The app should include a programmable timer to time the rounds of a tournament. The timer should be started by an activity, but run in the notification bar, similar to other apps which hide up there (like Advanced Task Killer). This allows quick looks from all activities.

I've got this, unless the need becomes more dire than I have time for.

So I could pretty easily add in the existing timer I've made for another app. However, the one issue with it at the moment is a lack of a status bar notification. I'm looking into them at the moment and I'm not sure if there's going to be a good way to do it. From what I'm seeing, it seems like the notification icon has to be just that - an icon. If someone has a way to convert a string into an image on the fly, then awesome. Otherwise I'm not sure how I'll do this short of creating an image for every single time we want to have available (which I'm pretty sure is impractical).

Thoughts, anyone?

The first version of this is in. The timer works, the alert tone it plays is configurable from the preferences menu (uses notification ringtones), and it has a poorly-done icon. The icon and UI will need sprucing up. Also, it doesn't have a notification icon yet, but I'll get to work on that next.

Issue 74 has been merged into this issue.

The round timer is in and (hopefully) ready to go live. I fixed the multiple sound clip bug and the failure-to-properly-display-the-countdown bug. I plan to add a one-button menu to the activity soon (probably tonight) to allow the user to set the alarm tone from there, rather than having to navigate the preferences.

There's still one known bug, in which the time picker doesn't play nicely with screen rotation and the hours will randomly clear or be overwritten with the value in minutes. It doesn't impact performance, though - the picker only matters when the user is setting the timer. Once it's running, the picker is irrelevant.

I wrote and checked in the code for the alarm ringtone menu option last night, so that's taken care of now.