Thread: FlipClock Beta
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OKay guys another quick update for everyone...

I've been talking to Jeremiah today (thanks for suggesting that Qole!) and will be working with him to try and get this up into extras as soon as possible (I suspect now that it might even be something really silly like I goofed on version numbering or something and confused the autobuilder).

On the Flip side of things (pun intended), I managed to get some good work done in the last few days on the clock settings page and some things that I'd been meaning to get to in a while, so I may try to push out another preview (that hopefully will make it to extras this time) in the next day or two. Key points are:
  • Some minor caching to improve performance/rendering. I'd been thinking about this for a while, but finally got around to implementing it and it's well worth it. The alarm settings screen is much more responsive now (no more slight lags while changing between alarm days, etc), and all of the interfaces are just generally smoother running and less processor intensive. Side effect of this caching is that the rendering engine is now a bit more robust and that tacky background blocking the mood colour on the main screen is gone now.
  • The clock settings screen is getting closer! I've implemented the max alarm volume and insomniac brightness level controls now, so you can tweak and customize those from the app. The graphics involved here still need a bit of tweaking, but I hope from a usability point of view you guys will be impressed as I did my very best to make everything as finger friendly and cool as possible (sticking with the whole goal of Flip in the first place). I've still got to add the theme browser and about/help buttons, along with that "intro" popup when you first launch..
  • Some bug fixes and minor tweaks, along with a few graphic updates.
  • Snooze indicator to show you in the alarm area that a snooze is active and how long remains; I may update this a bit to make the "Remaining snooze time" a bit larger/easier to read, but might also leave that for the night theme only, since that's where it's more important in my mind.

Still some work to do but I'm really happy about how things are shaping up now!

Thanks!
 

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