A few years ago I posted SupaCount to the Android market. Shortly after that, I stopped posting updates for three years.

The reason for this? I lost my signing key. Even if I wanted to make updates to it, I couldn’t upload it to the same project on the Android Market, at least, not without a lot of grief. So, I just avoided it… though it wasn’t a huge problem. Since I uploaded it, I haven’t gotten one error report in the market dashboard, so it must be working. However, during that time using it myself, I noticed a few features I’ve wanted here or there that would just make things easier.

So, over the weekend, I rewrote the entire app in Scala. Why a rewrite? I dunno, just because I wanted an excuse to learn Scala and Scala for Android. I’ve named this one “DupaCount”. “SupaCount” will remain on the market, but with a blurb that it’s been replaced. During the rewrite, I added the few features that I wanted:

• If you reboot the phone while a timer is running, it will still alert as expected. This one really is more of a bug, but people probably didn’t notice as most wouldn’t make a timer that runs longer than a few hours. I’ve run timers for up to 2 months before, and though they always kept counting down, they wouldn’t always alert if I had rebooted during that time.
• There is an easy to see & access button at the bottom of the main screen called “Add Timer”
• The “description” field in the Add Timer dialog has been made optional. If you leave it blank, it will default to a display of the timer time. This will make it much easier to add a timer.

Anyway, the app can be found here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.synicworld.dupacount, and the sourcecode can be found here: http://bitbucket.org/synic/dupacount