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Title: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: Sarchar on January 15, 2014, 12:14:49 PM

I'm offering a small bounty - I'm not sure how much yet, perhaps 0.5 - 1 BTC - for an Android app widget that displays the following info:

* The current blockchain height
* Minute count since last block
* Total outstanding BTC mined (current formula is easy: 210,000*50 + (nHeight-210,000)*25)

It should look pretty and be open source / public domain.  There are plenty of app widgets that show btc/usd price, but I'm more interested in seeing some real time stats about the network at a glance.

Is anyone interested in taking the offer?


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: Apocalipsis on January 15, 2014, 01:30:42 PM

I'm offering a small bounty - I'm not sure how much yet, perhaps 0.5 - 1 BTC - for an Android app widget that displays the following info:

* The current blockchain height
* Minute count since last block
* Total outstanding BTC mined (current formula is easy: 210,000*50 + (nHeight-210,000)*25)

It should look pretty and be open source / public domain.  There are plenty of app widgets that show btc/usd price, but I'm more interested in seeing some real time stats about the network at a glance.

Is anyone interested in taking the offer?

answered in pm


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: Sarchar on January 15, 2014, 01:36:13 PM

I'm offering a small bounty - I'm not sure how much yet, perhaps 0.5 - 1 BTC - for an Android app widget that displays the following info:

* The current blockchain height
* Minute count since last block
* Total outstanding BTC mined (current formula is easy: 210,000*50 + (nHeight-210,000)*25)

It should look pretty and be open source / public domain.  There are plenty of app widgets that show btc/usd price, but I'm more interested in seeing some real time stats about the network at a glance.

Is anyone interested in taking the offer?

answered in pm

I don't understand what you are asking in the PM. All the details are here in the above post:)


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: qxzn on January 17, 2014, 05:25:42 AM
I am the author of Litecoin Widget: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158777.new;topicseen#new

I could probably adapt the code pretty quickly to get what you're looking for. Where's the best API to get the information? blockchain.info?


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: U1TRA_L0RD on January 17, 2014, 06:04:45 AM
I might give it a shot, Although, If I ask, Can the UI be simple?


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: Sarchar on January 17, 2014, 10:07:44 AM
I am the author of Litecoin Widget: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158777.new;topicseen#new

I could probably adapt the code pretty quickly to get what you're looking for. Where's the best API to get the information? blockchain.info?

Seems like blockchain.info would be fine for this. 


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: Sarchar on January 17, 2014, 10:08:25 AM
I might give it a shot, Although, If I ask, Can the UI be simple?

I'd like it to actually look nice :)  The functionality is easy, and if that were all I'd want then I would just make it myself...:)


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: rbonestell on January 17, 2014, 04:03:46 PM

I'm offering a small bounty - I'm not sure how much yet, perhaps 0.5 - 1 BTC - for an Android app widget that displays the following info:

* The current blockchain height
* Minute count since last block
* Total outstanding BTC mined (current formula is easy: 210,000*50 + (nHeight-210,000)*25)

It should look pretty and be open source / public domain.  There are plenty of app widgets that show btc/usd price, but I'm more interested in seeing some real time stats about the network at a glance.

Is anyone interested in taking the offer?

This seems pretty easily doable using the blockchain.info API, have you decided what size bounty you're willing to offer?
Do you want this published to Google Play, or only just open-sourced so you can compile it yourself?

PM'd you.


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: rbonestell on January 18, 2014, 06:37:55 PM
Request fulfilled.  ;D

https://github.com/rbonestell/BlockchainWidget


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: Sarchar on January 19, 2014, 06:56:50 AM
Request fulfilled.  ;D

https://github.com/rbonestell/BlockchainWidget

Cool. I'm going to build it today and if it works I'll send you the bounty!


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: Sarchar on January 19, 2014, 07:28:44 AM
Request fulfilled.  ;D

https://github.com/rbonestell/BlockchainWidget

Cool. I'm going to build it today and if it works I'll send you the bounty!

Awesome! Bounty paid: https://blockchain.info/tx/8f0eb76c038e1744d136f6f74ae23d9577bd1add0b759c61dc8ef221976c9f36


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: mameise on January 19, 2014, 07:32:54 AM
Can you upload .apk ? Would love to test it.


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: Sarchar on January 19, 2014, 07:37:56 AM
Can you upload .apk ? Would love to test it.

Maybe rbonestell can put up an apk?


Title: Re: Small bounty - android widget that displays current blockchain height
Post by: rbonestell on January 19, 2014, 06:09:43 PM
Can you upload .apk ? Would love to test it.

Maybe rbonestell can put up an apk?

I have compiled and signed an APK.
The download link is on the github page: https://github.com/rbonestell/BlockchainWidget/releases/tag/1.0