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

[qxzn]

Would love to get XRP pricing from BitStamp.

Me too. Any idea where I might find an API call returning said price?

Awesome job!

Thanks!

[El Dude]

nope LTC with btc-e still doesn't refresh when I tap it , I tried uninstalling it and all that .

[Taxidermista]

Seems nice but it's almost impossible to read in a tablet with 1200x800 screen. A 2x2 or 3x3 widget would be fine.

[LiteBit]

Would love to get XRP pricing from BitStamp.

Me too. Any idea where I might find an API call returning said price?

I'll look.  Looks like Ripplecharts.com is grabbing a feed from somewhere. 

[qxzn]

Seems nice but it's almost impossible to read in a tablet with 1200x800 screen. A 2x2 or 3x3 widget would be fine.

Added as a github issue. I don't want to make any promises though..

[qxzn]

nope LTC with btc-e still doesn't refresh when I tap it , I tried uninstalling it and all that .

So this is indeed a bug, and it will eventually be fixed. For now you can work around it by adding your widget and *explicitly setting the coin to LTC*, as opposed to accepting the default (which is also LTC). The bug happens when you use the default.

[qxzn]

version 22:
 - fix bug which caused widget not to work when default coin was accepted
 - add support for coinbase BTC

[qxzn]

version 23:
 - add a small advertisement to the config page. please let me know if this is too annoying.
 - add cryptsy support
 - add NVC

[de_xt]

Thanks for adding NVC!

And no, advertising is not annoying at all...

[saddambitcoin]

"litecoin widget is my favorite android widget" - saddam

[qxzn]

"litecoin widget is my favorite android widget" - saddam

aw, I'm warm and fuzzy all over!

[girlfawkesy]

I love this app, but now that there is cryptsy support would it be possible to add support for other altcoins too? Like bitbar/nibble/ect?

[skyhigh2004]

I love this app, but now that there is cryptsy support would it be possible to add support for other altcoins too? Like bitbar/nibble/ect?

Been wondering the same.  I mine 7-8 coins and it would be great to monitor the rates on the go with FTC, LTC, and BTC.

[Anthony1985]

I love your application . . .I check it every min :-)

Could you please add fxbtc.com and CNY as value?

Thanks

[qxzn]

Most of the work of adding new coins is tracking down the graphics and making them android-friendly. This could be mitigated by having some generic graphic with a text overlay for most coins.

There's also a little bit more boilerplate than there should be for each new coin added.

Finally, I'd like to make sure the UI can handle a bunch new coins without feeling cluttered.

Until I have time to tackle these issues (or someone contributes improvements), I have to continue to limit the coins I can add. For now, my policy is that a coin needs to have 10000BTC market cap to get added. I will also consider adding coins if they've been around for a long time, say 18-24 months or more.

[qxzn]

version 24:
 - update to match new cryptsy api

[hendo420]

Is there any way to make the txt bigger? I make the widget bigger but the txt stays the same size. Its kinda hard to read.

Or maybe you could offer different sizes, and maybe even the bigger ones like 4x2 sized widget be able to display more than one currency at a time.

[qxzn]

Is there any way to make the txt bigger? I make the widget bigger but the txt stays the same size. Its kinda hard to read.

Or maybe you could offer different sizes, and maybe even the bigger ones like 4x2 sized widget be able to display more than one currency at a time.

https://github.com/ogunden/litecoin-widget/issues/12

I think it's simpler to have one widget per coin/currency. I want to keep the configuration relatively simple.

[qxzn]

version 25:
 - get cryptsy data via cryptsy.phauna.org to save bandwidth
 - add support for the BTC / CAD price on cavirtex.com

[qxzn]

version 26:
 - New exchange mcxNOW
 - Add XPM (primecoin)
 - switch to yahoo api for currency quotes