I’m a developer. I’m not a designer. So I was wondering if anyone can help me out with a new icon for Power Schedule (preferably in a vector format, PNG would be great – so I can scale it properly). I know the current icon is not very suggestive nor good. And since its the first thing the user sees, I would like it to look better.
Unfortunately I don’t have much to offer for the help, except for eternal thanks, having the name posted and a link to your website.

So, anyone interested?

I was finally able to publish the bugfix version to the Market (after a number of page refreshes, timeouts and 404 errors). I fixed some small issues which the users complained about. I also added a “Share…” button. If you find Power Schedule useful, pleas share it with your friends (via Facebook, Twitter, email etc.). It doesn’t take much time on your side, it would just motivate me to make it better and better. I hope it’s not too much to ask. Thank you

I just tried to upload a small bugfix to Power Schedule – but guess what, big surprise: the developer account is not working (404 error). It seems I’m not the only one experiencing these problems (see here). So this question pops up : is Google working on some new developer account feature (hint: expand the country list already!) or they’re just having some technical problems.
Frankly, I would prefer the first one

EDIT: Well, it’s getting even funnier (or not). I was finally able to get in, but I got a few messages that I’m not the owner of this app (lol). It seems some guys on the forums also get the same message.
Pity. I was just about to post a bugfix version (fixed “event at same hour in weekend / weekdays” bug, also some wrong times being displayed on the time selector – due to different time zones, and also a crash for some devices without Bluetooth).

Amazon launched their own Android Appstore (name is still under clarification with Apple – but that’s a different topic). It’s only available to Android users in the US for now, but I’m sure this will change soon enough. But the big news (for me, anyway) is that they also accept developers from many different countries – including Romania . I couldn’t find a list yet, but I think if you have an Amazon account, you’re eligible).
They withhold the US tax – 30%, but if you have an US Tax ID (one can be obtained relatively easily, for free), it can be as low as 0%, for some countries (depending on tax agreement between US and your country). Of course, you still need to pay the required taxes in your country.

The point is, selling Android apps is more than possible, from all countries, even from a legal point of view… now I’m still confused why Google doesn’t allow it as well yet .
I refuse to think they really don’t care (that would be a major dissapointment).

Hi all,

I updated Power Schedule to 1.3. I added “Data Connection” schedule as a new feature, and also changed a few texts (for example I renamed “Phone” to “Telephony” – some people thought turning “Phone” off would actually power off your device completely… when I actually meant just the “phone” (GSM /CDMA) part of your Android device). Anyhow, I hope “Telephony” removes some of that confusion.

Data schedule will now let you disable sync during night, for example (if you want to keep your WiFi off and Telephony on, but don’t want to get new e-mails, for example). Of course, it’s up to you to define your schedule.

I am also working on a major overhaul of the UI – making it more… Android-esque? I am also trying to add a few more options for “power users”, who are not satisfied with the standard settings. So update your version and stay tuned for new updates.

I just uploaded a version 1.2. I added (preliminary) Bluetooth support – it can now be configure individually. Well, sorta. It seems that if Airplane mode is ON (therefore Phone is off), Bluetooth can’t be started. It’s an Android platform limitation – I’m not sure if it can be resolved at all (but I will do my best).
So, push your update button in the Market

PS. If you like this app, please recommend it and share your review with other people – I know, it’s far from perfect – but it will be .

I got a surprise this morning with a tweet from Android Developers – it told me to check my Android Market stats. Now the numbers are getting useful: you can see all kinds of information, device types, countries, languages, and of course, app install count over time. Really good stuff. Now if they could only associate the crash reports with a device type and OS version, it would be excelent.

Also, Google, can you please open the paid market for the rest of the world already? I had to buy a prepaid SIM card from Germany to be able to buy some apps I wanted (no, I don’t want to root my phone). I really don’t get it – I have a valid Google Checkout account, so purchasing was easy. Why can’t I do it the proper way?
Ok, not to mention you need to allow developers from other, “non-select”, countries to publish paid apps. Apple does it, so why can’t you?

Thanks.

I’m finally back, after a long 3000 km watch-the-laptop drive in Europe. The results? I can’t comment on that (company policy). But I’m just glad it’s over.
So now I’ll have some time for the promised update (now that Power Schedule surpassed 1000 downloads – YAY!).
You can check back from time to time for updates – or easier, follow me on Twitter .

I will be away for a week, fighting with snowy roads in Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Germany (the actual route is secret). Why? Duty calls.. um, company duty actually. We’re testing the new multimedia platform for a well-known German car manufacturer (actually more within the same group). I’m not gonna tell you the name, but I can give some hints:
- one of the brands was founded before WW II by some bad guys
- another of the brands has 4 interconnected rings
- another is Czech
- the last (not least) is Latin and likes fighting with bulls.

Now guess which group is it.

Anyway, I will have some updates for Power Schedule when I get back – UI rework, more flexible schedule and 1 or 2 other things I can’t talk about (competition ).

See you in a week. Or wait, I might have some WiFi in the hotels.

I’m not actually talking about the palm tree. I really mean Cocos2D, which is a well known 2D graphics engine, made famous by some iPhone games (see here for a list).
I recently started playing with it, well, with one of its variants: cocos2d-x. This port has taken the developers by storm, because it’s cross-platform. It can run on both Android and iOS, and the progress is quite amazing. More than this, it’s written in C++ . Which means guys like me, who really are shocked by Objective-C’s “unnatural” syntax, feel right at home .

So the fun stuff is (for geeks anyway), I can start Visual Studio, build the project, run it in Windows… Fire up Eclipse, build it for Android and run it on my HTC Desire… then start the *cough* Hackintosh *cough* and recompile everything for iOS… and run in the iPhone emulator (I don’t have an iStuff). Also it supports another platform (uphone), developed by China Unicom, a telecom company.

Anyway, it seems the guys behind the engine itself are a few engineers from China Unicom. So if the project has some funding, it may become the next best thing for mobile game development. Who knows, they may even add support for Windows Phone 7 at some point (although I doubt it now, since we can’t use C++ on it… at least not yet).

So for those interested, yes, I’m also working on a (secret) game