flintinatux / neverbelate

A location-aware event reminder app for Android that ensures you are never late to a meeting or appointment again!

NeverBeLate

A location-aware event reminder app that ensures you are never late to a meeting or appointment again!

Available on Google Play here.

Open Sourced for your learning pleasure

Decided to open source it today for a few reasons:

1. I'm no longer going to maintain it. Feel free to pick it up and run with new features and ideas if you like.
2. I've never made much money from it: a whopping $21 in the past 1.5 years, I think.
3. Google Now has replaced most of the functionality in this app on Android 4.1+ devices, and consequently I don't even use the app anymore.
4. Because I like sharing! :-)

What would I do differently next time?

This was probably my first large and important piece of code, and I naturally did lots of Bad Things during its development. Now that I'm wiser and more mature in my coding kung fu skills, I'd do some things a bit different:

1. WRITE SPECS. That one deserves capital screaming letters. I tested everything manually on a physical Android phone back then, which took fooorrreeevvveeerrrr. TDD is my new middle name these days.
2. Refactor along the way. Back then I didn't know how awesome and expressive code could be if you refactored it correctly along the way, so lots of my methods were a bajillion lines long and were very difficult to read, even for me - the guy who wrote them. Writing small, descriptive methods is the way to go.
3. Uses spaces instead of tabs. You wouldn't think it's that important, but it really is.
4. WRITE SPECS. In case you missed the first one.

I'm sure there are more, but that's a good list.

Whoa man, you checked-in your AdMob token!

Sure did. A long time ago, before I knew better. Not a lot of danger there, though, since if you run ads with that token, I'll get the money instead of you. So be sure to change it on yours!

Contributing

The customary process, of course:

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request