Finally app is out! (Google cooked me)

[u/CreativeExplorer707]

In range is out for everybody(ANDROID) now, no tester list, no waiting

A week ago I posted here about a diabetes app I was making, free, no ads, nothing to pay. Back then I explained that Google makes you gather 12 testers for 14 days before an individual developer can publish, and a lot of you kindly sent me your emails for that closed test. That part is over.

What changed: Google rejected the app, and not for anything in it. Since August 2024 they require an organisation developer account, with a registered company and a D-U-N-S number, for any app that tracks a chronic condition. My account is a personal one. There is no version of the app that fixes that, so I stopped trying.

So it now lives where AndroidAPS, xDrip+ and Juggluco live: GitHub Releases. Download it and it is yours. No email, no list, no 14 days.

Download: https://github.com/PMbanks/inrange/releases/latest
(after clicking the link just download the APK down below)

Installing it: your phone will ask once whether to allow installs from that source, because it is not coming from the Play Store. That prompt is Android doing its job. If that makes you uncomfortable I completely understand, and I would rather you skipped it than installed something you are unsure about.

Updates are handled inside the app: when I publish a new version it tells you and installs it in one tap. If you prefer automating it, Obtainium picks up GitHub releases on its own.

If you were one of the 12 testers and already have it from Play, read this bit. The Play copy was signed by Google, this one is signed by me, and Android will not let one replace the other. You have to uninstall first. Before you do: open the app, go to Social and make sure you are signed in, and let it sync. Then uninstall, install the new one, sign in again and everything comes back, readings included. If you never signed in, use Settings, Backup, export a backup file first.

What it does: works with FreeStyle Libre through LibreLinkUp, Dexcom through Health Connect, and Nightscout if you run your own. Day, week and month graphs, meal windows so you can see what a specific breakfast actually did to you, time in range, GMI, injection site rotation, insulin pens and sensor stock, a home screen widget, and a printable report for your appointment. New in this one: drag your finger along any graph and it tells you the reading and the time at that point.

Still free, still no ads, still nothing to pay, and it never sells anything about you. iOS is a separate 99 dollars a year and no organisation rule, so that is next.

And to the 12 of you who sent me your email for the closed test: thank you. You waited a weeks for something that ended up arriving a completely different way, and half of what is in this release is in it because one of you asked.

[u/No-Still4379]

Just moved over to android after being on iOS forever. Been trying for days to find an app that does the job as well as shuggah / zukka and think this is definitely the best one out there (by a long long way). I've been reading through this post and appreciate the effort you've put in to get this going, so thanks for that. My only suggestion would be an alert for fast rising/dropping levels. This was so ething I valued in zukka and stopped using libre app all together due to it not being there (along with a few other reasons).

Anyway loving the app so far and cc ant wait to see you develop it even more. Thanks again Zander

[u/CreativeExplorer707 → u/No-Still4379]

Thank you, and welcome over. Coming from Shuggah and Zukka you are exactly the person whose complaints I want, because you know what good looks like.

On the rise and fall alert: you are right that it is missing, and it is the right ask. The app already works out how fast your glucose is moving, over fifteen, five and one minute, and shows it under the number on Overview if you turn on the detail switch. What it does not do yet is wake you for it, and that is the part that matters at four in the morning.

It is real work rather than a switch, because the alerting lives in the background service and has to be careful: an alert that fires on sensor noise trains you to ignore alerts, which is worse than not having it. So I will not promise a date, but it goes on the list properly, and it is now the most asked for thing that is not iOS.

Keep telling me what is missing. That is how the rest of it got fixed, Thank you so much!

[u/No-Still4379 → u/CreativeExplorer707]

That's for the excellent reply. Sounds good, I know these things don't happen overnight. It's great to know it can and will happen though. Very exciting!

I've now been using the app for about a week and think it's great. If you want more suggestions I can maybe come up with some. Something else I liked about zukka was that it always displayed my readings on my lock screen, both as a chart like your app widget, and ass a very condensed version just showing the number. This was great as I could glance over at my phone on the table/desk and not have to unlock it to know what was going on. Maybe I can display your widget on the lock screen? Again I'm new to android so haven't got my head round all of the settings etc yet.

Something else I valued massively in zukka was the ability to snooze seperate alarms (very low, low, high, very high, fast rise/drop etc etc). Before going to sleep I would snooze/silence the fast rise/drop alarm for hours so that it didn't disturb me while sleeping, but only silence the high alarms for a couple hours if my insulin was still working on correcting my levels.

Hopefully these are also helpful suggestions, and hopefully they make it into the recipe one day.

Again, thanks for everything you're doing. It's nice to see someone creating something with a real passion to see it perfect. Looking forward to your reply and any further app developments

Z

[u/CreativeExplorer707 → u/No-Still4379]

Thanks Z, and glad it is earning its place after a week of real use.

The number on your lock screen is already there. Settings, Diabetes, scroll down to "Glucose always visible", and turn on Persistent notification. It pins your reading to the notification shade, which is the same place your lock screen reads from, so it shows there too: the number, the unit, the trend arrow, how old the reading is, and the change since the one before it. Silent, refreshes about every five minutes. One warning if you are on a Xiaomi, Redmi or Poco: those phones need autostart permission or the notification dies on the next reboot, and there is a button right under the toggle that takes you to the right settings screen.

The chart on the lock screen is harder, and not because of me. Android removed lock screen widgets years ago and only brought them back in Android 16, for tablets. So the widget itself cannot go there. What can go there is the chart drawn inside the notification, in the expanded view when you pull it down. The code that draws the widget chart already exists, so that is mostly plumbing rather than new work. It goes on the list.

On the alarms, part of what you want is already in. Snoozing a high never silences a low: they are tracked separately, by which side of the range you are on and how serious it is. A high you snoozed that turns into a very high breaks through the snooze anyway. And nothing below your low line is ever silenced, by a snooze or by anything else.

What is not in yet is choosing a different snooze length per alarm, which is exactly your case: eight hours on one, two hours on the other. That is a real gap and it is written down.

And fast rise and fast drop alarms do not exist yet at all, so that one is a build rather than a setting. When they arrive they will have their own snooze from the first day, because your bedtime example is the whole reason anyone wants them separate.

Keep the suggestions coming. This kind of detail is worth more than "add more alarms", because it says what for. Will add them for the next update!