Chess clock app

I really enjoy playing blitz chess OTB when I get a chance (not that chess.com isn't bad :P ) and we've been using our phones as game clocks. I wasn't all that happy with the free apps out there so I went and coded my own for fun.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timecontrol.jl

Any feedback from you guys would be much appreciated!

Time Control Chess Clock

Chess clock designed for easily customizable time controls and a clean, functional interface.

Features
Chess Clock
•Sleek, clean interface.
•Choose between 7 preset color schemes or create your own custom layout.
•Vertical and horizontal orientations.
•Millisecond timing resolution
•Multitouch support
•Dynamic time-bar displays each player's relative time remaining at a glance - also acts as a pause button. The time-bar can be hidden.
•Choose starting player's side.
•Customize a warning alarm for when your clock runs low.
•Move counter (can be hidden).
•Visual indicator (optional sound, unique to each player) for current player.
•Pause the chess clock at anytime.

•Full screen can be used to toggle clock (for users with smaller screens)
Time Controls
•Fischer, Bronstein, Hourglass increments, Time per Move and Simple delay.
•Period timing (Add time after a certain move number, in addition to changing increment type).
•Handicap time controls.
•Create, edit and delete an unlimited number of presets.
•Time and increment times can be inputted with the keyboard (max time unlocked)

Misc.
•No ads, no in-app purchases, everything is unlocked for all users!
•Unlimited license (free forever).
•Auto-pause if interrupted during a game (Phone call, text message, etc,).
•Written in Python using the kivy library (kivy.org).

Requirements
•OpenGL ES 2.0 (Android 2.2 minimum).

Thanks! Looks pretty decent, and I've just removed the two chess clock applications I had installed; one didn't have a horizontal mode, and one didn't get Fischer increments right.

I wouldn't mind being able to "hide" the provided "standard" time controls, but that's very nit-picky. Good job!

(Yes, I had to figure out to press enter/return or whatever the equivalent is to get the name for a custom time to stick, and it wasn't immediately obvious that the "resume or quit" when the centre is pressed paused the clock; maybe a pause symbol there? Beyond nitpicks: looks good.)

Thanks for the feedback! If you don't like the default time controls you can always delete them (Top righthand corner of the edit menu for each time control). I thought I coded it to have a tooltip (explaining that you could press the timebar to pause, delete timecontrols in the edit menu, etc.) the first time you opened up the app, I'll take a look at it and make sure it isn't bugged.

Thanks for the explanations. If there was a tooltip, I missed it; I may have.

The standard time controls are good to have, but ony one of the matches anything I regularly use, so I'll probably tidy the others away. Mostly I use "real" chess clocks, but at home with no clock bashing blitz players or when visiting my nephew I'll aways have my phone handy.

Well done again on a nice clean application.

Is the app supposed to be able to disable screen timeout automatically? It doesn't on my phone (Android 4.1.2).

Otherwise a very nice app.

Same here - great chess clock app, but the screen does blank in Android 4.1.2. 

http://www.chess.com/download/view/mobile-phone-chess-clock

Thank you for the update. Glad to see wakelock now working. I have one feature request: an optional countdown sound for the last 10 seconds on the clock.

Ideally, an optional sound when the clock reaches "x" number of seconds.  The user, of course, can specify what "x" is.   Some players may wish this notification to be heard when 20 seconds remain, for example.

Good idea!

So make an iOS version already or give someone permission to do so.  

Nice update today with the new sound warning 

Thanks for the idea

This apps is awsome

Could be cool to add an option for black to start the timers like "real" clocks, but that's kinda nitpicky. Really great app!

If you want a free and easy-to-use chess clock with all the most common and used features, you can download this android application on your phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=giulio.di.maria.chessclock.google.

Regular updates will be released and suggestions or personal features are accepted and welcomed!

Hope you'll enjoy it!