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Widget with grocery list created by your received messages Why? Many times I faced the problem when someone has sent me a message with a list, what to buy on a way back home. My first thought was to create an invisible app that reads incoming messages and puts their content into Google Keep messages and also shows it in a widget. After some googling I found out that Google Keep doesn't support API for the 3rd parties. So I decided to create an app with this feature. What did I do? Application contains a receiver that allows to read all new messages. After the message is received it searches for a key words in the message. You can set up a multiple keywords to look for in a message. Another option is to set up a reminder. Reminder shows notification at the specific time in a day where at least one message was received. You can find this under the settings in a side menu of the application. Second part of the application is a widget. Widget shows you the list of all the rec

Creating app for Sony Smart Watches Intro In the next few lines we will talk about Sony Smart Watches first model . Currently, there is the third edition of Sony Smart Watches out. Recently I had an opportunity to try some development for this Smart Watches. I bought 2 Smart Watches at a local flea market (for 3 EUR each:). They were without an adapter and a wrist strap. Because Sony only created a proprietary cable I had to make one by myself. I used some old USB cables and follow this link . If you will ever face the same problem, don't bother to create a cable with all 4 pins. You only need two pins for charging (the first is VCC, and the last is ground - from left to right). Setup AFAIK there is no common android SDK for watches. Each company has its own SDK package. To run some official apps, you need to install " Smart Connect " in the first place that allows you to pair watches with your device. Now you can install apps from Google Play Store. Note that non