Smooth Calendar Roadmap

Last night I had some time to structure the feature request that I have received for Smooth Calendar, and I thought now would be a good time to outline my road map for the upcoming releases. I currently have a minor and a major release planned, and this should bring us up to the big 1.0.

Feature request

• Colour coding on calendar for different activities.
  
• Display day of the week
  
• Display week number
  
• Transparent background
  
• Select what calendar application to use
  
• Choose what view to display in the application used
  
• Add localisation for different languages
  
• Skin/theme support
  
• Option to omit all day events
  
• Choose if events should be removed on start or finish
  
• Option to down priorities the display of all day events
  
• Option to just display the icon and no upcoming events
  
• If end and start time is the same, dont show end time even if show end time is enabled
  
• Support for the Motorola corporate calendar
  
• Option to high light todays events in another colour
  

Next minor release
The next minor release is what I am currently working at, it will include a number of suggested features as well as support for different languages. Since this is a minor release it should be available shortly. Which of the requested features that make it into this release is hard to say, it depends on what feature I feel have the most public appeal as well as the amount of time it will take to implement them.

Next major release
The next major release, which is intended as the 1.0 release, will see the support for skins/themes. I intend to include at least three different skins (classic, donut, eclair) and it will be possible for the community to create their own skins, so I hope that there will soon be a bunch of skins to choose from. This release will hopefully add any outstanding requests that didn't make it into the minor release as well.

QR Cufflinks

Ok, i know it would be über nerdy of me, but still, when i saw these i thought, if i can get a pair with the QR for Smooth Calendar and my uppcomming app, Life Stream, that would be a blast! Sadly you have to order 50 pairs to get your own QR code, and thats just a bit to many to off load on friends, unless there is a huge demand for them out there, perhaps i should to a android merch shop

New release of Smooth Calendar

I am in the progress of bringing Smooth Calendar to the 1.0 release, and i will be doing this in a couple of steps, the first one is released today (0.9.7) and its a rework of the backend, where i have added automatic refreshes of the widget when the calendar changes as well as when the current event ends. I have also added a configuration option that allows the user to change the date/time strings used. The final new feature is the launcher icon, if the user haven't added a widget yet it will inform them on how to do so (should hopefully mean the end to all the "doesn't work" comments on market) and if there is one or more instances running it will allow you to configure them. The next release will focus on the looks of the widget.

If you installed this update and it crashes a lot, please try uninstalling and installing it again.

MW600

I just received my MW600, Sony Ericsson's new blue tooth headset. Seeing as it supports the X10 family of Android phones I am hoping that it will work 100% with my Nexus One. Sure, there is already FM radio support in the Nexus hardware, but there aren't any drivers for it (not that I am a huge radio fan anyway).

First of, the Android support at the moments isn't 100%, i guess this will be changing as soon as the X10 hits the stores, but for now you don't see the name of the contact calling nor the name of the track you are listening to in the display. Apart from that it works really well.

More on smooth calendar

First of, let me say the the response to my first Android application has been way better then I ever expected, it currently has 35000 downloads, and more then half of these still has it installed. I am currently working on a new version, slowing adding all the things I want the 1.0 release to contain. The interface will get a major overhaul and become skinnable, to allow the user to change the look of the application to match the theme on their phone. The backend is also being reworked, with a lot more features added. Stay tuned for a release.