy to access and make a custom command with full guide on Your website!
Thanks in advance for Your hard work and thanks for this app, I like it! :laugh:
This is nice... I also like the widget which I can place on my home-screen. Good work!!
Just one question though, how long should I track a location? Will 15 mins be enough?
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Just one question though, how long should I track a location? Will 15 mins be enough?
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15 minutes will not be enough to track all cell ids. It is recommended to track for around 4 hrs. The longer you track is better.
And don't forget to stop tracking when you go out of your house or work if you have started it
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Download link is working fine.
I am having trouble with location settings, I get a box suggesting I use Wifi to aasist with location settings but see no option to turn this on. I have wifi and gps enabled in androids location settings.
Thanks
Craig
Can anyone make this flashable for those of us (me...lol) that don't have computers to do adb push? I'd really appreciate it. If not it's cool. Seems like an awesome app.
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Can anyone make this flashable for those of us (me...lol) that don't have computers to do adb push? I'd really appreciate it. If not it's cool. Seems like an awesome app.
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Amazing App BTW, Love it.
Weebo release - 26/06/2013
WEEBO​
What is it?
Weebo is your very own googly eyed personal assistant, but with a twist. He does more than just take care of your reminders, he is able to automate your phone to a whole new level. He remembers your location, be it work or home, and is able to perform various tasks assigned to it without you having to do a single thing.
Weebo lets you go about your life and focus on the more important things while silently and efficiently taking care of the tedious ones.
What is new?
Although Weebo does sport a brand new look, the changes do not remain skin deep. Weebo features many in depth changes so as to facilitate daily user interactions. After collating data and feedback from numerous users, we have finally been able to put forward a compelling and easy to user automation app for your android phones.
Some of the essentials –
Rule Editing
Now simpler and more nuanced, the rule editor screen is a joy to use, both for old users as well as new. Focusing on simplicity and ease of use, the new Rule editor allows you to do the following easily and without any hassle-​
Edit the type of rule, and set a name for it
Icons for both adding conditions as well as actions, thus giving you easy visual cues while setting up a rule
Easier to make creative rules by mixing and matching different icons, and come up with new combinations
Broken Rule Indicators
As simple but useful feature, which as the name suggests, allows you to understand much more easily as to which rules are not functioning properly. In the screenshot, you will see this visual cue depicted as a broken arrow, thus letting you know that something might be wrong with that particular rule.​
UI changes to Locations and Rules list screens
The locations screen now features an option to selectively see what rules are available for you to use. You can choose to see rules based on their particular conditions/usage functions. Initially we have provided the following – Al/Enabled/Disabled/Battery/Location/Sensor/Utility. Also featuring minor improvements is the Locations page, where you can track various different locations depending on your choice.​
Features Coming Soon-
A move towards even more simplicity and ease of use by providing several UI/UX changes.
A brand new update to the location tracker using Google fused location provider.
Many more interesting features in the pipeline.
Please take latest Weebo
Simply great! keep up the good work! If you need testing (alpha, beta, etc.) or any help just let me know. I'm was a long time user of tasker (ditched it as it drained my battery), Lama and now locale (with a bunch of plugins). I have to say this app beats them all.
edit: "i'm missing the calendar busy event". would be great if something like "make the device silent if i'm busy in the XYZ calendar".

[APP][4.0+] FeedEx News Reader

FeedEx News Reader is a light, modern, totally free (no ads) and opensource project which keeps you inform by fetching your websites/blogs and displaying them in a mobile-optimized way. It is based on the "Sparse rss" reader and is able to read RSS/Atom feeds.
It DO NOT synchronizes with any online feed reader, but do you really need feeds synchronization now you always have your phone with you?
Features:
- easily add new feeds thanks to the finders or subscribe to a new one from the browser via the share feature
- offline reading including images
- import/export the feed list from OPML
- retrieve the full text of the feed when the content is truncated
- star your favorite entries
- filter your feed by keywords or regular expressions
- custom widget
Feedly users: you can export your feeds to OPML at this address (cloud.feedly.com/#opml) and then import them into FeedEx News Reader.
Any help would be very appreciated!
Play link
GitHub project
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For information, I just updated the app to v1.2.2:
- fix some errors with feed fetching
- fix a possible crash
- add Spanish translation (thanks to Enric Caussa Morales)
- improve Fullscreen feature & star icon
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Hi!
I just published the 1.3.1 version which totally change the navigation system (with a navigation menu like in official google apps).
Please do not hesitate to tell me what you're thinking of it!
Changelog:
v1.3.1:
- fix actionbar title and icon display bug
- fix possible crash with entry swipe gesture
- improve entry swipe gesture rapidity
v1.3.0:
- new interface! (thanks to madx666!)
- fix issue with infinite refresh
- allow to view the entries of a group
- add swipe to read/unread and star/unstar an entry (thanks to madx666)
- fix some feed display (eg. Ars Technica)
- add italian language (thanks to Danilo Treffiletti)
Nice, simple little app. Good stuff!
Here is a link for folk https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.fred.feedex
Thanks for your work.
Thanks, I like this
I like the modern design and the dark theme.
A request ... In the widgets, it would be good if the user could choose the number of lines to display per item of news. To clarify, I'd like to see the main news item in bold at a user defined size along with maybe a line or two (as opted by me) of the news details. The headline alone does not allow me to understand if the item is worth opening. To get an idea of the look of the widget I intend, look at Scrollable news widget
Another thing is ... to keep in line with the latest Gmail, remove the refresh button and let the user pull down to refresh.
Cheers
Hi!
Sorry for the late answer, with the holidays I forgot it
Concerning the widget, I agree there is lot of improvements to do. This is not my priority because I would like to add some features to the application before (search, tablet support), but I'll do it and make FeedEx News Reader better and better, I just need time
Great app, thank you for this. I give you five stars in Play Store. Finally i can get rid of annoying feedly.
I have a question, though: how does exclusion filter work? Tried to apply it to some feed, seems not to work or i can't understand something. Let me explain. I read some russian news site called Mignews. The problem with them is that they don't post sport news in separate feed, and i totally uninterested in sport news. Every sport-related entry has a title starting with 'MIGsport:' and the actual title after it, so i thought i can filter these entries out by entering MIGsport: and checking «Apply to title», but these entries are still there. I am doing something wrong or don't understand the purpose of filtering?
Thanks for the stars I'm glad to see that some people really like FeedEx.
Concerning your issue, I think the filter is working but you have to know that it's effective only on futur news. The already downloaded news are kept, even if they match with the filter.
Can you confirm me that?
Well, I understand. Let me check it for couple of hours and I'll report back.
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Ok, if it's does not work, then there is chances that there is a bug inside FeedEx
I don't think it's a bug, let's wait and see. I set the app to auto-refresh every 30 minutes. What I'm going to do is to compare my timeline in FeedEx with desktop reader and my girlfriend's one. This way I'll know for sure. Will report my results later today.
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OK, tested and filtering works for newly downloaded entries! Thanks a lot!
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You're welcome.
I agree it's a little confusing, I should explain this somewhere into the app
Thank you for your application, it is very convenient! Tell me, are there plans to make a list of feeds foldable and add the ability to reduce the font in the "news"? On my Note2 they look very big.
Hi!
Sorry for the late answer
Concerning the possibility to fold the feeds, I was possible before but not today. I remove it to allow to clic on a group and to have more simplicity into the navigation drawer. For my use, the folding feature is still present into the feed edit screen to allow to move them easily into groups.
So I'm sorry but there is currently no plans for adding it again.
And concerning the font size can you post a screenshot or explain where exactly do you find the font too big?
Hi HoloAddict!
Nice program, thanks for your excellent work. By the looks of it, the only developing standalone RSS feed reader with offline mode on the market.
Some feature suggestions for this app:
- would be nice to be able to configure font and font size. I find current font the program uses is a bit inconvenient for my eyes. I would prefer the one used by gReader. But others may like the current font. Would be nice to have it configurable.
- would be nice to have per-channel settings for number of items and item expiration. Would also be nice to be able to prevent unread items from being automatically cleared (but still clear the read ones).
- would be nice to have channel groups collapsing and expanding in the channel list - this would save space in the channel list and optimise it's navigation.
- buttons "Show original text" and "See in browser" in the article reading mode - can you make them smaller or move to the header row? Or at least make this option configurable? For short articles they take half of the screen
- would be nice to have "back" button to return you from article list to channel list, and not quit the program (this might be personal. I just got used to this hierarchy: channel list --> article list --> article).
Apart from that - great app, thanks for your work!
Darsh
Hi!
Thanks for the comments!
Concerning your questions:
- would be nice to be able to configure font and font size. I find current font the program uses is a bit inconvenient for my eyes. I would prefer the one used by gReader. But others may like the current font. Would be nice to have it configurable.
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You're the second one who tell me this. I personnally prefer the one use by feedex (otherwise I would not have choose it ), I believe it's less tiring. Do other people think as darsh?
- would be nice to have per-channel settings for number of items and item expiration. Would also be nice to be able to prevent unread items from being automatically cleared (but still clear the read ones).
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I do not want the first part (to keep it simple), but the second part is interesting, I think I'll implement it.
- would be nice to have channel groups collapsing and expanding in the channel list - this would save space in the channel list and optimise it's navigation.
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It was like this before, but I changed my mind to keep simplicity (code and UI) and allow some actions like clicking on a group. Moreover I used group collapsing especially for feed sorting, not for reading it everyday.
- buttons "Show original text" and "See in browser" in the article reading mode - can you make them smaller or move to the header row? Or at least make this option configurable? For short articles they take half of the screen
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I do not understood this one... Why the size of these buttons is a problem ? They are always at the bottom of the text.
- would be nice to have "back" button to return you from article list to channel list, and not quit the program (this might be personal. I just got used to this hierarchy: channel list --> article list --> article).
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You're not the only one to ask me this. I could do it but this is against the android principle of a navigation drawer. Look at the gmail app, the back button doesn't open the drawer. And if I do like you said, I can't quit the app with the back button... Moreover, the back button should do what it's aimed for: going back, not open a menu.
@HoloAddict: Actually, I wanted to ask for same: to place «Retrieve the full text» and «See in browser» buttons side by side. It looks better and more «polished» and takes less place.
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Side by side? I agree it would be better but I'm affraid there won't be enought width on lot of phone to be able to do that...
Nice App
@HoloAddict thanks for this App. I´m using youre feed reader now for a week and it´s really nice. Only thing missing for me atm is to switch filter from exclusion to inclusion because there are some feeds where I would prefer to get only news for filtered terms. :good: :good: :good:

[APP][3.0+] NOTEify - Color Sticky Notes And MUCH More During Live Calls!

UPDATE 05.06.2014
-Fixed German Language item names
-Side Bar now change color according to application theme (dark/light)
-fixed note saving bug inside contact
-Fixed group deleting and not disappearing immediately bug
-Fixed group renaming
-Added an option to show the contact you were talking to, right after the conversation with him
-Fixed list jumping back to top when selecting multiple contacts.
I AM LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO TRANSLATE NOTEIFY INTO MORE LANGUAGES SO USERS CAN GET THE APP IN THEIR OWN NATIVE LANGUAGE .
NOTEify Reviewd by XDA Developers:
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...t-and-view-rich-contact-notes-while-in-calls/
There are quite a few techniques and tools available to help you better remember important details about your work contacts. For example, you could manually keep a journal of key information or store these facts on their business cards in your Rolodex—that is if anyone even remembers what a Rolodex is. But of course, manually writing things down is a bit too last century for most of us here on XDA.
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NOTEify Review by AppsZoom.com:
http://www.appszoom.com/android-app/noteify-kozzh.html
A simple reminder for your contacts
Welcome to NOTEify, a helpful application that will be useful for creating a clear schedule and be reminded of all the tasks you need to do in order to live your life in a more organized way.
Sync your contacts, create color notes and have them show during calls, so you always know what you want to say to them. You can drag around the notes to hide them or have them present, whatever feels more comfortable. In addition, feel free to send the note to other contacts if you find it useful.
The design of NOTEify is great, everything is minimalist and clear and NOTEify becomes a helpful and simple tool for professionals and also people who merely want to organize themselves better.
Matan Dahan is the developer of NOTEify, a colorful reminder which works really well.
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NOTEify is the perfect app to use when you want to get reminded about specific information or discussions with your contacts.
You may choose from a variety of many in-call or in-app options, including:
-Showing notes during in or out calls.
-Showing the contact you are talking to with his full details during the same call.
-Adding a new contact with his full details for an unrecognized number during the call itself!
-Changing and designing your own notes color and text color for individual contacts or a whole group of contacts.
-Notes can be minimized or be dragged along the screen during call for maximal convenience.
-Notes saved within the app or during a phone call will also be saved to the other contacts app on your device.
-Many in-call or in-app specific note options, including navigate to an address written in the note, send the note displayed to other contacts, create reminders of a specific conversation and much more…
-This app is equipped with its own designed widget for maximal convenience to activate or block notes from being showed during a phone call.
-Many more options and possibilities can be found inside the in-app options for your own convenience…
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matandahan.recordnotes
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I would love to hear comments, improvement suggestions, bug reports etc...
Hope You Will find it useful and enjoy it :laugh:
Great App! Surprisingly simple idea, yet extremely useful and very well executed. Thanks again!
Many layout and usage changes
Hey all,
I just wanted to update that many changes has been made since the last NOTEify version came out..
The design is now more "HOLOish" and many bugs were fixed..
I would love to hear your opinion :angel:
HERE IS A DEMO VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEoBbaSLg1E
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Hey all,
I just wanted to update that many changes has been made since the last NOTEify version came out..
The design is now more "HOLOish" and many bugs were fixed..
I would love to hear your opinion :angel:
HERE IS A DEMO VIDEO:
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Great app I'm going try it when I get home.
Cheers
Good idea and useful. Work well on my nexus. I'll use it in my work.
Thank you! It's nice to get some comments :laugh:
I would also love to hear improving suggestions from users:good:
Hey guys,
Version 1.3 is out.
Fixed some bugs and layout issues.
Would love to hear some comments :angel:
Fixed "Add new contact" dialog and some other resources to be supported in larger resulotions devices.
Added new usage video on YOUTUBe, showing how to add a NOTE to entire group of contacts in one shot :good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxdeMi7oAwo
Added New Poll
Hey Guys,
Many thread view, many downloads and not so many comments..
So I decided to add a new poll with a usefulness question about NOTEify.
Thank you for your time :good:
I tried it but it was taking to long to sync so I stopped it.
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I tried it but it was taking to long to sync so I stopped it.
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Hi, thank you for trying it out.
The sync is only one time proccess. It needs to take you entire contacts list and ALL of their data (everything including addresses, emails, more than one phone number, images and other details..)
*it is a Contacts App so it needs the data so you can use it in NOTEify with ease.
After your are doing it ONLY one time, the app is listening to you contacts apps and adds contacts that where added in other contact apps automatically..
Im happy you tried it, and hope you might give it another shot sometime.. I promise it worths it
New version
Hey guys.
A new version (1.6) with syncing problems in some devices was fixed.
Also the syncing performance is now faster and more reliable.
Also added new screen shots to the main thread. :laugh:
@mdmdmd27 the initial contact sync is a pain as it takes too long. Find a way to make this faster and work on the design and it will be a top app.
Thanks
pemell
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@mdmdmd27 the initial contact sync is a pain as it takes too long. Find a way to make this faster and work on the design and it will be a top app.
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pemell
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Hey pemell, thank you for the comment and advice!
I am working on the speed of contact syncing, it is very important for me to get it done faster and more efficient.
I have uploaded a new version, it will be up in the Google Play in a couple of hours, I would love to hear you opinion then..
And if you would like, I will be happy to hear your opinion on the design to :angel:
-Changed layout to be more "HOLOish" and light.
-Fixed layout bugs reported by some users.
-Increased the speed of syncing contacts.
-Contacts sync now can be stopped and fully recovered when continued from last stopping point.
NOTEify Review by AppsZoom.com:
http://www.appszoom.com/android-app/noteify-kozzh.html
A simple reminder for your contacts
Welcome to NOTEify, a helpful application that will be useful for creating a clear schedule and be reminded of all the tasks you need to do in order to live your life in a more organized way.
Sync your contacts, create color notes and have them show during calls, so you always know what you want to say to them. You can drag around the notes to hide them or have them present, whatever feels more comfortable. In addition, feel free to send the note to other contacts if you find it useful.
The design of NOTEify is great, everything is minimalist and clear and NOTEify becomes a helpful and simple tool for professionals and also people who merely want to organize themselves better.
Matan Dahan is the developer of NOTEify, a colorful reminder which works really well.
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You're video links to a private account.
App looks good so far. Sych was done in a bit over a minute.
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You're video links to a private account.
App looks good so far. Sych was done in a bit over a minute.
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Hi DrunkUncas,
Thanks for trying, I would love to hear your comments :laugh:
I have fixed the video link.
It's ok. Just tried it. Import was at good speed. :good:
My suggestions:
1. Other languages? I want it in german, please.
2. Dark theme. White is nice, but hurts my eyes. :cyclops:
3. When in list-view with notes showing, you can't see where the next contact begins. Or: Gridlines are not visible.
That's it from me. Overall I like it. THX
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It's ok. Just tried it. Import was at good speed. :good:
My suggestions:
1. Other languages? I want it in german, please.
2. Dark theme. White is nice, but hurts my eyes. :cyclops:
3. When in list-view with notes showing, you can't see where the next contact begins. Or: Gridlines are not visible.
That's it from me. Overall I like it. THX
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Hi ds1508,
Thank you for trying and thank you for the suggestions!
1-I wish I could find someone who could translate NOTEify to other languages..
I only know English so this is the main language for now.
If you know anyone who can translate it (for free at the moment, not a lot of text to translate though..)
I would love to talk with him
2-I might add an option to change between themes in the next version, I am thinking about it.
3-Thanks for stating it, I will fix it in the next version.
Thanks again for the contribution
Peace.

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