ADC: Introducing 2 New Apps

As part of the Android Developer Challenge (ADC), a contest for great mobile apps built for the Android platform, i'm introducing 2 new apps i made:

• Sleep Silencer - Automatically makes your phone silent during the night or a time of your choosing, so your sleep won't be disturbed and your 'phone silencing' rituals every evening will stop :)
• Time Counter - A smart counter with time logging - it has export to CSV and clipboard features. It logs not only the time passed from the start of the session but from the last change as well.

These apps are now exclusively available through the judging application, called just like the contest: Android Developer Challenge 2. Everyone can download and score apps through it. You can find out more from this official post, where you can also download the judging app.

version 1.7.5: Speech & Better widget

In October, Android 1.6 (Donut) will be pushed out - when that happens, users will also be able to install the next version of Tag-ToDo-List, which only runs on Donut. Version 1.7.5 brings:

• a 'visually challenged' mode: the app can now speak! (more)
• a better widget: a lot of people asked for it and here it is:

The widget can cycle automatically through the tasks and tags or you can do that manually. You can also check or add tasks.

• Another bunch of bugs have been fixed, so hopefully everyone can use the app now.

UPDATE: There have been reports of the app force-closing on a very recent ROM update for the HTC Hero phone. If there's a savvy user who can contribute with a log it would help a great deal. You can send it here. Thanks!

Ways to contribute or make the app better

As you know, Tag-ToDo-List for Android is free and recently open-sourced. But writing code isn't the only way you can contribute. I'd just like to compile all the ways you can help this project as an ordinary user or a developer:

• Donations through PayPal
• Share how you use this app and how it has helped in your life, right in this post, in comments - it may be featured on the website :)
• If you experience crashes or bugs, you can fill out this one minute survey or, if you have programming knowledge, you can submit a log which helps us spot the problem.

version 1.7.0: Breakthroughs!

• You have been asking for them for a long while. And here they are: SUBTASKS!! :D The app now functions pretty much like Google Tasks (which you can see in GMail and Google Calendar) paving the way for a sync feature.
• The widget is now updated every time the app is closed. More improvements in this area on the way.

version 1.6.8 - Hopefully no more crashes :)

A great deal of effort went into finding the possible causes for these crashes, which appear to differ on various types of phones. But all of the ones we found (because we're open-source now) are now sealed and hopefully everything will go smoothly. As always, feel free to give feedback.

P.S. If you still experience random force-closes, please fill out this very short survey. Thanks!

Tag-ToDo-List is now open-sourced

For all of you who wanted to implement certain features yourselves, the app is now open-sourced. Please read the simple guidelines in the project Wiki before actually editing. All of the user requests were too much for one person to handle, especially with this diversity of upcoming Android devices, so now the power of the community is unleashed. Everyone is welcome to contribute, whether it's writing code, posting issues or even testing.

First Tag-ToDo-List survey :)

Some of you are experiencing force-closing lately and it may have to do with lots of causes, one being the type of your phone. If you have 1 or 2 minutes and used this app i'd appreciate it if you could complete this very short survey. Thanks!

version 1.6.5 - Weekly alarms and 'Shiny Priority'

• This version brings weekly alarms next to the daily ones. Here's a recap of how alarms work.
• 'Shiny Priority', which can be enabled in the configuration window, as seen below, makes the tasks shine according to priority, making it easier for users to spot them at a glance.

Other additions:

• Improved visual task selection when N or P is pressed on the keyboard
• Various bug fixes

version 1.6.2 - Finally, alarms!

You asked for it (a lot :), so here they are: alarms. Just as you can set due dates you can now also set due times. The alarms can be periodic or one-time. Click through the link to find out more.

version 1.6.0 - Widget and API now available

This version also offers a widget which you can put on your Android phone 'desktop', as seen below:


For now the widget is very simple, but it will develop in future versions based on user feedback. It's designed for busy people who want to see tasks at a glance and who rarely but consistently update their to-do list. Based on a special algorithm, it will guess which tasks you're more likely to be interested in and show them to you, being limited only by the available screen space (the due date criteria weighs most and then comes the recentness of the task, since people tend to favor either immediate tasks than they can complete as soon as possible or tasks they plan for in advance).

Also, for programmers: an API is now available. If you have an Android app yourself, and you'd like to include this app's content in your search, or other features, check out the Tag-ToDo-List API.