Überarbeitete Version von Fefes Newsreader für Android

 Android Newsreader für Fefes Blog 1.4

Fefe Newsreader im hellen Design

Wie in meinem letzten Post angekündigt, habe ich die Newsreader App für Fefes Blog überarbeitet.
Die Liste der Neuerungen ist recht lang, deshalb erst zum wichtigsten Punkt.
Es gibt eine neue Permission:

• com.android.vending.BILLING

Keine Sorge, diese App wird euch nichts kosten und auch werbefrei bleiben. Ihr könnt allerdings wenn ihr mich unterstützen wollt eine kleine Spende mittels In-App-Billing an mich ausrichten. 

Ihr habt die App noch gar nicht installiert? Dann schnell in den Google Play Store und installiert den Fefe Newsreader gratis!

Das Lesen der Beiträge funktioniert nun ohne Popup

Sobald ihr auf einen Beitrag geklickt habt, vergrössert sich das Element und der ganze Beitrag ist sichtbar. Zudem könnt ihr jetzt direkt verlinkte Quellen öffnen ohne zuerst auf Fefes Blog surfen zu müssen.

Die "normale" Ansicht

Ein Beitrag ist ausgewählt,
Links sind anklickbar

Helles / Dunkles Theme

Da einige Nutzer danach gefragt haben, ist diese App nun in hellem und dunklem Theme verfügbar. Das Standardtheme für die App ist immer noch das dunkle Theme. Wenn ihr die App allerdings lieber hell haben wollt könnt ihr dies in den Einstellungen ändern. Die App startet sich danach im ausgewählten Theme neu.

Das Theme ist jetzt umschaltbar

Spenden

Falls ihr Lust habt könnt ihr mich mit einer kleinen Spende unterstützen und so motivieren diese App stetig zu verbessern.

Unterstützt einen Hobby Programmierer

Der Vollständigkeit halber hier der aktuelle Changelog:

• Trotz in-app Käufe ist und bleibt diese App komplett kostenlos und werbefrei!
• Das Lesen der Beiträge funktioniert nun ohne Popup.
• Sobald ihr auf einen Beitrag geklickt habt, werden die links direkt sichtbar und anklickbar
• In den Einstellungen könnt ihr zwischen Hellem und Dunklen Theme wechseln
• Die Benachrichtigung könnt ihr nun auf einem Android Gerät ab API 11 durch herunterziehen vergrössern um die ganzen News zu lesen
• Per In App Käufe könnt ihr mich mit einer Spende unterstützen

Kurzer Ausfall des Fefe Newsreader

Android Newsreader für
Fefes Blog

Meine Newsreader App für Fefes Blog hatte heute einen kleinen Aussetzer. Aufgrund eines fehlerhaften XML verabschiedete sich die App bei jedem Update :)

Das gute an der Sache ist. Entweder hat Fefe sein XML gefixt oder das XML hat sich selbst gefixt :) Die App läuft wieder und benachrichtigt euch wenn Fefe etwas tolles postet.

Ich hab noch eine kleine Todo Liste an Features, die ich noch implementieren müsste. Es gibt auch einige kleine Bugs.
Sobald ich Zeit finde werde ich die App etwas überarbeiten und noch besser machen.

Free Bitcoin Charts App

Bitcoin Buddy

Bitcoin Buddy is a new free Bitcoin App for Android

Using this app you are able to monitor bitcoin prices in almost every currency and on almost all available markets.

• View Markets Statistics
• View Latest Trades Statistics
• 27 Currencies & 74 Markets available
• Get notification if bitcoin prices changes
• Pinch & Zoom diagrams

Although I have put a lot of work into this app, I cannot guarantee the correctness of the data. Please keep in mind that bitcoin prices may change very quickly.

Markets/Trades 

On these Views you can follow the latest Trades and Markets statistics.

You can select your currency and market at the bottom of the diagram.

The data is at least 15 minutes old.

Bitcoin Trades Charts

Bitcoin Markets Charts

Monitor Markets

You can configure this app to notify you whenever the bitcoin prices are changing.

Click on the upper right preferences-Button.

In the preferences you can select as many bitcoin markets as you want. The app will check these markets every 20 minutes.

Monitor bitcoin prices

Bitcoin Buddy Notification

The Bitcoin Buddy Icon

The Bitcoin Buddy Logo

The App Icon is a mix of the bitcoin icon and the android icon.

The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

All Bitcoin statistics data is provided by the awesome http://bitcoincharts.com API.

This App contains ads

If you don't like these ads, you can buy the premium addon. Open the App Menu, choose the Contact Tab and click on Buy premium.

If you have any problems with this app, feel free to contact me.

Android graphview Library and Proguard

If you are using GraphView inside your Android apps, make sure to exclude it from being obfuscated by your proguard config.
I recently changed my app Battery Temperature Guard. I do not use AndroidPlot anymore as a diagram. Instead I use Graphview. Its a cool library to quickly build scaleable and scrollable diagrams.

Everything worked great, but after I released my apps I noticed that scaling by pinch & zoom did not work anymore.
Logcat showed the logs below. By adding this simple line to my proguard.cfg I managed to exclude the graphview classes and packages from being obfuscated by proguard.

-keep class com.jjoe64.graphview.** { *; }

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:761)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:574)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:542)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:747)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779)

01-03 18:16:17.015    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595)

01-03 18:16:17.025    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ java.lang.NullPointerException: null receiver

01-03 18:16:17.025    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

01-03 18:16:17.025    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at com.jjoe64.graphview.a.b.a(SourceFile:91)

01-03 18:16:17.025    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at com.jjoe64.graphview.c.onTouchEvent(SourceFile:199)

01-03 18:16:17.025    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.view.View.dispatchTouchEvent(View.java:7706)

01-03 18:16:17.025    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2216)

01-03 18:16:17.025    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1959)

01-03 18:16:17.025    7626-7626/? W/System.err﹕ at android.v

Where is my app?

Hey guys.

I always had the problem finding the apps I was looking for on my android device. While searching I kept swiping right and left through all my app icons but somehow I overseen the apps I was looking for.

Then I had an Idea:

Can I search my installed apps by name?

After researching a little bit, I did not find any cool app for this feature, so I started to create it on my own. Developing the "search app by name"- feature, I added a few other cool features, like sorting apps by usage.

And now I present to the first release of: "Where is my app?" :)

Filtering all installed apps by name

The two main features of this app are:

• Search and filter all installed apps by name
• Sort apps by usage. That means, if you start apps with "Where is my app?" they will be grouped on top of all apps, so you can start your regular apps quicker.
• If you do a long click on the app icons, you can quickly view app informations or even deinstall an app with just a quick click :)
• Cool fancy animations

 You can read more about the features of "Where is my app?" on the official "Where is my app blog"

You can deinstall apps with just a single click

This app is free for everybody! It has a small adbanner on the bottom, but if you like you can get the pro version of where is my app without ad.

New Blog for Temperature Guard

A screenshot of the new blog theme

Temperature Guard Posts and news will now move to the new Battery Temperature Guard Blog.

The new blog will feature a cool design and a better user interface for mobile devices. It will also feature more information about battery temperature, monitoring and securing your phone. So stay tuned.

Android App Temperature Guard now features Fahrenheit and Celsius Support

Click here to get to the new Homepage for Battery Temperature Guard

Temperature Guard Pro
available at the play store

Get Temperature Guard free
at the play store

Temperature Guard Version 1.3 has just been released in google play Store and Amazon App Store.

You can use Temperature Guard to monitor your android devices temperature. The newest version features some small ui improvements and the possibility to change your desired temperature scale from Celsius to Fahrenheit.

Get Temperature Guard free
at amazon app store

To change the temperature scale, click on the preferenes button on the upper right of the app. In the Preferences you can tap on Temperature Scale Celsius to choose another temperature scale. To Download the free app from amazon app store, follow this link: Temperature Guard at the amazon play store.

Choose your desired temperature scale

Temperature Guard Pro

If you like this app you can buy the pro Version of Temperature Guard for a buck. The pro version does only differ from the free by not loading any ad banners. So if you don't like ads or would like to support a developer, get the pro version at google play or amazon app store.

Buy Temperature Guard Pro
 at amazon app store

Buy Temperature Guard Pro
at google play store

Android Temperatur überwachen

This app will notify you with a warning
if your device gets too hot

Das letzte Update für meine App "Akku Temperature Guard" hat einige Bugs entfernt. Mittlerweile läuft die App auf nahezu allen Android Geräten stabil.

Willst auch du eine kostenlose app zur Überwachung der Temperatur deines Smartphones? Dann lade dir die kostenlose Akku Temperature Guard im Play Store herunter.






In diesem Artikel habe ich noch ein paar Fakten (auf englisch) zusammengeschrieben um dich davon zu überzeugen wie du mit dieser App die Lebensdauer deines Smartphones verlängern kannst.

Natürlich gibt es die App auch im Amazon App Store. Wenn du also Besitzer eines Kindle Fire oder ähnlichem Gerät bist und nicht den Google Play Store benutzen kannst, dann lad dir die App hier aus dem Amazon App Store. Natürlich kostenlos!
Klicke hier im dir die App kostenlos bei amazon herunterzuladen.



Falls du noch nicht von der app überzeugt bist, schau dir doch hier ein paar Bewertungen an:

Herzlichen Dank für solch eine nette Bewertung :)

Feier die Bewertung!

Ein weiterer zufriedener Nutzer

Android App für Fefes Blog

Ein kostenloser Newsreader für Fefes Blog

Lange hat es gedauert, aber jetzt ist sie endlich da. Die Android App für Fefes Blog! Als langjähriger Leser von Fefes Blog hatte ich vor seit einiger Zeit die Idee aus ein paar alten Schnipseln Code eine kleine Newsreader App zu basteln.
Jetzt ist sie endlich da und Fefe wird sich über dieses Wunderwerk aus Java und XML bestimmt freuen ;)

Die App ist werbefrei und kostenlos und das bleibt sie auch. Sie besteht aus einem kleinen Newsreader, welcher in definierbaren Abständen Fefes RSS-Feed abruft.
Wenn diese Überprüfung neuen Klatsch in Fefes Blog entdeckt informiert die App euch mittels einer Benachrichtigung. Diese lässt sich im Einstellungsfenster konfigurieren oder deaktivieren.

Fefes Newsreader im Play Store.

Temperature Guard free available on amazon app store!

Android temperature warning 

Android temperature warning

I am happy to announce, that my app "Temperature Guard" is now available for free through the amazon app store. This app will run as a background service and will notify you if your device temperature is getting too high. Of course you can also customize the temperature when you want to get notified, as well as the notification sound etc.

You can also just use this app to monitor your androids device temperature during the day, so you can try to keep the temperature low and keep your battery healthy.

Using this app might even prevent your android battery from exploding. Warning! The previous link contains images not suitable to android lovers.

If you want to know more about this app and how to get it from googles play store, check out this article.

Download Temperature Guard free from amazon app store

To download this app for free from the amazon app store click on the amazon app store screenshot or click on this link to download it.

If you like this app I would appreciate if you rate it and recommend it to your friends. Please don't rate this app down if you encounter any problems, just contact me and I will do my best to fix bugs and make it compatible with your android device.

Temperature Guard on the amazon app store

Battery Temperature Guard Improved

Click here to get to the new Homepage for Battery Temperature Guard

Prevent your android from overheating

This app will help to prevent overheating of your android device. So if you have the problem, that your android device is getting too hot, use this app to notify you.


Improved performance and less battery usage!
The latest release of Battery Temperature Guard free and pro now features a new backend which is more stable and uses less battery then ever before!

Dont worry this app is alsoavailable in english!

Bad Reviews on the play store

The first release of this app had a few nasty bugs and I got a lot of bad reviews. I tested the newest version of the app with AppThwack and the app now runs smooth on almost all devices. If you still have problems, please contact me before you rate this app bad. Thanks!

Improved Battery Usage

Check out these Screenshots from my Nexus 4. They show the power usage of all my apps. Battery Temperature Guard is not even visible!

Battery Temperature Guard does
not drain your battery!

 As a deeper analysis I run WakeLockGuard for more then 13 hours. Basically this apps monitors how often an app wakes up your phone and drains your battery. Battery Temperature Guard does not have any effect on my battery usage. Cool!

Battery Temperature Guard only uses 4 sec in a 13 hour time period

If you don't have any Temperature Guard installed on your android device, download it now from the play store for free. In a few days this app will also be available von amazon app store.

Android Battery Temperature too high

Hey guys.

I am currently working on an update for my android app "Battery Temperature Guard". If your android device will get too hot, it will notify you, so you can take action and bring it to a place to cool down.

The newest update features an tablet optimized version of the app and of course a few bug fixes. On some old android devices, the app keeps crashing and crashing, but now this shouldn't be a problem anymore :)

Additionally you can increase the healthiness of your battery using this app. To check out why and how, read this article.
Here is a screenshot of the current development version. The update will be published through google play in the next hours.

Monitor android device temperature

Battery Temperature and how it affects the Battery Life

Click here to get to the new Homepage for Battery Temperature Guard

Temperature effects on Lithium-based batteries

The worst case:
An overheated and exploded lithium-based battery

While working on my latest app "Battery Temperature Guard" I learned a lot of new stuff about smartphones, batteries and of course Lithium-Based Batteries. These are the kinds of batteries used in most modern smartphones, notebooks and mp3-players.
A lithium-based Battery is quite a cool thing, cause it can recharge very fast and doesn't have the common memory effect known from old batteries.
This article is quite interesting to learn more about lithium-based batteries and how you can increase your battery life.

To keep your battery healthy follow their instructions:

A partial discharge reduces stress and prolongs battery life. Elevated temperature and high currents also affect cycle life.

Elevated temperature hastens capacity loss. The capacity cannot be restored. Not all Li-ion systems behave the same. 

Battery temperature and battery health

As you can clearly see in this listing, the battery capacity is constantly influenced by the battery temperature. If your battery is always above a level of 40°C your battery will loss its capacity quickly and will have limited capacity after a few month. In this example it is 65% less! That is more then a half!

Source: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

How to keep the battery healthy 

There are a few tricks to do this.

Keep in mind: A cool battery is a healthy battery!

• Try not to use your smartphone in direct sun. If possible go to a area covered by a shadow. This will dramatically decrease the smartphones temperature. 
• Don't put your smartphone on a table in the plain sun. Cover it with something!
• Get the free app Battery Temperature Guard which will notify you when your battery reaches a critical limit. So you can quickly react and let your smartphone cool down. Click here how to use Battery Temperature Guard.
• Don't forget. Battery Temperature Guard might also reduce the risk of exploding batteries :)

Samsung Galaxy S 3 exploded last night...

Samsung Galaxy S 3 Overheated

I just read a story about a guy on reddit who complains that the battery of his Samsung Galaxy S 3 overheated and exploded! Wow! This happens really rarely. Check out the story here.

An exploded Samsung Galaxy S 3

I wonder if my app Battery Temperature Guard could have saved his device? Would a faulty battery tell the app the correct temperature values? Who knows, but I am quite sure it could have saved his Samsung Galaxy S3. I mentioned the app in another more detailed posting about how it could help your battery live long.

Here are some of the pictures of his broken smartphone. You can clearly see the exploded battery and in the other picture is all burned stuff packed.

The exploded battery

All packed together

Protect your battery before it overheats!

My Nexus 4 temperature is quite hot

Click here to get to the new Homepage for Battery Temperature Guard

Hey guys.
I own a Nexus 4 and i really love it. The only thing that bothers me is that my Nexus 4 is getting quite hot. The "normal" temperature while using it is around 30-40 degrees celsius.
Like this the smartphone feels quite hot!

The bad thing is... it is not yet summer in germany! I am really afraid that it might overheat very fast if it finally gets hot here.
The Last two days were quite sunny and the temperature of my Nexus 4 was rising up to 50 degrees celsius. Wow! I just had to put my device on a table for a few minutes and I could cook eggs on it :) I tought it might explode.

Well that is the reason I created a small free app called "Battery temperature guard". This app monitors your current battery temperature and warns you if it gets to hot. This way you will never ever forget your smartphone frying in the sun ;)

The app is free, but you can also buy the pro version of "Battery temperature guard" to get rid of the small ads.

How to use this app:

Another cool feature: The temperature
history diagram

• Download the Battery Temperature Warning app for free from the play store
• Open the app, click on the upper right preferences button and adjust the warning temperature to your desired temperature. The default value is 40 degrees.
• Thats it! The app will run in the background and constantly checks the temperature of your smartphones or tablets battery.
• If the alarm goes off, just close the app you are using or put the device out of the sun somewhere in the shadows ;)

FAQ:

• But my device automatically shuts down when it reaches 60 degrees?
• Yeah thats right, but 60 degrees is a very high temperature for a battery and will reduce the lifetime of your battery dramatically. So its better to keep the battery temperature at a lower level and not let it get so high.