I would really like to have a location app that periodically posts my gps location to my defined url (blah.com/mylocation/?x=&y=) and i can also fake my location with predefined cordinates. Making list with predefined locations and selecting one from there.
App UI:
Big button to start or stop sending info
Last successful update time
Next update time
Options in menu should be something like that.
"Address to post location" - textbox
"Period" - select (1min, 2min, 5min, 10min,15min,30min,60min,120min)
"Run background" - checkbox
"Fake location" - checkbox
"Select location from list"- selectbox (disabled if fake location disabled)
"Use current location" - checkbox (disabled if fake location disabled, enables/disables "Select location from list"
"Send no information" - button (posts empty x= and y= arguments or some new arguments eg noinf=true, stops sending info)
I could also manage predefined locations:
Add new location: name, xpos, ypos
Add current location to list: name
This app would be useful to show my location on my webpage or something similar
No one interested coding this ?
It seems like you want a very specific problem solved that not many others have, except if you can describe the use for it.
Anyway, meanwhile can you sign up for a Googl App Inventor account and start developing it yourself in a graphical development environment that doesn't need the user to have much programming (if any) experience. appinventor.googlelabs.com
Doesn't this feature already exists in google maps?
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Are there any way to disable adding new words to the autocompletion
vocabulary? At the same time I don't want to disable the autocompletion
at all.
The problem is as following. If some secure information is entered within
my application then the info are stored by the system. And if later another
application (Pocket Word for example) is started and some first letters of
the secure info are entered then the autocompletion system will show the
secure information.
Are there any solution better then disable the autocompletion at all?
Thanks a lot.
In a now ancient pda I could, provided the calendar app itself had focus, create new calendar entries simply by starting to type [on the hardware keyboard].
A new entry would be created on whatever day had focus, and simply pressing Enter after entering the text would close the "new entry" dialog box, accepting default values for the other fields.
This way I could, during a briefing or similar, rapidly create skeleton entries on at least the correct days and jot down a word or two on each. I could usually, later during the meeting fill in the details from memory.
Is there any calendar application that would allow me to do the same on a current pda with hardware keyboard, such as the Hermes? Currently, in lack of options, I've downgraded to a paper almanac, but that well... sucks... for a number of reasons.
I admit having been away from the WM scene for a while, so I apologize in advance if I'm asking about something annoyingly obvious.
Naturally I could record the meeting, but fiddling with extracting info from the recordings during the meeting itself isn't an option, and doing it "later" usually becomes "never", and people are sometimes uneasy about beeing recorded.
Is there plans to implement sorting by different fields in the future? Cause sorting by First Name then Last Name is not cutting it for my business contacts.
Is there any workaround?
I'm looking on the market now to see if there are any 3rd party contact managing apps. However, I wanted to point out that Android's contacts menu is googly as ever, and you should be able to type out (hold menu to bring up the soft KB at any time) just a few letters of the contact's name to select them.
Edit: I haven't tested this, and it says it's not fully compatible with Android 2.0, but I think you want aContacts. It's on the Android Market
From the description:
Application for speeding up searching contacts:
* Contact search by group, company
* T9 search (Eng,Russian,German,Hebrew,Swedish,Czech,Romanian,Polish)
* Search in any fields
* Grouping phone contacts
* Advanced call log
* Callback reminders
* Speed dial
New: Bug fixes, new options
Not fully compatible with Android 2.0!
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The search through typing doesnt look at the company field unfortunately, so for now I'm just omitting the first/last name fields and putting my salespersons name in the notes field. =/
I'd be nice if they had a "sort by this field" option similart to the "make this number default" option for multiple numbers.
You can choose to show specific groups...but thats more time consuming than its worth imo.
I'm new to the android, mostly I like it, but there is one thing that is driving me nuts. I don't know if I'm missing something or stupid or what.
There are a number of times I have gotten to my list of contacts - i.e. from Google Maps defining a location to navigate to, or creating a shortcut to a contact- that I get presented with a list of all my contacts (1500+) and no apparent way to search the list.
If I press the search button it brings up the contact search, but then I seem to have lost the app that wanted the contact. Is there a way to do a search on the contacts and then have it get entered into the original app? I also tried google gesture search, which was great, but I can't figure out how to do anything with the contact other than call them.
I'm beginning to think I am dense or something, please help.
if i understand correctly, i think you want to navigate to a specific contact's address from google maps?
if so, all you need to do is, while in google maps, in the destination field just type the contacts name. and if you have their address saved in your contacts it should just pop up with their address.
For maps tha'ts great, I must remember not to rush things at traffic lights.
However, the thing I am still having trouble with is creating direct dial shortcuts. I go to create the shortcut, and get a long list of contacts and A-Z on the right. I can pick a letter, but there are still hundreds of phone numbers to go through. There is no search box available at that point - I tried pushing the search button and it searches the contact list, but then all I can do is call the contact, not create a shortcut. I tried BetterCut and it doesn't have the A-Z selector.
Am i missing something here too?
This is the problem of not having a physical keyboard. And not having gestures in all lists. What you are doing is exactly what I want to do many times and there is unfortunately no way around it except scrolling up and down a list. Very annoying idiom started by the iPhone and unfortunately copied by Android. There is simply no way to filter lists unless every list is accompanied by a filter text field.
Whenever I scan a tag, whether it be new or an already programmed tag, it gives me a popup from which I must select the app to run the task. How can I make it default to NFC Retag Free (or any other NFC app?)