Chris' journal - February 12th, 2009

Chris' journal - February 12th, 2009

Chris Boyle

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February 12th, 2009

Android Calendar

[Feb. 12th, 2009|11:48 am]

[Tags

android, geek

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I have some patches for the Calendar app; I've finally made a usable build with them for 1.1 (US RC33, UK not out yet). One of these patches I've mentioned before, but the list is growing:

Issue 1300: Calendar agenda view shows too many reminders (patch attached)
Issue 1354: Feature request: in Calendar, click on event location to launch Maps (patch attached)
Issue 1860: Null timezone at CalendarSyncAdapter.java:301 (N.B. packages/providers/CalendarProvider, not packages/apps/Calendar, and I would hope they'll fix this one in the next update) (patch attached)
First day of the week is Monday, dammit. This is the case on UK firmware, but I've jumped to the US firmware (because it seems to get all the cool toys and bug fixes first) and therefore had to hard-code this preference of mine, since I couldn't see how to easily edit the locale data. Ask me if you want the diff, it's just all three calls to Calendar.getInstance().getFirstDayOfWeek(). This should really be configurable. In some future copious free time.

If only someone would fork Calendar (like someone did very successfully for Email) so it can be built using just the SDK, rather than having to finagle the semi-private bits of the platform source to a state compatible with 1.1, which, from the point of view of the public git respositories, seems to be between two commits. WTF. Given sufficiently copious free time, I might eventually make such a fork myself.

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