[DEV] Second - A Clock app (v1.0 - Dec 24th) - Windows Phone 8 Apps and Games

Hi everybody here, I just came from Android development, and now I want to try something new with Windows Phone platform.
As about one month ago, I have created a thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534736
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Which ask people for features of a clock app. Because of my graduation thesis, the project has been delayed so long. And now, I want to give you a very first version of my app with name Second. I will update my project states here as soon as any TODO feature is completed. I will also consider make a legacy version for Windows Phone 7.
Features: Clock, Alarm, Reminder, Timer, Stopwatch
State: On development, Alpha build, version 1.0, version code 6
Updated: Dec 24th, 2013
Supported: Windows Phone 8 (OS 8.0)
TODO:
Code:
Theme: Phone accent color
Theme: Custom color
Clock: Digital/Analog
Clock: Dimming (useful for AMOLED screen)
Clock: Custom display - hour/minute/second/milisecond
Clock: Custom display - year/month/day/day of week
Clock: Theming (like Android widget)
Stopwatch: Time lapse
Stopwatch: Notification
Stopwatch: Milisecond display
Timer: Milisecond display
Timer: Notification
Alarm/Reminder: Custom ringtone
General: Clock animation
General: Global setting
General: UI revamped
General: Live tile selection and customization
General: Custom lockscreen
Logo:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Screenshot:
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Windows Phone Store:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/second/1f2bdaf6-8152-48d2-9a34-5943d4ec29d4
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QR Code:
Please leave feedback and rate on my app, and tell me what features do you expect from a clock app like this?
Thank you,

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Works fine so far! However I have a question, since you publish it on the Store, how do you want to implement a live tile? Will you do it via xap for dev unlocked phones or did Microsoft change their rules for approval? If you need any inspiration for one live tile possibility, ultrashot open sourced Clock Hub, which is the best looking clone of the HTC clock: https://github.com/ultrashot/clockhub-native
Good lock with the ongoing development!

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th0mas96 said:
Works fine so far! However I have a question, since you publish it on the Store, how do you want to implement a live tile? Will you do it via xap for dev unlocked phones or did Microsoft change their rules for approval? If you need any inspiration for one live tile possibility, ultrashot open sourced Clock Hub, which is the best looking clone of the HTC clock: https://github.com/ultrashot/clockhub-native
Good lock with the ongoing development!
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Afaik, we can now custom live tile as we want programatically. Microsoft has an example for that feature.
I will have a look at your link, thanks very much for your suggestion

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Moon.lSd said:
Afaik, we can now custom live tile as we want programatically. Microsoft has an example for that feature.
I will have a look at your link, thanks very much for your suggestion
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And they allow you to update the tile every minute? This would be awesome news!

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AFAIK, there's a WP Store/Marketplace-wide limit with a minimum of 40 minutes for a live-tile implementation to "save the battery".
Anyways, can you have it also show the time from an NTP server as well as the Device's time on the same screen? I tend to prefer time.nist.gov instead of the default time.windows.com that everything defaults to.

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Im investigating this feature and if it can be customizable, I think it should be ok