BinClockWidget

about

description

An AMOLED-black, monochrome binary-clock Android home-screen widget. It renders the current time and date as a 6×4 grid of dots. Cells that would otherwise go unused carry a couple of small extras: the device alarm state and a weather glyph. The aesthetic is deliberately austere — solid dots on true black, no chrome, no colour — so it disappears into an AMOLED wallpaper and sips battery. How to read it The face is a grid of rows (values) and columns (place values): * Rows encode, top to bottom: hours, minutes, day (of month), month. * Columns are binary place values: 32 · 16 · 8 · 4 · 2 · 1. * A lit (solid) dot means that place value is on; an unlit dot is off. Add the lit columns in a row to read that row's number. For example, a minutes row with the 32, 8, and 2 dots lit reads 32 + 8 + 2 = 42. The cells not needed by the low-value ends of the shorter rows are reused to show the alarm state and a weather condition glyph. Battery indicator Between the minutes and day rows sits a battery readout that's always on: a level gauge showing charge percentage, plus a state glyph (charging bolt, low-battery warning triangle, or very-low filled triangle). The warning thresholds are configurable in settings — adjust them to match your device and usage patterns. Weather, network & privacy Weather is off by default and opt-in: on a fresh install the widget makes no network or location calls, and no weather glyph is shown. Weather stays entirely dormant until you enter a weather server URL in the widget settings. When you turn it on, weather uses the keyless Open-Meteo API. Tapping "Use Open-Meteo" fills in the public endpoint (https://api.open-meteo.com/), which is then contacted over the INTERNET permission to fetch current conditions and a short forecast. You can instead point the setting at your own self-hosted Open-Meteo instance — any http(s) URL is accepted. With weather on, the widget also needs coarse location (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) to fetch conditions for where you are. Location is read via the platform LocationManager only — there are no Google Play Services, no fused/Play location, and no proprietary SDKs. The coordinates are sent only to the weather server you configured, and only while weather is enabled.

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-10-08T21:35:51.042841+00:00

last event

2026-09-14 08:53 UTC

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

source & build

repository

https://github.com/shining-cat/binary-clock-widget

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a android-armeabi-v7a android-x86 android-x86_64

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

1 release indexed; latest 1.1.1.

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

1.1.1 — fr.shiningcat.binclockwidget_7.apk

sha256

585a0c4b0da891d6557114296d31afad9af35315feb1436bb4db25613ad05d9c

size

14.4 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

7

apk cert sha256

33f29317567277d8b7a42ed7870916a2dd2c1edda08fe402ee5fe572fa322fcc

download

fr.shiningcat.binclockwidget_7.apk

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