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Hi Guys,
There must be a lot of MotoGP fans out there like me who want to stay in sync with the Race calendar through their android phones.
Searched on the market a lot for a light weight widget which shows upcoming race Found some good ones but then idea of creating my own widget for my phone came. It came out good hence decided to share it with others as well.
The screenshots and the apk are attached.
This widget doesn't connect to internet nor it accesses any resources on the phone.
It shows Race Date, Next Session (FP1, FP2, etc) and its timing converted to local timezone, Race Name, venue, etc.
How to use:
- Long press on an empty spot in your homescreen (preferably an empty screen itself since the widget is little big)
- Select 'Widgets'
- Select 'MotoGP Calendar Widget'
I tested this on HTC EVO 3D, Nexus One, HTC Incredible using Go Launcher and Default Sense.
Venturing for the first time into the world of android apps. Your suggestions, feedback, complaints are welcome though please be gentle on criticism
Disclaimer: All the images that are displayed are from the following link and I take no ownership of it: motogp.com/en/calendar+circuits
I am in no way connected to Dorna Sports or MotoGP nor working for them nor is this an official app.
PS: Hope I have posted this on the right section. If not my apologies in advance and please move this thread appropriately.
I've installed over 50 editors and reviewed 100s in the Play Store... none of them do everything I was looking for. Maybe I missed it.
Editor requirements:
Toolbars at the bottom.
Dark theme (option)
Dark paper / background
Autosave
Insert image (prefer in-line but thumbnail might be OK)
Formatting (bold/font/colors)
File Types = rtf or doc
Opens to last edited and in edit mode.
Trial/free version available for testing before purchase.
No pushy popups asking me to download other things.
Clipboard - easy to use.
Bonus:
Cross platform version in Windows (web version.ok)
Wont freak out if I use AI Keyboard to paste text.
Links - between docs / pages / to web.
Save as text only.
Save selection.
Send selection.
Clipboard history.
Undo history between edits.
No monthly/annual fees
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Toolbars: App buttons should be configurable, always. Buttons for menu/bold/saveas/new could be at the top, bottom, left, right, or floating, per the user preference. I'm really disappointed android has not done more to assist users with reaching across their over sized screens. Almost no apps have this, and only a few place the controls in the obvious place = next to the keyboard = where the user is most likely to want to tap. S5 ships with quick screen sizing ability built in, seems Samsung is ahead on this one. And I don't think it's asking a lot, it's just a matter of moving the bar to a different place, it's too easy!
Theme: A dark theme uses less battery and is easier on my eyes, especially when it's dark out. The theme is the part around the edit area, strictly speaking. This would include all menu's and toolbars. There are great editors out there with dark themes and dark paper but the menu's open super bright, and whats worse is they'll put light gray text on them in wee little fonts with lots of space to make it bigger... and then ask for $$? No.
Paper: A dark paper is super easy to read in any lighting conditions, and uses less battery to display (the display takes 50%+ of most phones battery power) When printing, white paper is best because it is cheap and readily available, and printers are not generally equipped to print light colors on dark paper. Since most people are addicted to printing things they look at 0-1 times, we may be stuck with this for a while. In any case, I want dark paper. This has been a feature in editors for a long long time but is mostly missing from Android.
Autosave: This is a must. If it uses the "save every 10 seconds", it should also save on exit without prompting if I close in only 5s.
Insert image: My preference would be to have text above and below, not around, and not as a layer that is under typed text. If it's attached as a thumbnail, it should be easy to see and tap to zoom.
File Types: My favorite is RTF. It's been around a long time, compatible with most things. Any fairly common windows format is fine like doc or even pdf. I want to avoid special formats that wont work anywhere else. I don't mind if the program has this ability but if it cannot open/save in other formats by default, I'm not interested.
Opening: It should open to the last document opened, and ready to continue typing. If it opens to the home page, then I want to see a recent list with the last edited on top, and one tap to edit. I found some really nice apps that took 5-6 taps to edit a doc. For example, Evernote opens to the home page, you tap to view, scroll to where you want to type, tap and ... nothing.... you have to tap MENU and then some symbol for edit, and then you start typing and it's not typing in the right place, it moved to the top or the bottom or whatever... terrible app IMO.
Fees: I have dropbox and other storage already, I'd rather not sign up for yet another one. Many apps work with existing sharing services just fine, while others require payments for this, generally 4-8 per month. I'm only willing to pay if it is the only one that meets all my other requirements, and it has to be the super ultimate editor and really amazing too.
TagSpaces might do it. There's no trial for Android tho....
Downloads include linux, mac, windows, android and firefox/chrome extensions.
Looks really cool but there's no trial/free version.
TagSpaces does not support themes nor paper color choices.
I'm using SlimRom, it has a great holo theme, and inverted google app package.
Build 7-187 did not invert google play for me.
Build 6-112 works great
The Slim Gaap downloads are here Slim 4-4 Gaaps, stable addon page.
Still looking for a full editor with all the features I mentioned. It's very strange how many apps do not have proper color options for the canvas, any dev who ever opens an app at night or in a dark room knows why. Special lighting apps like Velis Auto Brightness with super dark mode enabled helps a lot, but in a dark room, if the large white areas are bright enough to see the lettering on them, then it's bright enough to light the whole room.
Anyone who wants a longer battery life should be asking every dev to add night modes to their apps
I've been looking all around for a face for my Fit2 that had time, whether, and date. I can't seem to find one anywhere. This seems like common things people would want. Am I just missing something?
If you're looking to display current weather + date I've only seen one "All in one: Fit"
Almost the entirety of watch faces are made with Samsung Gear Designer program that doesn't allow weather data to be displayed.
Two other options for you:
- The new weather app (available from the Essentials tab of the store) has added a weather widget (the swipe right widgets like floors, water etc.)
- Many watch faces, including most of mine, have date + link to weather app (for example Active Life [12 mile] By TM)
Fahrenheit85 said:
I've been looking all around for a face for my Fit2 that had time, whether, and date. I can't seem to find one anywhere. This seems like common things people would want. Am I just missing something?
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Fitness Battery Pro has weather on the watch face but it really eats the battery.
loads of watch faces on here
Google +
hope it helps
Yeah, most of the faces that advertise weather are simply a link to the weather app. Thanks talmarsh for the tip about "All in one: Fit", that one looks nice and I really like the level of customization supported.
The recent firmware update that came out after the Fit 2 Pro includes a few new built-in faces. Two of those, "Fitness Pro 1" and "Fitness Pro 3", include the current weather.
But also there is "Weather Fit Watch". It's not free but it's very well done, showing current weather as well as forecasts. That's my pick for a weather watch face.
I've been using Fitness Pro 3 since it gives the most data and weather. too bad it doesn's display battery % until you hit 15% or less.
I wish there were more that displayed the actual temperature instead of a link
Today Weather with Black Theme is perfect for AMOLED display.
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Pretty sweet, thanks for sharing.
thotran7989 said:
Version 1.2.0:
- Offline mode.
- Rain and severe alerts.
- Resolve slow load data for Accuweather.com.
- New data source: Yr.no.
- Fixed some bugs on Galaxy S8, S8+.
- Update language.
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Thank u very much. New widget is super. Would it be posible to make the font of the new widget like aod font? Further best weather app ever!
I tried this app, having used Weather Underground for the last couple of years. I found the interface of Today Weather to be much nicer looking, but I had a few issues which drove me back to Weather Underground.
1) The temperature graph on Today Weather is nice, but I missed the graph from WU, as well as the graph of rain chances over the next week.
2) The top two things I use a weather app for are looking at the forecast and looking at the current radar. Today Weather buries the radar at the bottom of the screen and you can't move it, plus....I just don't know. Is that really radar? It looks like no other radar I've ever seen. I certainly didn't trust it for accurate data. Plus, THIS is the thing that you have to pay for the premium version to get?? I paid it, and I was very disappointed.
3) This is perhaps trumped by #2, but I love that WU provides a radar widget.
4) Furthermore, I wish that the available widgets (which also looked great) had a bit more data.
Today Weather seemed to be primarily about looking nice, which it accomplishes astonishingly, and secondarily about giving you weather in multiple cities. As someone who spends 99.9% of my time in one city, that's not an important thing to me. If I traveled more, maybe...
I like this app. I bought the ad-free IAP on the Play store a few weeks ago to support your development efforts.
Tested your weather app (via above post ).
Really impress with app interface, animation, icon sets,and relevant info. .!
Your options /list re Weather Providers i like.!
Plse note that, I am a sucker for top quality, weather apps.
Have paid versions of most of Android
best weather apps.!!
Bought your app, Today Weather within
10 minutes of testing.!
Only negative comments i have
at moment is you weather radar...?
Could be better.!!!!
eg in G map it shows precipitation
as a white blob...? (instead of blue animation?)
Widget with hourly weather summary
would be nice ?
Good luck with a promising quality app.!
I have tried a few weather apps, but this one is one of the best
thotran7989 said:
Today Weather with Black Theme is perfect for AMOLED display.



Review by XDA:
Today Weather is a beautiful & simple-to-use weather app that provides the world's most accurate local weather forecasts.
Features:
● Display weather forecast clearly and easy to understand.
● Enjoy every moment you open the app with thousands of beautiful photos corresponding to the weather and the day.
● Prepare for anything with 24/7 weather forecast and chance of rain.
● Protect your health with air quality and UV index.
● Catch the beautiful moments of sunrise, sunset, full moon night with provided information.
● Other useful information: actual temperature, humidity, visibility, dew point, air pressure, wind speed and direction.
● Easy to view weather information anywhere in the world.
● Take and share photo with weather information for friend.
● Quick-view weather forecast using widget.
● Daily weather forecast notification.
● Alert severe weather.
● Data sources supported: Accuweather.com, Weather.com, Weather Wunderground, Dark Sky.
DOWNLOAD WITH GOOGLE PLAY
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Great weather app. Beautifull. But...please please please..make a widget with fong and look like stock s8+ weather app.
Thank u very much.
Really liking the app and have unlocked with the IAP. Probably my only feedback is that the various sources for forecasts don't align with the official forecast issued by the Bureau of Meteorology here in Australia, they are all off by one or two degrees.
purchased the app. overall, I really like it..the look, information provided. The one thing I would like is a better radar. Live in an area with severe storms and it is very important to watch radar to see which way the storm is moving to know if you need to take shelter or not...Please add a better radar...thank you for a beautiful weather app.
Is it loaded with ads?
Purchased it a while ago already, really like it.
The only thing that annoys me is the temperature in the notification bar. At some point, it just stops updating and I have to click on it to open the app and only then it updates. For everything else, it's all good!
thotran7989
Thanks for update ( v 1.2.2.0905017) to weather radar ( G maps )
Already a big positive improvement from previous version !!
It"s a bit jerky and i noticed that the weather radar
does not keep data for offline mode ?
For me it's a big help and saves time , if during the day ,
I have to quickly refer back to weather radar (whilst in offline mode )
only to find no info available ?
......and have to reload the G map radar data ?
Great app, any chance of a mini refresh button in the widgets or a update interval section in settings? Like a previous user stated, sometimes the widget doesn't update.
not working in China
hello all,
it is only me? I cant get app working in China, it even not start, it load just with vpn. leaving a part gmap for radar, it should work same as all others app I have cause it is using same sites for forecasts .
thanks and regards
thotran7989 said:
Currently, widget auto update every 30 minutes, about button refresh I will consider.
Thanks
Are other apps working for you?
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of course, as I wrote, it should work same as others apps i have, for example yahoo weather, weatherunderground and so on, all working
regards
thotran7989 said:
:good:
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so there is a way to let this app working here in China?
thotran7989 said:
Sorry, I can't find your issue...
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nevermind, thanks
Thread closed since it's essentially a duplicate and with due permission from the OP.
Please refer the original thread here https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-weather-beautiful-weather-app-beta-t3574417
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HNFit is a new Watchface that was based on the Greatfit project of GreatAPO.
It has several new and unique features:
- Highly customizable.
For now: background colors, hour colors, minute colors.
- Built in pedometer, which based on the set height and the steps taken, calculates the distance traveled in KM.
I always felt a big limitation of my Pace only being able to see the distance traveled in sport mode. (today and total)
So in this new watchface I programmed a pedometer to give this information.
- One user customizable widget.
From Greatfit app the top right widget is user personalized.
- Information about current, maximum and minimum temperature of the current day on the watchface
- Battery bar, weekdar bar, distance goal bar.
- Many options
Devices:
Amazfit Pace and Stratos.
Known bugs:
The pedometer distance does not update while the screen is off/locked. When you unlock phone the distance will be recalculated..
To do:
- Add more items to be color customized.
- Fix locked screen not being updated.
- more...
Installation:
ADB install command: adb install -r HNFit_X.X.apk
Or
Use Apk Installer
No root required
Screenshots:
Download:
Download from attachment.
Credits:
GreatApo and everyone that contributed to the GreatFit project.
Also comments are welcome.
If you use and enjoy this watchface and want to support it's development, please consider making a donation.
installing...
Looks good, but any big differences i don't see in it. It's the same GreatFit watch face, just changed some places of widgets, added more options like to change minute colour and ect, but if say honest it's looks like updated GreatApo watch faces version. Nothing special i don't see here. You could to change design much more, from: icons, to visualizations and ect. If i'm not wrong you even did not changed style of clock at all
This text on top of this topic:"HNFit is a new a totally new Watchface that was based on the Greatfit project of GreatAPO." sounds very very weird, it's not totally new, it's just updated
By the way waht is mean down 17 hours degrees? I thought 25 mean weather temperature, so what is mean others degrees? I'm talking about 28/17C? First screenshot
xdauser2019 said:
Looks good, but any big differences i don't see in it. It's the same GreatFit watch face, just changed some places of widgets, added more options like to change minute colour and ect, but if say honest it's looks like updated GreatApo watch faces version. Nothing special i don't see here. You could to change design much more, from: icons, to visualizations and ect. If i'm not wrong you even did not changed style of clock at all
This text on top of this topic:"HNFit is a new a totally new Watchface that was based on the Greatfit project of GreatAPO." sounds very very weird, it's not totally new, it's just updated
By the way waht is mean down 17 hours degrees? I thought 25 mean weather temperature, so what is mean others degrees? I'm talking about 28/17C? First screenshot
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"It's the same GreatFit watchface"?!?!
Different style of the clock, different fonts, color customization, a completely different design.
New and different bars: with battery, weekday, distance.
The icons on the watchface are new, except the icons from the user widget.
The settings icons are from GreatFit, they work fine and for now I did not see the need to change them.
Also I programmed a new real Pedometer!! Instead of having a widget saying all day 0 KM, you now have a working pedometer showing an estimation of the distance walked.
I surely was prepared to some negative comments but this is too much!
I really don't know why I wasted my time sharing my work...
The only thing I think you're right about is the "totally new" part, it makes no sense and I already corrected it.
PS: about 28/17ºC it's on the first post "maximum and minimum temperature of the current day", also it's something new and different from GreatFit!
Maybe you should pay more attention and read before you post?
darkvoid_66 said:
"It's the same GreatFit watchface"?!?!
I surely was prepared to some negative comments but this is too much!
I really don't know why I wasted my time sharing my work...
The only thing I think you're right about is the "totally new" part, it makes no sense and I already corrected it.
PS: about 28/17ºC it's on the first post "maximum and minimum temperature of the current day"
Maybe you should pay more attention and read before you post?
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I don't think people are trying to slight your work, but if you could let others know how to use and operate and benefit from it, then people can appreciate. Such as, what do you mean by programming a new pedometer? You mean you have a start/stop button to control when to measure? What's the difference with using that than the built in pedometer which starts counting steps from 0:00 everyday, etc? It's difficult for people to appreciate when no clear instructions were given, and all they can see if a slightly revised watch face. Don't you agree?
Thanks for ur efforts
Is it possible to customize a widget so that it shows an output of another app?
hkwildboy said:
I don't think people are trying to slight your work, but if you could let others know how to use and operate and benefit from it, then people can appreciate. Such as, what do you mean by programming a new pedometer? You mean you have a start/stop button to control when to measure? What's the difference with using that than the built in pedometer which starts counting steps from 0:00 everyday, etc? It's difficult for people to appreciate when no clear instructions were given, and all they can see if a slightly revised watch face. Don't you agree?
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I agree.
But I also agree that I have described the function and people should READ AND try to TEST and understand things:
- Built in pedometer, which based on the set height and the steps taken, calculates the distance traveled in KM.
I always felt a big limitation of my Pace only being able to see the distance traveled in sport mode. (today and total)
So in this new watchface I programmed a pedometer to give this information.
Also you could install the watchface and try it before making these kind of comments.
There is a line between being critical or being rude. And you have no idea what this line is.
Thank you
Thanks for watchface! Phone battery widget shows incorrect data for me.
I'll try to clarify the built in pedometer part.
Me personally on the weekdays when I go to work I never start any activity and my distance widget would always say 0.0 KM walked. Even if I take 10.000 steps.
All default watchfaces of Pace/Stratus only have two types of distance, the today distance and the total distance of the sports activities in KM or in Miles.
The new feature in HNFit is a widget that estimates the distance walked (in KM or in Miles) based on the steps and the height of the person, like a physical pedometer
If it's still not understandable please tell me to try to clarify more.
Out of curiosity, what method did you use to make the pedometer work when the screen is locked (slpt)? I have a custom watchface I customized/tweaked from GreatFit, and I have a very basic distance walked widget, but it doesn't work when the screen is locked yet. I was looking at the various posts in GreatFit and saw that there were several possible ways to handle it (decompile/edit service/apk, use time-based update [like world time], or use full slpt-refresh [like weather]), but wasn't sure which was the best method to go with.
Hello, thank you for your WF! A few remarks:
1. Does not work well on Verge (layout is broken) ;
2. Background color isn't background actually, but accent color (other graphics besides time/text);
3. It breaks if "seconds hand always on" is enabled, a restart is required to fix;
4. The user widget always show "BPM" while screen is locked, overwriting whatever info is there.
If I could make a suggestion, I think there are better looking fonts, maybe a LCD digital one.
Keep it up, and simply disregard some bad comments, there are jerks everywhere.
Regards.
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Hello, thank you for your WF! A few remarks:
1. Does not work well on Verge (layout is broken) ;
2. Background color isn't background actually, but accent color (other graphics besides time/text);
3. It breaks if "seconds hand always on" is enabled, a restart is required to fix;
4. The user widget always show "BPM" while screen is locked, overwriting whatever info is there.
If I could make a suggestion, I think there are better looking fonts, maybe a LCD digital one.
Keep it up, and simply disregard some bad comments, there are jerks everywhere.
Regards.
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About your remarks:
1. This Watchface, as stated on the title, is only made/tested for Pace/Stratus.
I would like to make it also for verge, but I don't have one. And I can only debug on the physical watch.
2. Thank you, I had the feeling, I was wrong calling it background color. Accent is much more correct, I will fix this on the next version.
Also I've being thinking and I will add the possibility to change the real background color, to extend the user possibility to customize the watchface even more.
3. I don't know what "seconds hand always on" is... maybe a Verge only option?
4. This happens sometimes when changing lots of settings. When this happens could you reboot the watch and check if the "background text" disappears?
Thank you for your remarks.
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About your remarks:
1. This Watchface, as stated on the title, is only made/tested for Pace/Stratus.
I would like to make it also for verge, but I don't have one. And I can only debug on the physical watch.
2. Thank you, I had the feeling, I was wrong calling it background color. Accent is much more correct, I will fix this on the next version.
Also I've being thinking and I will add the possibility to change the real background color, to extend the user possibility to customize the watchface even more.
3. I don't know what "seconds hand always on" is... maybe a Verge only option?
4. This happens sometimes when changing lots of settings. When this happens could you reboot the watch and check if the "background text" disappears?
Thank you for your remarks.
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1. Fair enough, I just wanted to make it clear, there is always someone asking "this works on XXX"?
2. Great idea, an "inverted" option (black text on white bg) is very welcome!
3. No, I tested it on Pace, go to watch Settings -> General/Common -> Watchface;
4. Maybe, I will test again when you release a new version, possibly with a better looking font for time.
Regards
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1. Fair enough, I just wanted to make it clear, there is always someone asking "this works on XXX"?
2. Great idea, an "inverted" option (black text on white bg) is very welcome!
3. No, I tested it on Pace, go to watch Settings -> General/Common -> Watchface;
4. Maybe, I will test again when you release a new version, possibly with a better looking font for time.
Regards
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Ok I'll work on it, maybe this weekend if I have time.
About number 4 I like the current font, but I could add multiple "selectable" fonts. It would be nice.
If you have any (free) font suggestion, please tell me.
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Ok I'll work on it, maybe this weekend if I have time.
About number 4 I like the current font, but I could add multiple "selectable" fonts. It would be nice.
If you have any (free) font suggestion, please tell me.
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https://www.whatfontis.com/DS-Digital.font
Regards
It’s great, I like a lot. Can you add this font too?
https://www.whatfontis.com/FF_Ghoul.font
It looks very good.
As for the function of changing the background, it would be good to change the background only of the part of the clock as in the images and the original prototype WF, it is more visual.
Thanks for sharing your work!
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It’s great, I like a lot. Can you add this font too?
https://www.whatfontis.com/FF_Ghoul.font
It looks very good.
View attachment 4797703
As for the function of changing the background, it would be good to change the background only of the part of the clock as in the images and the original prototype WF, it is more visual.
Thanks for sharing your work!
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That's good to hear.
I will try to include this font as well.
Including multiple fonts will be a little more complicated than I originally thought because each font has different sizes and you need to take this into account when placing the digits on the screen.
But I think it will be possible
If it is the same as WFZ, the numbers from the font are converted to PNG, then you just need to resize them. If you use the font directly, then there should be no problem...
darkvoid_66 said:
"It's the same GreatFit watchface"?!?!
Different style of the clock, different fonts, color customization, a completely different design.
New and different bars: with battery, weekday, distance.
The icons on the watchface are new, except the icons from the user widget.
The settings icons are from GreatFit, they work fine and for now I did not see the need to change them.
Also I programmed a new real Pedometer!! Instead of having a widget saying all day 0 KM, you now have a working pedometer showing an estimation of the distance walked.
I surely was prepared to some negative comments but this is too much!
I really don't know why I wasted my time sharing my work...
The only thing I think you're right about is the "totally new" part, it makes no sense and I already corrected it.
PS: about 28/17ºC it's on the first post "maximum and minimum temperature of the current day", also it's something new and different from GreatFit!
Maybe you should pay more attention and read before you post?
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Very good work! The main point of GreatFit project is exactly this, other devs been able to improve and create new watchfaces. Thank you very much for sharing your work and your code!
Users can go hard on you many times. Mind that from their point of view they are not aware of the code/work behind, but some do :fingers-crossed:. Try to be positive and keep up the good work :good: