I just released the newest version of the Calorie Calculator. Someone commented on another entry and asked for some improvements to the app, and I decided to implement them. I haven’t been working on the app for a while now, having had other things to work on, but it felt good to actually make a few updates… It also felt kinda icky to look at such an old mass of code. I should really consider updating it to a better style later on, but I made a few changes that makes it acceptable for now.
The changes are fairly simple, but still quite nice.
Normally the app would show the “Measurement type” selection screen every time the app was started, but this was kinda pointless since most people are only using one type, and rarely changes between them. So now it will only show that screen once, after which it will remember the setting and go directly to the main screen where you can enter all your stats.
And speaking of entering stats. There’s a change to those as well, in that there’s a preferences screen, where you can now choose which (if any) bits of information you would like it to remember, so if you don’t want to enter age, gender, height and/or weight each time (or you want to see what your weight was the last time you checked) then you can make it remember this in settings. It will default to remembering age, gender and height.
Finally, there’s a set of new buttons on the results screen. One at the top and one at the bottom, just in case. They will exit the app so you don’t have to press back several times to exit.