Inspiration
I needed an app for Android which automatically inserts events & meetings into calendar basing on SMS messages received on my phone from my friends, co-workers and family. I didn't find anything like that on market and came up with an idea to do this on my own.
What it does
It listens to all incoming SMS messages and checks if there is some date and/or time mentioned. If so, it proposes user to view and add an event to calendar with pre-filled time, date, description and title. Automagically. It does work with all calendars and SMS texting apps installed on your phone, so you can still use your favourite applications. It is still an alpha version, so most probably it contains huge number of bugs - if you find those please send me some instructions how to reproduce it!
How I built it
I used Natty library for date recognition and standard stuff for Android. Here is the website of Natty: http://natty.joestelmach.com/
Challenges I ran into
Making an clear and useful user interface. It sill looks terrible :)
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
That it works and seems like a nice feature for more advanced texting app
What I learned
Learned quite a lot of new things regarding Android platform and of course I gained some experience in date&time recognition from natural language
What's next for .Task
Test in real life. I submit an alpha version in Google Play so please download it and use it as much as possible. Support for other languages than English is also needed. As well as clear and modern user interface. I think that final version of the app should work as an replacment for default SMS handler.
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