The widget will help you to countdown the days until a given date. It shows the remaining days or even the working days left if you are interested in such a counter.
Some notes regarding the project setup and structure:
- The project was extracted to be published on GitHub from a multi module structure, therefore the testing module is missing from this migrated version. However only the tests are missing, the code is fully functional and it can be deployed.
- The project is configured with maven. It can be compiled and packaged easily via command line or you can use one of your preferred IDE.
- maven-android-plugin needs the ANDROID_HOME environment variable pointing to the current Android SDK installation.
- I was using Eclipse and IntelliJ as IDE to develop this widget, the meta files generated by these IDEs are committed as well
I started with a simple version of the widget, then over the time the enhancements were added. I also got a lot of feedback, ideas and comments, which motivated me to continue the development. Here are the most popular requests:
- multi-size widget - work in progress - currently only 1x1 size is available
- show remaining weeks or months (not days only)
- consider adding holidays in the calculation of the remaining days
- be able to associate some customizable icons to specific events
This is how the widget started (the story telling part;), I couldn't find a simple widget which counts the working days as well, so I decided to write one :) At the very beginning I just sketched how the widget would look like:
Then the next step was to prepare the vector based graphics with Inkscape:
For more details please visit the widget from the Google Play
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.