Month: July 2008 – י״ד בתמוז תשס״ח

iZmanim – An Alpha Release of Zmanim for the iPhone


iZmanim screenshotThe release of the iPhone 3G got me thinking about zmanim on the iPhone. While I would eventually like to create a free native iPhone zmanim app, for now I created a simple iPhone web app to test out the UI. While only of alpha quality, the iZmanim web app (no longer available) should properly work on an iPhone (tested in Safari on Windows and iPhone emulators). These is a settings page that persists changes made. The iZmanim web app was built using the iUI framework. iZmanim can be tested with any Webkit browser. For the full effect, try it using the iPhone Tester on Safari. Please note that it will not properly load in IE or Firefox.

If any Cocoa/Objective C/iPhone developers would like to give a hand in developing the native iZmanim, please contact me.

Zmanim API 1.1 Beta 2 Released

The second beta release of the Zmanim API 1.1 is now available on the download page. Changes in this release include additional code refactoring to the refactoring already done in the last few releases. As in the previous release, included is the zmanimAstronomical-1.1_beta_2.jar, a release that only includes the AstronomicalCalendar class and supporting classes. As part of the changes, an effort was put in to make the code simpler to port to other languages. This mostly involved moving formatting code out of main classes. The only interface changes were the addition of a few new methods to the GeoLocation class. It is likely that the next release will remove the empty GeoLocation constructor that can lead to inadvertent errors. This removal might break existing code. I hope to post details about these changes in the near future.