Assist in builiding my local prayer time Android App.

[gabriel]

A local lad cut up the local prayer timetable into 12 months and made into a screensaver on his iphone.
I have an Android based phone so have decided to do it differently;

1) Display it like a clock ie.
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| Asr |
| 14:32 |
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2). Once the next prayer time kicks in it changes.
3). Clicking on the app will open the month and allow to scroll through the other months.

This is a specific app for my masjid timetable although there are apps out there that cover an area as big as London time generic.

It is something I am building for me my wife and my nieces to use [since our phones are Android based] so they can use when they out and about, especially with school out time in the evening and you girls like to chill that little bit long with their friends and can easily miss the time for Maghrib by not being conscious.

Anyhows any more suggestions that will make it useful?

[Usman]

nice work masha'Allah, can you ad like a wav file option too? like play a selected wav file as an alarm when the time kicks in, also add repetition times, like loop, repeat x times, or play once or don't play any sounds.

[gabriel]

nice work masha'Allah, can you ad like a wav file option too? like play a selected wav file as an alarm when the time kicks in, also add repetition times, like loop, repeat x times, or play once or don't play any sounds.

JazakAllah for the feedback.

I think I will use a professional male voice and not allow the option to use your own ringtone, this will prevent people from using music, etc. Maybe two times i.e. once to let them know the prayer time has started i.e. 'It is now time for the Asr prayer' and an option to be notified a warning 5, 10, 15, etc minutes before the time finished i.e. The time for Asr is about to finish'. What do you think?

[nuke]

you can take a look at this one for some ideas,

http://www.searchtruth.com/mobile/az...obile_azan.php

I haven't found it really useful myself though.

Amd yes it's definately a good idea to play male voice as an alert, the above app
has azan in it and some times it played in even in the toilet.

[gabriel]

you can take a look at this one for some ideas,

http://www.searchtruth.com/mobile/az...obile_azan.php

I haven't found it really useful myself though.

Amd yes it's definately a good idea to play male voice as an alert, the above app
has azan in it and some times it played in even in the toilet.

Thanks for the link.
I have seen plenty of these before and like you I am not keen when the Azan goes off in appropriate places, further the Azan has a practical use and should only be called out when a pray is to be prayed and not to give you a notification, so I will be scrapping that option.

This app is essentially a basic shell and only fulfils the need to work with your local masjid only and therefore not for universal needs. I suppose a Qiblah direction tool would be useful but they do exist and you could download that as a separate app for free.

Someone like me who is lazy and originally had 3 timetables in the house and now for some reason there is only one??? in my bedroom and then too lazy to go up stairs and have a look myself and guess when the time has kicked in or shout to my missus or send me son upstairs to have a look lol

[Basil al-Mamluk]

I have no experience in android development but I'd be interested in learning.

[meelash]

السلام عليكم,

Maybe you could include a Hijri date counter. It can be pretty simple to implement just a count to twenty-nine and then a reminder and query on whether you saw the moon or not. On the basis of that it resets the count or continues to 30.

I must confess this is not my own idea, I just glanced at a prayer time app called Guidance I have on my computer...

[daywalk3r]

Br Gabriel

Forgive my lack of knowledge on apps and phones - would android based apps work on the iphone and vice versa?

Id/We'd be very much interested in doing one for our masjid also..... How hard is this to do - do you need specialist software? Obviously i wont go near it (as i wont have a clue!) but could ask our masjid's website admin guy to look into it..

p.s Br Gabriel what happend with all those projects you were looking to start up i.e. the old 'Al Kauther and Al Magrhib' thread...?

[gabriel]

السلام عليكم,

Maybe you could include a Hijri date counter. It can be pretty simple to implement just a count to twenty-nine and then a reminder and query on whether you saw the moon or not. On the basis of that it resets the count or continues to 30.

I must confess this is not my own idea, I just glanced at a prayer time app called Guidance I have on my computer...

I do not believe it will have any relevance to our needs

[Colonel_Hardstone]

Br Gabriel

Forgive my lack of knowledge on apps and phones - would android based apps work on the iphone and vice versa?

No.