jueves, 24 de mayo de 2012

One year of Month Calendar Widget

Today is Month Calendar Widget's birthday.

One year ago I uploaded the first version to the Android Market (now Google Play). I was somewhat fearful about a possible bad reception between users, so I made the widget available only in my home country, Argentina. One and a half  month after, I realized that we are living in a really small world and if you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've lunched too late. So I made the "brave" step of releasing the app worldwide.

If somebody told me then that one year after Month Calendar Widget will be approaching 200,000 downloads, I probably would thought it was a joke. But no, it's real.

Today I'm working in the next version, to be released soon, hoping this and future versions will delight still more Android users. Stay tuned!




7 comentarios:

  1. Excelente aplicación... me encanta tal y como esta, sin complicaciones ni vinculaciones, simple y sencillo... pero... solo falta una cosa, un tamaño más, 5 x 5... para tablets y tabletofonos

    Gracias y saludos

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  2. Hola JugadorCompulsivo, disculpas por esta respuesta tardía.
    En principio los tamaños oficiales de widgets en Android llegan hasta 4x4, en tablets se pueden tener en algunos casos más grandes, y supe que en la última versión, Jelly Bean, pueden redimensionarse. Lo investigaré.

    Saludos y gracias por descargar el widget

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  3. Hello, thank you for working on Month Calendar Widget. It's outstanding!!

    Now, there is a good chance to get Month Calendar Widget in the f-droid FOSS market, see here:
    http://f-droid.org/forums/topic/month-calendar-widget/

    However, we need the license text. Please include it in your repo and give us notice.

    Best,
    Tobias Kuban

    P.S.: It is also possible to include a donation button there, see:
    http://f-droid.org/forums/topic/about-this-forum/

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    1. Hi Tobias, sorry for this very late response. I haven't decided yet what to do with the app, including licensing. I will make a decision soon

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    2. I need to clarify a bit: "I haven't decided yet what to do with the app" means it deserves much more attention and I'm looking for a way to do it.
      Thanks

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  4. Hi, congratulations on your calendar, it's by far the best looking out there! A couple things would propel it from great to brilliant though, a little customization with a setting for the font and background color and one for the transparency? That would integrate it perfectly to all sorts of themes. Another thing, maybe a double tap could launch the agenda application? And a swipe gesture change the month displayed? That would be perfect.
    Thank you very much for all your work!

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    1. Thanks awk for your kind words and sorry for this late response. More customization is planned for future versions. Launching calendar perhaps could be introduced in a pro version. Swipe gestures AFAIK are not possible in home screen widgets. I think a vertical swipe for certain kind of widgets was introduced in recent Android versions. I will investigate

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