Add timer option

[Snawe]

Your Request

It would be nice to have a timer popping up when you click on numbers. I used to have this in my old recipe app and I really miss it :/

Example:

• "Let it boil for 10 min"
• 10 min is a link which you can press and a timer pops up (maybe with the step number?)

Parse:
I guess we would need to have a parser for following use cases

• xmin => 5min
• x min => 5 min
• x-ymin => 5-6min
• x-y min => 5-6 min
• same with whole names (example "minutes")

The Current State

No response

Additional Context

No response

[phantomate]

Hi @Snawe, I like the idea. I try to implement this. But I can't promise that this will be in the next version

[phantomate]

@Snawe I did a research and I don't think I can implement this. On the one hand the timer would not work when the app is in standby and on the other hand on iOS it's not possible to trigger an alarm

[Snawe]

Ok, that is strange. Dunno about iOS, but on Android I am/was using another recipe app that does exactly that and the timer also continues when I switch off the screen. (actually something that I also wanted to suggest. To have a setting where the screen stays on forever^^ But thats a topic for another issue)

[phantomate]

@Snawe Do you have a screenshot from the timer? Maybe it's a package I could use.
Regarding the "screen stays on forever" it's already in the app. If you are on a recipe detail page you can active the lock at top right to keep your screen active

[Snawe]

Sure

And when I press the 12-15min this window pops up

[jonskoglund]

See the Pestle and Mela app on iOS for examples on how to do this. Pestle uses the live activities feature to display a timer on the lockscreen. Not sure if this works with Flutter though.

[wolflu05]

I think this feature is very interesting and helpful, I found this medium blog post showing how to implement live activities into a flutter app. Maybe that's somehow helpful for anyone.