Amazon Free App Notifier

How to use:

1. Pick what time you would like notifications to appear by selecting Set Notification Time.
2. Pick what days you would like notifications to appear by selecting Set Notification Days.
3. Select what sound you would like to play when the notification appears by selecting Set Notification Sound.
4. Important: Press the button labeled Notifications off near the bottom of the screen to toggle on notifications.
5. You are good to go.  The notification will fire on the next time and day you specified.  When it does, select the notification to launch the Amazon Appstore.
   
   If you would like to configure more options, see below:

• Test Notification now: Test the notification based on the currently selected options.
• Show app name and price: Disabling this will prevent the app from connecting to the internet and show a generic notification in place of the normal notification showing app name and price.
• Play notification sound: Disable this to prevent a notification sound being played when the notification appears (sound will not play regardless if the phone is on silent/vibrate).
  
• Show notification on boot: Disable this to prevent the app from launching a notification when you turn on the phone.
  
  

Can I use a Task Killer with this app?

Do NOT use any task killers on this app.  Doing so may prevent this app from working properly.  Besides, they don't do much good.

Wait, just how are you getting information about today's free app?

Small little PHP script that I wrote that reads the data from Amazon's webpage before sending it to you using as little data as possible.  I also have plans down the road to make this process more efficient so it can retrieve data faster and more reliably.

See the page I am using here: http://android.skylark95.com/amazonnotify/index.php

If you don't want to use data, remember, you can always disable Show app name and price.

I like this program, can I share it?

Yes, you may absolutely share this program or mention it on other websites!  Just be sure you give me credit and link back to my site (http://www.skylark95.com/).

Having issues?  Found a bug? Questions or Suggestions?

Send me an email at skylark95atc@gmail.com

I will try to get back to you as soon as I can.

About Amazon Free App Notifier

Amazon Free App Notifier (Version 1.0.1)

This app is provided free of charge without ads.  If you would like to support my work please consider purchasing the donate version.

Thanks,
Sky ;)

Changelog

• Version 1.0.3 - 9/21/2012
• If Appstore not found on phone, clicking notification redirects to download page
• Fix startup crash on some phones

• Version 1.0.2 - 9/21/2012
• Added Option to disable vibrate
  
  
• Version 1.0.1 - 08/13/2012
  
• Fixed notifications not appearing on some phones (4.0 ICS, 4.1 Jelly Bean)
• Increased timeout for reading app name and price to 30 seconds (Less error downloading data messages on a slow connection)
• Fixed notification so when clicked on it launches the appstore on the main store page instead of the last open view (Get to downloading your free app faster!)
• Works great on my new Nexus 7! :)
  

• Version 1.0 - 05/16/2012
  
• Initial release
  
  

Planned Updates:

• Allows pop-up dialog alerts to remain showing when rotating the phone
• Increase efficiency and reliability for downloading information about the day's free app (somewhat done, more planned)
  
• The occasional requests I receive from users (Keep them coming!  I'll be adding an option to turn off vibrate soon.)
  

Tools Used:

• jsoup - http://jsoup.org/
• PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser - http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/