8.3.2013

Localization and Android port

BudgetMan is built to support multiple languages from the beginning depending on the phone's locale settings. Only thing missing are the actual translations, so the only currently available language is english. There might be a finnish translation in the pipeline done by me, but if you're interested having BudgetMan translated to your language and you are ready to help, give me a hint.

For those people that have multiple smartphones in their household and they happen to run different OS:es, there's always the question when some good software is found - will it run on the other device? Currently BudgetMan is a 'one trick pony' and it can be run only in JavaME capable phones.

Because there's another phone present and because the owner of that phone is responsible for half of our family's economy, I decided to port BudgetMan also to Android platform. It's not even near production ready, but the work has been started.


My current plans include covering about the same functionality as in current JavaME version of BudgetMan and when ready, there should absolutely be an option to synchronize transaction data between clients. The Android style of making things happen is still a bit of a mystery to me, but so far everything has gone quite smoothly and I'm a fast learner. It's basically Java, after all.