Lang: [English] [日本語]
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Countch
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[for iOS/iPadOS]
[for Android]
[The same in "Amazon Appstore" for FireOS etc.]
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Effective Utilization Cases:
- Cosmopolitan Outlook : by grasping world facts with intuitive way.
- Decision Support : from various aspects of life, to goods selection in shopping.
- Code of Conduct : accomplishment of tasks, weight control, skill development.
- Wellness and Happiness : health care, emotion, motivation, beauty, vitality.
- Study/Research : monitoring the volume of interesting, meaningful items.
- Life/Bussiness Utility : customizable visual counter/timer/alarm facility.
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Explanation for each pane/tab:
- Home :
Main indication pane for each monitoring item value.
The current values are shown with both the icon size and number.
Additionally, the real number and its unit text follows.
The color is blue for increasing, or red for decreasing value.
- Items :
Monitoring item ON/OFF switch for indication in the Home pane.
- Notification :
Limitation setting item selection and its count value.
The designated item is indicated with a bar chart in the Home pane.
The bar color is blue for under 50%, yellow for under 80%, or red for over 80% of its designated limitation.
Passing the 80% value, an Alert dialog pop up appears while the app is running in the foreground,
or you can get the notification message while the app is in background by allowing with your device setting.
- Start Time :
The item value in the Home pane is counted since this Start Time until now.
You can reset the Start Time to, just from now,
or from the begining of today, this month, this year,
or your own designated date.
Note that some fluctuating items are just current absolute values and do not depent on this Start Time.
- Custom :
Icon selection, time span, and unit text designation for Custom Item.
The custom item value increases 1 per every time span seconds,
or decreases if the time span is negative value.
Initial value can be set as the final value of the Year 2013.
Decimal point On/Off can indicate the decimal part of this custom item.
- Settings :
SimpleColor button can remove form colors especially for vision problems, color blindness, amblyopia.
NightMode button can use black background color for dimly lit environment.
Display buttons are for Icon/Num/Unit partial indication of monitoring items.
Language switch is English/Japanese/French/German/Spanish/Portuguese selection for indications in this app.
In this app, Notification/Alert language depends on your device language setting.
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Custom Item Calculation Assist:
- Seconds Calc
- Value Calc(from 1 time-point)
- Seconds and Value Calc(from 2 time-points)
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URL Scheme:
Countch App can be launched from browser etc. with an URL Scheme "marcountch://"
In this case, if needed, some parameters can be set like
"marcountch://param?PramName1=ParamValue1&ParamName2=ParamValue2&..."
Where, under some environments, the "param" characters/string is omitted.
The custom item contents setting might be able to enabled only if the Countch app is once ended/closed/terminated before the URL scheme launching.
ParamName List
- tab :
Tab selection at the launch.
From the left/first tab, there are : main, item, limi, term, cust.
(The right/last "Settings" tab can not be designated)
- itemc :
By setting "1" for this, only the custom item is selected and displayed in main(Home) tab.
(Only the custom item can be selected, and other selection is not allowed here.)
- sec :
Time span (Seconds) designation.
The custom item increases 1 by 1 with this Seconds time span.
(By default, it is 60 seconds)
- unit :
Unit Text (post fix) for the custom item.
Percent-encoding(URL encoding) style.
Specially only "%20" in order to omit(clear/nullify) the unit text here.
- last :
The value for custom item at the last fixed value in the (end of) year 2013, i.e. initial value of the year 2014.
Specially "None" in order to clear/nullify the value.
- point :
Decimal point On/Off designation with "1"/"0" respectively.
- name :
Icon name designation for the custom icon.
Specially "None" for (the first/default selection) none icon.
Including it, There are the following icon names from the left/first in order.
None, fi-heart, fi-star, fi-trash, fi-flag, fi-clock, fi-camera, fi-mail, fi-video, fi-telephone,
fi-web, fi-page-filled, fi-monitor, fi-laptop, fi-mobile-signal, fi-photo, fi-shopping-cart, fi-shopping-bag, fi-dollar-bill, fi-anchor,
fi-foot, fi-paw, fi-mountains, fi-trophy, fi-crown, fi-skull, maru-tree, maru-human, maru-mosquito, maru-turtle.
Scheme Samples
Only launching the Countch app.
marcountch://
Turtle icon for custom item, incleasing every 1 second.
marcountch://?name=maru-turtle&sec=1&unit=Seconds&last=None&point=0
Turtle for every 1 second, showing main(Home) tab, and only the custom item is indicated.
marcountch://?name=maru-turtle&sec=1&unit=Seconds&last=None&point=0&tab=main&itemc=1
Launching and showing cust(Custom) tab.
marcountch://?tab=cust
Launching, only the custom item is indicated, and showing item tab.
marcountch://?itemc=1&tab=item
"World Population" sample.
marcountch://?name=maru-human&sec=.4&unit=people%20now&last=7106188297&point=0
"Earth Temp" sample.
marcountch://?name=None&sec=-4570434783&unit=%c2%b0C%20now&last=-14.68&point=1
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