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Flip4Silence 2.0 BETA
Silence notifications when your phone is flipped - battery friendly!
Flip4Silence is back! It's just an BETA version but it already serves its purpose: Silence notifications when the phone lays upside down on the table! And the best thing about this, it doesn't eat up your battery (like other tools do)!
I just finished the BETA and I'm currently testing it. But as I think it could be useful to someone in this state I just made it public. Please be so kind and keep in mind that this is not the final and probably will not act as reliable as it should. I will do my best to fix any bugs which are found, so please report your problems back.
If you are a ROM chief or have a custom ROM installed:
I have planned to migrate this tool to a "one for all" tone silencer. Unfortunately this requires a patch (which is attached to this post) to allow the user to set the tones as the system defaults. The patch is also posted on the AOSP gerrit and may be accepted (don't know if they like the patch) and I will try to integrate it into CM9.
If you are a ROM chief and would like to integrate the patch and the (upcoming) tool feel free to contact me via pm.
If you are a user of a custom ROM feel free to encourage your ROM chief to integrate the patch.
Feel free to contact me if you have integrated the patch somewhere, especially if it's a ROM for the Galaxy Nexus or Nexus One as I would like to use it on my own phones
Attention:
If you had a previous version installed I'm very sorry to tell you that you have to REASSIGN every single ringtone you have selected with F4S Ultimate before again due to a internal incompatible change!
What it gives you:
Silence nearly every notification!
Is planned to be a full replacement for every ringtone picker (please tell me what you want from your ringtone picker)
It's nice to your battery as it's only active when something happens and not all the time.
More control over the sensitivity used (no more "low", "high", "normal", you are in charge now!).
MP3 ringtones are now supported! The UI is not really finished, it's at least planned to add the album covers to the list.
"Silence when user is present" - never get a notification sound again when you are playing with your device and don't need a audio notification.
What it can't do:
You can't use it to put silenced ringtones into the default settings. Please never ever put a silenced ringtone into your phone ringer or the default notification sound. It will just not work (and will never), trust me. However, you can put in a "unsilenced" ringtone (more later).
Currently the sensors will report strange results if you have vibration on while a ringtone is played. It lacks a good filtering, so it's not really usable currently.
How to use it?
It has currently no settings dialog at all, it is just a alternative to pick a ringtone. When you select somewhere a "Choose a ringtone now" button it will be an option which you can launch.
When you select your tones with the tool it will more or less look like the standard ringtone picker with some exceptions. On the bottom you will see a list with all ringtones you may pick from. When you select them, they will be played as a preview to you (just like the stock ringtone picker does). When you have found your ringtone just hit the tick button at the top bar and you are done. It will now silence this (and only this) notification when the phone lays on its display. When you want to discard your selection just hit the cross on the top, the back button of your phone or the home button, it's your choice.
The really interesting thing is the speaker icon at the top bar. It works the following way:
When you see the muted speaker (speaker with X) the ringtone will be silenced when you hit the tick button (sure, it will only be muted when the phone lays upside down). But sometimes you want a sound so be played everytime and not only when the phone lays with its back on the table. Then you can press the speaker at the top and it will switch over to a unmuted speaker. When you now hit the tick the selected tone will never be muted by the tool.
You can now start over and replace every notification sound with a one selected via this tool. Just pick a tone and hit the tick at the bar and you are done.
I'm currently using gingerbread and was able to replace the tones in the following applications:
Stock SMS/MMS
gTalk
Google+
Facebook
Flip4Silence
How does this sensitivity slider work?
It allows you to set the exact degree when Flip4Silence should recognize the phone as "lays on its screen". The range is from 0 (lays exactly on its screen) to 90 degree (stands on its bottom).
You can change the value with the slider or with the plus and minus button to a value which should fit your need (it lacks a testing mode, sorry :/).
The green part of the slice on the left is a visualization of the "snap area" where Flip4Silence will recognize the phone should be silent. You can transfer it to the real world when you put your phone with its bottom on the table which would be 90 degree. When you now tilt it slowly down to it's screen it would be 0. So you have actually moved it on 90 degrees of a circle which is what the image tried to tell you.
The settings are now this way because people reported that LOW and HIGH weren't enough to trigger it the way they wanted it. The dialog still lacks a "choose from presets" option but this will hopefully be added in the future.
As a hint here are the settings known from F4S 1.0 (which will suit the most people)
High: 20 degree
Normal: 25 degree
Low: 30 degree
So you say it's now save to use it to pick global ringtones?
Yes, in general it is. The picker maintains now a blacklist for Activities which aren't able to handle the special ringtones we return. This blacklist currently only has the stock settings blacklisted so it should work for most devices. But HTC/Motorola/Samsung may have changed ROMs in a way that they also changed the identifier for the SystemSettings. In this cases the blacklist will not work until I have added them
So as it's more or less save, here is the warning again:
Please note the fact that you should never ever use a "silenced" ringtone for the ringer or the default notification sound. The new BETA tries to prevent you from doing so (the little speaker on the top is not drawn) but it may fail! If you see a speaker in your Default Notification/Ringtone picker than please hit the "Report usage" button in Flip4Silence ultimate so I can add it to the blacklist.
What does this "Report usage" button do again?
As stated above it will send a report to me about the places where you have used Flip4Silence Ultimate to select a ringtone. Please only send the manual report if you have found out that your System Settings is not blocked from setting a silenced ringtone (as described above). Please also leave a short note here that you have send a report. Reports contain the same data as crashreports, so nothing is really special about them.
"Silence when user is present" does what?
Did it ever annoyed you to hear notifications when you got your device in your hand? Did you ever thought "Damn, shut up! I have seen the notification, no need to play a sound...".
If yes, then I have a solution for you: "Silence when user is present" does simply what is says, it blocks the notification sound when you are currently fiddling with your device and don't need another acoustic notification about a new message or anything else.
Of course it only works with sound which were set with this app and currently the switch is on a global base (will likely change in an upcoming version).
Okay, sounds good so far, where can I get it?
I will attach the newest version and the previous one to this post whenever an update occures. You can also download it on the Android Market
Why is this nifty app not translated into [INSERT LANGUAGE HERE]?
I will contribute at least a German translation once the strings in the program have settled down (one or two releases before the first stable will be released). If your favorite language is missing and you are willing to translate it by yourself please contact me and I will hand the localization files when the app has reached the pre stable state.
The icons used are nice, but the application icon is damn ugly dude!
Yea, I know. I had to make some of my own when I developed Flip4Silence so the quality is far from good. While I like the overall theme (the phone and the sleep indication) it's not really pretty as I'm more the coding guy than a designer. If you are a designer or know someone who would like to make some icons for this app it would be awesome if you would contact me. I can't provide any money for this as it's only a fun project but it would be worth a credits entry and publicity (it depends, but I expect a broad usage around the globe, just like the original Flip4Silence ).
Uh, who has done this cute icons you are using?
The icons used in the main view of the ringtone picker are from AndroidIcons.com. Thanks guys for this great set of free icons!
Changelog
1.0 BETA6
Fixed BETA4 bugs.
1.0 BETA5 (skipped due to major bugfix fail)
1.0 BETA4
Resolved all BETA3 problems
Feature: added 'Silence when user is present'
Added ICS SoundPreferences to caller blacklist
Minimal Android version bumped to Eclair as I updated ActionBarSherlock
1.0 BETA3
Local music is now selectable.
Choose if you want to send your systemlog on crash
Bugfix: Crash on settings when empty skip value was given.
Blacklist for SystemSettings added (at least for stockroms)
1.0 BETA2
Fixed critical bug (default settings weren't read causing infinite sensor poll...)
1.0 BETA
Bugfixes (a bunch, should be more stable now)
Added sensitivity settings dialogue
Added ACRA for error reporting (you may opt out)
1.0 ALPHA
Initial release
(maybe) Upcoming Features
List of default ringtones to set (for easier reselection of the same tones)
Some kind of indicator which ringtone was previously selected (in tune lists)
Known Bugs:
BETA4: The 'local media' selection breaks when you have more than 2 songs on your phone (stupid me, should have tested this...)
Resolved Bugs:
BETA4: Crashes in the 'sensitivity picker' due to a random/rare stackoverflow condition
BETA4: Crashes in the 'local music picker' due to a uninitialized object
BETA3: It's possible to assign a silenced ringtone to a blacklisted caller by changing the device configuration (change view to landscape)
BETA3: includes GTalk in the blacklist (added it for testing purposes, forgot to remove it...) so you can't set a silenced ringtone to it...
BETA3: Some database queries and lost cursors create warnings in the systemlog
BETA3: ticking "include systemlog in reports" is useless the app lacks the required privileges (will be removed)
BETA3: the sound settings activity used by Android 1.6 is missing in the blacklist
BETA3: it looks like that at least the Android 1.6 emulator has problems displaying the pick list columns correctly.
Do U think it is possible to also disable vibration on incomming calls? It was working on Gingerbread but not longer on ICS (at least for me)
icke said:
Do U think it is possible to also disable vibration on incomming calls? It was working on Gingerbread but not longer on ICS (at least for me)
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Flip4Silence classic doesn't work correctly on ICS? Didn't knew that, sure I will try to fix this in this rewrite (the old app will not receive any update, everything will be reimplemented).
I will give it a try when I move the old code to the new codebase but I can't promise anything as I don't know whats broken and so don't know how it may be fixed.
But thanks for the report =)
OMG!
Just installed older version from market. I know why it wasn't working..."Keep vibrating" was still enabled.
Sorry...my fault.
icke said:
OMG!
Just installed older version from market. I know why it wasn't working..."Keep vibrating" was still enabled.
Sorry...my fault.
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No problem at all, so I can note down that F4S Classic also works on ICS? Good... =)
Luminger said:
No problem at all, so I can note down that F4S Classic also works on ICS? Good... =)
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Yepp...definitely working on ICS.
Glad you haven't abbandoned this project. I will test it soon on my NS.
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I just release BETA3. As nobody reads the main post again, please note the following:
You generally don't have to take special care about the System Settings default sound picker as it's now blacklisted as it not supports F4S Ultimate. Consult the main post for more info about this. But If the little speaker at the top is shown for you in the default settings please hit the "Report usage" button and send me some info about your phone (again, more info is hidden in the main post ).
If you had a previous version installed I'm very sorry to tell you that you have to REASSIGN every single ringtone you have selected with F4S Ultimate before again due to a internal incompatible change!
Also I would like to say "Thank you!" to everybody who is currently testing/using this! I have not thought that so many people would try it! Thank you very much!
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I just release BETA3. As nobody reads the main post again, please note the following:
You generally don't have to take special care about the System Settings default sound picker as it's now blacklisted as it not supports F4S Ultimate. Consult the main post for more info about this. But If the little speaker at the top is shown for you in the default settings please hit the "Report usage" button and send me some info about your phone (again, more info is hidden in the main post ).
If you had a previous version installed I'm very sorry to tell you that you have to REASSIGN every single ringtone you have selected with F4S Ultimate before again due to a internal incompatible change!
Also I would like to say "Thank you!" to everybody who is currently testing/using this! I have not thought that so many people would try it! Thank you very much!
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If you want to keep a secret, post it in the OP!
Why the BETA sign? What's not stable yet? And when do you plan to release a non-beta version?
eirh said:
Why the BETA sign? What's not stable yet? And when do you plan to release a non-beta version?
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It has the beta sign because it's rather untested and it's a very fragile kind of app as it operates at the border (or some steps beyond) of the android system.
I does things which were never intended by the developers, also I'm developing this thing alone. The beta sign will be removed when it's proven that it operates on virtually any phone from android 1.6 to 4.0 and includes all the features the original Flip4Silence has.
Currently everything is working as intended besides a bug I have just found (which is documented in the second post). A "stable" (I only release software which is at least usable for me) without the beta sign will come when I have done all the work. I can't tell you a date as this is not my job but I will do my best to release as often as I can.
BETA4 is out now!
BETA4 is out now!
It introduces a new feature: "Silence when user is present", please take a look at the first and second post for the changes in detail.
Besides that I had to wipe the caller database once again as the format changed again, so you have to reassign anything again (should be the last time, the format should be stable now...).
A sidenote:
I have not received any crash so far and it seems to work pretty good so I consider it now "stable enough for everyday use".
Thanks for this app, sounds good downloading now....
How Do I start the app?
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danlivesey said:
Thanks for this app, sounds good downloading now....
How Do I start the app?
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It's a ringtonepicker replacement, to use the app you have to reassign the notification tones of the apps you want to be silenced on a flip. Your system will present you a list of apps which are suitable for ringtone picking, just select Flip4Silence there.
"Silence when user is present" - never get a notification sound again when you are playing with your device and don't need a audio notification.
Man I have been looking for this feature since day 1 of owning a Android Phone! I'll help you test the app!
Edit: I goto settings>Sound>Ringtone phone> choose flip4silence>Local Media
Crashes every time
Desire S
IceColdSandwich 7.0
zxzyzd said:
"Silence when user is present" - never get a notification sound again when you are playing with your device and don't need a audio notification.
Man I have been looking for this feature since day 1 of owning a Android Phone! I'll help you test the app!
Edit: I goto settings>Sound>Ringtone phone> choose flip4silence>Local Media
Crashes every time
Desire S
IceColdSandwich 7.0
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Once again, lesson learned: never ever say "it's working good, quiet good" as it will brake then =)
It's a problem in (at least) the artist list, I will fix it soon. Stay tuned for an update and thanks for testing =)
Crappy video I made showing how I made it crash: http://youtu.be/R_4v-AKSjM4 (done in about half an hour)
I also provided a logcat with warnings, errors and fatal exceptions. Don't worry about the rmt_storage lines though, that has something to do with the beta ROM I'm using.
zxzyzd said:
Crappy video I made showing how I made it crash: http://youtu.be/R_4v-AKSjM4 (done in about half an hour)
I also provided a logcat with warnings, errors and fatal exceptions. Don't worry about the rmt_storage lines though, that has something to do with the beta ROM I'm using.
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Now that's cool, I have never seen a bug report video before . It should be easy to fix this, but I have one question:
How many MP3s do you have on your device (I don't need an exact number, just a rough estimation, something like "60 albums" or something like that)?
13 normal albums, 1 album of Super Smash Bros (which has about 200+ songs ) and one "album" I made myself for my ringtones.
Ringtone Slicer is ringtone maker and audio editor. It allows you to edit your favorite music to make the best & free mp3 ringtones! If you like Ringdroid — you'll like this mp3 ringtone maker much more.
You can make ringtone, alarm or even notification audio and save it to your SD Card with this ringtone maker app. Just select piece of your favourite song in audio editor and app will slice it!
Feature list:
Inbuilt file explorer. Pick file right from folder on your SD Card!
Theming, which allows you to choose the best apperance for editing audio.
Buttery smooth scrolling on 4.0+ devices.
Zooming for accurate ringtone editing. Just use pinch-to-zoom!
Playback from any position in audio file. Tap at the point you want to start playback.
Audio files which you will save shows up in the standart Android audio list for picking ringtones.
Intuitive interface with orientation support and gestures like pinch-to-zoom and flinging. Anybody can make free ringtones with this app!
App will remain FREE to use for all lifecycle.
Grab Ringtone Slicer at Google Play
Absolutely outstanding very best on the market.
Also if you have some suggestions or ideas about improvements or usability — I will be happy if you'll post them here. Users feedback is really important for me.
sergeyotro said:
Also if you have some suggestions or ideas about improvements or usability — I will be happy if you'll post them here. Users feedback is really important for me.
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Usability bould not be better, the app looks very nice and clean. The only suggestion that I would have is to support *.m4a files, not sure if it just supports mp3 or more but I did notice it doesn't recignize the few m4a files I have. Stand by my original statement "Absolutley outstanding"
Thank you.
I would really like to leave some positive feedback and ratings on Google Play but I really hate Google+.
JudgeDredd67 said:
Usability bould not be better, the app looks very nice and clean. The only suggestion that I would have is to support *.m4a files, not sure if it just supports mp3 or more but I did notice it doesn't recignize the few m4a files I have. Stand by my original statement "Absolutley outstanding"
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At this moment app supports acc in mp4 container, mp3, wav and amr. More formats like m4a and ogg will come soon.
Thank you for your feedback, it's really nice to know that somebody is satisfied.
Really nice app
I would like to be able to move the endpoint while playing the loop so i could hear the change without pressing stop and play. Also i would like to be able to play from where i am tapping, like in the end of my marking to see that the looping fits well. As a visual representation, i would like to have the waveform as a line as an option, and more zoom .
I see the FX are coming later, what i would like there is fade out, fade in, and amplify (-/+)
I'll get back with more input on the great program as i find out more about it.
first:
The app does look quite well.
second:
I have a problem with the quality of the read in mp3s.
When i load a mp3 created from youtube video, i have many distorted areas in the read in file.
But when i play the file in a different player at my android device i have no destorted clicking parts inside the music.
third:
Another issue would be to load flv file format.
conclussion:
a quite well app but with some small bugs.
The app is very nice, and also work pretty good for me!
Nice job, and will wait for the next version with effects. :good:
sergeyotro said:
Also if you have some suggestions or ideas about improvements or usability — I will be happy if you'll post them here. Users feedback is really important for me.
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Good beta, I'd like to suggest you:
-an holo dark theme
-manually fade in/out
-a fully zoom-out view
thank you.
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First of all well done for the application. I wonder whether it is possible to have an effect to increase the volume of the actual track/song i.e. make it louder, because the volume in CM 10.1 is much lower than Samsung based roms. Apart from that I really liked the application and the file manager. Nice icons.
Keep up the good work
Good Utility
Nice feature
feature and question
any advice on adding additional sounds of any format available together with default system sounds (ringing, notification, alarm sounds)?
before I made folder in storage "sdcard/audio/" and put files in different subfolders like alert, alarms, notifications, ui, ringtones but lately (on cm10.1) that doesn't work anymore..
Maybe nice option in app would be to make sound we just edited available in one of those lists from directly ringtone slicer (by coping to appropriate directory with root permissions)
Anyway.. Really good for start.. Keep rolling Cheers
+1 for increasing sound for CM10.1
This app is awesome. Thank you thank you thank you
FINALLY! It's about time somebody put together an easy-to-use and intuitive editing interface for doing something so simple as cutting your own notifications and ringtones. I've been waiting for a piece of software like this and I thank you very much. I feel very much at home with this app!
First of all — thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
Based on your requests and feedbacks I've compiled sort of TODO list. Here is it:
Moving starting/end points while playing loop
Starting play on tap. It is already implemented in app, but has some bug and don't work well
More zoom levels
More audio formats
Holo dark theme
And, of course, Fade In/Out, Normalization, Compression effects.
The app is excellent I like the simple interface. I like the way they show up with the stock ringtones. the question I have is how do you delete ringtones you don't want? And will they be removed from the default ringtone selection. Thanks again excellent app.
I am very thankful for a Ringtone maker that does not require tons of unnecessary permissions.
I refuse to download any of the ones in the Google Play store due to that.
Thanks!!
Does you app allow the user to manually input crop start and end times (with precision up to miliseconds)? That's a must have.
defiftyae said:
The question I have is how do you delete ringtones you don't want?
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If you want to delete unusefull ringtones — they will be at /sdcard/Ringtones/Ringtone Slicer/ folder. Remove files and after reboot (or media scanner run) they will be removed from settings list.
jpt19 said:
I am very thankful for a Ringtone maker that does not require tons of unnecessary permissions.
I refuse to download any of the ones in the Google Play store due to that. Thanks!!
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Mapiarz said:
Does you app allow the user to manually input crop start and end times (with precision up to miliseconds)? That's a must have.
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No, it doesn't have that feature for now. There will be more zoom levels in future versions, so I don't think that manual input is necessary.
sergeyotro said:
No, it doesn't have that feature for now. There will be more zoom levels in future versions, so I don't think that manual input is necessary.
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It's very hard for someone with large fingers to accurately select by sliding. It'd be much easier to implement those scrolling toruses (dunno how that control is called) for minutes, seconds and miliseconds for both start and end. Imho it's a must, but do what you want.
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I've been waiting for this thread. Awesome app!!
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I really like this app but coming from zooper, i found some most needed features missing like SMS, missed calls, gmail etc. I hope you include these along with whatsapp, facebook and twitter.
classna said:
I really like this app but coming from zooper, i found some most needed features missing like SMS, missed calls, gmail etc. I hope you include these along with whatsapp, facebook and twitter.
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So unread counts are planned, for SMS missed calls and Gmail i will add a plugin if you are running android < 6.0. Whatsapp / FB and Twitter have no way to get unread counts BUT i will add notifications support so you will be able to count unread notifications. Stay tuned
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So unread counts are planned, for SMS missed calls and Gmail i will add a plugin if you are running android < 6.0. Whatsapp / FB and Twitter have no way to get unread counts BUT i will add notifications support so you will be able to count unread notifications. Stay tuned
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Great! it will be great to have most of zooper's customization features. Is there anyway to change the weather iconset? I liked zooper's resizable vector icons with option to change its color and alpha opacity.
classna said:
Great! it will be great to have most of zooper's customization features. Is there anyway to change the weather iconset? I liked zooper's resizable vector icons with option to change its color and alpha opacity.
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Yeah sure, in KWGT you can even use SVG files for that and distribute them as Komponents, please check the "featured" section when adding a Komponent you will see many for download or search for Weather Komponents around, there are also some tutorials on the official page
Taking Zooper looks like abandonware, tryed this app. Look good, but placing text is a crime. Using Zooper you can give an area a destiny of text and regulate the max amount of lines, etc. Within KWGT I don't have real control over text items. This is a must have
Great potential....but not there yet (no buy yet). Hope it will (Love tweaking my homescreens!)
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Taking Zooper looks like abandonware, tryed this app. Look good, but placing text is a crime. Using Zooper you can give an area a destiny of text and regulate the max amount of lines, etc. Within KWGT I don't have real control over text items. This is a must have
Great potential....but not there yet (no buy yet). Hope it will (Love tweaking my homescreens!)
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I can add the max number of lines on next release, very easy, i do not however understand the "etc", what else is missing? Also did you check the list of things that Zooper cannot do compared to KWGT? Its here. I know i am biased but i think KWGT is years ahead.
I don't doubt that Already seen some nice extra's
I also see a lot of similarites with Zooper, which makes me think it is based on in a new iteration (which makes me doubt for buying before I know it fits). It also could be a new app which uses Zooper and takes it a level further. (Seen a reaction in another thread, other people are doubting because of this). My goal: Getting the right app to do the things I want with my home screen And yours looks promising
My main problem is the widget size, compared to the text control. I understand you translate 720 to all other devices. But if I edit "my widget", it only gets a width which is maxed for a halve or third of the screen (On my Galaxy S6 using nova launcher). This makes editing harder to do. Scaling is one option, but it does not yet works practical for me (PEBKAC ?)
Also changing orientation looks like it is missing a correct scaling (widget gets wider, but it looks like it is smaller). But it changes, instead of zooper . There is also a lag when changing orientation (default redraw timer, not reacting to orientation switch).
What I like would be a text region on my canvas, which I can position and give a height (or max height) and width.
Dimensions are now based on
- Fixed width, which does not give me enough control to position multiline text (control is lost especially in the vertical)
- Fixed Font height, which results in text running out of the screen
- Fit width, which does not use the amount of space in the vertical
My suggestion would be to separate the text and text region (settings).
- Setting the dimensions: (width fixed or relative E.g. 100%, height), give the postion (fixed or relative)
- Setting the font info: How to use the region e.g. fixed font size, fill, vertical/horizontal alignment, max amount of lines/single line, (max amount of characters ?)
The etc is/was a lazy way of saying the above
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I don't doubt that Already seen some nice extra's
I also see a lot of similarites with Zooper, which makes me think it is based on in a new iteration (which makes me doubt for buying before I know it fits). It also could be a new app which uses Zooper and takes it a level further. (Seen a reaction in another thread, other people are doubting because of this). My goal: Getting the right app to do the things I want with my home screen And yours looks promising
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This has nothing to do with Zooper, i started KLWP (and then KWGT) because i felt options on the store were really too bad in terms of resources and features and UI, so this is inspired by other widget makers (and wallpaper makers too) but completely on its own, so, you should avoid thinking about Zooper when using KWGT as its quite different on some fundamentals.
Anyway you do not actually need to buy KWGT since all features are available in the free version, but if you buy it and you feel you want a refund in, say, 1 month from now, just drop me an email, will refund.
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My main problem is the widget size, compared to the text control. I understand you translate 720 to all other devices. But if I edit "my widget", it only gets a width which is maxed for a halve or third of the screen (On my Galaxy S6 using nova launcher). This makes editing harder to do. Scaling is one option, but it does not yet works practical for me (PEBKAC ?)
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The widget is different from the live wallpaper, in the widget with no scaling "720" means the shortest side of the widget (so the height on a 4x2 or the width in a 2x4), but you should not care about that since there is no limit on that anywhere and scaling just changes how that size is interpreted (so with scaling set to 200 720 will become 360), not sure why is impractical, it just works and scales correctly (Zooper does not even scale, if you change the widget size you have to relayout manually...). If you scale a KWGT it will redraw and adapt based on its size automatically.
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Also changing orientation looks like it is missing a correct scaling (widget gets wider, but it looks like it is smaller). But it changes, instead of zooper . There is also a lag when changing orientation (default redraw timer, not reacting to orientation switch).
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You need to set Orientation to "AUTO" in the Widget settings, by default KWGT expects that your launcher orientation is locked. If you set it to AUTO it will draw properly in both orientation rearranging everything based on size, it will still have some lag, like 100/200ms depending on the complexity because KWGT will redraw everything (this is different from Zooper / UCCW they always draw both the landscape and portrait so there is no lag but they are much less efficient because you end up drawing something that you do not need most of the times doubling the resources required like RAM and CPU / Battery).
peebeenl said:
What I like would be a text region on my canvas, which I can position and give a height (or max height) and width.
Dimensions are now based on
- Fixed width, which does not give me enough control to position multiline text (control is lost especially in the vertical)
- Fixed Font height, which results in text running out of the screen
- Fit width, which does not use the amount of space in the vertical
My suggestion would be to separate the text and text region (settings).
- Setting the dimensions: (width fixed or relative E.g. 100%, height), give the postion (fixed or relative)
- Setting the font info: How to use the region e.g. fixed font size, fill, vertical/horizontal alignment, max amount of lines/single line, (max amount of characters ?)
The etc is/was a lazy way of saying the above
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You can do max amount of characters or even ellipsize using $tc(ell, text, 10)$ for example, that will cut and if larger add "..." at the end. For everything else i think having the max number of lines combined with the fit width will do exactly what you want.
I was a zooper user for many years, and like others I began to realize that it appears to be an abandon product - certainly there were no updates for a long time.
I was looking to where to go in the future, and looked at all the similar products. KWLP (KWGT was not available at the time) appeared to be the most sophisticated of the alternatives.
I discovered that I was able to replicate all of my zooper widgets in KWLP - and it gave me even more capabilities. The only personal downside was that I prefered widgets (and the ease of placement on a page) to the live wallpaper. Then KWGT - gave me everything. In a very short time, I took all of my zooper, now kwlp items to kwgt. I now consider kwgt a complete (and then some) replacement to zooper. Bottom line, there was a small learning curve, but once past that I have everything I had with zooper and then some. On top of that, kwlp/kwgt is under constant development and super support from the developer. You can see from the responses above that he takes customer support and product quality/development very seriously. Zooper has no active development and I question if there is a future at all.
kwlp/kwgt has a very active user community on g+ (frankly I like xda forums better) - but there is alot of community and developer support.
Basically I made the switch and am very happy to have done so.
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kwlp/kwgt has a very active user community on g+ (frankly I like xda forums better) - but there is alot of community and developer support.
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Thanks!! Happy to support on XDA too, just mention me if needed and i will try to answer ))
And welcome to Kustom!
Is it possible to backup (not export) my widget config and reapply it to a new widget?
PS, the config utility is very heavy, sometimes it loads up to 5 minutes. WTF?
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One more question. Can the progressbars use a formula as a parameter? Or only fixed parameters? And can a standard progressbar (battery) use a custom number of sections?
Not bad, I try
The latest version has a strange bug. $nc(csiga)$ often freezes and constantly displays 9 (not 99!) until I lock the screen. I never had this bug on Zooper, so it's not hardware or firmware.
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Is it possible to backup (not export) my widget config and reapply it to a new widget?
PS, the config utility is very heavy, sometimes it loads up to 5 minutes. WTF?
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This loading issue has been reported by more than one user, i cannot reproduce it on my device and it does not happen on the live wallpaper version (KLWP) so i can't really understand what its going on, can you create a full bug report as explained here: http://kustom.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/615645-send-debug-data (follow the android bug report section), that will be very useful
To copy a widget into another you have 3 options:
Open the first, select all items press "copy" and then open the second and press paste
Export and then Import
Use Komponents (and export them as well)
siealex said:
One more question. Can the progressbars use a formula as a parameter? Or only fixed parameters? And can a standard progressbar (battery) use a custom number of sections?
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Yeah sure, to create a formula based progress bar just do the following:
Set progress to "Custom", a new option will show called "Progress"
Select the option called "Level" and turn it into a formula
Use a formula that returns a value between 0 and 100 ($bi(level)$ for example)
Select the sections you need
siealex said:
The latest version has a strange bug. $nc(csiga)$ often freezes and constantly displays 9 (not 99!) until I lock the screen. I never had this bug on Zooper, so it's not hardware or firmware.
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This is strange, will look into it (and thanks for reporting also in the G+ community)
Hi Frank,
I am creating an IOS style status bar and it is coming up nicely but i ran into a few issues. I am using a formula to set the visibility to ALWAYS or NEVER when bluetooth, airplane mode, wifi, carrier bars etc are turned on/off. It works perfectly for airplane mode, wifi, 3G/4G etc but there is a delay of say 5-10 seconds when i turn bluetooth and alarm on/off. Is there a way to speed up the refresh rate?
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Hi Frank,
I am creating an IOS style status bar and it is coming up nicely but i ran into a few issues. I am using a formula to set the visibility to ALWAYS or NEVER when bluetooth, airplane mode, wifi, carrier bars etc are turned on/off. It works perfectly for airplane mode, wifi, 3G/4G etc but there is a delay of say 5-10 seconds when i turn bluetooth and alarm on/off. Is there a way to speed up the refresh rate?
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So for Alarm its not currently because android does not actually "broadcast" the change, i am working on a better approach on Android 5.x or better but i am not sure that will entirely fix this.
For bluetooth it will be fixed in next release (just forgot to register a listener for that)
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So for Alarm its not currently because android does not actually "broadcast" the change, i am working on a better approach on Android 5.x or better but i am not sure that will entirely fix this.
For bluetooth it will be fixed in next release (just forgot to register a listener for that)
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Great! I look forward to next release. I forgot to mention that 3G/4G [ nc(dtypes) ] also takes a while although it is usually less than 5 seconds but delay is still there.
Question: Suppose we have 3 items like shape1, shape2 and shape3. They are horizontally or vertically displayed inside a stacked group. If i set the visibility of shape2 (middle one) to "NEVER" it disappears but it still takes that space and there is a big gap between shape1 and shape3. Is there a way to snap shape3 to shape1 so there will be no gape if the visibility of shape2 is set to NEVER? This is currently causing some design issues and i can't find a way to fix this.
Cheers.
I'm a big fan of android, used it for a lot of years since the HTC HD2 phenomenon started getting bigger and bigger. After that, fast forward, I've tried out an iphone 5 for a year, and I've gotten used to some features that I wish to see if they can be modded into android or even come with newer versions of stock android.
So, here's what I would like to see if it can be done on Android:
When you receive an SMS with some keywords such as "meet me tomorrow", tomorrow is underlined and after clicking it it jumps you to creating a pre-filled event for tomorrow.
When in the stock browser I play streaming audio such as soundcloud or a live online radio, the notification bar (and the notification bar in the lockscreen) pins play/pause & volume controls for that stream and, keeps them there even if I switch away from the browser and do something else, and that's a very convenient shortcut for me.
If you receive an sms, you can quickly reply on the lockscreen, you even get a keyboard
When I click a video, it automatically goes fullscreen, no matter if I'm on youtube or a webpage
Add shortcuts to web pages on the launcher
Are these features present?
Please, no flame-wars, this is just a subjective review of features that I use, not necessarily features that are the best or that android must have.
This seems to be already present, so scratch one off the list.
When I click a video, it automatically goes fullscreen, no matter if I'm on youtube or a webpage
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nemuro said:
When you receive an SMS with some keywords such as "meet me tomorrow", tomorrow is underlined and after clicking it it jumps you to creating a pre-filled event for tomorrow.
When in the stock browser I play streaming audio such as soundcloud or a live online radio, the notification bar (and the notification bar in the lockscreen) pins play/pause & volume controls for that stream and, keeps them there even if I switch away from the browser and do something else, and that's a very convenient shortcut for me.
If you receive an sms, you can quickly reply on the lockscreen, you even get a keyboard
When I click a video, it automatically goes fullscreen, no matter if I'm on youtube or a webpage
Add shortcuts to web pages on the launcher
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1. Works sometimes with Now on Tap
2. chrome creates a notification when listening to souncloud which lets you pause the music
3. I think some OEM ROMS have this option and you can add it to any device using floatify
4. you can play videos from the browser in fullscreen mode
5. yes thats possible
What is Easy Smart Phone?
Easy Smart Phone is a launcher app with big fonts, big icons and simplified user interface. Its main target is elderly people who has problems with small text and complex gestures on smart phone. Easy Smart Phone will make things easier for them.
What is current status?
Easy Smart Phone is under development and it is between alpha and beta status. Most of core functions has been developed but there are some missing features and could have bugs.
Current features
Launcher with big buttons and big text
No complex gestures to use smart phone. Just simple 1 page and you can access all features with scroll up and down gesture.
Dialer with big buttons
Default phone app replacement with blacklist, whitelist, SPAM reporting and auto block features
Big fonts for USSD message with custom USSD feature
Full customizable home screen
Home screen is single page and vertical scrollable
Contacts, apps, modules and widgets can be added and removed to home screen.
Home screen elements can be arranged by moving them up and down.
On rooted phones, WhatsApp profile picture can be used as caller photo and GSM calls.
Knows problems
Custom USSD service does not work for some codes like *#06#
Custom USSD service does not work for multi page messages
Custom USSD service should not work on android settings page, but it works
Call Log does not show display name on local contacts or recently added contacts
To send SMS, Easy Smart Phone must be set as default SMS app. But app does not check if it is default SMS app or not. So if you try to send SMS without setting app as default SMS app, app will crash. This will be fixed on next beta release.
Profile picture upload fails if picture size it too big
Phone call problems (Sometimes you need to press hangup button to exit call screen, if other party hangs up)
Notification LED cannot be turned on or off
TO DO
SMS blacklist
Custom numeric keypad
Call log at contacts page
Calculator
Camera
Gallery
Music player
Notes
Calendar
File manager
Alarm
Stopwatch
Weather widget
Battery & information widget
App level notifications
Misc
You can install this app at Android 4.2+. But some features requires newer Android devices, because of Android SDK limitations. Such as
Phone replacement feature requires Android 6.0+
SMS replacement feature requires Android 4.4+
SIM selection for phone call requires Android 5.0+
Easy Smart Phone will be updated weekly . Each update may include new features and bug fixes
Root features tested only with Magisk. I have no idea if it will work with SuperSu or any other rooting method.
All translations are made by Google Translate. So there should be mistakes in translations. If you want to have a better translation in your language, you can correct translations at github page. Thanks for your contribution.
For better Easy Smart Phone experience
Grant all permissions from Android's original settings page. Because on some devices, it is not possible to ask every permission
Set Easy Smart Phone as
Default launcher
Default phone app
Default SMS app
Default browser app
Disable all power saving features for Easy Smart Phone
Set as autostart
Grant start in background permission
Grant Show on Lock Screen permission on some devices
Download
XDA Labs
Amazon App Store
Links
Website
GitHub repository for language files and problem tracking
For language translations, native speakers needed for each different language. You can edit your language's files from this github repository.
https://github.com/gadgetreviews/easySmartPhone/tree/master/language
Thanks for any help to get better translations
I think this is a good project. Need refine some ui there. For phone this day, the screen is big so i think u can made some space for every icon and text so it look more neat
Reserved
New beta has been published:
Change Log:
version 0.0.2
A lot of bugs has been fixed.
Keyboard system re-written.
Custom numeric keypad added.
virganda said:
I think this is a good project. Need refine some ui there. For phone this day, the screen is big so i think u can made some space for every icon and text so it look more neat
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Did you mean should I decrease text size?
Is there anybody has an idea, if I upload this app to Google Play Store, will Google suspend this app and my account? Because of this app asks these sensitive permissions:
android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG
android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS
android.permission.READ_SMS
android.permission.WRITE_SMS
android.permission.SEND_SMS
Even I present documentation why I need these permissions, is it possible that google may suspend my app and my developer account?
coolman7 said:
Did you mean should I decrease text size?
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1. I mean icon padding. Its placed to near one and another. You must made some ui change about icon padding side right and left and up down too. I test it with medium size in setting.
2. You need to up icon size resolution. In my FHD phone it look brushed.
3. In contact you must tweak it. Every time i open contact its delay couple of seconds. My contact is 600 person.
4. In SMS you must made some change for sender and receiver. I think its good if you use different alignment. Left for ingoing sms and right for outgoing.
5. In contact I prefer list option other than icon because it made hard too see long name contact.
Maybe that from me now. I really miss app like this for my parent. Sorry for my english
virganda said:
1. I mean icon padding. Its placed to near one and another. You must made some ui change about icon padding side right and left and up down too. I test it with medium size in setting.
2. You need to up icon size resolution. In my FHD phone it look brushed.
3. In contact you must tweak it. Every time i open contact its delay couple of seconds. My contact is 600 person.
4. In SMS you must made some change for sender and receiver. I think its good if you use different alignment. Left for ingoing sms and right for outgoing.
5. In contact I prefer list option other than icon because it made hard too see long name contact.
Maybe that from me now. I really miss app like this for my parent. Sorry for my english
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Thank you for these valuable feedbacks. I have added this list to my to do list.
1) I already have plans to add padding to icons.
2) I think I will try to make an option for text size: big, medium and small like icons. Current text size should be big or medium size.
3) I tried to speed up to opening contacts, sms list and call log. But I failed before. They are really slow. Espacially SMS list is too slow, if you have too much messages. Maybe I will try to load them partially.
4) I will think about this idea.
5) I am considering there will be another contacts page as list. so it will be user selectable: list or grid.
virganda said:
1. I mean icon padding. Its placed to near one and another. You must made some ui change about icon padding side right and left and up down too. I test it with medium size in setting.
2. You need to up icon size resolution. In my FHD phone it look brushed.
3. In contact you must tweak it. Every time i open contact its delay couple of seconds. My contact is 600 person.
4. In SMS you must made some change for sender and receiver. I think its good if you use different alignment. Left for ingoing sms and right for outgoing.
5. In contact I prefer list option other than icon because it made hard too see long name contact.
Maybe that from me now. I really miss app like this for my parent. Sorry for my english
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Number 1 and 2 in this list has been implemented with version 0.0.5.
1) Added some padding after each row. Not decided yet to add padding between columns.
2) Replaced most icons with higher resolution icons. More icons will be replaced in next versions.