Bug reports

I just got aware of a bug in the pro version of the app, by one of my users. It is fixed for now, but if you experience anything unusual whether or not it being just minor or major, feel free to leave a comment in this post.

A Simple Checklist Pro Version

I've just added an ad-free version of A Simple Checklist, which you can find here:
⇾ A Simple Checklist Pro


People have been asking me for an ad-free version for some time, and I've finally had some spare time for working on a new version.


I've also added a way to import your checklists from the previous version. It is a bit experimental right now, so even after you've imported your checklist, I will encourage you to still keep the free version for now as a backup, just so you don't end up with loss of data.



Also I am experimenting a bit with some of the design, and therefore have removed the red vertical line to give it a more clean look. Let me know what you think though and I will take it into consideration.

500 installs milestone reached

So, about a week ago, I just hit 500 installs on my App!

Also, I've updated the App with a few new features:

•  You can now hide checked elements - Elements which gets checked will fade away after 3 seconds.
• Quckadd - A faster way to add elements to your checklist.
• Voice recognition - Allows you to add elements just by saying it out loud.

The new features are off by default, not to try to force it down anyones throats, and to still keep the UI nice and simple, but you can enable them in the options menu.

Moving elements in a ListView

»How do I move elements i a ListView?
I see this question asked a lot recently, so let me just try to explain some ways you can archive this, and hopefully I'll get asked that question a lot less in the near future hah.

Basically there are two good ways I've found out to do it, one way is to use the nicely custom made ListView called cwac-touchlist partially coded by CommonsWare from Stackoverflow, partially because he's taken the source code for the custom ListView in the default Android music player worked a little further on it, and bundled it in a nice, easy to use way. It can still be a little troublesome to get it working, and will most likely require a  lot of little tweaks to make it fit just about right in your own project.

There is already a good explanation in the before mentioned link to get it working in your project, so I won't use time to basically just say what he has already written.
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Now, if you like me could use a more lightweight, less feature rich, but more simple, way to archive moving of elements in a ListView, read on. My version doesn't use drag and drop, however, it is possible to do something alike, but it requires a little extra work.

To put into words what I am really doing, I am simply swapping two elements in the ListView, and then put on a nice animation on each of the views. It sounds simple enough, and it also is.

With all the fat removed it basically comes down to these three parts

• View.onTouch() handler
• swapViews() method
• swapElements() method

In my View.getView(), where the View is generated, I tie an onTouch() handler on each of my slide views (eg. ivSlide), figure out which direction the user´s finger is moving, and set the position for the element which is about to get swapped. Then I find my swapView for the swapPosition, and call swapViews() with the view I pressed, and the swapView.

Everything that happenes in swapView() is simply where the animation of the two views are handled, and when the animations are finished, swapElements() gets called with the positions of the two elements getting swapped.

⇾ The full source code can be found here

⇾ And the more interesting part would be here

100 installs milestone reached

And what better way to celebrate, than with a new update?

I've added the ability to have multiple checklists in the App, currently limited to three for the time being.

Also because of the major rewrites I've done, the App is now in version 2.0

I will probably also start working on a more feature rich version where you can simply pay a one time fee without ads.

50 installs milestone reached

Good news. I just reached the 50 installs milestone! And in fact, this happened some days ago, and I am already very close to the 100 install milestone, my App seems to have become quite popular.

First App on the market!

So, I just released my first App on the Android Market called A Simple Checklist, or rather it was a few days ago, but I've had some stuff to do in the mean time, but anyway, if you haven't already you should definitely check it out.

You can find a link right here.

I have been aiming for a more simplistic design and user approach than what is already out there on the market, since I actually made the App in the first place because I thought most of the checklists already out there tries to be a lot of different things like task manager, todo list, notesblock or whatever, without really doing a good job on either. So I thought I might as well give it a try and see if I could make something I at least found more useful, and of course decided to share it with the rest of the world, in case there were other people sharing my view.

My idea here was to make a more simple App without a lot of different features going in every direction, like I've seen other Apps do. And to tell the whole story, it started out with me using some other checklist App, which tried to force me to put me through a lot of dialogs just to let me add a simple task to my list and ask me a bunch of questions about when I wanted to set the alarm for my task, when all I really wanted to do was to make a quick grocery list. And so I though why isn't there a checklist App which doesn't try to force the user into doing these things, and instead just make them optional and say "just do whatever you want, if you want that feature, you can add it on here later", as in start out simple and then add functionality when you actually need it, and when the user gets more experienced.