Date Bar: Invocable Help Screen with Calendar Syntax (improvement / feature request)

[just-Nob]

General information

• App version: 0.5.10 (from F-Droid)
• Android Version: 7.1.1 Nougat

Expected result

What is expected? To get some information about the date bar's custom format.

What does happen instead? One have to guess the supported syntax & placeholder format by analyzing the prepopulated custom format fields. :( This may be a big disadvantage if one has changed this content and want to re-add some supported fields that are not present in the previous definition.

Steps to reproduce (desired behavior!)

• Open OpenLauncher's settigs.
• Navigate to "Desktop" --> "Date Bar"
• Enjoy the new entry "Custom Format Syntax Help" under "Custom Format: Line 2" :)
• Tap on "Custom Format Syntax Help" for opening a help screen/window and getting information about the syntax & supported placeholders. :) :)

[magicvince]

At first a documentation page in the wiki? I found some awome information on this page: https://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/SimpleDateFormat

If you want to insert strings in your format, open and close your string with a ' 'Welcome, we are' EEEE', 'MMMM', 'dd results in something like : Welcome, we are Thursday, May, 6

[radzy]

Maybe the help button should just open a browser to https://developer.android.com/reference/android/icu/text/SimpleDateFormat