Tomdroid's second release!
24 June 2009, 20:55
It is with a little hangover (yesterday I celebrated Quebec’s national holiday) that I announced Tomdroid’s second release on the mailing list not so long ago.
This version brings performance, responsiveness improvements and better overall user experience.
For those who don’t know, Tomdroid is a Tomboy compatible wikiwiki note-taking application for Android. Right now it’s a tomboy note viewer but soon it should be considered a full tomboy client for android (I hope).
I’ll repeat some of the stuff I mentioned in the announce email but you can skip that if you want.
Version 0.2.0 – this is all wrong
Development is done using SDK 1.5 but the application is compatible with 1.x
- Performance improvements (on my ADP1 ~50 notes loads twice as fast)
- Responsiveness improvements: you can now see the screen updating the note list when it’s parsing notes and interact with it
- Usability/UI improvements (#364851, Benoît Garret)
- Text no longer changes color when scrolling (#364425)
- Fixed concurrency crashes (#389437)
- Messages are now clearer when there are no notes in the tomdroid/ folder vs when the folder doesn’t exist
- Improved usability of the URL input dialog to load a Web note
- Better error reporting to user when loading a note from the Web
- Better Android lifecycle management
- Developer related fixes (#364770, Michael Fletcher)
For now Tomdroid is not available on the Google Market Place but you can find the latest package here. Point your Android browser over there and click on the top .apk file. Alternate installation instructions are available in the README file.
If you encounter any problems or have additional information on issues mentioned above, please open a bug report.
If you have an idea for an enhancement please register a blueprint.
If you want to provide any additional help (translation, code, website, testing, publicity, etc.) feel free to subscribe to the tomdroid-dev mailing list and offer your help there.
The focus of the next version will be the usage of an sqlite (database) back-end instead of parsing all the note files on each startup. This should result in a dramatic
improvement of the loading time. In the near future, we should see an attempt at editing notes with minimal formatting opportunities and some work to use the snowy REST API for notes in the cloud.
Happy hacking!
— Olivier Bilodeau
That’s a good software,I hope the next release will have a feature to edit.
— nasofe · 9 September 2009, 02:56 · #
Salut Olivier :)
Could you add Tomdroid to this growing resource?:
https://wiki.koumbit.net/AndroidFreeSoftware
I’d also like to bring your attention this Google group I started when I got my Android phone:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-users-in-canada
Thanks for Tomdroid !
— Fabian Rodriguez · 10 December 2009, 23:15 · #
Hi Fab!
I’m already on the mailing list ;) I’ve found out about it on identi.ca (I’m plaxx there).
I just added Tomdroid to the wiki you referred to. Thanks for showing me that resource.
Looking forward to meet you in person at some event in montreal! :)
— Olivier Bilodeau · 11 December 2009, 13:12 · #