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.

Android String Resource Translator 2.0 Released

A significant update to the Android String Resource Translator has been published.

New Features:
- Added Microsoft Translator (supports more languages and is way faster!)
- More plugin like architecture.
- Ability to select the source language.
- Links to creating an API key.
- Unescaped single quotes.

Project Site: http://code.google.com/p/android-string-resource-translator/


* This version requires .NET 4.0 Framework to use.

Task Manager localized for a total of 32 languages!

Android String Resource Translator has been open sourced!

Many apps on the Android Market are made by a single developer. Because of this it's really hard to provide apps that are accessible to many users outside of their native language. Today, I am releasing a tool to help that problem.

This tool will take your Android project and scan it for string resources. (They should reside in the res/values/string.xml file). These resources will then be translated to a bunch of different languages and placed in the appropriate folders automatically.

It has been released as an open source project under the GPLv3 license. If you want to contribute please let me know.

Lastly, this utility uses Bing as the backend so be kind to their servers. Only use this tool just before release.

Download: http://code.google.com/p/android-string-resource-translator/downloads/detail?name=string-translator-tool.zip

Project Site: http://code.google.com/p/android-string-resource-translator/

  

Android Market panel showing the My Location Widget localized to many languages.

Beryl Android Library

While working on my Android applications there's always a ton of code that I create that can be reused in other projects. For this I created a cherry picking project called Beryl.


This library has all sorts of functionality such as web service apis against Bing and Google as well as enhanced logging and HTTP REST.


Later on I'd like to add some custom themes to promote consistent look and feel across all my apps that are also visually pleasing. And actually complete some of the tasks that are in the project backlog.


Since this project is open source it is available to everyone and if you'd like to contribute please let me know.


Beryl Project Page - http://code.google.com/p/android-beryl/
Subversion Repository: https://android-beryl.googlecode.com/svn/


Lastly, there's a pretty sweet utility for Android developers that can automatically translate your Android Project string.xml into many different languages. Judging from the comments I get on the market they have been positive. I'll be posting that utility as a standalone project later on as well.