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Tomdroid 0.4.0 released!

Written for Tomdroid by Olivier Bilodeau on 2010-10-09

Hi everyone,

I have the pleasure to announce Tomdroid's 0.4.0 release!

This release brings one-way note synchronization with Tomboy Web Providers (like Tomboy-Online and Ubuntu One), introduces a new light theme and has a vastly updated UI.

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).

Tomdroid's project page: http://www.launchpad.net/tomdroid/

For now Tomdroid is not available on the Google Market Place but you can find the latest package at: https://launchpad.net/tomdroid/+download. Point your Android browser over there and click on the top .apk file. Alternate installation instructions are available in the README file.

Version 0.4.0 - "I didn't do it!" released on 2010-10-09
* One-way Note Synchronization! Two providers for now: Tomboy Web and SD Card (Benoit Garret, Rodja Trappe)
* Vastly modernized and improved UI (Rodja Trappe, Guilherme Salgado, Matthew Stevenson, #549643)
* Notebook templates are now hidden from note list (Benoit Garret, Guilherme Salgado, #360732)
* Fixed warning dialog reappearing after phone rotation (Benoit Garret, #541793)
* New note on first run giving some useful instructions (#588800)

I'm releasing this right before heading to the cottage to enjoy the autumns colors in the woods so I'm afraid there won't be any screenshots for now. Oh and you are kind of on your own for the next couple of days until I come back but I'm sure you'll be fine.

If you encounter any problems please open up a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/tomdroid.

If you have an idea for an enhancement please register a blueprint at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tomdroid.

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 propose help: https://launchpad.net/~tomdroid-dev

Very special thanks to Benoit Garret, Rodja Trappe, Guilherme Salgado and Matthew Stevenson for their contributions and patience. Without them I'm afraid that this release would have disappointed you (and I don't want that!).

Now, let's do some online note-taking!

Tomdroid 0.3.1 important fix

Written for Tomdroid by Olivier Bilodeau on 2010-02-18

One week after 0.3.0, here is 0.3.1 including an important fix that prevented all users in timezones greater than UTC (+xx:xx) to be able to sync notes with the sd card.

Version 0.3.1 - fundationem (fixed with a tie wrap)
* Fixed important parsing issue with notes in +xx:xx timezones (#520543)
* Fixed error-reporting of date parsing errors
* Only one error displayed per synchronization attempts instead of one per note

Sorry for the bug. I hope I won't release a version buggy for half of the world ever again. Promise!

Tomdroid 0.3.0

Written for Tomdroid by Olivier Bilodeau on 2010-02-11

Hi everyone,

I have the pleasure to announce Tomdroid's 0.3.0 release!

This new version brings snappy startup (thanks to Benoît Garret!), better user interaction and overall polish.

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).

Tomdroid's project page: http://www.launchpad.net/tomdroid/

For now Tomdroid is not available on the Google Market Place but you can find the latest package at: https://launchpad.net/tomdroid/+download. Point your Android browser over there and click on the top .apk file. Alternate installation instructions are available in the README file.

Version 0.3.0 - fundationem
Android 1.5 or later required
* Instant startup -- database back-end instead of files (Benoît Garret)
* New "Sync from SD Card" menu item that will populate the notes database with the notes in tomdroid/ on the SD card (Benoît Garret)
* Significantly smaller App (went from ~380Kb to ~35Kb)
* Note list is now sorted showing last modified notes first
* Notification when "Sync from SD Card" is complete
* Note title no longer shown in the note text
* Fixed note parsing errors (#364850, #483101)
* Fixed phone numbers in note titles (#512204)
* Improved help messages
* Improved error reporting to the user
* Removed the "Load from Web" not-so-useful feature (Benoît Garret)

You can see some screenshots (and redundant info) on my blog posts about tomdroid: http://www.google.ca/search?q=tomdroid+site%3Abottomlesspit.org

If you encounter any problems please do open up a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/tomdroid.

If you have an idea for an enhancement please register a blueprint at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tomdroid.

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 propose help: https://launchpad.net/~tomdroid-dev

Cheers!

Tomdroid 0.2.0

Written for Tomdroid by Olivier Bilodeau on 2009-06-25

Hi everyone,

I have the pleasure to announce Tomdroid's second release!

This version brings performance, responsiveness improvements and better overall user experience.

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).

Tomdroid's project page: http://www.launchpad.net/tomdroid/

A blog post including some screenshots (and redundant info) can be found here: http://www.bottomlesspit.org/2009/06/25/tomdroid-second-release

For now Tomdroid is not available on the Google Market Place but you can find the latest package at: https://launchpad.net/tomdroid/+download. Point your Android browser over there and click on the top .apk file. Alternate installation instructions are available in the README file.

This release includes the following:

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 more details and developer visible changes see the ChangeLog.

If you encounter any problems please open up a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/tomdroid.

If you have an idea for an enhancement please register a blueprint at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tomdroid.

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 propose help: https://launchpad.net/~tomdroid-dev

Thanks for tuning in. See you all later!

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Tomdroid's first release!

Written for Tomdroid by Olivier Bilodeau on 2009-04-14

I have the pleasure to announce Tomdroid's first release!

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).

Tomdroid's project page: http://www.launchpad.net/tomdroid/

A blog post including some screenshots (and redundant info) can be found here: http://www.bottomlesspit.org/2009/04/14/tomdroid-first-release

The latest Tomdroid can be found at: https://launchpad.net/tomdroid/+download
There are installation instructions in the readme.

Version 0.1.0 - the baby eating release
Features:
* Show the list of all notes in the tomdroid/ directory on the sdcard
* View individual Tomboy notes. All formatting tags should be supported. Notebooks, tags and addins will not be understood.
* You can load a note from a Web URL. In that case, links to other notes won't work.

Known issues:
* Crash can occur when your device runs low on memory or if the app is left running in the background for long period of time. Use the close button when not using the app. (Android lifecycle elements are not implemented yet)
* Application hangs on startup (but eventually recovers) if there is a large number of notes (>50). There is a problem in the way threading works. It'll be worked on for the next release.
* Notebook templates are shown as normal notes
* Some notes can't be opened (believed to be caused by notes with a multi-line title)

If you encounter any problems or have additional information on issues mentioned above, please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/tomdroid.

If you have an idea for an enhancement please register a blueprint at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tomdroid

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 propose help: https://launchpad.net/~tomdroid-dev

This is it for now.

Happy hacking!

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