chris.bailey

Open sourcing the ToDo List Widget

Submitted by chris.bailey on 29 Dec 2010 - 6:35pm

I have recently taken the step to open source my ToDo List Widget app which is something I'd been thinking about doing for a while now. My interest in furthering development has lessoned now that the app has obtained a reasonable number of features. Several users have also expressed an interest in modifying the code themselves. Finally as I'm in the android game partly due to the underlying Open Source philosophy, I thought rather then hold the code back, I should jump on the open source train and give others the opportunity to play around with it.

I investigated several different licensing options. I want people to be able to modify and extend the code as they wish, as long as I get proper attribution. I also don't want people making money off my hard work; the app is free to Android users and I'd like the software to stay that way. In the end I've gone with the most widely used GPL (version 3) license. As an added incentive the Android source code is released under the Apache 2.0 license which is itself compatible with GPL v3.0.

The code and all resource files can be found on my GitHub account.

https://github.com/chrispbailey/ToDo-List-Widget

Feel free to fork the code if you wish and push back any changes you make.

Happy coding!

:-)

Submitted by Anonymous on 16 Oct 2011 - 11:30pm.

Thank you so much for open sourcing this. I'm a developer just learning android and I was about to email you asking how to hide widget sizes! Now I can learn from your code :-)

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Thank you!

Submitted by Anonymous on 8 Jan 2011 - 12:17pm.

I have been looking for simple ToDo-widget that would allow editing directly from the widget. ToDo List Widget seems to be the only option in the Market. What I would like to have is a little larger checkboxes for my big fingers. I will checkout the code and check what I can do about it :)

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