Gemini Calendar - my vision of calendar software

[some123]

Hello Mr. Powell,

You did a tremendous job in developing the gemini calendar. It ie really great and easy to use. Lots of people have asked for more improvement and you did honor them and that is really great.

One improvement I am requesting you, if you can make that would be another added great feature.

Please add an optional feature to pop-up the event reminders on locked and unlocked screens. Many people want it. Make it optional. Once you dismiss the message the screen should autolock. There are some applications which can do this, but if it is integrated into your application then it is all at one place.

I appreciate your response.

Thanks

 

[smg65]

Just downloaded to try the app 2day. Very nice with 1 problem. It would only allow me to enter 1 birthdaywith a 1 week before alarm. I could add additional birthdays, but not the 1 week reminders.

 

[sprinklealiv]

This is a very nice calendar app , one moment I thought I had found the app I really needed , this is the only app I could create appointments every x weeks ... top !

I only have 1 issue ... I don't really know it is related to the app or my Mobile...

I have a Samsung Galaxy S with froyo loaded.
When I create a recurring event , or even just a normal event in one of my google calendars using geminicalendar, I also see the event showing up on the standard built in calendar app( google calendar ) on my mobile, when I check online on google , it just does not synch ... not even after days ...
When I create a normal event in the standard builtin calendar app is synchs immediately to google ... Really strange ...
Is there a difference on how geminicalendar creates the event and how the standard app creates it so that the standard event can sync and the ones with geminicalendar do not ...

If this would get a solution , this would be the best app I ever loaded....

 

[braj]

You probably are just not selecting a Google Calendar when creating events, there is an Android calendar that does not sync, if this is selected when adding an event it never will sync, this is true for the built-in calendar as well, though you probably are creating your events there in the Goggle Calendar properly.

You can just turn off the Google calendar unless you have a need for a phone-only calendar. Then you will default to one of your Google calendars.

 

[sprinklealiv]

I was expecting this kind of response ;-) That is why I really tried to point out in my previous post that i am making my changes on a google cal, i disabled my android calendar a long time ago because i know that one does not synch... Any other ideas ?

 

[braj]

I was expecting this kind of response ;-) That is why I really tried to point out in my previous post that i am making my changes on a google cal, i disabled my android calendar a long time ago because i know that one does not synch... Any other ideas ?

That wasn't exactly clear to me. Sorry for trying to help.

 

[sprinklealiv]

No,no, don't misunderstand me... I am appreciating any idea that could help me solve this issue ...
Thx for your help

 

[powell]

I had (some) reports about problems with synchronizing calendar data with Google account. I will investigate this, it looks to me this is a problem related to a particular Android version. Please, send me email, if you have this problem.

Some info about coming version of Gemini Calendar (pretty soon, I hope):
- Translations (Polish, Spanish, German, Chinese - traditional and simplified),
- New additional skin,

If you would like to take part in the translation process for languages that were not mentioned above, let me know. I have the strings.xml file ready. You can count on the small reward for your help with translation.
And if you happen to know the decent graphics designer, who would like to work on Gemini Calendar, I would also appreciate any info.

 

[pcsangel64]

I have emailed the developer of this app a few times, with no reply. I have been using Gemini calendar, however, I am unable to make a calendar event from a contact. Can anyone tell me what I may be doing wrong?

 

[monsterenergy22]

Ive been using the Sourcery Rom for the OG Droid and I am loving the calendar, but how do I change the time to non military time?

 

[powell]

Version 1.0.0

Changes:

• licence system - see below
• New light skin
• Polish translation
• Spanish translation
• German translation
• Chinese (traditional) translation
• Chinese (simplified) translation
• Swedish translation

Since the version 1.0.0 you can use Gemini Calendar in two ways:

• for free, some features will be limited and there can be an ad displayed in some activites/windows
• after registration - no ads, full set of features

For the list of differences between free and paid versions, see the list

As I promised, donors, who donated me in the past, will have a licence for free.

Thank you for your understanding. I know how you feel about ads...

I would like to also stress, that my country is not on the Google Merchant list, so I cannot sell my app in the Android Market. This is why I had to rely on the third party selling system (based on the well known, safe platforms).

 

[braj]

I just updated, thanks for the license I don't care so much for the new skin except that it gives a little more space to view events. I wish there were a third skin like the dark theme but without that Gemini bar. Also, is there any way for us to help in creating themes? Even if it is just editing resource files, making color and contrast variations on the current themes, that would be something I may be able to do. Being able to make and use our own themes would be really really cool.

 

[braj]

Can I make a feature suggestion? A 'Flag' you can set for any day on the monthly calendar in the main view. This could be maybe set within the calendar entry, set the 'flag' and then in the main view there could be some sort of highlight. This way you could specify in Gemini a visual cue to make a certain upcoming day stand out. Like right now there is the blue highlight for the current day, maybe you could make gold for a flagged day, something like that.

Alternately, maybe it could be a really 'dumb' feature and you could simply set the flag against the day on the calendar, not based on any specific event. You could just make a menu item for 'set flag' and it would set or unset on whatever the current day is. Then if you have a really important upcoming event you can get a strong visual cue right in the main view and not miss it.

It is nice to have the calendar viewable, one of the things I like about Gemini, with all the days of the month, but there is no way to really show any detail in a nice way on these sorts of calendars IMO. I never like to have text overlayed on these, it is always just too tiny. I think this sort of compromise would be nice and I haven't seen that on any other calendar app.

 

[cnruck]

Thank you so much for developing something I can book appointments every 3 weeks! Did this on my BB and really miss it as that is what my job entails. I am just about ready to get rid of my Android because of it.

I would love it if the month was in words instead of numbers! Also if you could just type the numbers for the time instead of the wheely thing. This is more minor though. The month issue is more important, sound lame but I don't like having to figure it out when in a hurry.

 

[jnpocock]

I just updated, thanks for the license I don't care so much for the new skin except that it gives a little more space to view events. I wish there were a third skin like the dark theme but without that Gemini bar. Also, is there any way for us to help in creating themes? Even if it is just editing resource files, making color and contrast variations on the current themes, that would be something I may be able to do. Being able to make and use our own themes would be really really cool.

I would agree with this. I have switched to the new skin because of the extra space, but I prefer the look of the original skin, if it didn't have the Gemini bar.

 

[dvhttn]

Still think this is a great calendar but do you have any comments about the fact you can't delete a single occurrence of a recurring event? You only get the option of deleting 'all' or 'this and all future' events. Outlook lets me do this - it just wants confirmation before you do. Is it possible with Gemini, or is this an Android limitation? I see from trying to do the same in the stock calendar (HTC Desire HD running stock ROM so 2.2) that this also only allows you to delete the series.

Two examples of when this is very useful:
1) personal calendar: my lad has a club after school each week but sometimes it gets rescheduled for various reasons. But only the one time, not the whole series.
2) business calendar: weekly meeting/conference call - every week but maybe there is a external conference on during one weekly meet which postpones it.

etc etc.

There are ways around this, maybe re-entering the weekly conference call as two recurring events - up to the week before the conference and then starting again the week after the conference. But this isn't how things work in the real world and the ideal operating method is to change just the single event.

Comments?

Dave

 

[powell]

Still think this is a great calendar but do you have any comments about the fact you can't delete a single occurrence of a recurring event? You only get the option of deleting 'all' or 'this and all future' events.

Do you synchronize the calendar data with your Google account ? If not, you will not get this option. Gemini Calendar, just like the stock calendar, offers deleting and editing single event from the series only if a given event is synchronized with Google online --> FAQ <--.

 

[dvhttn]

Do you synchronize the calendar data with your Google account ? If not, you will not get this option. Gemini Calendar, just like the stock calendar, offers deleting and editing single event from the series only if a given event is synchronized with Google online --> FAQ <--.

And I even bookmarked your 'mobilepaprika' website before I wrote my question above! That'll teach me to read more first. Doh ....

Thanks for the answer, confirming what I was thinking. No, I don't sync with Google, just with the Outlook calendar on my PC. But this raises the question of why, during a sync with Outlook, can an 'Outlook recurring' event' not be translated into a 'Google recurring event' so that single-event deletion is possible. Can it be done do you think?

Thanks.

Dave

 

[RedAndBlack]

I love the 4x2 widget, but on my HTC Desire it only shows the next 6 events, when it looks like there's space for 10-12 events in the 2 home screen rows the widget occupies.

If the widget could be made to show more events (without changing the height of each event), that would be fantastic.

 

[JohnDaddyo]

Perhaps it says something about me because although I've only read through 4 or 5 pages, I didn't see any comments about but...

It kind of made me crazy trying to figure out how to SAVE !
I'm A$$-uming most phones have a Back arrow?
Maybe change the "Today" button to a Save button?
Also, I'm seeing people refer to widgets. When I long press my Home screen, there are no Gemini widgets.

 

[SupperDroid]

I love this app, is there a way to see all the events for one month on the window above. I can only display one day at a time.

Thanks for all the hard work.

 

[dvhttn]

Perhaps it says something about me because although I've only read through 4 or 5 pages, I didn't see any comments about but...

It kind of made me crazy trying to figure out how to SAVE !
I'm A$$-uming most phones have a Back arrow?
Maybe change the "Today" button to a Save button?
...

Can't check as my phone is down stairs but I believe, from memory, that one of the options is to have the back button as 'back (no changes)' or 'back (save)'. I think .....

Dave

 

[28064212]

Agggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Sorry, had to get that out. First of all Powell, excellent job on Gemini, I think it's great that you gave out the free licenses to the people who helped you and donated, good to see a developer in touch with his audience.

However... you recently fixed an issue that was very frustrating. Pressing the 'Back' button cancelled instead of saving, which was inconsistent with the standard Android UI experience. You introduced an option to change that behaviour to saving instead of cancelling. Brilliant. Except, when you select that option, it changes the old 'Save' button to 'Cancel'. So now, when you've eliminated the possibility of losing data through the back button, you've introduced the possibility of losing it through following your old method (flicking down and pressing the left on-screen button)! It's extremely annoying

Is it possible to have an option to keep that as save? Or just remove the on-screen buttons entirely or something? It should not be easy to cancel. The most common Android method I've seen is "Menu button => Cancel", you can't do that by mistake. Cancelling by accident means you lose all your data, which means if you've just put in a complex appointment, you could have to spend 10 minutes putting it all in again. Saving by accident means all you have to do is delete/edit. It takes two seconds every time.

On an unrelated note, two feature requests:

• Would it be possible to have a default event length? I actually use the calendar as largely a list of reminders, rather than appointments, so virtually all my events have a length of zero (i.e. 1200-1200). Having to flick that down every time is annoying, especially when the hour might span to the next day
• Would it be possible to have a default time for the events? I know it's normally 12, which is fine, but when I'm setting an event for the next day and it's gone past midnight, the default time switches to the next hour which is 0100, so it's annoying to have to flick the time up to later in the day

 

[SNeitzel]

powell,

Once again, great app.
I posted here long ago and have been happy with the improvements I have seen you make. Now, as a paid app, I think it will get even better.

I would like to revisit a couple of requests from way far back in this thread.

Back on p. 8, post #394:

My aim is to indicate events like this:

1. line + colored dots, if it is an all day or multiday event
2. colored dots for other events

Dots are NOT colored yet, but they will be (according to the calendar color or other preferences). For some reasons, I do not want to color lines.
However, I may consider other way of event coding.

Where does progress stand on this? You do include the option to use google colors in agenda view, why not make it an option for dots AND lines also in calendar view? To me, this just makes sense, especially if it is an option the user can turn on or off (like we can now in agenda view).

Waaaay back on p. 1, post #8:

...Will the alarms continue to go off at a certain interval until they're manually shut off?

This option has been brought up a few other times too. Kratos posted that there was a limitation in the OS that prevented this but in a later post you seemed to indicate Gemini uses a completely separate notification system. So, is a persistent reminder possible? I like the way Handcent SMS handles this option. You get the original notification, then can set an additional reminders. The user has full control over the number of reminders (1,2,3,4,5,10,infinite) and the time between them (1,2,5,10,15 min). To me, this is a needed option. If I don't hear a notification for whatever reason and have not set multiples I may have missed something important. At that point, my calendar program has failed me...

PS:
With due sympathy to

Agggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Thanks for giving us the option for the back button to save data. I lost many an event before you changed that and not a single one since.

 

[fabelo]

How can I do recurring events every two weeks. I dont see an option of this.