The time had come for this app to be updated to the next SDK version. In doing this, I also set out to improve the code using AI, by asking it how things could be improved and how to remove depreciated code. In general, AI was helpful, it did get a few things wrong, but it did understand how to update the code to newer libraries and even made one or two functions a little more efficent.

Just before the app was ready to go live, I then got a Pixel 9 and noticed that it handles the system nav bar differently than the Pixel 5. There was like this little nav colour bar at the bottom as well as the top system bar is bigger to make room for the camera, but this can hover over the content underneath stretching your work space. I wanted the whole space on the top the change with the theme colour, but in the end, it is now just grey – on the Pixel 5 it is black, as AI wasn’t very helpful in colouring these, and it may have something to do with the fragment lifecycle, so when I know what colour I want, the bars are already built.

Overall, the code is updated to all current libraries and so hopefully it will be a bit more stable and/or quicker.

You can get this on the play store, or the APK can be downloaded from this site.

This is now a new menu item in the app. This new page then displays the whole 45 questions and answers. I know that it could be displayed better (likewise the 39 Articles) so that its not one very long page, but for now it is a start.

This new update had been pushed to the app store and should be updated soon. You can also download the APK from this site.

In preparing to be ordained, one of the tasks I need to do is to follow the Australian Anglican morning and evening prayers and lectionary for 30 days and reflect on this experience. In doing this, it means I have been using my app every day, and what has annoyed me during this process is there was one colour in the tabs that didn’t update correctly with the season (see pic below). So I have fixed that

While I was adjusting the theme, I also remembered someone at my church who used this app and they were having big display issues because they had night mode set. So I have also updated the night theme to make it a bit better, mainly on the About screen and the 39 Articles screen. This hasn’t been extensively tested, but it seems to work…

I have also updated the libraries and set the target SDK to be version 33, which should hopefully mean everything is more stable, or at least up todate.

This update should be pushed to the play store, and the APK can be downloaded from this site. (I have kinda given up on the Amazon store.)

For a little while, the Australian Daily Prayer app wouldn’t update the service content if you changed the date. The card at the top would display the right day and saint/festival, but the morning and evening tabs would still be displaying the current date. This bug turned out to be a relativity simple fix by changing the FragmentPagerAdapter to be FragmentStatePagerAdapter. However, I was already deep into readjusting the whole app to be running on the AndriodX libraries, which meant this fix got rolled up into a bigger update.

From the users perspective, not much will appear different (maybe the menu), but under the hood hopefully it will work smoother on newer phones (the last update was from October 2019).

There may be other bugs in regards to the content of this app, ie some days a Psalm doesn’t appear, or the readings might be a bit off, etc… That is more to do with the website it is pulling from, and not necessarily the app itself. I run that website, so the issue is still on me, but those content bugs may not have been fixed in this update.

Integration to the Inductive Bible Study app isn’t working, I think it may have to do with that app receiving requests from this app (which I probably forgot about it in the last major update). This may be a feature I will put back in.

You can get this update from the portfolio page and Play Store.

It seems that in my last update to get everything up to API 29, it caused an issue with the Australian Daily Prayer app. It turns out that from Android 9, by default http calls are blocked to encourage everyone to switch to https.

Now, after I released the previous update my Pixel 2 stopped working so while I am waiting for that to be fixed I am on my old Nexus 5, this is on Android 8. Still, today I tweaked the app, (assuming this was the issue), to make https calls to my dailyprayer website. Turns out I already had an SSL, so I didn’t have to tweak anything on the server, just the app.

I have already emailed all those who asked about the issue, and one person has gotten back to me saying it is now working on Android 9 from the Play Store. Hopefully, that is the new norm. APK on this site is also updated.