Badges?

Re: Badges?

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:42:16 +0000

In about a month. It's currently in beta testing.

Re: Badges?

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:52:14 +0000

Looks good :-) When is the update coming?

Re: Badges?

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:57:51 +0000

Welly well, my friends.

Re: Badges?

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:58:57 +0000

I like the simple solution (atleast until an APi). I would think making the badges optional would be a great touch.

Re: Badges?

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:16:52 +0000

Simple solution is good enough. Maybe google will provide some kind of API in the near future, then we could consider push again. ;)

Re: Badges?

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:03:07 +0000

Take the simply approach. We can sync ourselves when we open the app :)

Soon would be best as well.

Re: Badges?

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:47:37 +0000

There are not badges right now.

There are two things I could do and one of them is much harder than the other. The simple thing for me is to count all incomplete tasks that are present on the iPhone and put the number on the badge. The problem here is that if you add a task using the web interface it will not reflect on the badge until you open the GeeTasks and give it a chance to fetch the data from Google.

To rectify this problem I would have to do the complex thing - Push. Google does not support push for tasks, so I will need to create my own Push server and keep polling data from google each 5 minutes or so. Apart from Push being vastly more work it would also require me to take your password and keep it on my server so that I can query things from Google. In addition, Google might get pissed that I create a lot of load on their servers by polling every 5 minutes for each user and they might try to cut me off. This will require some careful tip-toeing.

So I have to ask you - which of the two things I could do is really important to you?

Couple of people already chimed in email, saying that the simple thing would work fine for them. And yes, Alex, badges will be optional.

Re: Badges?

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:02:33 +0000

If there ARE badges implemented please can they be optional. Thanks!

Badges?

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:00:01 +0000

Hi, I would like to know if there are already badges implanted? These funny little indicators on the home screen that show how many tasks are undone yet. (something like this: http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs32/i/2008/215/c/a/Custom_Badges_for_iPhone_by_m0rphzilla.png)