Like millions of regular people, I have anxieties. I have a rough time sleeping, I stress, and I get depressed. Very typical behavior for many people.
Rather than pretending these issues were not real, I built an Android application and met them head on! I created Behavior Therapy Tracker and through its constant use I was able to overcome many of my anxieties.
Let me explain my story and I hope it can help you as much as it has helped me.
During the creation of my first Android application – Behavior Therapy Tracker – I wanted to display a list of behaviors to manage; more importantly though, I wanted an easy way for users to add new behaviors to the list.
My solution to this problem was simple, add a one-liner form to the footer of my ListView that contained the behaviors.
Since I’ve become an adult, I’ve had stresses, anxieties, compulsive behaviors. I’ve always had a hard time dealing with them. In fact, in looking back now, it dates back to even my childhood.
I created this Android app Behavior Therapy Tracker as a tool to help me; which it has immensely. It works by creating a list of behaviors. This list can contain anything that you wish to track. For example:
Along with behaviors, a list of refocusing activities are required. When you’re practicing behavior therapy, it’s important to first recognize your behavior (the list you created previously) and attempt to train your mind to ignore or avoid it. This is often accomplished with a refocusing activity. For example, when you are stressed, it’s often a good idea to turn the negative thoughts into positive thinking. Positive thinking is often a fantastic tool to overcome many anxieties and disorders.
After your behaviors and refocusing activities are created, you can now begin tracking your behaviors with this simple form:
For best results for tracking purposes, it’s advised to attempt and enter each occurrence immediately or on the same day. The reporting tools that have been created can hopefully help you detect patterns in your behavior, arming you with tools to help fight them in the future.
I’ve made this a paid application because I have a family to support and I invested a lot of time in creating this application. As a sign of support in return for what will hopefully help you, I’m asking for a small payment.
Yes. I already have a few ideas in mind to extend the functionality of this application.
I would be more than happy to hear your thoughts on the app. Don’t hesitate to email me at info at endyourif.com.
I recently had the opportunity to begin exploring and toying around with Windows Phone 8 development.
Why you ask? Why not really, but mostly because I was giving a free phone and it’s an untapped market when it comes to apps. At this stage it’s not over diluted like the Android and iPhone stores are. That and of course there is an option to create apps using HTML, Javascript, and CSS – technologies I’ve used and mastered for years!
I actually submitted my first app last weekend – and sadly – it got rejected 🙁 I was given two reasons; firstly I did set a default application icon, whoops my bad. Secondly, I didn’t properly handle the back button since there are “multiple pages” in my application.
It took me several hours to finally found the answer so I thought I would share it. Please note, this feels like a bit of a hack, but I wasn’t able to get the “suggested” solutions working…
Every so often there is a new buzz word in the web development/design industry. A few years ago it was HTML5 and CSS3. Now it seems to be “responsive design”. And of course this makes a lot of sense. With more and more Internet users accessing the content on their laptop or desktop PC, tablets, and mobile phones, websites need to be able to be ready to serve up the content in an appropriate fashion.
In this article, I want to take a step back and help simplify this process because by stopping and thinking just a little bit, it doesn’t need to be complicated. In fact it’s quite simple.
At the time of writing this article, my blog is only about 50% responsive, I am planning a new design soon that will take it to the next level.