reClock was a small experiment developed in collaboration with Graham Macphee, designed to be the minimalist clock widget that you actually have to read. Attention is in short supply and this often leads to a form of amnesia where you forget what you just read. reClock used random offsets to indicate the time in a format like “six until twelve twenty five” or “quarter past nine o’two.”

Although simple, reClock presented a challenge both in human psychology and efficient rasterization. At the time, JobScheduler was not available and the simplest (but less efficient) way to render a widget was to run a background service. reClock pre-rendered several updates for each minute until the countdown occurred, and called AppWidgetManager to cycle through renders.