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Ned Fox

About this app

If button lights don't turn off, try:
1) Turning your phone's automatic brightness on or off
2) Tap to dim screen, then turn screen off and then on (using the button on your phone)

To find the settings menu on S5, just hold in the multitasking key (left soft key at bottom of phone).

This version turns off button backlights for most, but not all, phones. In particular, some new KitKat (Android 4.4) phones do not allow apps to turn off button backlights. If it doesn't work (with the tips above), just uninstall for a refund. Some phones disable my ability to turn the lights off, and unfortunately there's nothing I can do about that.

If the background is a gradient instead of just black, you need to: turn off "Force GPU rendering" in your phone's "Developer"
settings.

If you have a problem, email me!

This is a simple, retro-style night clock. It will display the time in big, bold letters (three fonts and any color to choose from), along with having a built-in alarm (or you can use your stock android alarm, it it's supported). Since the screen will stay on while the application is open (unless you manually turn it off), it is highly recommended that you keep your phone plugged in to charge otherwise it will drain the battery.

Some features include:
-Silence notifications
-Tap to dim screen to lowest possible setting
-Launches when put into the multimedia dock (also has flipped mode for use without a dock)
-Font and color settings (when choosing text color, drag your finger away from the center to change transparency)
-Built in alarm (or use stock Android alarm, if your phone supports it)
-Show next alarm on clock screen

Ratings and reviews

One of my favorite apps for about 10 years! - this has always delivered the most important basic clock (to be dark, and large like an alarm clock) and alarm needs (to work), on both my wife's phones and mine, generation after generation!! - tried many others just in case but have always come back, THANK YOU NIGHT CLOCK (NED FOX)!

My original review below ... Unfortunately, since Android 10 came along, this app no longer works as well. There is no way to get at the settings for changing the clock display colour or alarm. On an older version of Android, this is an excellent app, but unfortunately, on Android 10, it's pretty-much useless. Have to drop it from 5 to 1 star. [Orig. review on my old phone is below] This app works so well that I bought the paid for version just to support the developer. I use this alarm clock when I travel with my Samsung Note 3 and it has never let me down! I did not need to buy this because the free version works so well and does not nag you. That's part of why I wanted to buy this. Developers who write such excellent apps that work so well, like this one, deserve to get paid. This is an alarm clock and it works beautifully and has some nice customization options too. I recommend it.

Very useful. Large simple display. Just touch screen to switch from bright to dim. ... Suddenly got a large lighted area around the time display, not so good for sleeping. So I messed with settings & that went away. I think it was setting system font to be "bright" that caused the problem. ... App still works great (Google Play says it's not compatible with my Samsung S22 Ultra. 😁.) ... I use my Clock app for alarms. Some wish for lots of settings but the lack of settings keeps this simple.

What’s new

-Made it so buttons disappear on Ice Cream Sandwich devices
-Added ability to move app to SD card
-Fixed alarm bug in v2.42