Today has been one of those days that my mind has been wandering…. and wandering to good places. This is the result of one of those wanderings.
I’ve been using a countdown widget app for quite some time now, and recently the developer updated the app and completely ruined it in my opinion. I have not downloaded the most recent update because it looks terrible, and there are a bunch of negative reviews about how transparency was removed, and it overall did not look good. So I kept the old version, so that I could keep my widget as-is.
So suddenly I started thinking… I could make an app like this. And it wouldn’t really take too long. I’ve got the gist of widgets now, I’ve done a count-down type of code with the schedules, and I can add in a TON of customization from what I have learned doing both Auto Respond and Tic Tac Toe.
So here it is… some ideas for my countdown widget app:
- Information
- Name/Title of event
- Date (optional? – only time – repeat daily)
- Option – Time
- Either date or time would be required if date becomes optional
- Option – Show hours instead of days
- Option – Show hours when less than X days left
- Look and feel
- Selectable color/image for background
- Selectable transparency for background
- Text
- Selectable color for all text
- All text same color checkbox
- Customizable text order
- Text1 – Name
- Text2 – Date
- Text3 – Days/hours remaining
- Stock images (to come later)
- Selectable size in setup? (? = not sure if this is possible in the setup screen)
- 1×1
- 2×1
- 2×2 with picture background
- 3×3 (?) with picture on side (? = I’d have to play with sizes for this one, to see what works best)
- Show preview of widget as changes are made
- Option – Remove widget automatically when countdown reaches 0
- Option – notification/alarm when countdown reaches 0
- alert sound
- alert vibrate