App has been discontinued due to Amazon ending the Free App of the Day.
The app is available on Google Play.
Will also be available to download from F-Droid once out of beta status
Version: 2.1.1-BETA
Free App Notifier For Amazon is a free and open source notification manager for providing notifications for the free app of the day on the Amazon Appstore.
Developer: Derek (Skylark95)
Contact: derek@skylark95.com
Website: http://www.skylark95.com/
This app requires the following permissions. Permissions labeled with "optional" can be changed in settings to no longer be used.
- Full Network Access: Optional, Used for downloading app data for the free app of the day
- Google Play Billing Service: Used for accepting donations
- View Network Connections: Optional, Needed to see if device is offline before downloading app data.
- Run At Startup: Optional, will show notification at startup
- Control Vibration: Optional, vibrate when notification fires
- Prevent Phone from Sleeping: Allows the notification to display even if the device is sleeping
Donations are always appreciated for supporting development of this app.
Donations of $1, $2, $3, $5 and $10 can be submitted though the app as of version 2.1-BETA
PayPal will also be utilized once out of beta.
Can be accessed though the app by pressing the question mark as of version 2.1-BETA
Help is also available on the wiki
See page at Ohloh.net
Special thanks to the following for making this huge update possible:
- ActionBarSherlock
- CommonsWare Android Components
- Jackson JSON Processor
- PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser
- Maven Android Plugin
- Maven Android SDK Deployer
- Robolectric
- Mockito
I'll be honest and say this beta release was put together somewhat quickly due to the previous version breaking...
If you find bugs that my current scope of testing didn't seem to catch
Please email me (derek@skylark95.com) if you find any bugs or report them on the GitHub project page
As I work full time and writing Android apps is just a hobby of mine, I'll try my best to add more features but make no guarantees on the amount of time it will take for updates
To see any ideas that I have come up with but have not implemented yet, please see the issues section on the Github project page and look for items tagged enhancement.
You can also request features by emailing me (derek@skylark95.com) or creating a new enhancement.
Version 2.1.1-BETA - 5/6/2013
Some Users reported the new notification icon was hard to see. How about some different icon colors? Find them in the settings menu. Will add label to settings tab later.
Version 2.1-BETA - 5/4/2013
Changed App icon at the request of Amazon. If you can design a better icon email me ;)
Changed App name at the request of Amazon. Will move in you app drawer as name is now Free App Notifier
Enabled in-app donations
Added help button and help screen
Added button to rate this app
Version 2.0.1-BETA - 4/18/2013
If the device does not have an internet connection on boot, wait for a maximum of 5 minutes for a connection before timing out and displaying device offline notification
Change notification text on offline notification to "No Internet Connection"
Hopefully fixed force close bug that occurred on some Android 2.1 devices
Version 2.0-BETA - 4/8/2013
Early beta release of newly rewritten app due to recent changes on Amazon breaking notifications for previous versions
Completely rewritten with new UI and open source
Expandable notifications for Android Jellybean
Option to filter for apps with category "Games" (more category filters are planned)
Currently known bugs:
App developer section of notification sometimes shows private policy after the developer name
Please email me (derek@skylark95.com) if you find any bugs or report them on the GitHub project page
For the full changelog, see the wiki