I needed a tip calculator back in 2014, so I wrote one.
I always round my tips, and when I dine out with a friend, I email them reminders that I owe them money or vice versa. I was looking for a tip calculator that could do both, but there wasn't any. Plus, most tip calculators out there have a lot of features that I don't need.
So I decided to make one. Or two in fact – I've made an iOS version and an Android version, because I happen to know programming on both platforms.
This (now archived) repo contains the open source version of the project. The repo only provides placeholder app icons.
- Calculate tip at three most common rates in the United States: 15%, 18%, and 20%.
- Always give you a rounded total.
- Send email reminder with pre-populated subject lines.
When Round & Split rounds the total for you, the rounding can go up or down. Which direction it goes depends on the effective rate of the tip. The rate that is closest to your chosen rate wins.
For example, if the charged amount is $37.14, and you want to tip at 18%, the tip would be $6.69 (37.14 × 18% = 6.69) and the total $43.83, which is a bit unwieldy for a total. If we round the total down to $43.00, the tip becomes $5.86, which translate to an effective rate of 15.8% (5.86/37.14 = 0.158). On the other hand, if we round it up to $44.00, the tip becomes $6.86, and the effective rate 18.5% (6.86/37.14 = 0.185). 18.5% is closer to 18%, and so we use $6.86 as the tip and $44.00 as the total. The point is that I want neither overtipping nor undertipping too much.
Make sure you have the latest version of Xcode installed. At the time of writing, that is Xcode 8.3.2 running on macOS 10.12.4 or higher.
To build Round & Split from source code, follow the steps below:
- Run
./setup.shin your cloned repo directory. This fetches the Fira Sans fonts used by the app. - In
./iOS/RoundAndSplit, openRoundAndSplit.xcodeprojwith Xcode. - Use Product > Build.
This allows you to run the app in an iOS Simulator. To upload the built app to your iOS device, you need to be a member of Apple's iOS Developer Program.
Make sure you have the latest Android Studio installed and $ANDROID_HOME
properly set. Once you have cloned the repo, go to ./Android/RoundAndSplit
and run:
./gradlew clean build
The build .apk file will be at:
./Android/RoundAndSplit/app/build/outputs/apk/app-debug.apk
Then you can just upload the app to your connected device with:
adb install -r app-debug.apk
This, of course, assumes you have enabled the developer mode on your Android device.
I haven't tried this on Linux or Windows. On Windows you may have to use
gradlew.bat to build the app.
User interface designed by the Smoking Hare.
The iOS version of this app uses the Fira Sans typeface from Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/Fira.
The source code is released under the MIT License (MIT).
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