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Does anyone know of a free app that will do exchange corporate directory lookup? If these phones ever hope to gain ground in the corporate world they really need to have this functionality out of the box and built into the exchange app on the phone (i.e. being able to do a "check name" against the GAL). I've searched the marketplace but can't find one for 1.5. There is an app for the DROID that does this but it is either specifically written for the motorola phone, or only supports android 2.0 (doesn't show up as a search result unless it is done using the DROID). This is my biggest beef with this phone and i'm thinking of sending it back and just waiting for them to be released with 2.0 already loaded.
I know there are some paid programs out there that claim to offer this functionality but of course i'd prefer to explore the free route first. Thanks!
There is a beta program from Seven (also known as Good Messaging) that does what you are asking for at no cost (aside from testing new features).
http://www.seven.com
I've been using it off and on for a couple of years now. It perpetually has bugs (it's their beta build), but it works.
It supports direct connect from your phone via Exchange OWA, or you can install a connector on your PC at work which integrates with outlook to sync over the air with your phone (useful if your company only exposes exchange internally or via vpn).
How can I use this app from Seven? The link to Sprint links to other phones and not any of the newer smartphones...
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Nevermind, I got it. Have to sign up for their forums and beta program. Installing now. Looks very professional. Let's hope it works well.
Finally I can answer a question for someone else. The Sprint Hero has a GAL built it. Unfortunately you have to be in an email to run it, but you can do a GAL from there. Let me know if you need help. No need to get an app, its already there.
When in an email, in the to box, type the name and a drop down will be there and select Company Directory
What about on the HTC Eris from Verizon? It does not have this drop down for corporate directory option.... Maybe I'll try that seven program.
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How can I use this app from Seven? The link to Sprint links to other phones and not any of the newer smartphones...
*update*
Nevermind, I got it. Have to sign up for their forums and beta program. Installing now. Looks very professional. Let's hope it works well.
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Grinder16 said:
Finally I can answer a question for someone else. The Sprint Hero has a GAL built it. Unfortunately you have to be in an email to run it, but you can do a GAL from there. Let me know if you need help. No need to get an app, its already there.
When in an email, in the to box, type the name and a drop down will be there and select Company Directory
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I feel like a moron here, but I am not seeing this, I can start to type a name and I only get my list of contacts in the phone. This is not a GAL list. Would be OOBER cool if I can get this working, and figure out how to delete and email ONLY off the phone not the server too.
One major bug bear I have with android is that it does not allow you to save your current GPS position to one of your existing contacts. I just can not believe android would leave out such an important feature.
Now has ICS fixed this serious flaw?
I don't think it's a critical feature or "serious flaw" and it definitely isn't a bug ;-)
You could try to find an app which does that or even write it by yourself - it would be quite easy.
How about doing it the normal way, and put their blooming addresses into their contact page like normal people lol GPS location indeed!! Iphone nonsense again I bet much like ear muffs that double as earphones! Useless and pointless lol.
Unless i've missed the point, which I doubt lol.
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How about doing it the normal way, and put their blooming addresses into their contact page like normal people lol GPS location indeed!! Iphone nonsense again I bet much like ear muffs that double as earphones! Useless and pointless lol.
Unless i've missed the point, which I doubt lol.
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I was just gonna say, postal address shows up in navigation too... Something iPhone doesn't have lol
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Guys maybe I didnt explain my situation very well. Well here goes.
Sure I could save the postal address into my contacts, however I travel allot with my job to people who live in the countryside.
Usually the postal address does not direct me straight to their homes. This is where I would take the time to add their exact gps position to my contacts. This means that when I visit them again I can find them easily.
There are no apps built for android that allow this to happen. I have tried every single gps app there is. I infact challenge someone to find me one that will allow me to save my current gps position to an existing contact.
I am sure other people who travel allot between customers who may be remote would want the same feature.
You could always add their address as a Favourite in the navigation program you use. Then you just use that as the destination.
Once added as a favourite you can go on google maps and add it to a custom map, and use it as a layer, I have one for personal stuff and one for work. you can then tap these places and navigate there?
diablous said:
Once added as a favourite you can go on google maps and add it to a custom map, and use it as a layer, I have one for personal stuff and one for work. you can then tap these places and navigate there?
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I dont use google maps though. Plus I have 100s of contacts, and sometimes its just easier going to my contacts, searching for someone and then navigating. Where as with the stared places I would have to scroll through 100s of them to find the right contact. Add the fact I cant ring from that star or text the person.
Why don't you ask in the Galaxy Nexus Q thread where people are actually using ICS? Just a thought
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Guys maybe I didnt explain my situation very well. Well here goes.
Sure I could save the postal address into my contacts, however I travel allot with my job to people who live in the countryside.
Usually the postal address does not direct me straight to their homes. This is where I would take the time to add their exact gps position to my contacts. This means that when I visit them again I can find them easily.
There are no apps built for android that allow this to happen. I have tried every single gps app there is. I infact challenge someone to find me one that will allow me to save my current gps position to an existing contact.
I am sure other people who travel allot between customers who may be remote would want the same feature.
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You can save a specific location in Google Maps to My Places. Then you can add the location as Contact in My Contacts. You can save it with the name of person you want or as different person and associate with Contact you want. But, when you will do this it will save the nearest postal address instead of the gps location. So, to save the exact gps location you will select the location you want in My Places, choose More, Share this place and choose Messaging or Email. It will show you an text with Postal Address and web link. This link is the exact location of place in Google Maps. You can copy it and add it to a Contact as website. Then when you will select this website for your Contact it will show it on Google Maps and you can use Maps or Navigation to reach it.
Sorry if my english is not so good but I'm sure you understand what I mean.
I know that isn't a easy workaround but at least you can save the exact gps location for a Contact and this is the only way till someone will make an application for this (I bet is very easy, the gps location is translated into an web link and you only have to assign this web link to an account).
Im sorry but reading that is just making me confused lol :S
I think no one can write this because its not built into android, im sure windows 7 phone users have such a simple feature included. Why not android...
Man YOU are a major bug, what a strange request.
Go buy a WP7 device then.
An entire page of people just told you how to do it.
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I dont use google maps though. Plus I have 100s of contacts, and sometimes its just easier going to my contacts, searching for someone and then navigating. Where as with the stared places I would have to scroll through 100s of them to find the right contact. Add the fact I cant ring from that star or text the person.
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You can search your layers for names or addresses, you can also include phone numbers aswell. oddly enough mate i have hundreds of contacts too, so the point is mute. as I scroll through the list, like a phone book to find the person i need. and if i can't be bothered i just search and it finds the person.
while i know a BMW i had would save addresses via your current GPS, which i was handy this works just as well. Plus using the My maps feature, i've outlined the london congestion charge zone, my clients places, my suppliers, my co-workers home address etc. I've got account numbers, phone numbers, emails, pictures of the buildings i'm visiting, with my maps it's endless and tbh I'm pretty sure it covers your issue.. Also with my maps you can sit at a desktop and put your contacts on the maps, so you don't even need to be at the address to do it...
I've never come across a device that lets you do this in an "official" manner, the best you could hope for would be to copy their Google Maps location URL into the notes for that contact.
I can't imagine it being a feature that many people would have any use for, certainly not over the more common feature of a basic street address.
It's certainly not the major lack-of-critical-feature that you're making it out to be.
@knightnz, but it does exist it's just the maps app is used not the contacts book.
here is my latest map plotting new accounts i've opened. if you do this you'll be sorted. I appreciate sometime i wish i could drop a pin where i'm standing from my phone to my maps, but if i put a favourite star down, when i go to my maps i can turn it into a drop pin. so it's all good.
in theory this chap could favourite his clients then go to my maps and turn them into drop pins. simple.
Guys I DO NOT USE GOOGLE MAPS FOR NAVIGATION.
Maps can 'Share' location information via an Android intent, but it seems the contacts application doesn't consume it (though it is just sent as a plaintext intent so it shouldn't be too hard to make Contacts support this). I'm not sure that there is a standard way of sharing location information via intents (which is unfortunate, there should be), so clean integration is unlikely to be possible. Though it should be possible to modify the contacts directly from the GPS app via the Contacts API. Or modify the contacts app so that you can add 'current position' as a location.
This basically means no app can use the feature to save gps position to current contacts.
Sygic allows you to assign a "position" to a contact from either a search of it's location database or from a point on a map. However, that assigned position seems to stay associated with the contact only in Sygic. It doesn't get written into Contacts for other programs to use (or to get synced up to Google).
Again I repeat I do not use google maps, and other apps would possibly implement this feature but they cant because android doesnt allow it.
Omg, I've allready explained how to do this and you didn't even bother to test it step-by-step. Your claim is a non-sense because you dont' have a GPS position field for a contact in your Contacts application and I bet its the same in iOs and Windows mobile. That's why you can't save it, because you don't have a field for it. If you just want to save the gps position as a Note for a contact there are dozens of apps who does that.
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I've never come across a device that lets you do this in an "official" manner, the best you could hope for would be to copy their Google Maps location URL into the notes for that contact.
I can't imagine it being a feature that many people would have any use for, certainly not over the more common feature of a basic street address.
It's certainly not the major lack-of-critical-feature that you're making it out to be.
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Cut the OP some slack, I found this a very useful feature when I used Garmin on my old Nokia N95, and it spoils you once you're accustomed to just doing it. What's critical to everyone varies.
As someone who can have the same types of problems with rural locations, it never ceases how many people seem to assume the world ends at the edge of a city.
As for what I learned to do and this is pretty fast I use the "GPS status & toolbox" app from the market and a few seconds after it opens it has a lock then I just hit menu > share > "copy to clipboard"
Go into my contacts and paste it into the address of whichever contact and delete everything except the plain latitude and longitude.
hello xda
i am a new developer [Student] i need to submit my app for my project at school
so what i want to ask is
i want to develop a app that allows a person to chat like is i give one coustmer a no. [say 678567] and he shares it with other person so they can chat share files
its same as how i think whats app works
can someone please guide me to the right direction i am keen to develope this app and get good grades ^_^
thank you
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hello xda
i am a new developer [Student] i need to submit my app for my project at school
so what i want to ask is
i want to develop a app that allows a person to chat like is i give one coustmer a no. [say 678567] and he shares it with other person so they can chat share files
its same as how i think whats app works
can someone please guide me to the right direction i am keen to develope this app and get good grades ^_^
thank you
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If i get you, you want something like whatsapp...
As far as i know, you will need different things:
A backend Server to manage and store users and manage files sended.
A client side with is the chat. If you doing it in Android, Java the process could be like this:
client get a list of friends, then stores in local files. To send a message, firstly can use push messages like GCM to send a message, if receiver is online with the conversation openned, it tries to stablish a socket connection to send messages each other. If no, then it uses the push GCM.
More or less like that....of course there are much more things to do and take care of.
hope i helped you a little with this info!
forgin said:
If i get you, you want something like whatsapp...
As far as i know, you will need different things:
A backend Server to manage and store users and manage files sended.
A client side with is the chat. If you doing it in Android, Java the process could be like this:
client get a list of friends, then stores in local files. To send a message, firstly can use push messages like GCM to send a message, if receiver is online with the conversation openned, it tries to stablish a socket connection to send messages each other. If no, then it uses the push GCM.
More or less like that....of course there are much more things to do and take care of.
hope i helped you a little with this info!
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ya!! thats what i want , seems tougher for a amature android programmer
so here what i have
i have a server at school which we are allowed to use
i have created a basic layout of the app(on a white board )
since i do not have that much expirence with apps ( till now i have made calculator and simple sudoku ) the problem is i don't know how can i make the app to contact with the servver complete noob in this thing
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thanks for making me understand the working now i can tell my teacher how the app works
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ya!! thats what i want , seems tougher for a amature android programmer
so here what i have
i have a server at school which we are allowed to use
i have created a basic layout of the app(on a white board )
since i do not have that much expirence with apps ( till now i have made calculator and simple sudoku ) the problem is i don't know how can i make the app to contact with the servver complete noob in this thing
and
thanks for making me understand the working now i can tell my teacher how the app works
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You can use backends like Google Cloud Messaging or Parse, they're well documented and easy to use, just go through their documentation,
swapnilraj said:
You can use backends like Google Cloud Messaging or Parse, they're well documented and easy to use, just go through their documentation,
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thanks for the reply actually i researched a little and found the GCM is not a good choice for IM as sometimes messages are not delivered so as for parse i have no experience with that and i found something that i need to have some connection between my android app to server (running php and mysql database)
the point where i am stuck is that
How to connect the app to server ??
and how to give a user his personal pin or username so he can share with others to chat ??
thanks
thedeadlycoder said:
thanks for the reply actually i researched a little and found the GCM is not a good choice for IM as sometimes messages are not delivered so as for parse i have no experience with that and i found something that i need to have some connection between my android app to server (running php and mysql database)
the point where i am stuck is that
How to connect the app to server ??
and how to give a user his personal pin or username so he can share with others to chat ??
thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325799
it was just 3 post under yours
And just make that every user have an unique nickname and use it has a primary key.
I want to implement push notifications in my android apps.what is the best way to implement push notifications.
Notes :
1) Apps User need not have compulsory google Account.
Implement android push notifications without GCM
I want to implement push notifications in my android apps.is it possible without using GCM(Google cloud messaging)
Your app would need to "handshake" with the server when it was first run, so that the server could get the IP address and any other info it needed. That could be done with a simple HTTP post. (Googling "java http post" came up with a ton of results, but the first one was a Stack Overflow question with a ticked answer that's been upvoted over 100 times. I'd take that as a strong indicator that it's good - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4205980/java-sending-http-parameters-via-post-method-easily).
After that, you'd need to create a TCP listener in your app and something to send messages to it on the server. Again, a quick Google search came up with a ton of stuff, but this looks concise and useful...
http://systembash.com/content/a-simple-java-tcp-server-and-tcp-client/
I've not done anything like this with Java, so I can't be any more help than give you the principle of it. I've done it in other languages though, and it's all the same thing really.
I hope this helps, and good luck
Edit: I just had a thought - that's all good for people using data, but you'll run into issues when on wifi as you'll only have an external IP address. There's reasons that things like Google Cloud Messaging exist!
nileshandroid18 said:
I want to implement push notifications in my android apps.is it possible without using GCM(Google cloud messaging)
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GCM is free i think, while the alternatives are not.
For example Parse is not so difficult to program but after exceeding their Free plan you have to pay each month some money . Other similar platforms also exist, like urbanairship
I want to write a Email to APP developers to introduce my product, how could I get lot of Email address of developers especially Android developers?
I have tried to get some Email address from Googleplay but it is not as useful as I thought.
A friend tell me that ,"You can get a help from linked in. Try to find out profiles of Android app developers in linked in. Also you can use Facebook, twitter and Google+. More on, you can find professional profiles on job finding websites like monster, indeed etc."
Thanks for his suggestion but what I really want to get is a lot of Email addresses at once rather than I search their information in social network one by one.
Is there some tools or products can help me?
Use this forum?
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Yes, Social Media is the powerful tool to get the contacts and linkedin is the best and professional. Join in Android groups and become the member and get in touch with other members to promote your app.
You can get developers email just grab it directly from GooglePlay with simple parser
Adxmi said:
I want to write a Email to APP developers to introduce my product, how could I get lot of Email address of developers especially Android developers?
I have tried to get some Email address from Googleplay but it is not as useful as I thought.
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There is a chrome extension for that. I don't know the name
Parsing a list of email address isn't a good idea. When was the last time you received a spam message you liked?
I agree with @Whatinside. Any spam email that hits my inbox are immediately reported as such and deleted.
I think creating a "webbinar" or a landing page, where you make something special, and simply ask for their email.
Social Media is the best way to connect people. LinkedIn is the one of the best social media platform. You can join the groups of relevant field and from their you can get their email-ids. Similarly you can get email-ids from facebook, twitter, google+.