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Android Chess Clock 1.0-b5 released

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Today I released minor upgrade of Android Chess Clock. Major features implemented:

  • “Click” sound when players swapped
  • Application should be available also for devices like HTC Tattoo (explicit declaration of small screen support in AndroidManifest.xml)
  • Minor redesign of about screen
  • Updated Android Market text.
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Android Chess Clock 1.0-b4 released…

Monday, February 15th, 2010

I’m happy to announce that next release of Android Chess Clock was released today. For me it is important release as this is first one that I tested on my own Android Phone. There are many new features.

Screenshots of new features

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Selection of calculation
methods
Bronstein time control
configuration
New Icon

Full new features & bug fixes list

  • Bug fixes
    • Fixed issue with incorrect reset when coming back from Configuration screen via Cancel button
  • New features
    • New icon
    • Added new time control calculation methods:
      • Simple Delay
      • Fischer
      • Bronstein
    • Added button allowing bug report

Coming soon

  • Hourglass method
  • Support for Go & Scrabble time control approaches
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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

acc-main acc-main-l

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
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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.

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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:

acc-main acc-config

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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