Rockbud

If crem has supernatural origins it aligns with cultivation nicely IMO.

This is a really unimaginative suggestion, but with all the abrasive forces acting on the debree inside highstorms, might crem just be pulverised rock that's picked up by the storms?

So, the suggestion of a similarity between AonDor and the parshendi songs might suggest that each of the different 'rythems' they attune to might be a way to access a shards power, like the varying shapes of Aons or the different metals in allomancy...

I always assumed great shells would be overtaken by void spren because of their gem hearts (somehow). Spren can be trapped inside them so it kind of makes sense that void spren could inhabbit the gem hearts.

Semi related note; do parshendi have gem hearts (maybe tiny ones that go in noticed? They care for their own dead after all). Could also be where they get the ones for their beards.

The part about Preservation's power keeping then alive sounds alot like the mangled Elantrians.

A question related to the Fjordel monks and geography: were their powers weakened from being away from Fjorden or is their magic not tied to the land?

This might have been explained somewhere, but wouldnt hitting the heart with a massive spike kill the recipient? There has to be a point where, even though we're talking magic systems, the heart can't work well enough for the person to survive.

So after a few hours here and there over the last few days, I've made an attempt at theming the widget:

(This looks a lot sharper on my phone :/)
 

I've hit a few walls and I feel this project needs a rebuild. It works well, but visually and functionally it's lacking. I tried to animate the icon while refreshing but that will need some more research, and without it it's unclear what the icon is for...

But for now I'm parking the project and will come back to it in a few weeks with a fresh mind set. It's been fun!

As ever let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!

(If there is interest I can post a link to my code on the off chance there are Android enthusiasts here)

@Erai thanks!

@navybrandt It does indeed update itself periodically. I've got it set to every hour at the moment and will make this adjustable in the settings.

The refresh button is there mostly to help me force the refresh while developing, although I did have an idea to replace the boring button with various different themed symbols (the KR double eye, Aons, Mistborn symbols etc) and have them glow when tapped and checking for updates. This would enhance your themes idea nicely I think!

Hi again 17th sharders!

It's been a busy couple of months since I started this project, but i've recently had time to do some work on the progress bars, and here they are very ugly having not been styled yet, but working none the less!

The next step is skinning it and making it look good over a number of sizes (most Android widgets allow the user to resize them).

I've also been thinking about how to send notifications when there's a new blog, and I have a few ideas i'll try including after the styling on the widget is done.

As always, feel free to ask any questions!

I like the idea

I don't suppose anyone has, or has a link to a post about, major historical events from different planets to see if any of them intersect?

History features heavily in Mistborn, Stormlight Archive and Warbreaker at least, and it would be interesting if any historical events were directly or indirectly linked!

Edit: an uninformed example - the return of Preservations power to the Well of Ascension and Roshar's desolations?

This might be even more tenuous, but off the top of my head I remember shardblades being described as being like flames or vines. Another link to the stances?

Maybe a particular stance is synagistic with a specific set of surgebinding skills? I only mean in the sense that they might be developed to work along side those powers and complement them when fighting.

Thanks for further feed back and info!

I'll keep going with my little project but if there's something more official in the works I'm sure that will be much better. I'll still post progress here for any who might be interested.

Any more details Peter? A mobile app could be awesome!

Thank you very much YoungBard and navybrandt for the feedback!

I agree that the information in the progress bars alone is fairly limited, and it does need something extra. There's a limiting factor which is the data unfortunately: I'd need an easily accessible and easy to process source, which I kind of have for the progress bars, but it might take some digging and luck for anything as good as blog post alerts etc. I'll have to think about this.

Any suggestions and/or questions are welcome.

Hi 17th sharders,

I've been professionally developing Android applications for almost two years and am constantly looking for little challenges/excuses for myself to try new things to broaden my skill set, and a few weeks ago I decided to try creating a widget for my phones home screen:

When ever I visit Brandon's site, I always without fail check out his "writing progress" status bars at the top of his site, and so have decided to attempt to build this as a something I can track on my phone at a glance, especially now I'll be hanging off every update to Stormlight 3!

I'm about halfway and it kinda looks ugly as hell (getting the functional stuff right before the ascetics), but I wanted to ask some questions here to Android users who might be interested in also having this on their phones:

1. Would anyone indeed want this?

2. If yes, would anyone consider testing this with me before its finished?

3. Does anyone know of any legal reason I can't make this publicly available, given its using publicly available data and its free to download and use?

I'm not out to make profit, no fee or ads etc, and I'm considering posting the source code publicly for others to learn/suggest improvements. This is purely a side project of a learning developer, and a Sanderson fan. If all goes to plan I should have something functional and testable by the end of this weekend coming.

Thanks for your time! Feel free to ask any questions too

Journey before destination.