😷 Appcelerator Titanium Covid-19 widget for Android

Widget

Widget selection

App settings

📋 Content

This Widget and app started as a proof-of-concept how to create such a widget with Appcelerator Titanium! It is not a final app (yet) 😉 It works but it can be improved!

• 📱 Appcelerator Titanum app (app folder)
• 📱 Appcelerator Titanum Android Widget (widget folder)

The widget is a basic Android Home widget that will read Ti.App.Properties and writes them into XML fields. The app will run a foreground service (the icon in the top left corner) and collects data every 30mins. This data is forwarded to the widget.

📲 How to install the app

You can install it from here:

Scan the QR code or go to the release section. Then click on the latest release and download the APK (under assets)

• download APK
• install APK
• add the Widget to your home screen
• start the app
• set places and press "Force update"

Known issues

There are still some bugs and features that could be implemented:

• if the icon is gone you have to restart the app to get new updates. Sometimes the system will kill the background process

🛠 Build

The App is created with Appcelerator Titanium. In order to build the app you will need to install the toolchain first. Have a look at my installation tutorial from From zero to app.

Widget

go to the widget/android/ folder and run ti build -p android --build-only

App

go to the app/ folder and run

ti build -p android

🚨 Attention

Android only! For iOS you can use Scriptable with https://gist.github.com/kevinkub/46caebfebc7e26be63403a7f0587f664 by @kevinkub (https://github.com/kevinkub)

Sources

• RKI data: https://npgeo-corona-npgeo-de.hub.arcgis.com
• Vaccination data: https://rki-vaccination-data.vercel.app/

Author

• Michael Gangolf (https://migaweb.de)