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Chess Clock for Android 1.0-b7 released…

Monday, March 1st, 2010

I have released 7th release of Chess Clock for Android today.

Screenshots

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Major changes

  • I have changed application name from “Android Chess Clock” to “Chess Clock for AndroidTM” to be in sync with Android Branding Guidelines
  • added support for Scrabble® time control (penalty for overtime)
  • slightly improved UI
    • inactive timer is now gray
    • simple animation when clock is pushed
    • added moves counter
  • added Flurry.com usage stats to know better what functionality is mostly used.

Known bugs

  • After release I found one bug: when player times out then it is necessary to push reset button twice to reset clocks. This bug is related to Simple Delay mode only. It will be fixed in next release.

Android Chess Clock 1.0-b3 released today

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

I have released next version of Android Chess Clock. Major change is refactoring of calculation engine to support multiple calculation strategies in future. Although this change is not visible for user today it is investment for future.

Screenshots

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Major changes in this release

  • slight screen design graphic improvement
  • added different layout for landscape screens
  • when any player runs out of time application allows one click reset of time to start next game quickly
  • added feedback button to About screen
  • various small code improvements

Coming soon

  • additional time control algorithms

Android Chess Clock 1.0-b2 released…

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

There is new version of Android Chess Clock available on Android Market.

New features:

  • application runs in full screen mode
  • added links for PayPal donation and feedback email
  • display dimes now when any player runs out of time
  • fixed issue with display rotation while countdown is running

Please let me know if you have any issue with application of you have any comment.

Android Chess Clock 1.0-b1 released…

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

I’m happy to inform you that first beta version of Android Chess Clock was released to Android Market, filed under category Games/Brain and Puzzle.

Application is currently fairly simple (as you can see on screenshot) but works:

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Main features

  • supports Android 1.5+
  • players alternate by taping anywhere on the screen
  • supports small QVGA screens as well as HVGA
  • gently graphics without CPU (and energy) consuming animations
  • independent setting of time for every player

Application was tested on T-Mobile G1 (thanks to Honza) and Google Nexus One (thanks to Vindra) as I don’t have currently real Android device.

Known bugs & user requests

  • bugs
    • application resets countdown when you change orientation of screen from landscape to portrait
  • nice to have
    • missing icon
    • application does not run in full screen mode
    • time can be set only as hours and minutes but not seconds
    • sound when player runs out of time

Please write your feedback bellow the article.

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