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I've just released my first app to the market. I would appreciate if some people could test it for me on different Android versions/phones?
In-App Wifi Toggle
Once installed you can enable or disable your Wifi connection instantly from any context (ie in the Browser application, from the home screen) by either
a) Long pressing the Search button
b) Pressing the Call button
A nice toast message is displayed stating whether the Wifi connection was enabled or disabled.
I wrote this app because I was fed up of launching an app, realising it would benefit from Wifi being enabled, having to return to the home screen, activate Wifi with the Power Control widget, long press the home button and select the app again to return. This app bypasses all of that with a single button press and doesn't interupt the application you're already in.
Would appreciate your feedback! Thanks!
Great job on this, was thinking about it yesterday.
I long-pressed the search button, cause I prefer having my call button free if I have to make a call in a hurry.
Thanks for your feedback!
I would appreciate if people could tell me what phone/version and what button they are using to activate?
ATM Confirmed working on:
- Nexus One with Long Press of Search
- HTC Desire with Long Press of Search
- HTC G1 with Call Button
There are a lot of handsets out there that don't have a search button, which is why I wired up the call button as well. I appreciate that a lot of users would prefer to keep this wired to their main phone/contacts app however. I am currently looking into getting my app to hook the Camera button also but its not as easy as I would like.
Also, if you do find this app useful it'd be great if you could rate and leave a comment in the Android market, thx!
Also would anyone have any requirement for an equivalent app that toggles bluetooth or GPS? If so let me know, shouldn't be too hard to throw together.
On HTC Legend works OK with search button long press.
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HaggleLad said:
Thanks for your feedback!
I would appreciate if people could tell me what phone/version and what button they are using to activate?
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My attempt was on a HTC Magic on Cyanogen 2.0.7 test2
Confirmed working on my GSM Hero, rooted running Villain 5.3. It works using both long press search and call button. Good app, saves me having to go back to home screen to turn on/of wifi!
Edit: When in Sense UI, everytime I press the phone soft button or call hardware button, I get the "complete using action" dialogue, which asks me to chose whether I want to access the dialer or In-App Wifi Toggle. Is there anyway you can make it so that its disabled on the home screen or when in Sense?
Conform on HTC Legend, 2.1 Sense
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sharpinho said:
Confirmed working on my GSM Hero, rooted running Villain 5.3. It works using both long press search and call button. Good app, saves me having to go back to home screen to turn on/of wifi!
Edit: When in Sense UI, everytime I press the phone soft button or call hardware button, I get the "complete using action" dialogue, which asks me to chose whether I want to access the dialer or In-App Wifi Toggle. Is there anyway you can make it so that its disabled on the home screen or when in Sense?
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When the "Complete using action" dialogue appears you should get a list of potential apps and also a check box labelled "Use by default for this action". If you mark the check box before selecting your desired app you won't be prompted for the app again.
Note also: Once you've selected a default, you can only clear it by going into "Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > [App in Questions]" and hitting the "Clear Defaults" button.
HaggleLad said:
I wrote this app because I was fed up of launching an app, realising it would benefit from Wifi being enabled, having to return to the home screen, activate Wifi with the Power Control widget, long press the home button and select the app again to return.
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One can use Tasker (http://tasker.dinglisch.net/) to automatically have Wifi (or GPS, or whatever) enabled when using specific apps.
Why on certain apps when you can have it whenever you want from a simple press
Edit: works on sprint hero! Good job
WOW
Fantastic app!!! I've been waiting for this for a while!
I can confirm it works great on HTC Hero with FreshToast 2b2.
Long press call key as well as short press. I decided to keep short press going to the phone and long press for the wifi toggle.
THANK YOU!!! 5 Stars from me!
Works great on Desire. Nice job!!!
HaggleLad said:
Thanks for your feedback!
I would appreciate if people could tell me what phone/version and what button they are using to activate?
ATM Confirmed working on:
- Nexus One with Long Press of Search
- HTC Desire with Long Press of Search
- HTC G1 with Call Button
There are a lot of handsets out there that don't have a search button, which is why I wired up the call button as well. I appreciate that a lot of users would prefer to keep this wired to their main phone/contacts app however. I am currently looking into getting my app to hook the Camera button also but its not as easy as I would like.
Also, if you do find this app useful it'd be great if you could rate and leave a comment in the Android market, thx!
Also would anyone have any requirement for an equivalent app that toggles bluetooth or GPS? If so let me know, shouldn't be too hard to throw together.
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Great idea and app, thanks a lot!
Would definitely be able to make use of a GPS one as well on my Desire as I use RunKeeper a lot but hate having to turn GPS on and off all the time! There is a feature in the app to turn on GPS but it takes you to the phone security settings for some reason?
Cheers!
Fastest five stars I've ever given to something from the Market. Great job.
I was worried that it would affect my call button's usage but had totally forgotten that if Android has two different functions for the same button it asks you which function you want to use [and lets you set the default].
Long-press search button on myTouch 3G.
Great work!
Just thought I would let you know that I have now released "In-App Bluetooth Toggle" to the market now.
I have also added an "In-App Toggle Donate" version so that anyone who wants to say thanks can purchase for 99p. The donate app combines both the bluetooth and wifi apps into one. Any donations are gratefully recieved.
As always I appreciate any feedback.
I will be looking into a GPS toggle in the near future however this will take longer as some hacking is involved.
Installed on my Nexus One running CM 5.0.6, works with long-press on search button just fine.. thanks for the app, great idea.
HaggleLad said:
Thanks for your feedback!
I would appreciate if people could tell me what phone/version and what button they are using to activate?
ATM Confirmed working on:
- Nexus One with Long Press of Search
- HTC Desire with Long Press of Search
- HTC G1 with Call Button
There are a lot of handsets out there that don't have a search button, which is why I wired up the call button as well. I appreciate that a lot of users would prefer to keep this wired to their main phone/contacts app however. I am currently looking into getting my app to hook the Camera button also but its not as easy as I would like.
Also, if you do find this app useful it'd be great if you could rate and leave a comment in the Android market, thx!
Also would anyone have any requirement for an equivalent app that toggles bluetooth or GPS? If so let me know, shouldn't be too hard to throw together.
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Working as expected on my Sprint CDMA Hero running Fresh Toast 2.1 w/ custom GodMode x.29 kernel. Both long press shortcuts work (search and call).
As for an equivalent app, I don't really need bluetooth since I often have to re-open an app to get it to recognize a bluetooth connection I start after instead of prior to opening it. GPS on the other hand might be nice.
Thanks for the useful app! I was honestly thinking that an app like this would be great to have last week.
Okay, so the HTC Incredible has no call button, and a long press of the search button is defaulted to activating the voice input for search. How about a long press of the Back button (which is the only button that does not already have a long press function)?
Just installed on my HTC Incredible works with the long pressing of the search button. When you press the search button long it brings up (complete action using either the search or In-app wifi). It will turn on and off the wifi but doesn't connect the wifi stays in 3g mode. I have to go into settings/wireless & Networks/WI-FI settings and then it connects. So lets say if the WiFi is turned on and i use IN-APP WIFI it will turn it off just fine. If i try to turn it back on using IN-APP WIFI it will not revert unless i go into wifi settings. Great idea though sir i hope you can get it to work on the incredible
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Update i uninstalled it Cycled my phone off and on reinstalled it worked fine for awhile then went back to Lagging. Don't know if it conflicts with HTC's Wifi widget.
HTC Desire...All go
I have in stalled this on HTC desire (non rooted) and it seemless. Great job!
Rotation toggler is essentially an auto-rotate screen toggler application that allows you to enable or disable android's auto-rotate feature. This is useful especially when you don't want the screen to change its orientation when say..you're reading an ebook or browsing a site and don't want your browser to change its orientation. Just long press on the search button and select "rotation toggler" or launch the application in your app drawer and toggle the auto-rotation on or off. It is just that simple! Don't forget to try my other free apps. Ad-supported (requires and uses internet connection ONLY if you launch the app via app drawer).
I created this app out of a request from my friend who wants an app to easily toggle the auto-rotation in his nexus one. Thought I'd share this app with the rest of the world, i'm sure someone will find it useful. Enjoy
You can download Rotation Toggler along with my other android apps here:
http://slideme.org/user/mlbl
You know there's already a free widget in the market that does this. And it doesn't have ads.
It's called "Autorotate OnOff" by Curvefish.
Mine is not a widget, its a replacement when u long press on the search button. so its an alternative. For instance you're in adobe reader, you just long press, select the rotation toggler and you're done. With a widget, you'd have to press the home button, toggle the widget.
I wonder whether you could do that it woulden't rotate the home screen, bot like the browser (ect.) would? And so I don't have to switch manual every time.
buttom customization would be nice (maybe long home press) as search button is being used by couple other apps (Quick Settings, Voice Search)
kkssgg said:
buttom customization would be nice (maybe long home press) as search button is being used by couple other apps (Quick Settings, Voice Search)
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Long press Home: Task Switcher
Long press Menu: Show keyboard
Long press Back: Close App/Show History
Long press Search: Voice Search
Most buttons already have a long press function
AaBoyXX said:
I wonder whether you could do that it woulden't rotate the home screen, bot like the browser (ect.) would? And so I don't have to switch manual every time.
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Actually if i'm not mistaken the stock home screen for most phones won't rotate, at least my n1 doesn't unless you're using a custom home screen like adw or launcher pro. Also this is not possible to disable just one part of the system such as the home screen or the browser. Its either off entirely for all or none at all.
kkssgg > Can't be done for other buttons, apps are not allowed to use other buttons for long pressing as it interfere's with its existing functions (home screen long press - switch apps, menu long press - keyboard, back button long press - well nothing but so far its not possible to long press a back button).
Awesome app! Thank you very much!
Thanks! Don't forget to try out my other apps, I believe you will find them useful too. Enjoy
mlbl said:
Actually if i'm not mistaken the stock home screen for most phones won't rotate, at least my n1 doesn't unless you're using a custom home screen like adw or launcher pro. Also this is not possible to disable just one part of the system such as the home screen or the browser. Its either off entirely for all or none at all.
kkssgg > Can't be done for other buttons, apps are not allowed to use other buttons for long pressing as it interfere's with its existing functions (home screen long press - switch apps, menu long press - keyboard, back button long press - well nothing but so far its not possible to long press a back button).
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A, Ok. Thanks, the app is stile great and I will use it for my phone. And yes I'm using luncherPro.
Glad you like it
Thanks a lot man i have been waiting for an app for this, this was the one thing i was jealous of on my girlfriend's iPhone
Do try out my other android apps as well. Enjoy
kekkle said:
Long press Home: Task Switcher
Long press Menu: Show keyboard
Long press Back: Close App/Show History
Long press Search: Voice Search
Most buttons already have a long press function
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Actually
long press Menu = Search
never really understood the redundancy. (Well, I guess it's not redundant on the international version without the dedicated search button.)
Just to notify everyone that my android apps have been added to the android market since Nov 1st 2010. Search for "Malcolm Lim" and you will find my apps there. Enjoy
dexim said:
Actually
long press Menu = Search
never really understood the redundancy. (Well, I guess it's not redundant on the international version without the dedicated search button.)
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Show keyboard for me.
New version of rotation toggler 1.15 uploaded to android market and slideme market:
http://slideme.org/user/mlbl
New in v1.15:
- New main interface look from app drawer
- Option to display notification icon for easy toggling of rotation
- Fixed several bugs
- Added donate button for donations
Hit me up,
I have an idea for an update that I started to build with app builder, but don't really have time to learn app builder that well although I have a pretty good prototype of how I want it to work... Funny I was using the same rotate icon as your app
Maybe we can make some bucks
Was curious if any of you guys were working on, or know of a program that can act as a back button or menu button, on screen. My home row keys are taking a beating, and normally cause to much hand adjustment to use them.
Just a thought.
I was thinking maybe swype like actions for the back button, etc...
I've tried button saviour, but didn't like it too much.
Thanks for reading and replying.
"Softkeys for root users" might be what you're looking for.
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Download Button Savior from the Market. Alot more friendly to the eyes and a heck of a lot easier to use than Softkeys. I use it on my Nook as well.
tried softkeys, wow, that is a difficult program to use, but looks great.
I will have to go back to button savior I guess, and make it work.
Thanks for the replies.
Hope this helps you.
lion766 said:
tried softkeys, wow, that is a difficult program to use, but looks great.
I will have to go back to button savior I guess, and make it work.
Thanks for the replies.
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Its not hard to use. Its hard to configure properly.
When you install, hit the home button and choose softkeys as your default home. This will allow softkeys to intercept the home button call.
Then, in softkeys, program it so one push gives softkeys and 2 pushes gives you "home" (<--- specify which home app that you want softkeys to call upon double click)
I also put the back and menu buttons (on my Nook Color) in the notifications area to have easy access to them those as well.
Thanks! I just noticed I had a pm, and this is apparently where all the posts, I followed, made apparently get moved to!
I thought I was crazy.
Hi, i've recently rooted my new Nexus 5, and flashed this rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588152
Because i'm coming from SGS2, I thought it would be nice if I could
set an action for long pressing the Homebutton (I want to make it open
the recent tasks screen) but I couldn't find it in the Navigation Bar settings.
I prefer having back, Home and menu instead of recent tasks, and would like
to make it so that press&hold on the home button would open recent tasks screen.
Hope I made myself clear
Thanks!
Anyone has an Idea?
Have you tried gravitybox?
Sent from my Nexus 5
Hi, i was wondering if you guys can help me remap my home touch buttons to work how they used to (on some devices). Ive tried to get used to how it is now but i just cant get comfortable. I checked another thread thats similar to what i want done but not quite exactly what i was looking for.
I use the back button, home button, and recent apps button. My goal is to long press the home button and have recent apps open and use the recent apps button as a general settings button (instead of having to long press the recent apps to get there). Im basically trying to acheive the LG Optimus G setup. Its a minor tweak and i'd enjoy the phone even more this way.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! If theres a thread that I missed that fits my needs plzz direct me to it! Thanks!