Travel Expenses version 2.1

Version 2.1 of the Travel Expenses app is now out on Google Play.

The version 2.0 of Travel Expenses contained an error due to the parameters used when compiling the app. Please accept my apologies for letting the error get though the testing stage.

The version 2.1 has had this issue fixed.

Travel Expenses version 2.0

Version 2.0 of the Travel Expenses app is now out on Google Play.

This release includes the implementation of a new feature requested by a user.

The user may now select any third party app to use for the capture of images of bills and invoices. In order to set up the third party app, go to the setup screen, scroll down and click the select button on the "Image Capture" panel. To reset this configuration, and start using the default android camera, simply click the "Use default camera" button.

When on the expense details screen, with the Travel Expenses app configured to use a third party app, clicking the "Take receipt photo" will launch the third party app selected by the user.

Travel Expenses feature request.




A user of the Travel Expenses app recently made a feature request on this blog. This is what the user posted as a comment to version 1.9:

Travel Expenses 2.0 is currently in the analysis phase for how this feature can be implemented. Briefly explained this is how the feature will appear in the app:
The user will be able to select which "Android Activity" should handle the digital copy of the invoice or bill the user is registering.

This feature will most likely be available in April 2012.

The Travel Expenses application version 1.9 has been published on the Android Market.



This is a bug fix release.
If the user entered an invalid number in the amount dialog, by pressing the "Amount" button on the expense details screen, or if the user didn't enter a number and clicked "OK", the text on the amount button would not be a valid number. This made the app crash when saving the information to the database, because it was unable to determine the amount (parse error).

The Travel Expenses application version 1.8 has been published on the Android Market.



The new features which have been added to this version are the following

• Added a time field for the start and end of a trip respectively
• Enable to user to add a recurring expense (like breakfast, lunch, dinner etc.) to each day of a trip with a few simple clicks. For example, for a trip lasting five days, the user will be able to add a breakfast entry for each day by doing the following:
• Click the "Recurring" button on the trip details screen
• Selecting the expense type ( "Food" )
• Enter the number of items to add for each day ( in this case 1 )
• Enter the total number of items to add to the trip ( in this case 5 )
• Enter the date to start adding the items ( the date the trip starts )
• Entering the amount of the expense ( let's say 10.00 )
• Optionally entering a comment ( "Breakfast" )
• Clicking "OK"

The Travel Expenses application version 1.8 is currently in the testing phase. The release on the Android Market will likely be on or about December 11th.



The new features which have been added to this version are the following

• Added a time field for the start and end of a trip respectively
• Enable to user to add a recurring expense (like breakfast, lunch, dinner etc.) to each day of a trip with a few simple clicks. For example, for a trip lasting five days, the user will be able to add a breakfast entry for each day by doing the following:
• Click the "Recurring" button on the trip details screen
• Selecting the expense type ( "Food" )
• Enter the number of items to add for each day ( in this case 1 )
• Enter the total number of items to add to the trip ( in this case 5 )
• Enter the date to start adding the items ( the date the trip starts )
• Entering the amount of the expense ( let's say 10.00 )
• Optionally entering a comment ( "Breakfast" )
• Clicking "OK"

The Travel Expenses application version 1.7 has been published on the Android Market.




The key features which have been added to this version are:

• Export a single trip from the overview screen by long clicking it and selecting "Export"
• Added a new type of status for the trips: Ready to export
• When exporting any number of trips from the export screen, the user will be able to add page breaks between each trip.