Windows Smartphone App for Fuel Frog

May 7, 2008 19:53

A few days ago, 3 dudes launched FuelFrog.com, a cool site for tracking your fuel consumption.  It uses twitter, which is cool, because I was doing the same thing, only stupider.  I would post "G:"  (like G:52.29) and then the dollar amount I had spent at the pump, up to twitter, and then pulled it into a spreadsheet via my rss feed.  These guys go one better and take the milage and price you paid per gallon into account as well.  For their app, you tweet " @fuelfrog 225 3.76 12.987 " and it tracks it for you in a cool little graph.  Way better than mine.

The problem was that I didn't want to have to remember the order that the numbers went in, and texting that whole line was a pain.  Enter Lilly Pad, my sweet 6 lines of code windows smartphone app that handles the chore of formatting your Fuel Frog posts.   Full source and install are available below.  Obviously no waranties extended, it runs fine on my WM6 SmartPhone, and I spent 20 minutes throwing it together.  No whining if it ain't pretty, ok.  Enjoy.

LillyPad.zip (243.42 kb)

LillyPadInstall.CAB (10.27 kb)

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May 12. 2008 17:04

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May 12. 2008 17:41

Tim

Cool! Any recommendations on how to easily log for multiple vehicles?

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May 12. 2008 21:46

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May 13. 2008 13:55

Joe Levi

@Hank:

It works just like it's supposed to... but how? I don't supply my twitter username anywhere!

How are you submitting this without my username? Are you doing it over data or over SMS?

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May 13. 2008 15:44

Joel Strellner

@joelevi

I just looked at the source code and LillyPad initiates a SMS message when you click on the submit button to twitter.

As long as your phone is setup on twitter, twitter will automatically associate the text message with your account.

Good job Hank. This is pretty sweet.

Joel Strellner

May 13. 2008 17:01

Joe Levi

@Joel Strellner: Thanks for the digging! Much appreciation!

@Hank: ACK! We need to change that... I get dinged 15 cents every time I send an SMS, but I have unlimited data...

Can you add some complexity to your app that lets the user select either SMS or use the web api to post?

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May 13. 2008 17:12

Joe Levi

@Hank,

Also, can you disable the send button until all required fields are filled out? Wink

Aren't I just a demanding little bugger?

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Joe Levi

May 13. 2008 17:25

Joe Levi

@Hank:
And it needs an icon... a lily pad maybe? Wink

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May 14. 2008 09:17

Hank Lynch

@Joe, you are a demanding little bugger Smile Left a note on your blog.

@Joel Thanks man. If you have any improvements or whatever, I'll happily post them.

Hank Lynch

June 2. 2008 06:20

FiZz

it`s so cool Laughing

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July 1. 2008 13:16

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