Development Update Before Beta

I’m close. After working all this past weekend, plus taking Monday and Tuesday off from my real job so to focus on GTaskD, I almost have a version ready to send out to the beta testers.

Google threw a wrench in things in the past few days by suddenly changing the way they return tasks from the API. One of the Google Tasks developers let me know they’re moving to a new backend, and as part of that they now return tasks in the order they were updated instead of the hierarchical order it always has before. I rewrote some code to deal with the change, so everything is working again, but it definitely took up some development time.

March 1st is the date Canvas disappears, and the version I have now can certainly replace it, so there’s no need to worry that you won’t be able to access your Google Tasks in a full screen UI. I just want to get the last remaining bugs taken care of before I let it touch your data, as keeping your data safe is my highest priority. I’m also adding some UI elements to make it more user-friendly for people who prefer clicking to keyboard shortcuts.

Thanks so much to all the beta testers for being willing to give it a test drive before we launch! I can’t wait to let you all see it. I’ll post here again when I send out the first link to the beta testers—probably Thursday night or Friday morning.