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Well, the first beta release is looking like it’ll be today or tomorrow. It will incorporate only a 7-day view (with overdue tasks as well) and at current, you won’t be able to “complete” tasks with it, but if you’re lucky, I’ll be able to squeeze that in before I release it

There are just a few bugs here and there to fix, but I don’t foresee any major issues. As always, here is a current screen shot of the app in action:

TODOIST for Android Screenshot

If you have any suggestions on the current interface, please be sure to let me know! I’m thinking a little vertical spacing is needed and the project listings on the right should have a bit of padding, but that’s all I can say for sure.

Anyway, on to development updates! We’ve switched repositories from a locally hosted Mercurial repo to a github hosted Git repository. You can see the repository here.

And the final update! We’ve moved from our trac installation to using bugzilla to handle all of our issue tracking. That said, once the application is out, if you notice any issues with it, feel free to submit a bug report through the interface, or create an account on our bugzilla installation and report it! You can find out bugzilla installation here.

That’s all for today! If you don’t see our first beta release tonight, expect one on Monday (Tuesday at the latest!)

Well, it’s been a little while, but I’ve been making some slow progress towards my goal. Right now, I have log-ins working (it also stores your API key if you want it to be stored, thus never needing to login again). There’s a “Report” feature in the event you find bugs. And, as of right now, I have a fairly dirty interface that it opens up to (shows you a 7 day listing and overdue tasks). In the images below, I hacked the times together, so it’s actually showing you a week in the past, but it’s all good. I also don’t have the overdue tasks feature built-in quite yet, but that shouldn’t take more than an hour to write.

My goal? A beta release by this weekend.

Here are some screen shots. They’re kind of poor, but it happens. Also, the number on the app is the number of the project it’s related to (I need get a lookup working):

So, where do I go from here? Well, I’m going to try to spiff up the interface a tiny bit, so it’s not so crappy looking (More TODOIST like). Then after the Beta release, I’m going to move on to Project listing (viewing only) and probably do another beta release once that’s complete. After that, I’ll add the ability to add tasks to projects and release another beta. And after that, fix a few bugs, add local storage of data (until then, it will look-up data from the Internet for each request and will be slower), and release it on the Market. Once it’s up on the Market, I’ll keep adding features to it (and if you think of any features you’d love to see, let me know and I’ll make note!)

Let me know what you think and I’ll post again with the beta this weekend *fingers crossed*