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Well, I’m about 50% complete with the API Handler and I just created the login page. Granted, it doesn’t truly do anything just yet, but it still looks snazzy :3

Anyway, the login page is displayed to the right. Also, I’ve setup a trac installation. I encourage anyone who is interested to create an account and follow along. As soon as I have a working release, I’m going to put it up on there for beta testing purposes.

My plan as of right now, is to release Version 0.1 sometime in late April/early May. Version 0.1 will be a “read-only” version, and most likely not be very pretty. You’ll be able to log-in, view your projects, and view your tasks associated with those projects. Thus far, that’s my goal.

I think once summer starts, I should have no trouble rolling a lot of this code out, so I’m hoping for late May/early June as a possible release date for a “mostly” working app. Although, it’s probably too early to start throwing dates out. We’ll see ^_^

Anyway, the trac website is at: http://todoist.drewdahl.com/trac/

And finally, what you’ve all been waiting for… the latest image of Todoist For Android:

Well, I’ve finally found some time to sit down and get working on this app again. I’m currently working on a class that will take care of the interfacing between the Todoist API and the actual application.

Below are some screen shots of the application (left) and my actual Todoist Project List (right). Enjoy!

Note: Keep in mind, the data isn’t formatted at this time. I’m just trying to get all of the functionality there, and then worry about getting it pretty. ^_^

Well, I think I’ve got the basic GUI layed out in my mind. On top of that, I think I’ve played around with the GUI editor enough to know how to get it to do my bidding.

Finally it’s on to actually making a handler for the Todoist API. For that, I just wrote a couple of simple python scripts for testing so I know what the links have to look like and what the results should roughly be. Here a short example:

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib
q = urllib.urlencode({‘token’: ‘myToken’})
r = urllib.urlopen(‘http://todoist.com/API/getProjects?’ + q)
print r.read()

This script just forms the link needed and then gets the web response. In any case, using this method, I’ve started making a TodoistAPIHandler class that uses a WebRequest class that I’ve made. So far, I have it getting projects. I suppose the next step is to figure out a good way to hold the JSON data it returns.

To be continued…

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.