In January I made a little Android app called Chalkboard Clock. I made it for 2 reasons, firstly I wanted to know the process for getting an app to market and I also wanted to test Air for Android, see its performance.

The app itself is fairly simple, you draw the numbers 1 to 9 and it then redraws those numbers to tell you the time, updating every minute. The idea being you put your phone into a dock and have this run like a screensaver. Its not that useful and I wasn’t really expecting anyone to download it but to my surprise it recently surpassed a 1000 downloads! Now I know thats not that many in the big scheme of things but it is way more than I thought. Also what’s quite nice is most comments are requests for a widget mode, while its not praise its also not a complaint

My experience with Air for Android can be summed up like so… good but could be a better. Its early days at the moment but would be good to get support to make widgets soon. Also would be good if users could move Air to the SD card, I know at least one person that hasn’t been able to install my tiny 228kb app because they have no room for the rather more chunky 16.9mb Air app. [EDIT] : It is now possible with Air 2.7 to move the app to the SD card!

You can download Chalkboard Clock here.

I’m working on a new app which will hopefully find its way onto Android and iOS before too long. I’ll let you know how it goes.