AWAS: Prayer Times Calculator

AstafLab

About this app

AWAS calculates the five daily prayer times, and sunrise, from the position
of the Sun, on your phone, from the coordinates of the place you choose.
Sunrise is not a prayer: it ends the time of Fajr. Every time is computed
rather than looked up in a table, so any place and any convention gives an
answer.

The convention is yours. Thirteen published ones ship with it, you can write
your own, and every prayer takes a correction in whole minutes, so a mosque
can set AWAS to its own coordinates and its own practice, and read back the
timetable it announces.

None of that needs a network. There is no server behind it, no account to
make, and no advertising. The app does not declare the internet permission at
all, so it could not send your information anywhere.

WHAT IT DOES

• Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha, with a live countdown to the
next one, laid out by the Gregorian or the Hijri day, Maghrib to Asr

• A full month at a time, in either calendar, in a timetable you page
through

• The Hijri date by the rule you follow: Umm al-Qura, a forecast of the
Moroccan or Algerian announcement, your own sky, or the Istanbul 2016
calendar the Diyanet and the CFCM follow

• The daily voluntary prayers of one school at a time, on a clock of their
own

• The qibla: a compass to the Kaaba from the place you chose, not from where
the phone is, with the bearing, the distance and your heading, and a
warning when metal nearby makes it unreliable

• Thirteen published calculation conventions, including Muslim World League,
Umm al-Qura, ISNA, Karachi, Diyanet with its precautionary minutes,
Musulmans de France, the Habous Ministry of Morocco, and the Ministry of
Religious Affairs of Algeria

• Both Asr schools: standard (Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali) and Hanafi

• As many places as you like, each with its own method, corrections and
calendar

• 12,366 towns to pick from, or type coordinates by hand

• Private notes against any date, kept on the device, never backed up

• Alerts at each prayer, and an optional reminder up to 30 minutes before

• English, French and Arabic, following your device until you choose

• Light and dark

THE DAILY VOLUNTARY PRAYERS

A section of its own sets out the daily nawafil for one school at a time:
Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i or Hanbali. Nothing is chosen for you. The first
visit asks which school to show, and you can change it at any time.

Each prayer is drawn on a 24-hour clock and listed with its degree in that
school's own terms, its rak'ah, and how they are grouped into prayers. An
outer ring carries the times in which ordinary voluntary prayer is
prohibited or discouraged, and the rows name the exceptions.

It reports what the schools hold, rules on nothing, and does not follow
what you have prayed.

ALERTS ON YOUR TERMS

A prayer alert arrives the way you choose: a silent mark in the
notification shade, a vibration, the device's own notification sound, or
the adhan in your own recording, with a second one for Fajr if you
like. Sound and adhan both follow the ringer: a phone set to silent
stays silent, and the alert offers a tap to hear the adhan anyway.

HONEST ABOUT THE HARD DAYS

Countries do not begin a Hijri month on the same day, and no calculation
knows what a commission will announce. If an announcement differs, move the
date up to two days either way, and it stays moved.

Above roughly 48° of latitude there are dates when the Sun never reaches the
angle a convention asks for. AWAS then shows a dash for that prayer alone
and says why, rather than inventing a time, and keeps the others and their
alerts. A convention with a shallower angle will usually reach.

WHAT IT KEEPS, AND WHERE

Your places, your conventions, your corrections and your notes are files on
your phone. Uninstalling deletes them. Android's own backup carries the first
three to a new phone if you use it; your notes are deliberately held back
from it, so what you write stays on the device you wrote it on.

What’s new

• New: when a newer version of AWAS is out, Google Play's own window offers it, at most once every three days. The update downloads while you keep using the app, and a Restart button installs it. The window first appears with the version after this one.
• AWAS still has no internet permission: the Play Store app on your phone checks for the update and downloads it.