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More Android Widgets

As an Android user, i like the idea of widgets. I previously made the Abstruse Goose comic widget, which i keep on my Homescreen, but i also want a decent clock widget. It turns out there are very few decent digital clocks in the market. The one i've been using up until now is called Retro Clock, which looks pretty decent, but doesn't have the date showing. So a few weeks back, i quickly coded up my own, similarly styled, but including the date. Being the nice guy that i am, i put it on the market. Within 2 hours i had requests for a 12hr version. I didn't realise that people had trouble with 24 hour time, but the demand was relatively large, so i added it. Turns out that there was a lot more demand for the clock in general than i could have ever expected.

As of 13 November 2009, there have been 7077 14 February 2010, there have been 73250 downloads of the clock. Since release i've added ways to work around people using auto task killers which kill my update service, and some minor theming support, just because people like colors.

For those of you with Android phones, just use your QR Code scanner:

Abstruse Goose Widget

An application i've been working on is available for Free on the Android Market. It's a Home Screen Widget for the Abstruse Goose Webcomic. I've just updated it today to include some better viewing capabilities. The widget allows searching through the entire Abstruse Goose feed ( which sadly is only about 4 items ), and now stores the images on the SD Card storage if available. When selecting view from the menu, it will use the SD Card image and open the image viewer, if possible, otherwise it will launch the URL if the SD Card is currently not mounted or for some reason cannot be written to. I've also created a Google Group for application feedback.

Expect more future Android development!

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Google Wave

I've received an invite for Google Wave! And i find it incredibly interesting. There is so much potential for the Wave application to become my entire internet day-to-day experience. For example, i quickly whipped up 2 gadgets:
http://davidgoemans.com/gadgets/gmail.xml
http://davidgoemans.com/gadgets/twittergadget.xml
Which embed a GMail gadget and twitter gadget ( the same from iGoogle ) into a wave. This GMail gadget is more like a mobile GMail, which i also found the embed for from iGoogle's add stuff. Unfortunately, the default iGoogle GMail gadget can't be embedded in wave, and if you try and embed full gmail, it takes over the entire browser tab.
But those are just cheap 2 second gadgets anyone can make. Robots provided a lot of power too, giving me the ability to import my twitter timeline and keep it up to date. With a bit of work, the robot which i started: twee-bot@appspot.com could easily become a flexible social client which exists on a wave. Currently, however, the Wave API is not what it says it should be. And when Google fix this and allow, for example, things like the FORM_BUTTON_CLICKED event, i may actually be able to continue the work.
Feel free to pillage and plunder those gadgets and import the robot ( not that it works ). And expect a tutorial on how to make a working robot sometime.

Upcoming Private Application

I have a commissioned application in the works. The codebase is complete, and it's currently in testing. More news to follow shortly!

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