Development of My First Android App – Todoist
by Drew Dahl on Jan.17, 2010, under Projects, Todoist for Android
Well, I’ve just started working on my first application for the Android OS. My reasons for it? I recently purchased a Motorola Droid and have come to a conclusion. All of the to-do applications really suck in comparison to Todoist. The only decent one is RememberTheMilk; however, you have to pay a yearly fee to use the app on Android and I’m just not a fan of how it’s set-up.
That said, I’ve decided to create an application for Todoist. Overall, the learning curve for how everything hangs together seems pretty easy. There’s a ton of documentation available and thus far I’ve basically set-up eclipse with the ADT plug-in and used the GUI designer and made a couple of custom views. The initial bits and pieces of trying to figure stuff out is a little frustrating, but it takes no time at all to finally figure it out and take off like a mad-man writing Java. So easy, a monkey could do it =)
Here’s a current view of what the GUI looks like. This isn’t actually pulling any data from Todoist’s site yet; however, it will be soon enough. And on that note, if you’ve never used Todoist or have never heard of it, I recommend you check it out. here.
In any case, let me know what you think of my design thus far.
Android Todoist App Design
February 3rd, 2010 on 5:49 AM
This looks really great – I can hardly wait til its done! I love Todoist and Android and it’s been very sad not having both together…
February 14th, 2010 on 7:41 AM
@Kater
http://www.drewdahl.com/page.html
It’s just ToDoist in an iFrame, which comes out perfectly in the Android browser. Not the most awesome fix for the lack of Todoist on the Android, but it’s definitely an OK temporary solution. If you wanted to give me your e-mail, I could let you know when I’ve beta clients available. I think you can just PM me on here, else let me know if you can’t and I’ll provide mine. More secure that way
Also, not sure if you noticed it or not, but this wasn’t sending e-mails properly until just a moment ago. SELinux was blocking it