App Cubby has introduced an interesting timer app.
As you can see in the image, it provides a very minimalistic interface to having multiple timers around. Press to start a timer, long press to edit a timer. And that is it.But as an interface it seems to me to be just a tad too minimalistic to fulfill my basic timing needs. What these buttons could easily do as well is serve as little stop watches.
To accommodate the stop watch you would get a different display. If you set a time for a timer, it will continue to be timer, but after it had finished, there would be second line on the bottom to count the time since the stop time. And when you do not set a time, it will become a mini stopwatch. It will then display three lines: current elapsed time, total time at last stop, and lap time at last stop. You use it as follows:
- Press to start
- Press again to take a lap time
- Press long at any time to clear the timer
The third usage of timers is to keep track of activities. But I doubt this should be part of this simple interface, as you will need to enter quite a bit text to remember the activities you are tracking. But if you want it, you would use two lines, one for total time, and one for the current activity. You do a single press to start and stop, and a long press to reset everything.
In order to configure the timer, you will do a swipe from left to right on the button, and this will open a configuration dialog for the current unit. To learn about the shortcuts, when first starting the app there should be an explanation of the conventions: tap is start/stop or take lap time, long tap is reset, swipe right to configure. This should be dismissed by having a begin button at the bottom, where you must swipe to the right.