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It's a pleasure for me to announce the availability of Pomodroid v0.7.0 in the Android Market.

For this release I finally implemented the possibility for a user to define his/her own tasks, thus manually input them. This was heavily requested as a feature, now it is a reality.

Here is a proof

Direct/Manual task input

Pomodroid v0.7.0 also includes a brand new issue fetching algorithm that will save a lot of time and bandwidth when downloading tasks from Trac servers after the first time.

There are some more screenshot in the project page. Next releases will be about bug fixing and the support of more services.

Last week I completed all my exams for the Bachelor in Applied Computer Science!

During this Summer I am going to focus on the following tasks:

• Write my Bachelor thesis on Dycapo Project
• Fix all possible Dycapo Server bugs
• Extensively document Dycapo Protocol
• Continue to work for SoNet from the 16th July to my Thesis deadline (2010-10-08) and (hopefully) after that day
• Improve Pomodroid project! I am currently working on a better Issue fetching algorithm and direct task input, without relying on a service.

Let's hope I can successfully finish all of these

It's a pleasure for me to announce Pomodroid v0.6.0. I jumped from v0.4.x to v0.6.0 because of the number of enhancements and new features:

• New modern and nice graphics
• Multiple Trac support! That is, you can add as many Trac systems as you want
• Ease of use improved:
  • you don't have to press the Menu button for accessing al Pomodroid functionalities. Now everything is handled from the Main screen.
  • All the sub-functionalities related to a screen are now accessed by buttons within the screen or the Menu button
  • Tests have been removed: I don't have the time to update them. Instead you will find a new "Services" tab in Preferences
  • Welcome Screen and first Pomodroid run are now mor clear to user
  • Trac screen is now known as Services screen. It also features a new design.

The program is already on the market. Install it for free! If you're upgrading, please destroy the database first (Preferences -> Db4o Actions -> Destroy the Database). This version brought to much changes for having a clean upgrade.

As always, you can join the project! See the official project page on GitHub for info.

What will be next?
Since I re-designed the core of Pomodroid, the new changes will let me to add support for new Services such as Bugzilla, expect it in a future release! I also would like to add support for manual insertion of Activities, like in every normal Pomodoro manager! Stay tuned for other news.

I am currently working on Pomodroid. The Android Agile activity manager for Pomodoro Technique. The new version will be v0.6.0. I jumped from v.0.4.x to v0.6.x because there will be a lot of new features, such as:

• Brand new Button graphics
• Use of multiple Trac systems
• UI enhancements

The second is the most important: I am re-writing the core of Pomodroid to support multiple Trac systems to fetch tickets (activities) from. That is, if you've got an account on more than one Trac system, you will be able to use all of them!
There another great news: I am also re-writing the core system in order to prepare me to add other Issue Managers support in the next release. So stay tuned, v0.7.0 might have BugZilla support.
I'm also planning to add manual insertion of activities before v1.0.0, just like in normal Pomodoro Activity managers.

The fourth public release of Pomodroid brings some new features and corrections:

• Fixed bug when rotating the device under a running Pomodoro. Pomodoro Activity is forced to stay in portrait mode
• Bigger Pomodoro Timer
• Pomodoro.java completely rewritten. Makes use of Handler and Runnable instead extending CountDownTimer
• Notification system completely rewritten: user is notified through real Notifications, vibrations and Toasts.
• The new notification system is also used in PomodroidException.java

The apk is already in the Market.
Everything else can be found in the official project page.

Being encouraged by the 130 downloads nine days after its official release, I'm going to work further on Pomodroid.
This release has a new feature: it permits XML-RPC calls on Trac as anonymous user. This is useful if you have XmlRpcPlugin installed on your trac but don't have the permissions to use XML-RPC for your user. Pomodroid will work anyway, as it will perform remote calls as anonymous user, but it will query for your user anyway.
Moreover, this release improves the layout of the Pomodoro activity.
I'm always looking for volunteers to cooperate on the project!
Release 0.3.0 is on the market. Sources are on GitHub.