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It would be awesome if there was an application to use the MBW-150 bluetooth watch on the G1. Is anyone developing one?
-Tyler
I'll bite. I'd buy one if I didn't have to use a sony ericson phone to use it.
[IDEA]A new contact app(2 preview screenshots)
Does anybody think the built-in contact app is not easy to use?
I'm working on a new contact app called aContact which provides a new UI to access to contact data and some more features.
So,anybody has any idea about this new app or found the disadvantages of the built-in contact app??
THANKS
I will post the scrrenshots after I finished the first version.
Thanks again for your advices!
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There are two screenshots.Any advice?
The best contact manager I've used was the one built into SPB Mobile Shell for Winmo.
thefoss said:
The best contact manager I've used was the one built into SPB Mobile Shell for Winmo.
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OK.I'm now using the htc touch diamond.I will try SPB Mobile Shell.
Thanks for your advice
nice idea even though i dont mind the g1's contact app i know it can be better.
some things i think you should add:
-ability to view contacts in groups or categories
- if possible assign ringtones to group
- have the number/letter show up when scrolling like the icontact for wm
- integrate it so that when someone send you a number you can long press and add number to you contact manager or you can make it retrieve contacts through google.
- have birthday
haitiankid4lyf said:
nice idea even though i dont mind the g1's contact app i know it can be better.
some things i think you should add:
-ability to view contacts in groups or categories
- if possible assign ringtones to group
- have the number/letter show up when scrolling like the icontact for wm
- integrate it so that when someone send you a number you can long press and add number to you contact manager or you can make it retrieve contacts through google.
- have birthday
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Yes!I am strongly agree with you!
The built-in contact has no birthday records!
BTW,I think iContact is a nice app on WM.
[REQ] Android App Ideas
hello android users,
I am a developer on the windows mobile side of things (see the M2DC thread for an example of my work) and I am thinking I might like to move over to developing for android.
I have a few problems, first, I don't have a device, this is not a huge deal at the moment because I can just use the SDK emulator for now, but I will be purchasing a device later on if I like developing for this platform. The second problem is that I need help with ideas for some simple apps... since I do not have a G1 to handle on a daily basis I don't really get the chance to feel things out and discover where an app might come in useful.
So my request is this. Does anyone have any ideas for "simple" android applications? Anything they wish the phone did better? Or a simple functionality that they wish the phone had? Reading through this forum it looks like there is a demand for OCR and possibly something to make applying new themes/skins easier? Or the TextTwist Game?
Of these 3 the game sounds the most interesting, the theme changer sounds good too because that is what my current development in windows mobile does, and the OCR is most likely out of my league at the moment.
I am open to any app ideas, I'm just looking for something to get me started and get me interested in the platform.
A few apps i would like to see as follows
1. A reboot option in shut down menu "if possible".
2. Digital Clock for homescreen
3. Screen Capture
4. Camera Zoom option
5. Checkers
Hope this helps a bit, good luck!
An application that kills tasks running in the background (although most folks say it's not possible right now), video recorder, night mode for camera, or Sirius/XM internet streamer similar to SiriusWM5 (I'm not sure that one is possible at the moment either...). Of course, you could create widgets (something more simple) but the source code won't be available to next year allegedly.
- Office suite (word and excel file editor)
- Youtube downloader from phone (like iphone mxtube)
- Super Mario Chronicles !!!!!
- FlightGear portable
- compiz fusion !! (not important but just tto test phone power to my friend that have an Iphone)
- More widget
haitiankid4lyf said:
nice idea even though i dont mind the g1's contact app i know it can be better.
some things i think you should add:
-ability to view contacts in groups or categories
- if possible assign ringtones to group
- have the number/letter show up when scrolling like the icontact for wm
- integrate it so that when someone send you a number you can long press and add number to you contact manager or you can make it retrieve contacts through google.
- have birthday
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You can view contacts in groups - Contacts - Menu - Display Group (created on GMAIL page).
Ringtones to groups would be nice, but for now you may just display a group and assign them all a ringtone
The long press to dial/save numbers in SMS has been addressed and should be in the final version of Android 1.0.
A birthday? Ehrmm.... Would personally prefer that to stay where it is (in my calendar).
I would like it to integrate the Dialer and searching for contacts, so i can just start typing a name or a number and it would show me the matching contacts. (I think SpellDial does this but is not very robust).
Thanks
Need view sort by last name, company, etc.
jhales said:
Need view sort by last name, company, etc.
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OK.I'm working on this.
ye11ow said:
OK.I'm working on this.
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This is tougher because the gmail contacts (web) only has one field for the name...
--M
Thank you very much for the input guys, I really appreciate it. These lists are definitely getting the creative juices flowing... I will see what I can put together.
If possible I will open source the beta version of my first program and post the beta packages here on xda for everyone to use without charge... I am still learning the whole process so we will see what happens in the end
Thank you for the suggestions, and I am still open to hearing more
I guess "simple" is also relative to your level of proficiency in Java and mobile development. As far as holes in the shipped operating system that could use fixing, there are many points to attack. Some could be done in the JVM, others would have to be done in native c. Examples include:
An office suite
Video recording
Touchscreen text input (API will expose this in 09Q1)
A simple but high-quality word or puzzle game would be great tho.
Edit: welcome aboard the Android side too ;-)
jashsu said:
I guess "simple" is also relative to your level of proficiency in Java and mobile development. As far as holes in the shipped operating system that could use fixing, there are many points to attack. Some could be done in the JVM, others would have to be done in native c. Examples include:
An office suite
Video recording
Touchscreen text input (API will expose this in 09Q1)
A simple but high-quality word or puzzle game would be great tho.
Edit: welcome aboard the Android side too ;-)
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I agree with you 100%, the system stuff sounds good, but of the posted ideas and from what I have seen there is a small demand for "simple" games, and this is the direction I plan on going initially, games are fun to make and they should give me a decent overview of what is involved in throwing together an app.
As far as my java proficiency... I can definitely get by. I have a few websites that rely completely on the google web toolkit, and my bachelors degree was typical of an early 2008 CS curriculum, 2 years of java to learn what OO programming is, and then 2 years of C to learn about the fun stuff (pointers, threads, compilers, OS's, etc...). but like I said before I am just looking to make a traditional application, and I think that it is going to end up being a game of some sort,
I don't have a device yet, if I get one it would be pretty much a development only device, so I am trying to get my feet wet with an app or 2 before I decide to get one. I did manage to get a few minutes with a G1 today and I must say that the device feels so much better than my Titan, that capacitive touchscreen is awesome.
Once I get something going I will startup a new project on google code so I can take advantage of the free svn server and start posting my progress
fun stuff (pointers
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I have to admit that might be the first time i've seen the word "fun" and "pointers" so close together ;-)
I did manage to get a few minutes with a G1 today and I must say that the device feels so much better than my Titan, that capacitive touchscreen is awesome.
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Capacitive touch screens feel great and and quite responsive but they do have their caveats too. The main one is that accuracy of input is lower than with a stylus. You'll have to keep that in mind when you design the UI. You can scale the size of the emulator on screen to match an actual G1's physical screen size (emulated pixels might be mangled though).
Once I get something going I will startup a new project on google code so I can take advantage of the free svn server and start posting my progress
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Looking forward to it There are some specific android development communities you can check out too for more relevant talk on android java programming. anddev.org I think is a popular site.
Hello everyone. I recently got a new AT&T Tilt (Kaiser) loaded with Windows 6.1 and their new Voice Command app. For those unfamiliar with Voice Command, it doesn't require voice tags like Cyberon's app...it uses some sort of sophisticated software engine to determine the sound of names based on their spelling.
That works fine until you have some folks with names that don't sound like they're spelled. I did some research (here and elsewhere), and I found one work-around that suggests using the nickname field to hold a "Soundalike" entry...Voice Command's search function would then pick that contact up.
It works fairly well...however, when I pull up a contact, the nickname is shown along with the real name in quotes (Firstname "Misspelled-Soundalike" Lastname). I hate that. Is there any sort of registry tweak to prevent the nickname from being displayed while viewing the contact?
THANKS!
...still no takers? The only reason I posted here was because I couldn't find it anywhere else (Google, this forum, etc)...don't tell me the brilliant minds who frequent this forum are all gone! ;-D
Hello All,
I have two small App Idea's that I want to implement on the Windows Phone 8 platform. The problem is I'm a little unsure where to start for resources.
The issue however is that for all the Dev resources MS has given us, they mostly start at weird points and has no or little impact on where I want to, or figured one should start. So stuff like, setting up a DB, or Using an Azure Server etc.
If not that, most other help I've found have been off point starting as well. XDA's own vids start off with OAuth etc, which are all great, but I'm not even near there yet for what I want to do.
Most other guides, like even MS's own recent JumpStart videos all hop and skip over certain things. So you're following along (Or I'm trying to) and they jump forward, skip tasks and pull out pre-done code so I assume I need different foundation before I can jump in at their stage.
So, I have my idea of what I want to do, buttons, calculator, lists. But I don't know how to start from some basic things. And I am a little reluctant to jump in to what they have for WP7 cuz I don't want to use anything that's been deprecated.
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
Check out LinkedIn. I started a group a long time ago for Windows Phone developers and enthusiasts. It's filled with programmers, Microsoft people, and there's lots of good references and people to ask.
McHale said:
Check out LinkedIn. I started a group a long time ago for Windows Phone developers and enthusiasts. It's filled with programmers, Microsoft people, and there's lots of good references and people to ask.
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Thanks for the reply, any specific link to this LinkedIn... I gotta admit, I never thought of LinkedIn as a place for help in this kind of thing...
As an update though, I already have started on the app I had in mind and now have some specific "How-do-I" questions, but undure where to post these. Thanks again however.
Here's the group. There are some pretty active members who are programmers.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=124767
-Mc
As weird as it may sound: I would suggest you get a beginners book on programming C# on the Desktop. That way you should learn to program from the ground up and get a solid foundation on how the language works (classes, properties, attributes, events, etc.)
Everything else later on is different libraries you will use. That is what most of the introductory videos are about. They show you which classes you use for certain functionality, how you properly wire everything up so it works together.
When you have the basics of how C# works (and most current programming languages like Java but also Objective-C or C++ share the same concepts although there are differences) the best way would be to start with a small project and ask questions when you get stuck or first have a look at StackOverflow if the same question has already been asked and answered.
Teaching someone how to program from the ground up in a forum only rarely works in my experience. But the previous poster might have had different experiences.
Hi everyone,
I've created a translation tool. It's written in Java for Servlet Spec 3.0, and uses OpenID for authentication. Currently i've only implemented a PostgreSQL back-end but it can easily support MySQL or even AppEngine.
If anyone is interested, i'll open-source it so you can host it yourself.
You can try it out, by helping me translate my app Timesheet: :laugh:
https://llamalab.com/timesheet/translation/
Please leave any feedback about the tool here.
ballzak said:
Hi everyone,
I've created a translation tool. It's written in Java for Servlet Spec 3.0, and uses OpenID for authentication. Currently i've only implemented a PostgreSQL back-end but it can easily support MySQL or even AppEngine.
If anyone is interested, i'll open-source it so you can host it yourself.
You can try it out, by helping me translate my app Timesheet: :laugh:
https://llamalab.com/timesheet/translation/
Please leave any feedback about the tool here.
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Wow, I just started to use this translator and I am really surprised, all thumbs up! :good::good:
It's easy to use and very fast switching to next translation string. It's very pleasing. And I am very happy, you'll open source this piece of software, great. Is it possible that you host other translation projects or is this intended as a demonstration? However, thanks for that, I really like
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Where is the source available or will be? Would frankly put this tool in first post for the developers. Also, if you need further tests for your timesheet app, go ahead to App Tester Index.
benkxda said:
Wow, I just started to use this translator and I am really surprised, all thumbs up! :good::good:
It's easy to use and very fast switching to next translation string. It's very pleasing. And I am very happy, you'll open source this piece of software, great. Is it possible that you host other translation projects or is this intended as a demonstration? However, thanks for that, I really like
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Where is the source available or will be? Would frankly put this tool in first post for the developers. Also, if you need further tests for your timesheet app, go ahead to App Tester Index.
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I made it for the translation of my own app. But if others would like to use the tool, i'll open-source it. I just made the tool public so i'd like some usage feedback, bug squashing, before i'll post the source on github or alike.
It's not a cloud service. If you got a server running a Java Servlet container like Tomcat with a PostgreSQL database, you'll be able to host it yourself as is. If you use MySQL we'll maybe have to change some sql statement first.
gaich said:
I would prefer I can edit or delete my translations.
I have made an error and it cannot be deleted. So I make another translation, the right one, but when I return to this line, I see the first one, with error, is still present and is above the right one, I tried to rate the wrong one down and the right one viceversa, it doesn`t work. Does it mean the wrong translation can be merged?
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Fixed the bug that prevented you from down-rating a translation alternative. As for deleting. Tricky to implement, don't want users to delete an established alternative that may have gotten votes. Maybe allow the person who submitted it to only remove it for a certain time?
As it is now, only the administrator can "approve" an translation alternative, which is then exported. I was thinking the administrator would go through the translations and approve the highest rated translation. But it may be better if i'll add an "approver" user role so that a trusted contributor, like yourself , can approve a certain language translations?
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And in the summary section of each xml I`d like to see two more columns, right to the NAME, maybe, a column with the original text and to the right of TRANSLATED - a column with the translated text. Let them be abbreviated to save space, but it will be very useful to search through the text, return to the strings I want to correct etc. It is hard to search through codes indicated in NAMES...
Or, instead of this, it would be great to have a separate page with a table where I can see just the original text on one side and the translation on the other - so i could have the whole translation to correct in context, because now I can forget which Russian term I assigned to "Mileage", for example in the first lines of the translation and I can translate it with different word at the end. And when I can see the whole translation, I can easily correct it. Right now I have to search through the codes and even corrected I am not sure the wrong translation will be dismissed or included, as I said earlier.
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Sounds reasonable. I'll see what i can do.
gaich said:
By the way, Russian is done, just these things above should be taken into account.
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Wow, thanks! Your a super-hero. :good:
ballzak said:
Fixed the bug that prevented you from down-rating a translation alternative. As for deleting. Tricky to implement, don't want users to delete an established alternative that may have gotten votes. Maybe allow the person who submitted it to only remove it for a certain time?
As it is now, only the administrator can "approve" an translation alternative, which is then exported. I was thinking the administrator would go through the translations and approve the highest rated translation. But it may be better if i'll add an "approver" user role so that a trusted contributor, like yourself , can approve a certain language translations?
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Of course, people shouldn`t delete other user`s translations! I am talking about only one who submitted it could delete and edit it.
For example - you just put your hand an keyboard occasionaly and typed something like fagerwtywrjkoivthi genk;xcnF and submitted it ocasionaly too, and there will be found many "experienced" users to vote and rank this translation, as a result, it will appear in the app when it is released.
It is true, sometimes I read translations on crowding and cannot downrate the incorrect ones because there are more than 1 vote for it!
It`s easier, when you`re proofreader or, as you say, approver, such person is necessary, it has the rights to edit, delete and approve all translations for this language. It makes the unique style for the app - because it isn`t always good if there are many translators - they could use different terms and expressions and all will be rated by the third user... As a result the app user will be confused with different meanings of the same word.
I am proofreader for some crowding projects, so I am sure these translations will be good for the user. Not sure other will.
So if you will make such kind of person and grant him such kind or rights, I will be glad to help you with Russian!:laugh:
P.S.-I still cannot downrate the incorrect translations.
P.P.S.S. even if I sign in with other account.
gaich said:
Of course, people shouldn`t delete other user`s translations! I am talking about only one who submitted it could delete and edit it.
For example - you just put your hand an keyboard occasionaly and typed something like fagerwtywrjkoivthi genk;xcnF and submitted it ocasionaly too, and there will be found many "experienced" users to vote and rank this translation, as a result, it will appear in the app when it is released.
It is true, sometimes I read translations on crowding and cannot downrate the incorrect ones because there are more than 1 vote for it!
It`s easier, when you`re proofreader or, as you say, approver, such person is necessary, it has the rights to edit, delete and approve all translations for this language. It makes the unique style for the app - because it isn`t always good if there are many translators - they could use different terms and expressions and all will be rated by the third user... As a result the app user will be confused with different meanings of the same word.
I am proofreader for some crowding projects, so I am sure these translations will be good for the user. Not sure other will.
So if you will make such kind of person and grant him such kind or rights, I will be glad to help you with Russian!:laugh:
P.S.-I still cannot downrate the incorrect translations.
P.P.S.S. even if I sign in with other account.
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I've implemented "contributors" and given you "approver" status for Russian. You should be able to down-rate. The translation alternatives are sorted by "rating", you just didn't see the current rating number. Only the admin and approver can see that, so now you should see it.
Wow I just tried your translation tool and I am impressed!
Any news about open sourcing it?
iapps said:
Wow I just tried your translation tool and I am impressed!
Any news about open sourcing it?
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The front-end for the participating translator is pretty complete. But i've not had the time to fix the developer side ui, for adding and updating the strings to be translated. It's a hazzle to use, and until i fix that it's not ready for release.
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The front-end for the participating translator is pretty complete. But i've not had the time to fix the developer side ui, for adding and updating the strings to be translated. It's a hazzle to use, and until i fix that it's not ready for release.
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OK! If/When it's ready I will be interested in hosting a copy on app engine so that anyone can use! :good:
Hello everyone,
For my senior project of an English class, I have decided to make a very basic app to accompany a website which a previous student created. I want it to be basic but the issue I am having is that I do not understand how to make it so that a person clicks on a button, and it takes them to that url of the website (basically webview in a fullscreen activity for each of the buttons in the tab). I have managed to get a version of this working with the master/detail flow activity but I cannot translate it to work with the navigation drawer activity. I am willing to pay for assistance as I understand everyone has their own lives. I am learning all of this as I go so I do not have a background in this, however, I am very interested in this project and I do not want anyone to just do the work for me. I would just like someone I could ask an occasional question when in need. Thank you for reading.
- Laura