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Idea on apps?

I've been laid off for about 6 months now and I've still been pretty busy with school work but my finals for summer are over next week and I'm already getting pretty bored at the house all day.
I'm a pretty good programmer and I've been thinking about developing some apps in my spare time to ease the bordum. Only problem is that I'm not very creative at all. So I was wondering if anybody had ideas on applications they would use or maybe even buy if were available?
Thanks!

If possible...
A Twittertab was requested on this forum.

Ahh a twitter tab built into manilla would actually be pretty cool.

Here you go...
Take a look at SRS WOW HD, emulate it and make something like it that will work with MS Voice Commander and Manila....
It is the one app that really makes a big difference to the way the device sounds when listening to music and is very good.
It now conflicts with Voice Command somehow and worse yet, makes your phone not wake up from standby.
That would be a worthy pursuit.....
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Jabberoo

or maybe an app that changes your homescreen wallpaper maybe every hour or every day to some random wallpaper you have on your phone..

there you go, mate, tons and tons to keep you busy - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=454386

or use the new capabilities of the TP2 to make emulators for other platforms

jabberoo said:
Here you go...
Take a look at SRS WOW HD, emulate it and make something like it that will work with MS Voice Commander and Manila....
It is the one app that really makes a big difference to the way the device sounds when listening to music and is very good.
It now conflicts with Voice Command somehow and worse yet, makes your phone not wake up from standby.
That would be a worthy pursuit.....
Cheers
Jabberoo
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I completely second that! Audio Booster cannot be compared with SRS WOW HD because SRS is waaaay better!

Id like to have some sort of twitter tab/decent app

A great FB app. Currently the ones we have now is pretty weak compared to the ones on BB/iPhone

Yeah I agree, Facebook & Twitter tabs in TF would be great (MS Facebook is rubbish)

I'll get started on a twitter tab come August 12th when I get my TP2

An ebay app that allows you to add watch list ending times as calendar reminders, and to be able to bid would be good. Oh and a decent Football app.

vapor said:
A great FB app. Currently the ones we have now is pretty weak compared to the ones on BB/iPhone
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Sounds like a good one to me, FB chat is VERY useful.. ...

A working Ventrilo client for Windows Mobile.
Now there has been a program called Centrilo that worked with pre 3.x ventrilo servers and it was golden. Now that they updated the servers the person who made them became tired of the project and released the source code even for the Centrilo app he made.
Just google up Download Centrilo for Windows Mobile you should find it
URL to developers project and source:
http://www.g3gg0.de/wordpress/projects/centrilo

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4257438#post4257438

Music interruption?

Has anybody run into issues with audio cutting off while multitasking? I'm listening to music and refresh Twitter and the music playing breaks for a second. It seems as if playing music uses a lot of resources and that creates the interruption.
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Thats because the twitter refresh plays a sound. The music breaks for a moment to play the notification.

Yea thats not an issue, it does that on my G2.

JRG1392 said:
Yea thats not an issue, it does that on my G2.
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Well, it IS an issue, in my opinion, and the opinion of many pthers. The behavior is common across many Android versions, though. There's a substantial number of complaints about this in the Google help/bug report site.
I encourage anyone that is bothered by this to go STAR this issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5012
Don't add frivolous "me too" comments when starring, an email is sent to everyone who has starred an issue and some people un-star an issue because they're sick of stupid emails flooding their box.
The iPhone does it much better. When music is playing and a notification tone plays, the music volume decreases a bit while the alert sound is played, but it is not interrupted. With Android it stops. It's very annoying, to me, and one of the few things I don't like about any of my 5 different Androids.

I don't even think it should lower the volume of your music -_-.
Time to take Nexus S source and fix this ... at some point

Starred it. Oddly my Nexus One doesn't do it. I wonder if it's because I'm running cm6.1 on it.
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Memnoch30 said:
Starred it. Oddly my Nexus One doesn't do it. I wonder if it's because I'm running cm6.1 on it.
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Yes, Cyanogen seems to have fixed it, though it was fixed, not fixed, fixed a few times as I recall.
Mind boggling that Google doesn't.

if you put your phone on vibrate then it won't skip. you shouldn't need to hear the notification sound anyways if you're listening to music.
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Very strange. My nexus one just lowers the music volume while the alert plays too. Using cyanogen 6.1 but they also added in these extra audio options, so that's prob why it works right.

jaker.the.skater said:
if you put your phone on vibrate then it won't skip. you shouldn't need to hear the notification sound anyways if you're listening to music.
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LOL, thank you for telling the rest of us what we should and shouldn't need to hear while listening to music.
RogerPodacter said:
Very strange. My nexus one just lowers the music volume while the alert plays too. Using cyanogen 6.1 but they also added in these extra audio options, so that's prob why it works right.
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Didn't I say that just two posts above?
The fact that it can be fixed by 3rd party ROM devs shows it's a Google "bug" or "design feature" that they've chosen not to address in the last year. If it's a design feature, it doesn't make sense to most people; if it's a bug, considering how much Google "borrows" ideas from the 3rd party people in its later Android builds, the fix could easily be copied from CM.

Yeah especially since standard email notifications don't do it. It lowers the volume to play them. I'd rather have it like keyboard presses, those still play normally.
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distortedloop said:
LOL, thank you for telling the rest of us what we should and shouldn't need to hear while listening to music.
Didn't I say that just two posts above?
The fact that it can be fixed by 3rd party ROM devs shows it's a Google "bug" or "design feature" that they've chosen not to address in the last year. If it's a design feature, it doesn't make sense to most people; if it's a bug, considering how much Google "borrows" ideas from the 3rd party people in its later Android builds, the fix could easily be copied from CM.
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Heh yeah I read your post which is why I wrote that I see the same thing to just confirm it to everyone that it could be fixed with software update.

Send an email to twitter and tell them to a) add an option for refresh sound b) change their sound method to notification instead of media c) remove that stupid refresh sound altogether.

[REQ]Long press volume skips tracks

Is there a way to get this fetaure on our Galaxy S'es? Missing it since I changed to regular headphones with no answer button.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257260
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/blob/gingerbread/CHANGELOG.mkdn

Double-tapping the headset button (or actually one press that can be long followed quickly by a tap) skips tracks in the stock music player.

haloimplant said:
Double-tapping the headset button (or actually one press that can be long followed quickly by a tap) skips tracks in the stock music player.
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Hard to do when you don't have the button, this also doesn't prevent that feature

Insanity cm has that feature.

Wesku said:
Insanity cm has that feature.
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That's a stock Cyanogenmod feature and insanity is based on CM, not Samsung

Use CM7...?

upichie said:
Use CM7...?
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How does this have something to do with getting this feature to Samsung ROM's...? CM7 has horrible battery life, the camera application is worse than Samsung and no working video player.

I ve been working on it but failed , I didnt spend lots of time on this , seeing there was not much interest I gave up ..
If more then one person is interest in that I can port this and add to my rom , just let me know .

Searching for this too

Lartza said:
Is there a way to get this fetaure on our Galaxy S'es? Missing it since I changed to regular headphones with no answer button.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257260
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/blob/gingerbread/CHANGELOG.mkdn
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Order this, it's from Samsung and supposed to be awesome (ordered mine 2 days ago): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13852671&postcount=2308 , then just use whatever headset you got:]

Lartza said:
How does this have something to do with getting this feature to Samsung ROM's...? CM7 has horrible battery life, the camera application is worse than Samsung and no working video player.
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You didn't say anything about Samsung, you asked how to get it on our Galaxy S's. I have it on mine, so I figured you missed the obvious. =)
I also get a solid 14 hours with 4-5 hours of the screen being on running CM7; I have absolutely no issue playing videos using any of the many players I've tried; and it takes perfectly fine photos for me too, since I don't use my phone for actual photography--I use, y'know, my camera for that.
But hey, being a douche does wonders I hear. Keep it up. All the best to you. =)

upichie said:
You didn't say anything about Samsung, you asked how to get it on our Galaxy S's. I have it on mine, so I figured you missed the obvious. =)
I also get a solid 14 hours with 4-5 hours of the screen being on running CM7; I have absolutely no issue playing videos using any of the many players I've tried; and it takes perfectly fine photos for me too, since I don't use my phone for actual photography--I use, y'know, my camera for that.
But hey, being a douche does wonders I hear. Keep it up. All the best to you. =)
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Good for you, but OP is right, you were missing the point in question.
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upichie said:
You didn't say anything about Samsung, you asked how to get it on our Galaxy S's. I have it on mine, so I figured you missed the obvious. =)
I also get a solid 14 hours with 4-5 hours of the screen being on running CM7; I have absolutely no issue playing videos using any of the many players I've tried; and it takes perfectly fine photos for me too, since I don't use my phone for actual photography--I use, y'know, my camera for that.
But hey, being a douche does wonders I hear. Keep it up. All the best to you. =)
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How was I being a douche?
14 hours is too little if I forget to charge it in the evening and I haven't been able to play xvid's or x264 videos, only with DicePlayer but it only has a trial and the quality is bad and sound choppy. It takes photos but the stock one is just so much better.
About the adapter... that looks awesome since the bluetooth one's cost around 50 euros, will try and get one

Lartza said:
About the adapter... that looks awesome since the bluetooth one's cost around 50 euros, will try and get one
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Thank also betoNL, he PMed me lots of info about it. :] I'll post my experience with it here, when I get it, might take some time though to arrive from Hong Kong to EU (but I'll probably get it faster then you).

DAGr8 said:
I ve been working on it but failed , I didnt spend lots of time on this , seeing there was not much interest I gave up ..
If more then one person is interest in that I can port this and add to my rom , just let me know .
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Bumping the thread - lack of "hold to skip track" is the only thing that keeps me from trying non-CM7 roms, and to be honest I'm getting tired of bugs. My phone failed me so many times in recent months it's not funny anymore.
Just that stupid "hold to skip"...

DAGr8 said:
I ve been working on it but failed , I didnt spend lots of time on this , seeing there was not much interest I gave up ..
If more then one person is interest in that I can port this and add to my rom , just let me know .
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I'm definitely interested. Right now, I am using Player Pro for this reason, but it doesn't work all the time.[my network data usage alert comes from my network operator, which requires one to select ok].
Would love to have this feature on stock Samsung ROM's ..
As an aside, was really interested in Galaxy Tuner's [Power + HHOOK key button remapping]. Would be really awesome, if you could look into and see if incorporating that is easier that the long press volume button fix , which OP is requesting.?

Flashlight app for Dell Venue Pro

Sorry if this was already brought up somewhere, but i didnt see it. There is a flashlight app on the Marketplace that somehow utilizes new Mango API's to turn on the LED light on all windows phones. It doesnt even use the flicker trick. its just constant light, and it works perfectly, even on the dell venue pro.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/apps/2638b778-5eab-45f1-a511-a08e1dbde751

Works just like the old homebrew app. Nice find.

very good man, was waiting for this
many thanks for sharing

awesome, great work!

really good news for us.

Amazing find I was wanting one just the other day and ended having to use one of the lame white screen ones. I am forever in your debt for linking me to this.
I noticed one thing while just trying it out. If you have music on it will mute your music. Doesn't really matter but just something I noticed.

Kenji117 said:
Amazing find I was wanting one just the other day and ended having to use one of the lame white screen ones. I am forever in your debt for linking me to this.
I noticed one thing while just trying it out. If you have music on it will mute your music. Doesn't really matter but just something I noticed.
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I used to get in the led test section of the EM app when in extreme need. This saves me some time

Thanks! Have been waiting for an app like this forever!
Edit:
i just read the comments in the WP7 General section and have uninstalled this app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338831

Finally! WP is closing in on all the features I'm missing from Android.

What music app do you guys use?

Just curious to see what everyone's running. I was using Google play Music until it started disorganizing my music a couple days ago in ABC order instead of actual tracklist order. So now I use nice player! What do you guys use?
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Testicopolicious said:
Just curious to see what everyone's running. I was using Google play Music until it started disorganizing my music a couple days ago in ABC order instead of actual tracklist order. So now I use nice player! What do you guys use?
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I mainly use google play music because I have most of my music stored on the cloud, but for local I used to use PowerAmp which was awesome and sometimes I use Maple - it has some really cool features like pitch and speed adjustment.
but I think theres already a thread on this somewhere, in the apps section so you should probably look there

I hate how Google Play music makes it so hard just to get to the All Songs list. I think it requires at least three or four button presses, which I might be doing wrong but it's annoying to do if it really is that way.

yahoowizard said:
I hate how Google Play music makes it so hard just to get to the All Songs list. I think it requires at least three or four button presses, which I might be doing wrong but it's annoying to do if it really is that way.
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I agree with this. I wish Google made the music app similar to those in TouchWiz or Sony xperias. Although I don't like the UI of Play Music, I'm kind of forced to use it due the N4's limited storage and Play's free song upload feature.

vikramkhalsa said:
but I think theres already a thread on this somewhere, in the apps section so you should probably look there
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It's either been locked or disappeared forever, like this thread will be.

Shuttle+ is the best on my opinion, design, options and functions.

There is a thread made in themes and app section for all you guys.. It will help you all for knowing yhe various Music app people use..:good:

I use power amp and think it's totally worth the money. And yeah what other people said, there's a thread about this in the themes and apps forum where you can read about it there.
I personally went with power amp because the other media players annoyed me with the wrong album art work and would display the same artwork for all songs even though the artwork was completely irrelevant
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Play Music. its simple and doesnt eat a lot of battery compare to 3rd part music apps -_-.

Play Music + Viper4android as my equalizer. Doesn't eat a lot of battery and it makes your 10 in ear earphones sound like Hi-end headphones.

I use Google Play Music now since I subscribed to All Access. But if I was using local files I'd be using PowerAmp.