Android: mars 2010 Archives

As I am heading up to the Abisko Mountain Station next week (again), I thought I'd release a temperature app for Abisko!

Temp in Abisko shows the current temperature for the Abisko Mountain Station and the temperature is updated every 5 minutes. The temperature can be displayed as an application with a graph or as a home screens widget.

Have fun and please let me know if you try it out!

Did some refactoring to make the code more generic as MyBus Luleå and MyBus Dalarna has a lot in common (was mostly copy paste before). Not fully done but have come a good way to making it fully generic. I have learned a lot about Android programming doing this!

In Dalarna they have a lot of bus stops which made the application slow to start and thus I added a bus stop cache in two levels.

1. Save the list with all downloaded bus stops to disk and load it on start. Update the list if the bus stop information has changed online.
2. Pre-populate the cache with a static version of the bus stop list for faster cold-start of the whole application.  

Also added the faster scrolling code in the bus stops selection UI to MyBus Luleå. It was already in the previous version of MyBus Dalarna.

Have fun and please leave a comment and grade it in Market if you use the application. Thanks!

I just released another Android application, MyBus Dalarna that provides live bus information for busses in Dalarna, Sweden. You can select bus stops and bus lines you are interested in and the application will update the current bus time info automatically.

It is free (ads supported) and is available on the Android Market now.

Changelog:
2010-05-18: 1.0.2 Support for lower resolution devices. Better handling if bus stop page is not available or broken.
2010-03-21: 1.0.1 Added bus stop caching for quicker startup.
2010-03-20: 1.0.0 Initial Release.

Just released a very minor update to TempInLuleå where a scrollbar is now shown when in layout-mode so users can see the graph better!

Have fun!