[ANNOUNCE] Digital Currency Widget: bitcoin / altcoin price widget for android

[qxzn]

version 68
 - new preview icon
 - add coinsetter

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[qxzn]

Keep up the good work.

Also wondering, if there's an easy way for you to maintain coin logos, being that there 500+ active coins right now.  Maybe have a central place where people can upload them using a specific format/size/etc so you can stick them on a web server, so you don't have to "update" the app just to add coin logos

Just a thought.

It's a nice idea. The biggest issue I can see is that, if the logos are living on a server, all the clients will have to download the logos creating significantly more traffic, battery use, etc. Probably with some intelligent measure of client caching, however, I could make it work.

[mistergee]

I enjoy the widget very much thank you.  any idea why it doesn't sometimes refresh? Seems kind of random. I'm on a droid turbo.  I have multiple price widgets on the desktop and some update and some dont.

[qxzn]

I enjoy the widget very much thank you.  any idea why it doesn't sometimes refresh? Seems kind of random. I'm on a droid turbo.  I have multiple price widgets on the desktop and some update and some dont.

Yes, my server crashes every so often due to heavy request load, and is auto-restarted within seconds. If you send a request in the unlucky few seconds, you'll get denied. It's high on my list to fix this.

[Crypt0Keeper]

First off, I love the widget!  It tucks in there nicely, right next to my Bitcoin widget and my stock ticker

Any idea when you will be adding the new Dash logo?  The ? coin icon is flipping out my OCD, haha.
If you don't have time right now, is there a way I can do it manually?  My phone is rooted so I can access any area on the phone.

Lastly, could you use some help maintaining it?  I'm just starting my bromance with Android development.  Let me know!

[qxzn]

First off, I love the widget!  It tucks in there nicely, right next to my Bitcoin widget and my stock ticker

Thanks! I like it too, I use it a lot myself.

Any idea when you will be adding the new Dash logo?  The ? coin icon is flipping out my OCD, haha.
If you don't have time right now, is there a way I can do it manually?  My phone is rooted so I can access any area on the phone.

I don't know, it wasn't on my radar till you just mentioned it. I'll try and get it done before too long.

AFAIK there isn't a way you can do it manually, it needs to be updated in the source tree and the app rebuilt.

Medium term I'm partial to ThePeeps' idea to allow users to upload logos to a server so I don't have to do it myself (see the last few posts).

Lastly, could you use some help maintaining it?  I'm just starting my bromance with Android development.  Let me know!

Possibly so.. it could definitely use some cleanup work, as there is a lot of fugliness in the code from it having evolved organically and in short hacky spurts from very humble beginnings.

I would need a little time to get you started and am currently slammed with work. Maybe you can PM me in a couple of weeks and I'll see what I can do.

[Crypt0Keeper]

Cool man, I look forward to the update.  ThePeeps' idea is definitely a good one.  It's very hands off.

I will PM you in a few weeks.  In the meantime, I'll work on my coding

[Hollingsworth]

This is an awesome tool, thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. Couldnt live without it  

Question:  I noticed you have Ripple available on some exchanges like Cryptsy and Poloniex, but the main XRP exchange that really counts for real-time prices is RippleTrade. I know they have their API publicly available here: https://ripple.com/build/  Is this something you could implement for Android in the future, as I would love to see accurate BTC/USD prices for XRP!

Thanks for all you do!

H.

[qxzn]

Hey all,

I've been hard at work on this long overdue release. It's got some deep changes, so I would appreciate if you have a few minutes to give it a test before I release it into the wild. You can get the new version here:

http://dcw.phauna.org/DigitalCurrencyWidget-release-latest.apk

Release notes:

version 69 brings a major overhaul to the backend, including:
- almost all requests go through my server now which provides caching and faster response times.
- future exchanges can be added and removed much more quickly without updating the app
- the time displayed at the bottom of each widget used to be misleading: if the data was cached, the time still showed like it was fresh. Now it shows the time the data was actually pulled from the exchange.
- all coin images are served from my server and cached on client devices which lays the groundwork for user-submitted coin images (soon!)
- "old world currency" is now "also display as", and behavior is more consistent
- remove cryptsy, added cryptopia

[qxzn]

Oh, I neglected to mention -- you may have to delete and re-add your widgets after updating, because I don't think all the backend changes were compatible. Please let me know how this transition process goes.

[qxzn]

Hey guys,

Bang on this would you?

http://dcw.phauna.org:8098/


ThePeePs and Crytp0keeper, I'm lookin at you

[qxzn]

2016-02-13 version 71:
- fix a couple of relatively minor UI glitches

[qxzn]

version 72:
 - fix a couple rare crashes

[ehoffman]

Is there something that need to be done for caVirtex (now Kraken) API?  Does not update anymore.

Regards,
Eric

[qxzn]

Is there something that need to be done for caVirtex (now Kraken) API?  Does not update anymore.

Regards,
Eric

Yes, you'll need to remove or reconfigure that widget instance to point to Kraken instead of CaVirtex.

[qxzn]

2016-02-21 version 73&74:
- fix memory leak by disabling ads
- remove extraneous server queries

[qxzn]

version 77:
- add global options, ability to select port 80

version 75:
- add a main activity and sha512 test

[go-on]

Thanks.
I love it.

[icecube45]

amazing!
Totally using this.

[qxzn]

version 78:
- add time format override (12 vs 24 hour) to global options