Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

Salam everyone,

Version 0.2.0 of Munadi is in extras-devel

As Ali mentioned earlier, most of the requested features are added plus more!

Here is a quick overview of features:

* MohamedAG's patch to switch to portrait mode was added
* Ability to choose the calculation method
* Ability to switch between standard and Hanafi Asr timing
* Replaced the hadith section with a compass that displays the qibla direction with respect to north.
* Ability to enable/disable individual prayer Athans
* Ability to adjust prayer times by +/- minutes

Coming soon:

* Arabic and Turkish tranlation, version 0.2.1 (Expect it soon!)
* Detect location using GPS
* UI enhancements
* Any more suggestions?????

Also, a special thanks to everyone who contributed in a way or another, especially Ali Abu-El-Majd for his very hard work.

Soon, we'll setup a bug reporting system and a mailing list, so everyone can get updates and reports any bugs discovered.

Expect this at the end of today InshaAllah.

Any more suggestions or feedback, please get back to me or Ali on the emails provided in the "About" dialogue.

Wassalam.

Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

Assalamualaikum

I do not use this app(i do not need) however i would like to thanks to all of you for this hard work.

may allah give all of you and your parents a huge place in jannat-ul-fidose AAMEEN

Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

Mashallah, this is a great app! All the options are well thought out and useful. I do have a suggestion though-
along with/instead of the compass showing the direction of qibla wrt north, a screen showing the direction of quibla wrt to the current position of the sun/moon would be much more useful. especially because the n900 doesnt have an inbuilt compass.

jazakallah for this great app!

Ps. can't the hadiths be integrated elsewhere? like a random hadith widget or something?

Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

Salam,
Thanks for the suggestion, but can you please expand on the Qibla thing, as I don't clearly understand how you want it to work! I believe you are talking about the old method of using shadow length wrt sun or something similar?... Or am I going too far :D

As for the Hadith, I really wanted to keep it, but there are many issues with having them, of which translation. The app will be translated into Arabic and Turkish (and other languages hopefully), and not sure what to do with English only Hadith collection, as I need to dig the Hadith's in different languages.

The other reason, which is the main behind removing Hadith is the legitimacy of the source, I cannot or don't have the time to ensure the Hadiths are correct and verified, and I am not ready to have the responsibility of distributing false Hadith, a major problem :(

Thanks.

Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

Salam,

Munadi 0.2.0 is now in extras-testing repository.

Can every one please help to get Munadi 0.1 out the door, currently, only 2 positive feedbacks are needed, you can vote here:

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in.../munadi/0.1.0/

Once you do that, can you please help test out Munadi 0.2.0, and comment and/or leave feedback, you can vote here:

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in.../munadi/0.2.0/

Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

No, I am not talking about that. I have attached an image for your reference of an android app. See http://www.androidzoom.com/android_a...pass_ltmr.html. There was a similiar java app which I had used in my n95, Sony p990, etc
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Basically, how it works is, it takes the time, the date, and the geographical location and predicts the position of the sun/moon (probably from an algorithm as the aforesaid app did not connect to the net) wrt to a compass. Now the direction of the qibla is overlaid on the image and a person can align his mobile with the sun and get the correct qibla direction.




Legitimacy, is a very critical and valid problem. I believe it can be solved by making the app read the hadith from a database of "Sahih- Bukhari" or "Riyadhu Saliheen". Even Arabic/English translations are easily available from the net.

Another feature idea that came into mind now is (please don't think I am over abusing your kindness) to have an offsetted alarm. ie, Now the alarm (adhan) goes off exactly at the time of the adhan. Suppose everyday I wanted to wake 10minutes after Zubah adhan, or in Ramdan I wanted to wake 45 minutes before adhan? So this can be a simple alarm that goes off a specified amount of minutes before/after the actual adhan.

I hope you would take this into consideration, and jazakallah!

Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

This feature already exists in munadi 0.2. In the same settings tab where you enable and disable individual athans you can also set an offset from the calculated athan time to the time you want your phone to call for the athan.

Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

I saw this feature but there is a problem. It changes the actual adhan timings. For example, If I want to wake 10 minutes before Zubah, I just want an alarm at that time, I dont want to change the actual time of the Adhan.

And I've done some research about the Sun/Moon positions. The basic lingo (azimuth, altitudes, etc) are explained here:http://www.jgiesen.de/elevazmoon/basics/index.htm
And an algorithm for the Sun/Moon position id given here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...y-and-lat-long

Once again, Jazakallah.

Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

This is doable but might take us quite some time. We are already using a library that uses the great circle method to find the direction of the qibla.

So what we would need to add is an algorithm that also finds the direction to the sun, which updates itself over the course of the day and we can display the relative positions based on that.

Here is a description of how to find the sun:

http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/uses-...solar.position

Re: Great Azan Application (Munadi) - Request for Enhancement
 

Hmmm, yeah you are right. You may have to do both these together. But IMHO, only then will the qibla direction feature become really useful. In my N95, it helped me a lot, whether i was just a few blocks away or a few 100 kms away from home/mosque.

Hope you take this into consideration, atleast for a future 0.3 version.

EDIT: Here http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi, the data is available. Maybe the required data can be pulled from here? They have a Web and telnet interface. Would that be enough?