Another one of the great issues brought up by a user of JustChess, my simple chess playing Android app, was the fact that when the screen was rotated, you can’t […]
The game restarts on screen rotation!
After my JustChess app hit the F-Droid repository, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that people were trying it out! With every wave of players, however, came a new wave […]
Cancel all notifications!
While trying to update and add features to my old open source Hourglass app, I decided that the issue posted asking for a notification cancel button was a pretty good […]
Can you say that again, Mr. Alarm?
While using my Hourglass app for Android phones, a user made an interesting observation: Hi I love this open source app and using it quite often. But sometimes my phone […]
Adding a countdown timer to my Android notification….
This was actually a great idea brought up by a user, and posted in my issue tracker for the Hourglass app. He pointed out that it would be really handy […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Where to, Governor?
Today’s update is pretty basic. Just cleaning up and filling in some blanks on my JustChess app. While I wont bore you with the whole commit, you are welcome to […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Check or Stale Mate?
Apparently, in 1988, World Champion Gary Kasparov accidentally stalemated his opponent during a blitz tournament in Canada. Mr. Kasparov had a king, queen, and a bishop against Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev’s lone […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Suggestions, anyone?
Well, more specifically, suggestions, computer? One of the cool things about having the built in JustChessEngine in my JustChess app, is the option to have the engine suggest a move […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: That move was the highlight of the game!
There were several computer GUI systems invented already, but the first (to the best of my knowledge, correct me if I’m wrong) computer GUI that would highlight your move options […]
JustNotes – when your notes are too long to read!
A user of my open source app, JustNotes, made an interesting observation… if your note gets too long, you can’t read it because it goes below the keyboard and you […]