Prayers Gadget is a sidebar gadget that displays Islamic prayer times, Qibla direction, Hijri calendar, and special Islamic events. Azan sound is played at each prayer time along with a customizable reminder before Azan.
The Gadget has an offline database of 2,000+ cities worldwide, and if an Internet connection is available at install time, the Gadget can automatically detect the user's location using a larger database of 290,000+ cities worldwide.
The prayer time calculator is highly configurable allowing for multiple calculation and fine tuning methods. The Gadget can also read a prepared prayer timetable from a CSV file. In addition, the prayer times are displayed in different views to suite everybody's taste: docked and undocked mode. The calendar can be switched between Hijri and Gregorian modes.
What's New in This Release:
· Automatic periodic tasbeeh
· Better prayer time calculation for the following countries: Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and ISNA countries
· More flexible calculation for Fajr and Isha prayers: using both angles and minutes
· Added the Union of Islamic Organisations of France method
· More cities added to the database
· Events now automatically overlap to next year
· Various under-the-hood performance improvements