Tigcal Apps and Projects in 2020

Tigcal Apps

I have made some little commits to the Tigcal Apps repository. I have also changed the app icon.

Sweldong Pinoy

A major release for the year is Sweldong Pinoy for Self-Employed Individuals. For 2021, Sweldong Pinoy was also updated to use the new contribution rates for SSS and PhilHealth. On supported browsers, a share button has been added to the web app for users to share their results. A live chat widget has also been added to the web apps for real-time user support.

Budget Pinoy

Budget Pinoy for Everyone: The web and Android app now has a dropdown for employment type. Users can select their employment type and the app will update the deductions and asking rate accordingly.

Thirteenth Month

The new Thirteenth Month app was released. Users can now input their salaries from January to December to compute their thirteenth month pay. If they have the same salary for the year, they can select "My salary is the same for the whole year" and provide the salary, starting/ending week/month like before. The text fields for the months will be automatically filled up.

GDGPH Chrome Extension

A new update to the Google Chrome Extension for Google Developer Group (GDG) Philippines (version 3.1) was released. This included the following: adding events tab to display events from the Meetup Page, updating GDG logo, updating links, and removing blog and video tabs.

GDG Philippines 4.0

After updating the GDGPH Chrome Extension, I spent some time updating the Android app. I migrated the code to Kotlin and used Retrofit, Coroutines, and ViewModel to fetch the events from the Meetup API. Other changes include the Dark Theme and updates to chapter links.

The events tab on a mobile phone: light theme (left) and dark theme (right)

Tigcal Apps and Projects in 2019

Tigcal Apps and Projects

The repository for Tigcal Apps has been open sourced on Github. Tigcal Apps has served as my sandbox project for learning and working on Material Design Components, AndroidX, Kotlin, Dark Theme, and more.

Sweldong Pinoy

There has been two major updates to Sweldong Pinoy this year. The SSS contribution was updated based from Republic Act No. 11199 (The Social Security Act of 2018). PhilHealth contribution was also updated based from the Universal Health Care Act (Republic Act No. 11223) and PhilHealth released Circular 2019-009. Other updates included design improvements and Dark Theme for the Android app.

Budget Pinoy

We have also released the new version of Budget Pinoy, which now has a web app at https://www.budgetpinoy.com other than the Android app.

Budget Pinoy is a tool for Filipinos in finding out how much their asking salary should be based on their budget. Users can input their budgets and specify if they are Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, or Annnually. These will be totalled and the app will show the user the asking rate they need to earn enough for their budget. The net pay and deductions are computed using Sweldong Pinoy.

Boto Ko

Boto Ko was also updated for the 2019 National and Local Elections in the Philippines. The candidates for senators and party list representatives have been added in a list so it will be easier to select. In the party-list selection, there is an additional button to view the party list's nominees.

Tigcal Samples, Tigcal Utils

I also added in my Tigcal Samples repository the Android projects I've worked with in the past few months and the Bill Calculator I removed from Tigcal Utils. A separate repository was also made for my Tigcal Utilities app.