Digital Species

If you use the custom ROMs supplied by Cyanogen, and just upgraded to 5.0.8, you may have noticed that the FiftyTwo widget isn’t working properly.

There is a bug in this otherwise outstanding ROM, which is randomly garbling some screen output in various applications, including Console and RoboDefense. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next [...]

In this new release, there are two significant improvements. The first is much better kerning of the week number digits, removing excessive spacing when the number ends in ‘1′, and adding a little extra spacing when it ends in ‘4′.

The second improvement is a fix for an obscure bug which affects phones that are low on [...]

A minor release of FiftyTwo is now on the Market.

If you like it, please rate it!

If you change the phone’s time or timezone, the widget will now update immediately. If you’re using Android 2.0 or greater, then the default title message (“WEEK”) will automatically update when the phone’s default language is changed.

There have been some [...]

FiftyTwo version 1.11 is now available. This includes new languages and two bug fixes. One fix relates to whether to display week 0 or 53. The second fix ensures that the title will change when the locale is changed… for the supported languages, at least.

The widget is now available in 4 languages, with [...]

We just released version 1.10 of the FiftyTwo week number widget.

For those people who want to use this widget to track the financial year of their company or country, you can now specify the date when the year starts. By default this is 01 January, but it can now be changed to any date you [...]

A new version of FiftyTwo is now available on the Android Market.

By popular request, we added an RGB colour picker, so you can easily change the colours of your widget. The screenshot just below here shows what it looks like. You can see the widget in “before” and “after” images at the top. The text, [...]

Here’s our first Android application. It’s called “FiftyTwo”, and it is a home screen widget which shows the current week number…