Calendar - Is there one with a design similar to Pocket Contacts? - General Questions and Answers

I love the Pocket Contacts Manager layout and the fact that you dont have to use the stylus.
My question is - has anyone developed anything similar to replace the default boring calendar setup in WM6? To make a new appointment is a bit of trial and error if you dont have your stylus.
So if there is not a smiliar prog out there.... then - Programmers - do you think you can do a Pocket Calendar Manager????

ArcticCat has started to make a calender app that is finger friendly. Its in alpha realse now so ther are just to see how it looks it dosent do any thing yet. Lets hope he keeps it up
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=326891

Its a good idea... but you still have to use the original calendar to make the times and type..... the product at the moment only shows an option to open the calendar...

scooby33 said:
Its a good idea... but you still have to use the original calendar to make the times and type..... the product at the moment only shows an option to open the calendar...
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Yeah but if i'm not mistaken hes gona make a new interface for that to. This is just the alpha realase to get a impression on how it will be

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photo dial

i'm searching a photo dial today plugin like the mobile shell 2.0 but more light...any ideas?
just this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=918942&postcount=9
carne said:
i'm searching a photo dial today plugin like the mobile shell 2.0 but more light...any ideas?
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http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/phonesuite/?en
You have to pay for it... There is also a public beta!
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15097
mchapman007 said:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/phonesuite/?en
You have to pay for it... There is also a public beta!
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15097
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spb is too heavy
Here's the newest one that seems to work great and is really cool...FaceContact
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=378145
Costs $15 after a 10 day trial. But damn, I've been playing with it today and it really is one of the nicest today screen plugins I've encountered for any purpose!
For these reasons (echoing and paraphrasing other users in that thread):
- It is great to have a today plugin that can handle as many and as few contacts as you want in a very efficient manner. You can use this for 5 contacts or 50 and it works the same! (No limit to how many, and no empty spaces if you don't fill it)
- Interface is wonderful! Needless to say, the "COOL" factor is quite high while also being very good at it's job! CoverFlow for contacts!
- Settings to change the default options, i.e. press and press+hold!!
- Can call, send text messages, or email all from the plugin easily
- Uses photos very effectively, and updates if you update the pics automatically
- Works great with UltimateLaunch within a tab or sub-tab! Heck it actually works a little better with UL than it does directly on the Today screen IMO.
Wow please reccommend more products. I am very new too.
Anyone know how to show big callerID photo without huge software ?
S2U2 has big photo CID
jomo25 said:
- Works great with UltimateLaunch within a tab or sub-tab! Heck it actually works a little better with UL than it does directly on the Today screen IMO.
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How do you get it to allow you to scroll contacts inside UL? For me UL traps the left/right gesture used to scroll the list...
Have asked developer to allow scroll by vertical gesture for exactly this reason and they seem open to the idea.

Asurion Mobile AddressBook for Android

Hello XDA,
I am one of the developers of the Asurion Mobile AddressBook and I would like to get some feedback on our product from the users here. I have been using this forum for some thine now for Winmo and respect the opinions of the developers here. It would be great to see what everyone thinks of the application. It is available in the Android Marketplace, just search Asurion. Or you can go to our site at http://www.getaddressbook.com/.
A little about AddressBook, it is a socially connected address book that allows you to get information about your contacts from different social sites like Facebook and Twitter right in the address book, through mini programs called Mixins.
Soon we will have an APK for developers to develop their own Mixins for AddressBook. When its ready I will post more information if anyone would like to beta for us.
AddressBook is still in a beta form and is available for 1.6 and 2.0 and above. Please try it out and let me know what you think. AddressBook is new and we are open to positive and negative feedback.
Thanks,
Peter
Just installed
Main app + all MixIn
It's a nice app, just a bit slow on my HTC Sapphire Magic Vodafone 32B with 2.1 Eclair Rom
I don't like "MixIn solution", why not a full app with all modules inside ?
I've launched main app, then I gone to market and installed Facebook MixIn for first.
After a lot of privacy authorization with some screen not well fitted I did a little war with Matching People, cause a lot of them were not matched nice.
I need Photos compare, cause I've some cases with two or more people with the exact name... like my cousins =)
I had some Facebook MixIn Force close Crashes and some com.google.process.gapps crashes too, right now...
I installed flickr and associate it with some of my contacts and no problems at all.
at last I tried Twitter and no probs with it...
I think it's a good app, but a bit slow...
last thing:
Support for all languages (I could translate it in Italian if you need)
I don't like number in this format 000-000-0000
or 00-000-0000
I know it's a developing app and I will wait for next releases of this.
Well Done
Good Job
This is some great feedback, thanks for taking the time to try it out and post back.
Just wondering
Is this ultimately going to be a paid application?
You know like:
5.99/mo
4.79/mo
1.99/mo
What's our deductible? :0
Haven't tried the app, but if you could spread the QR codes apart it will ease their reading.
Thanks for your app!
played with it 30mins.
1. got the main app
2. started a new a/c in www.getaddressbook.com
3. got the MixIn: Facebook
4. start the MixIn app, input Facebook a/c
5. click Allow buttons 3 times
6. MixIn starts to get contacts from FB
7. Auto Match
8. Manual adjust Auto Match results
9. Launch main app
The above steps took about 25mins (330 FB contacts; 300 gmail contacts; Auto Matched 180; manual picked out... haven't counted >_< i believe picked out 30 - 50).
Cool:
-Auto Match tried to best match FB | Local contacts even they are not perfect match.
e.g. Shirley Lam | Salei Lam (it matches)
-Facebook photos can replace local as well as sync. to Gmail Contacts
-Consolidated activities log (SMS, voice call, etc) for individual contact
Not:
-[MixIn: FB] Say you have some contacts named Peter Chan, you will get confused without some other hints like Organization.
I picked those contacts out in Auto Match to prevent mis-matching as Org is not displayed in Auto Match results
-[main app] Contact list won't remember the last viewed location.
I scrolled from top to Carol, click twice to view details, click Return and the contact list scrolls back to top.
-[main app] Slow. Maybe it's my outdated HTC Magic... (it's CyanogenMod 4.2.13 w/ EBI1 mod]
For me:
Keep and waiting for updates!
looks cool..will try this later when i get home for work..
speed is defiantely something that can be worked on.
thebluecoat said:
Is this ultimately going to be a paid application?
You know like:
5.99/mo
4.79/mo
1.99/mo
What's our deductible? :0
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No, the application will be free. And no deductible that I know of
It looks interesting but what you should definitely not miss is the T9 dialer. The way you can find contact by typing their name directly from the dialer is the only feature that makes me stay on 1.5. I tried other apps from the Market but nothing could match HTC's Sense UI dialer. If you can bring something clean similar to this I'm sold!
Another question for the community. Are there any features you are not seeing in the AddressBook that you would like to see, things that would make this app a must have?
Great work on the app. After using the app for a few days the main reason I stopped us using it was the user interface. Its not horrible but compared to everything else on the phone, it looks a bit outdated (quality wise). Other then the ui, it can be sluggish at times but nice work.
DesertWolf1971 said:
Another question for the community. Are there any features you are not seeing in the AddressBook that you would like to see, things that would make this app a must have?
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Darvo is absolutely correct. The T9 dialer is something that is sorely missing from most builds. I think it would especially appeal to stock users as well as those running cooked roms. I have been searching for a reliable answer to this outside of a Sense UI but haven't found anything that I'll stand by 100%.
Thank you .........
I appreciate your effort with AddressBook; however:
I find it extremely inappropriate and invasive that the app immediately syncs my contacts upon install to -- where? your servers?
There should be a clear warning that this is about to happen!
Please delete my data from your servers!
Also, the 'delete all' function on your site does not work, at least not with Safari. I 'moved' all to the 'delete' column on right, but clicking on 'delete selected' does nothing.
And with Chrome I couldn't even log in. Got some error about 'src' and try the support page.
I am sorry that app is frustrating you. There is a screen during setup that lets you know about the backup. This function can be turned off in the app. If you give me your user name I will delete your account from the database. The back up is meant to protect your contacts in the case that you loose your phone or get a new one. As for browser support, right now we are only supporting IE and Firefox. Again sorry the app is frustrating for you.
Great app!
I really like and appreciate this app. The 2 biggest features that drew me to waste countless hours playing w/ hero roms on my mytouch were hero's T9 dialer, and the social integration. I'll 3rd the motion for a T9 dialer in your app. No complaints otherwise. Bravo - and thanks for the great app.
P.S. Backup to server is a bit redundant in my opinion, because your contacts already sync w/ your Google acct - but, to each is own. I might be missing an advantage to it anyway. I just opted not to use it.
And props for soliciting feedback here in the forum - where the REAL users are.
DesertWolf1971 said:
There is a screen during setup that lets you know about the backup. This function can be turned off in the app.
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Really? Because I can see in the options where to change the time and frequency of the sync, but I don't see how to disable syncing altogether. Maybe I'm just missing something?
Good catch, looks like there is a bug, you should be able to set it to not backup. We will work to get that fix in.
I have been playing around with the Hero, but I am not sure I have found the T9 dialer, what does it do?
Feedback
I've been following this app since it first arrived, and I must say bravo for doing what only HTC dared to attempt. It works well, too, except for a few things.
1. It may SEEM that scrolling smoothness isn't that important. Ask Apple, they'll tell you the truth: Its the only thing the masses give a Sh&% about, how something looks. So imitate the apple or hero contact style, because the one here is rough but needs only an easy fix! Smooth scrolling and better "sleek" colors. Same for the dialer.
2. It seems to run too often in the background, which slows my phone seemingly, no matter how often i taskiller it.
Eagerly awaiting the next release...

Lpoking for a simple standalone fast calendar with tasks

I've been happily using PocketBreeze+PocketInformant for years on Axim.
Switched to a TouchPro2 and to my surprise I really like Sense.
The problem is, there's no way to show if there are any tasks due or starting today. Don't want to use 2nd Today, trying to keep memory usage down. Cookie Home Tab shows tasks but there's virtually no control over what's at the top and it doesn't tell how many are due today / tomorrow. And all the calendars I know of (PI, AF, Agenda 1, ThumbCal, SBSH's-forgot-the-name) take a while to load (relatively speaking).
The stock POL is fast but it doesn't show tasks. The problem is I don't always remember to run the stock Task program.
So... is there a standalone (not Today plugin) calendar that's as fast as POL, and shows tasks ? Or an add-on to POL ?
hmmm... leave the calender open - let it autostart, so you have it always open.
take look here. It needs time to load - but you have a very detailed view.
The site is in german - but the pictures aren't :-D
to get a (english) version click bottom right on "Testversion"
iAgenda.
In CHT just assign then this app, that it is called as for tasks and/or calendar.
Moved as not software release.

[APP] Executive Assistant - for anybody whose inc is an office phone too

Holy guacamole! Has anybody else seen or used this app? I am amazed - its spectacular. It is a 1 stop widget for email / calendar / tasks / sms / missed calls / voicemail / facebook / twitter / google reader.
I just downloaded and installed the free version of the app from market and various add-ons and am positively blown away. Will be buying the paid version to get rid of ads when i get home.
I have been searching for something like this for weeks and found a reference on droidforums or something like that. My stupid, stodgy, underpowered, small low res screen, bad browser, no apps, no customization blackberry can now safely be consigned to the trash can! My d-inc will be my new work phone and with this app and the widgets I have absolutely everything I needed.
A few things to note:
1. Set up took a small bit of time for me but once set up properly it is great.
2. Editing any incorrectly entered settings is confusing since the menu button keeps pulling up general phone settings. You have to click inside the widget and then press the menu button to get the app settings. They should make that better.
3. The widget app does not seem to support exchange email - just gmail including google apps and other IMAP/POP accounts such as yahoo, hotmail - you need paid accounts for those last 2 I believe. I guess for my exchange account i will use the htc widget (strangely though the app does support exchange calendars).
4. There are countless settings - spend the time to figure them out. Font size, color, background - way too many things can be changed.
5. I confused myself by using it on the lockscreen - when you switch on the screen, you dont see screen unlock - you just see a summary page of the emails / calendars etc etc. - you have to click the home button to get the slider to unlock your phone.
6. http://www.appventive.com/executive-assistant is the app site but there is not a helluva lot of info there. You are a bit on your own in figuring out the settings etc.
7. I have 2 google emails - 1 personal, 1 office g-app and of course google voice. It did not like that and would not login into all my email and voice till I entered their passwords properly instead of letting the app gather that from the device settings.
8. I have not tested battery drain yet but I suspect it will lead to some since it seems to pull the emails rather than just polling the android apps.
For anybody who wants to use their droids as work related phones - this is by far the best thing I have ever come across.
not that I'm cynical, and it does look interesting, but this post sure sounds like developer pumping his app
corefile said:
not that I'm cynical, and it does look interesting, but this post sure sounds like developer pumping his app
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hahahahaha. check my other posts - u will see i am a noob tinkering around - not a dev or anything like that - probably sound too excited because i finally got an app which makes my bberry (useless junk i was forced to use since the iphone is bad too) replaceable. am a private equity guy - i know financial statements not java or whatever android is written in.
PS: there is 1 more drawback - if u try to use multiple widgets, 1 setting applies to all. So u cant have 1 widget for SMS/Twitter/Facebook and 1 for email - maybe i am doing something wrong but thats what it seemed like.
Does not support exchange = fail.
Hatman41 said:
Does not support exchange = fail.
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+1 That is the only mail that I check on a daily basis. Double Fail!!
Devildog8791 said:
+1 That is the only mail that I check on a daily basis. Double Fail!!
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triple it, it a deal breaker for me, great idea though. would buy it if it was able to read from the exchange mailbox (i don't want yet another mailbox checking or recieving, its already downloading the email, just read that inbox?)
If anybody can recommend anything better, I would love to try that. I suggested this only because there is nothing better than this out there - at least I have not found any. Even without exchange, there is no consolidated widget for all the things in 1 screen.
I have a JB iphone 4 too and I use lockinfo (cydia app). That's the best implementation of a launchpad for various items (calendar, weather, email, missed calls, sms, voicemail, notifications, tasks, twitter) and so on... So far no such widget/app seen on the android platform. This one is close but as you can see from my comments too, its not perfect.
I have Executive Assistant and I must say it's very useful.. if you're looking for something else that also displays all information you might want to try Slidescreen and Slidescreen Pro. I'm not sure if you can read exchange mail through them but they're very clean and professional looking.. they act as a new home though.
Good find!
Checkin out the free version now, no exchange support isn't an issue for me as I don't use it, but if the rest of the app is solid and the dev has enough of a following, I think it's safe to say that exchange support can be expected down the pipeline (Here's hoping since I know a lot of folks use it!)
OK, bought full version, dude SWEET find! Been looking for something like this!

[App] Quick Event 1.1.0 [Updated 9.25.11]

A Calendar Event Inserter similar to Google calendar's Quick Add feature.
By roee88 & danny88.
The end of filling out complicated forms!
Add events to your calendar as quickly as possible by taking advantage of advanced native language processing.
This powerful tool allows you to insert complicated event that include advanced parameters such as recurring factors, location, duration and much more.
Just start typing or speaking, let us do the rest...
Usage Examples:
Family dinner @Mom's every Sunday at 7pm
Meeting with Joe tomorrow at 9
Buy milk @5pm. reminder 30 minutes
Test from Monday to Friday
Another test from mon until fri
Play basketball w/ Mark 10/10 weekly
In case you want learn more about how to use this app and Google's quickadd feature, just log on to http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=36604
Notes
Designed for English and Hebrew languages only. In case you use any other language you may use the @ symbol as a replacement for "at" for both location and time, and use numeric dates like 10/11.
To change date format go to your phone's Settings -> Date & time settings -> Select date format.
This application is part of Android Pro Widgets and is available for free as a stand alone application (Android Pro Widgets is also free).
Download
* You can also search "apw" on the market to find this application.
nice job
Works great!!! easy to use! I recommend downloading it.
Looks great! will it be available as a widget too?
how about multilanguage support?
Thanks in advance, keep up the good work.
looks great, now all i need is landscape version of this thing. so awierd to type whit landscape qwerty slider...
Nice, thank you!
By the way: What calendar widget are you using on the first screenshot? I don't recognize it. It isn't from LauncherPro, isn't it? Thanks!
Thank you this works really well , brilliant . A+
Awesome app
Do u have plans to translate to other languages, if wanna, can help in translation to catalan/spanish.
The app is awesome!
roee88 said:
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* You can also search "apw" on the market to find this application.
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This is a great tool!
Whippler
We'll see what can be done for that, thanks.
HellbillyDeluxe
This is part of our other application, Android Pro Widgets, you can find it on market by searching for apw.
hamsterkiller & ExcaliberX
Supporting more languages is an extremely challenging task as simple translation just won't work. We will try to implement it on a future release.
Once we start working on that, any help would be much appreciated.
the next release will focus on adding other features suggested by users.
- [DONE] Add voice recognition
- [DONE] Remember last calendar used.
- Better support for landscape mode.
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Nice, thank you!
By the way: What calendar widget are you using on the first screenshot? I don't recognize it. It isn't from LauncherPro, isn't it? Thanks!
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Im pretty sure thats what it is. If not the one in LP looks exactly like it
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Im pretty sure thats what it is. If not the one in LP looks exactly like it
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no, it the brand new Android Pro Widget by Dr. Appche
Awesome app! One thing i did notice is that if you are typing and accidently turn the phone to landscape, it makes the app just disappear..
rcrott1
We already fixed that for the next release, thanks.
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rcrott1
We already fixed that for the next release, thanks.
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Can you also look into the default reminder time when entering an event with this app. I think it's always 15 minutes even though I set it to 10 minutes in Android calendar app.
rcrott1 said:
Awesome app! One thing i did notice is that if you are typing and accidently turn the phone to landscape, it makes the app just disappear..
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Thank you! we are thrilled that you enjoy our app.
If it no bother, please rate us\place a comment in Android Market
About the Landscape mode, the problem is fixed in our next version (that will be released in a couple of days\hours )
luffyp said:
Can you also look into the default reminder time when entering an event with this app. I think it's always 15 minutes even though I set it to 10 minutes in Android calendar app.
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Unfortunately reminders are somewhat tricky and we have no access to the default reminder setting of the calendar application.
We will try to think of an elegant solution for future releases, but for now the default reminder is indeed 15 minutes.
For now you may click the Edit button instead of OK and immediately press back (we know, not the best solution..).
Android Pro Quick Event 1.0.2 released!
Here are recent changes:
- Fix: closed when changing orientation.
- Fix: Remembers the last used calendar.
- Feature: Speech recognition added.
my days are off by one
when i try to set up an event the day is off by one i say Friday and it puts Thursdays date in it? anyone else have this issue
griffen97023
Please let me know what is your timezone so I can try to reproduce it.
Edit: well I can see its Pacific.
As far as I can tell the bug is only in the display and only for full day events. Events are placed at the right day after you click OK or Edit.
I'm working on a fix right now and it will be included in the next release.
Thanks.
Thanks! + small bug (?) report
Hey, thanks for the awesome app, I hit that "thanks" button really hard
I think I'll get used to the way of typing in appointments like that quite quickly.
However, I already found something I believe to be a minor bug. Imagine the following scenario: Let's say I want to schedule a meeting at an office of someone called "George Atkinson": "Meeting @ Atkinson's office". No problem so far.
In Germany it is not uncommon for people to have multiple last names connected by a hyphen. Let's say his name is now "George Johnson-Atkinson". Now it would be: "Meeting @ Johnson-Atkinson's office". What happens is that apparently the hyphen changes something in the syntax so that after having typed "Johnson-A", as soon as I type the "t", the Location part will omit what I wrote before and say "tkinson's office" when I'm done typing everything. It probably has something to do with its recognizing the "At" in "Atkinson" as a command (yet, funnily enough, the "t" stays as the first letter in the Location field, which I wouldn't have expected if it was mistaken as part of a command!).
It can get even more confusing. Let's say I don't want it to say "Meeting @ Johnson-Atkinson's office", but rather "Meeting @ George Johnson-Atkinson's office" (i.e. adding the first name; to be more general: another word followed by a space). After having typed "Meeting @ George Johnson-", the hyphen "jumps" to the Title field again, leaving only "George Johnson" in the Location field. Completing the command will result in the Title field saying "Meeting -Atkinson's office" and the Location field saying "George Johnson". EDIT: I just tried it with "Meeting @ Atkinson-Johnson's office" and it gave me "Meeting -Johnson's office" --> Title and "George Atkinson" --> Location. So this "bug" doesn't seem to be associated with the "At". So I guess I accidently found two bugs which I thought to be a single one
I don't know if this is working as intended and only poses a problem with the German "double names". Nonetheless, I did actually and in reality run across this problem I hope my description wasn't too confusing.
Thanks in advance for looking into it!
Updated to 1.0.3
We just released version 1.0.3
Change log:
Many improvements in the parsing abilities.
Added an option for full screen mode.
Fixed timezone issues.
Fixed calendars detection for Motorola 2.2+ devices.
Added Settings to allow changing default reminder, duration and calendar provider.
tsrzealot
Try this version and let me know what you think.

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