Android/BOINC GUI development items

Some remaining development tasks. Please contact me (David Anderson) and post to boinc_dev if you want to help.

• "Settings" should have controls for
  • Suspend/resume computing
  • Exit (shut down everything - GUI, BOINC client, and apps)
• Optionally show icon in notifications (top bar) showing whether BOINC is running apps (Working WCG - M)
  • Add preference for whether to show this icon
• Show elapsed time for each task
• If a task is touched, expand height of task to show additional information and actions that can be taken:
  • Display Project Name [information]
  • Display User Friendly Application Name [information]
  • Display deadline [information]
  • Abort Task [button/action]
  • Suspend/Resume Task [button/action]
• Controls/info for file transfers (Completed)
  • Retry (Completed)
  • Abort (Completed)
  • If backed off, time until retry (Completed)
• Local preferences
  • Use at most X% of processors (Completed)
  • Suspend work when non-BOINC CPU usage above X (Completed)
  • Use at most X% of CPU time (Completed)
  • Suspend work when battery below X% (default 95%)
• Pressing project should expand/collapse box size and show the following options: (Completed)
  • Update (Completed)
  • Remove (Completed)
• Tab – “Event Log” (Completed)
  • A tab is needed to show the log file. Should be called Event Log. (Completed)
  • Log file display needs to include timestamp (Completed)
  • Only needs client messages – not manager messages (Completed)
  • Button needed for ‘copy all messages’ (to paste into email/forums for help) (Completed)
  • Monitor: Use get_messages(seq_no) to retrieve new messages from the client. Currently the Background task discards the known message list and redownloads the last 250 events on every refresh.
  • UI: Append new messages to the local message array and only send an update event if a new message was added or an old message deleted. (Completed)