Timer Update

So, I ended up using a chronometer for the timer, and so far, so good - it automatically counts without any complicated handlers or services exactly the way I wanted it to, and the text can be easily passed right into the history activity.  I did get it to persist on an orientation change (it would restart otherwise), but now it needs to persist (accurately) through screen lock and through the app being put in the background (like if the user hits the home button and does something else before returning to the app).  Right now it persists orientation change the same way the puzzle does - within the puzzleView.  Unfortunately, I think it might have to be moved into the activity instead for the other persistence issues, but that will come.

I also did a little UI change on the landscape orientation of the puzzle view.  I moved the difficulty and timer over above the buttons and allowed the puzzle grid itself to take up more space which makes it that much bigger in that view.  (It was a bit small before).  The grid is always square and measures itself by the smaller dimension (width or height) and draws according to that since it's different for portrait and landscape views.

So, before:

Before

And after (with the timer):

After

Now the big issue is expanding the timer persistence and tying in the completion times into a sorted list with difficulty to feed into the history.

Also fixed today was the puzzle generation in the activity's onCreate - activities run this method multiple times, so it was generating unnecessary puzzles when the orientation changed and other times it didn't need to be.  I moved where the puzzle was generating so it doesn't do that, and the orientation changes process much faster than it was.  The issue now is that it seems like it hangs when the puzzle is generated, so eventually a load spinner or some sort of loading item will be put in, but that isn't as high a priority as the rest of the timer.