Login Page of Todoist For Android

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:

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. ^_^

Todoist Application - Unformatted Project List View

Actual Todoist Project Listing

I did a validity check with their validation tool and it came back with two main errors. The first was the use of a deprecated method in its’ javascript and the other was some locale issue that was optional to fix. After fixing the javascript issue and verifying it, I was unable to submit it to the developer’s due to there being a lack of license in the code. After some tooling around, I realized that the Todoist developer’s never bothered to upload it to the Mozilla site anyway, so I tested it out again in 3.6 and it installed without any trouble with checking enabled.

That said, here is the link for you to download it:

http://www.drewdahl.com/wp-content/uploads/todoist-addon.xpi

This hasn’t been accepted by the Todoist developer’s, so I imagine they may not support it (even though the difference from theirs is only 4 different lines of code). So, if you see any problems with, it let me know. Hopefully they’ll either fix theirs or adopt mine sooner than later. Anyway, Enjoy!

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…

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