Task Manager gets Feedback to!

Task Manager now has a Wiki and publish issues for feedback.

Issues
https://bitbucket.org/futonredemption/taskmanager-android/issues


Wiki
https://bitbucket.org/futonredemption/taskmanager-android/wiki/Home

Feedback

I'd like to thank everyone that posted comments on the Android Market and Google Code sites.
Many people have provided good feedback and I try to incorporate feedback that fits well with the direction of where I want to take the apps.

A notable update will be coming to the My Location Widget. It will have a new option of short urls.

If you have any comments or feature requests please post them on the Google Code project page for that app:

My Location Widget
http://code.google.com/p/futonic-mylocationwidget/issues/entry

Lock Screen Widget
http://code.google.com/p/futonic-lockscreenswitchwidget/issues/entry

Volume Widget
http://code.google.com/p/futonic-volumewidget/issues/entry

Wifi on Call
http://code.google.com/p/futonic-wifioncall/issues/entry

Task Manager is not open source but you can leave a comment on the android market or on this blog for it. I will try to get some sort of issue system for it.

Two More Apps have been Open Sourced!

Call on Wifi and Volume Widget have been open sourced. They have been published under the MIT license just like the other apps.

Volume Widget
http://code.google.com/p/futonic-volumewidget/
Android desktop widget for controlling the ringer and media volumes.

Wifi On Call
http://code.google.com/p/futonic-wifioncall/
Automatically turns Wifi on when you're on a call and you lose your network connection.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone!

2010 has been a great year for me in Android development. I started with my first app, Task Manager, around late January. Since then I've posted 6 apps on the market and each have been well received. In 2011, I've like to focus on fewer more powerful apps that everyone would hopefully find more useful. Of course, I will be supporting the older apps as time permits.

Beryl Project

Beryl has been posted on Google Code for some time now. The goal was to provide an extension to the regular Android SDK for useful things that developers would need.

Today, I've made it so that the project is available in jar format for a few of the well built apis. A few of my apps have started to use the code from Beryl. My Location now now using the code that simplifies how location providers can work together to get more responsive and reliable location data.

Like many of the published apps Beryl is an open source project. Beryl is not available on the Android Market since it is not an app. It is intended for developers only. Anyone can contribute or use the API under the New BSD license terms.

NOTE: A lot of the code is not fully documented and other parts are not finalized.

http://code.google.com/p/android-beryl/

API Documentation: http://android-beryl.googlecode.com/hg/api/index.html

Wifi On Call

On networks like Verizon and Sprint, any time you make a phone call you lose your 3g connection. This can be annoying sometimes but with the ubiquity of Wifi hotspots it isn't so bad. Today I am launch a new app called "Wifi on Call" which automatically enables wifi when you are on a phone call and you lose your 3g connection. Wifi will be turned off when you hang up the phone.

Scan this QR code with your phone or tap it on your phone to download.

Lock Screen Switch Widget 3.0

The Lock Screen Switch Widget has been updated.

This version should hopefully end (almost) all the random failures of the widget. It also features a new icon.

Thoughts on the Notification Icon
So this new version solve the random re-enabling of the lock screen by putting a notification icon in the status bar. This is a requirement by Android that if a service isn't supposed to be killed it has so show some sort of visual indicator that it's still running and doing something important. The notification icon is the only want to get this to work.

Unfortunately, this looks ugly for some people. I did consider that when making the fix but I think there are plenty of (broken) alternatives out there that don't do this.

Issues:
https://code.google.com/p/futonic-lockscreenswitchwidget/issues/list
Source Code:
 https://code.google.com/p/futonic-lockscreenswitchwidget/source/browse/