Always-on desk clock for a permanently-docked, permanently-charging phone on a stand. Date, weather and battery on top, big time in the middle, today's conditions along the bottom.
- Huge clock (12/24h) with a small seconds counter and a separator that blinks with the seconds, sized from measured text to fill the screen, landscape-first but rotation aware.
- 27 selectable clock fonts (system Roboto plus 26 bundled OFL faces from Google Fonts), with live previews in settings. The clock is sized from the actual time string, so every font fills the screen edge to edge.
- Info row above the clock: full date and day, current weather (temperature + condition), battery icon with percentage. The bolt shows whenever power is connected — solid while charging, faint while a charge limiter is holding the level.
- Conditions strip along the bottom: sunrise and sunset, today's precipitation probability, max UV index, air quality (European AQI), humidity, wind, and the current moon phase (computed locally, no network).
- Weather and air quality from Open-Meteo — keyless and free for
non-commercial use. Location is a city picked once in settings, so the app needs no location
permission;
INTERNETis its only permission. - Day/night theme switched by the location's real sunrise/sunset (from the same weather response), with a 07:00/19:00 fallback when offline.
- Dimming modes: Off, Schedule (user-set window, default 22:00–06:00), or Sunset (sunset→sunrise). Dim brightness sets the backlight level while dimmed: 100% = no dimming, lower = dimmer.
- Weather-reactive background (clear / clouds / fog / rain / snow / thunder) — plus low-alpha animations behind the clock (capped at ~30 fps): rain streaks, snowflakes, stars on clear nights, faint thunder flashes (switchable off in settings). Three background modes: Colorful (bright day gradients), Dark (deep weather tints all day, the default — kinder to an always-on OLED), or Black (pure black at all times).
- Separator blink modes: Steady, Pulse (dips within every second), or Alternate (bright/dim on alternate seconds, the default).
- OLED burn-in protection: the whole layout drifts a few dp to a new position every minute.
- Screen is held on via
FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ONwhile the app is in the foreground.
Long-press anywhere → settings. The dialog opens by itself on first launch, before a location is set.
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./gradlew assembleDebug # drops DeskClock-v<version>.apk in the repo root
./gradlew assembleRelease # signed release, if keystore.properties + keystore exist (not in VCS)Requires a JDK 17+ and an Android SDK pointed to by local.properties (machine-local, not
committed).
MIT. Bundled fonts are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 from Google Fonts; weather, air quality, and geocoding by Open-Meteo, free for non-commercial use — see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.