[COMPETITION] Geek The Time

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SferaDev

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Geek The Time is the ultimate geek WatchFace for your Pebble! It’s a competition entry for the XDA + Pebble competition and is a must have for any geek out there. And even if you aren’t a geek yet, you might find it really useful.

What started as a simple watchface that showed some movies and geek quotes now allows you to read news, including the XDA portal, to check the weather and even receive the current bitcoin value in different currencies. If you need to remember something, just type a custom sentence there. And all the content gets updated every few minutes.

This is the ultimate geek app!


Features

- Check the time, bluetooth state and battery!
- Read random quotes or custom sentences!
- Check the weather on a city of your own!
- Keep updated of your carrier or current IP!
- Check what’s the status of GitHub servers!
- Read headlines of XDA, TechCrunch, Android Police or Phandroid!
- Get random reddits on your wrist!
- Check the Bitcoin Average value!
- And much more!


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XDA:DevDB Information
Geek The Time, App for all devices (see above for details)

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SferaDev

Version Information
Status: Stable
Stable Release Date: 2014-09-04

Created 2014-08-13
Last Updated 2014-09-05
 
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SferaDev

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We're in the Alpha stages!

Hey dear Geeks,

Geek The Time has arrived to the 50% done goal. Right now we have working the following features:

- Send information to the clock: Custom Sentence / Random Quote / Date / Carrier Name / Phone Battery
- Update information via service each 10 minutes
- Keep service neat and clean, RAM usage on phone equals to 4MB instead of the original 22MB
- Much more!

Coming soon:
- Loads of information right on your wrist!
 
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The final dates are near and the Nerdy Pigs want to play with the Training dummies. Just yesterday I presented the first preview.

But since then loads of features came across:
- Nerdy Pig #1: Current IP, we all like to know what IP we are on!
- Nerdy Pig #2: GitHub server status, what if someone DDoS it!
- Nerdy Pig #3: Random memes, courtesy of AutoMeme
- Nerdy Pig #4: XDA Portal news @AdamOutler
- Nerdy Pig #5: BTC Value in USD | EUR | GBP
- Nerdy Pig #6: Android Police
- Nerdy Pig #7: Phandroid @rayfin
- Training Dummy #1: Misc improvements
- Training Dummy #4: Propose new quotes

Pending pigs and dummies till now are:
- Training Dummy #3: Loading Activity, to ensure you have a Pebble connected!

- More yet to come!

With that said you can realize that the commit history is kinda funny... And GeekTheTime will not only show random geek quotes but satisfy any Geek need on-the-go, like checking what's the server status of GitHub...
 
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Final Steps

Alright the competition ends in few days and I'm glad to announce that Geek The Time is already fully working.

The current work in progress though is:

- Squash a couple of bugs
- Clean Up code
- Update style
- And start the marketing campaign, you know write some cool stuff, get promoted...

Thanks to all who are downloading the app and doing in-depth testing. Between today or tomorrow the final version should be up on Google Play and Pebble AppStore.

Also the repos will be open sourced as promised and you will be able to read some funny commits huh!

See you fellows, this has been an amazing contest!
 
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Right now I'm polishing everything for the end of this awesome challenge. What it started as a simple watchface that showed some movies and geek quotes now allows you to read news, including the XDA portal, to check the weather and even know the current bitcoin value in different currencies. If you need to remember something, just type a custom sentence there. And all the content gets updated every few minutes.

This is the ultimate geek app!
 
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