Developing Android on Android

Pomodoro Widget Redux

Our first attempt at a Pomodoro widget went pretty well, considering how little effort was required to build it. Now it’s time to step up our game and add more features and polish to the widget.

One of those enhancements is the elimination of the unnecessary days, hours, and seconds field from the Task Timer widget, since we are primarily interested in minutes remaining in the countdown. Unfortunately, the Task Timer widget currently does not allow hiding of these fields. We will have to think differently.

Widget Requirements, Take Two

Let’s take what we have already assembled and build upon the basic premise of a countdown timer with an audible alarm. Then let’s consider the other things we would like this widget to ...