This article details how to create a timer in Google’s App Inventor that sends a text message to a recipient on a daily basis at a predetermined time. This app can then be packaged and downloaded to your Android based phone.
First, you’ll need to apply for App Inventor. This article assumes you’ve got App Inventor installed, and have set up your computer and Android phone.
First, let me say that although this app is functional, App Inventor won’t let you package the application into a distributable APK file, or provide it as a download through the Android Market. That being said, it’s a good learning tool about the App Inventor Blocks Editor. Also, I use Google Voice for most of my text messaging, but this app will use the native texting app for your phone, not Google Voice.
I’ve named this app on my phone DailyMessage, as it’s a simple clock based timer that sends a text message every day at a time hard coded in the block executable code. Of course, this app isn’t very useful if you want to change the time the SMS is sent, but that’s a later article. This app needs to run continuously to check the clock, so make sure to set your phone’s task killer to ignore this app if you want to use it religiously.
Matt Perrault Shirt
Already a big Peyton Manning hater and Tom Brady man crusher, Matt Perrault refuses to believe that Peyton Manning could be better than Tom Brady, even though ex-Patriot Rodney Harrison believes Manning is the better of the two.
Perrault, from his Twitter account, got enraged after Harrison spoke of his opinion, comparing the Super Bowl appearances between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, but he left out one of Manning’s appearances.
In Matt’s “logical” summation, Ben Roethlisberger (2 SB wins) and Kurt Warner (1 SB win, 2 losses) are better QB’s than Peyton Manning.
A part-time Des Moines AM radio talk show co-host should be a little more knowledgeable in my opinion, even if he doesn’t call himself a journalist.
“Did Rodney just saw Manning was better than BRADY!!! DUDE – watch yourself! 3 rings … 4 SB app. to 1!!”
http://twitter.com/sportstalkmatt/status/24055846036
More Matt:
Tom Brady is better than Joe Montana
All you thousands of visitors have been yearning for an update, but I’ve been busy with a lot of things lately.
The only update I have at the moment that is worthy of sharing is that SneakyDave.com now supports mobile devices.
No longer will have you to squint or double tap your screen to enlarge the text on SneakyDave.com, visiting it from your mobile device will now present you an easy to read display of the latest posts. Thanks to to the great WordPress plug in WPTouch.
Hey, according to the sneakydave.com referer database, some people are still looking for a way to search Vendio’s Message Center (formerly AuctionWatch). Because Vendio never bothered to properly index their custom message board system, searches on auctionwatch.com at the time were slow and cumbersome, so they disabled it.
I was able to recreate the interface to it, and it works for a few good surprises, although AuctionWatch purged a number of message board postings, and removed some categories when they decided to change their name to “Vendio”.
Anyway, just FYI, if anybody is still looking for it. The URL used to be: http://sneakydave.com/forum/downloads/oldac/
Visits to that URL will automagically be redirected to the AW search page here:
http://sneakydave.com/awsearch.html
(This message brought to you by your ol’ buddy piinthesky: http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&thread=644022)
It may be no surprise to anybody, but the part time AM radio co-host with a blog has been acting up again lately.
Haverhill40 – “@sportstalkmatt Do you have an imposter on twitter? Another Matt Perrault is following me.” link
sportstalkmatt - “@Haverhill40 It’s the same dude who bought mattperrault.com and is now trying to sell it if you can believe that. Total loser in my book”. link
Haverhill40 – “@sportstalkmatt Who would want to be you?? I kid, I kid. Kinda creepy if you ask me though. Does it feel good that people want to be you??” link
sportstalkmatt – “@Haverhill40 Yeah, the guy is a creap stalker of me. Pretends to be me.” link
Matt knows succinctly that I don’t operate the mattperrault twitter account. I’ve told him that. I’m not a big twitter fan, but I know who’s operating it, or at least who created it. And they’re treading on thin ice mocking Matt. I suspect Twitter will eventually dump that account, at least that’s what Matt has been telling people. Why mock Matt when his own words do the mocking?
Also, this is the second time Matt Perrault has posted that I’m a stalker. Those are some pretty big words to own up to, even if they are misspelled. I won’t comment any more on his ludicrous statements until I check up on some documentation.
From the CycloneFanatic Message board, right before Matt forced the operator to close a thread dedicated to him…
” Well, I’ve been just a touch busy boys and girls here in Oklahoma City. Haven’t been on here for a while but I’m glad to see that my stalker showed up. I mean, the guy did have a T-shirt made with my face on it…bought the WEBSITE MattPerrault.com ….did a blog post about quotes and twitters in which he made up some, misquoted quoted others, and took out of context many”
Another fib from that paragraph, I was GIFTED a shirt with “I (HEART) Matt Perrault” on it for my birthday, I didn’t create it. I haven’t made up any of Matt’s quotes, nor misquoted him, and never took any out of context. Why would I go to the trouble of that? He must think that I’m the only guy that pokes fun at him.
All I’ve ever done to Matt is throw his words back in his face, and he obviously can’t stand it. MattPerrault.com is still reasonably priced for anybody named Matt Perrault, or not named Matt Perrault.
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