Android Islamic Prayer Times Set up Guide

Posted by admin on Feb 26, 2012 in App Guide | 247 comments

Here, you will see detailed instructions how you can setup & configure Android Islamic Prayer Times App. Watch the video for interactive guide or you can read it below the video guide.

1. Lookup Location:

1. Automatic GPS
   This is recommended & preferred  way set your current location. It gives most accurate location information resulting in better prayer times calculation. But make sure, you have enable GPS & Location information enabled in your android phone settings.
2. Google Geocode
   This is the case when you have not GPS enabled phone or disabled the GPS/Location, so you just write your city & area text, and Islamic Prayer Times App will get the latitude and longitude from Google Maps.
3. Manual Lat/Long
   This is for expert and advance users. If you know exactly the latitude and longitude of your current position, then just input here,

2. Calculation Methods: 

Here are the methods which may you  can configure. “Muslim World League” is recommended for all users but you configure set according to your requirments.

Method	Abbr.	Region Used
Muslim World League	MWL	Europe, Far East, parts of US
Islamic Society of North America	ISNA	North America (US and Canada)
Egyptian General Authority of Survey	Egypt	Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Malaysia
Umm al-Qura University, Makkah	Makkah	Arabian Peninsula
University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi	Karachi	Pakistan, Afganistan, Bangladesh, India
Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran	Tehran	Iran, Some Shia communities
Shia Ithna Ashari, Leva Research Institute, Qum	Jafari	Some Shia communities worldwide

3. Juristic Method:

Standard	Shafii, Maliki, Jafari and Hanbali (shadow factor = 1)
Hanafi	Hanafi school of tought (shadow factor = 2)

4. Hijri Adjustment:

Use this setting to adjust your Gregorian date sync with Islamic date. You can plus and minus up to 2 days.

5. Time Format:

Time format to use, either 12 hour or 24 format, choose what you like most.

6. Time Zone:

Islamic Prayer Times will try to automatically pick your android phone’s time zone by default but you can change it if required. Simple write the time zone digit in the text field.

7. Daylight Saving:

Choose Yes or No depending upon daylight saving is ON or OFF in your Country.

8. Alarm Settings:

You can choose custom Athan sound file or can use default provided athan sound. For each prayer you are allowed to have athan + vibration.

9. Minute Adjustment

You are allowed to adjust each prayer time’s plug or minus the minutes if required.