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I've had my Nexus One for quite a few weeks now, and I've made a list of my 'annoyances' from my own experience. These are all to do with Google's own apps, which is a bit disappointing because it is, ultiamtely, their own platform. They are annoyances instead of complaints because none of them hinder me in any significant way, but the length of the list do make me feel that there is no reason for Google to not include these features as soon as possible.
Contacts - Synchronization with Gmail contacts is great, but can't edit Birthdays on an Android phone.
Maps - Can't add an address pinned on the map to an existing contact, can't apply custom labels to starred items, My Maps always gives me "This Community Map could not be displayed because it contains errors."
Calendar - I've got 3 calendars synchronized with Google Calendar, associated with 3 different colours, and while all of them work fine in Day, Week and Agenda views, absolutely no colours show up in Monthly View! This is really annoying.
Browser - Can only recognize US phone numbers, so if I want to call a number on a page which is not in US format, I've to manually copy it and paste it in the Phone app, rather than just a long press or something easier.
Selection of Text - a bit cumbersome given HTC Desire does it better in my opinion.
Account Synchronization - Sometimes doesn't work. I've made changes in a contact and separately in my calendar entry, only to come back and find the change reverted to the original setting. I tried to repeat the change again but it would just revert back again. Finally I had to make the change in my PC browser and force-sync the phone for it to be accepted. Mind you, as I mentioned this has happened only a few times, it works fine most other times.
So as I mentioned, by themselves these issues aren't big. And I do realize in some instances a free 3rd party app is the way to go. But still, surely Google should make sure that their own apps leave as little to be desired as possible.
Thoughts?
A few key apps that aren't even developed yet:-
khaytsus said:
Google should write a good Google Docs
Google Tasks (integrate with Calendar, plus Widget)..
Maybe a nice shortcut forcing the Android browser for Google Reader.. I love Google Reader in the default browser, but if you have Opera set as default it looks horrid.
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TT1986 said:
Calendar - I've got 3 calendars synchronized with Google Calendar, associated with 3 different colours, and while all of them work fine in Day, Week and Agenda views, absolutely no colours show up in Monthly View! This is really annoying.
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I've just realized that the reason nothing shows in Monthly views is because events are all-day rather than during a specific time period on the day. If an event was scheduled for, say, between 1700 and 1800 hours, then a colour would show.
Not that this makes it any better. I still should be able to see something in the Monthly view to tell me that an all-day event is up on that day.
I know you're talking update what they have, but I think they're missing some important things..
Google should write a good Google Docs
Google Tasks (integrate with Calendar, plus Widget)..
Maybe a nice shortcut forcing the Android browser for Google Reader.. I love Google Reader in the default browser, but if you have Opera set as default it looks horrid.
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You're quite right. The absence of an editable mobile app for Google Docs, from Google, is mind-boggling.
Infact I'll include your post in the OP. It'll help build a decent list of "Apps to Do or Improve by Google for Android."
Actually the most disappointing thing is that some of those issues are pretty obvious to anyone having used the phone a few days.
Also some were reported years ago ...
For example Google contact sync ridiculous resolution for photos, maps location labels etc ... And it's not like it would take them more than a couple hours work to fix either.
I dont think google will allocate their resources on specific stock apps or them given priority over the development on Gingerbread since with apps they have community resource.
unlike mobileme or exchange, google offers a lot of the cloud services free of charge for our personal use, and we shouldnt take that for granted.
and to answer the op, I too would like to have the listed features applied, but I would categorize them as 'nice to have'.
-Task list (would be very elegant solution to other 3rd party notepad software)
-gtalk video
chuday said:
and to answer the op, I too would like to have the listed features applied, but I would categorize them as 'nice to have'.
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I agree, I'm not too inconvenienced by them, but it would make the platform/apps so much neater and more polished. Some of them are really basic though, and you have to wonder that if Google can include some advanced features in an app (for example - layers or the seemingly defunct My Maps in the Maps app) why not quickly complete the basics?
Here's another thing I've been noticing regarding Gmail's Push mechanism. I've subscribed to this thread and another thread for instant notification and I've received a total of 5 replies, so 5 emails. Two of those emails have been delivered instantly to my phone, but the other 3 emails have had delays, the worst one being 11 minutes.
Again, my Gmail account isn't critical, so it doesn't bother me. However it's a feature which I imagine a lot would like perfected.
TT1986 said:
Contacts - Synchronization with Gmail contacts is great, but can't edit Birthdays on an Android phone.
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I absolutely hate how I can't stop it from syncing auto-added contacts, which should be an option to completely disable in Gmail anyway. It's been almost a year since they changed it but Google apparently doesn't bother paying attention to people's complaints.
I did read somewhere that 2.3 is supposed to be heavily focused on improving the stock design and apps. I certainly hope that's true.
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I agree, I'm not too inconvenienced by them, but it would make the platform/apps so much neater and more polished. Some of them are really basic though, and you have to wonder that if Google can include some advanced features in an app (for example - layers or the seemingly defunct My Maps in the Maps app) why not quickly complete the basics?
Here's another thing I've been noticing regarding Gmail's Push mechanism. I've subscribed to this thread and another thread for instant notification and I've received a total of 5 replies, so 5 emails. Two of those emails have been delivered instantly to my phone, but the other 3 emails have had delays, the worst one being 11 minutes.
Again, my Gmail account isn't critical, so it doesn't bother me. However it's a feature which I imagine a lot would like perfected.
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Hmm? Layers and My Maps work in Google Maps... I have a layer of Star*ucks and Kroger Fuel stations and when I need to fuel up (me or the car ) I fire up Maps, turn Layers, My Maps, click the one I need.
I wish Google Maps could do orientation of travel... Navigator does, but sometimes a flat map is just fine.
I think they said Gingerbread would have major cosmetic changes so I think they will improve google apps, overhall the Music app (which has been near enough the same since 1.0) and the messaging app etc etc.
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I absolutely hate how I can't stop it from syncing auto-added contacts, which should be an option to completely disable in Gmail anyway. It's been almost a year since they changed it but Google apparently doesn't bother paying attention to people's complaints.
I did read somewhere that 2.3 is supposed to be heavily focused on improving the stock design and apps. I certainly hope that's true.
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Try going to contacts.google.com and set your contacts into separate groups (friends/family/etc) and tell the phone to only sync those groups. Lifehacker had a post about this awhile back with better directions
Google Apps are BY FAR the worst, most incomplete, apps I have installed on my phone.
How about the fact that you can't change your "send as" address in Gmail for Android? They gave us that ability at Gmail dot com years and years ago, but there's been an open ticket on adding it to the Android version for over a year with NO response from Google at all.
I HATE how the contacts app automatically merges similar contacts. My dad and I have the same name, so it adds my Facebook account and all of my email addresses to his contact after every sync.
The Google Voice App gives you the options to "Never call with GV", "Always call with GV", "Use GV for international calls", or "Always ask"... Why can't you set the option on a per-contact basis? I wan't to call half the people in my phone book with GV and half without it, but I have to tell it which is which for every single call. I opened a ticket on this months and months ago with NO response from Google.
The list goes on... I just can't believe how long some of these tickets have been open, and how many "+1" responses they have, but Google just ignores them. It really makes me wish they'd release paid versions of their software so that maybe we'd have a voice (nevermind the fact that I gave Google $575 for my Nexus One).
The other frustrating part is that Google's "novelty apps" seem to be more complete than their "productivity apps". Maybe it's because I don't use them every day or because I don't rely on them, but does anybody have any complaints about the My Tracks app? Or Google Goggles?
Anyway, thanks for letting me vent!
Billy
Another one of my rants, regarding the Gallery app: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=738590
harrellj said:
Try going to contacts.google.com and set your contacts into separate groups (friends/family/etc) and tell the phone to only sync those groups.
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Would you _please_ stop this, it's causing me utter agony
My Samsung Galaxy S is deprived of this functionality by Samsung (!). Groups sync but just don't show... To prove they indeed sync, just create a group in goole with the name "test". Then sync. Group does not appear on phone. Now try to create a group "test" on the phone -> Error "Group name already in use".
Samsung really f... up the contacts management
Customizable snooze times and volume per alarm would be nice.
Is google also responsible for the youtube app? It sucks too ^^
No comments possible for example...
That is def.ly a good topic to debate and I def.ly would say yes they should. It looks like those apps will def.ly be redefined come gingerbread time (3.0). Even the gmail apps is not as defined as it should. At least there should be an unread mail count by default in the app among other things.
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You're quite right. The absence of an editable mobile app for Google Docs, from Google, is mind-boggling.
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I gotta agree with this. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Gmail: needs the ability to send to a group.
YouTube: needs a setting to tell it what resolution of video to default to. It's a pain to load the video and then select "high quality" every time.
And lets not talk about everything that needs to be done to make the Market app not suck.
I think they should. While Sense is nice (even though I'm not using it lol) I think it would be a lot better if Google's stock UI was much better. There's a lot of rumors going around that Gingerbread has Google focused on a much better user experience so that they don't need things like Sense, MotoBlur, etc...And I hope so. I think Google should stack it's main stock options, and then if people want to be able to add extra stuff by putting on some kind of skin/extra UI then they should have the option. Just my 2 cents
OP you read my mind. I really do think google should spend some time upgrading the overall look and feel of the stock apps. I mean they have added about every feature you can possibly need but some basic things they have seemed to overlook. Especially their music, email, youtube, and other almost daily used apps should be more pleasing to use. But as someone mentioned earlier, their 3.0 gingerbread might sexy things up a bit.
I have two froyo questions to see if the community can answer them before I try to set back to factory and upgrade.
1. URL Parsing
In J6 touchwiz could not parse this url into a hyperlink from email nor from calendar entry.
https://companyx.webex.com/xyz/j.php?ED=156264002&UID=479348601&RT=NCM0
Any idea if froyo can parse this (r-click, copy link location, send to yourself that url in an email to check)
2. edit email replies
In J6 when replying to email I could not edit the original email any idea if this is now possible in froyo?
anyone? I'm hoping I'm not the only one that wishes this was fixed.
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anyone? I'm hoping I'm not the only one that wishes this was fixed.
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I think it fixed it email, but not calendar. People were installing stock 2.2 calendar and that fixed it.
alphadog00 said:
I think it fixed it email, but not calendar. People were installing stock 2.2 calendar and that fixed it.
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Thanks alphadog.
I am bumping this post again because it is driving me INSANE that Samsung can't parse url's and I can't believe more people aren't being driven equally nuts by this. I get webex meeting requests in my calendars constantly and cannot click on them....
I feel your frustration - I want the phone numbers for con calls.
My temporary workaround is Gemini calendar - it has a widget and an alternate the calendar. The alternate calendar parses everything. I don't like the alternate calendar as much, but i do like the widget - so i can click on it and bring up the event and click a link.
I did report the calendar issue to Samsung when the captivate first came out, and actually had a support person log it. So maybe 2.2 will fix it. If not, I will install the stock 2.2 calendar.
I seriously thought I was the only person experiencing this. I'm on 2.2 and still having the problem in email app. The urls look broken up for the most part right?
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I seriously thought I was the only person experiencing this. I'm on 2.2 and still having the problem in email app. The urls look broken up for the most part right?
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The problem we are discussing is the URLs, phone number, address not being "clickable" like in other places. Touching a URL should launch a browser; touching a phone number should launch the dialer, etc.
Since 2.2 is a beta, it is hard to say what it is supposed to do.
Gemini calendar doesn't parse any better
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Gemini calendar doesn't parse any better
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Did you go into settings and tell it which items to parse? It works 100% for me. I can click on everything - phone, email, www and map links.
Happy to provide screen shots if you can't find settings.
Thanks ... you have just saved me a lot of frustration every week.
This is amazing on several levels.
One) that it seems so very easy to fix.
Two) that in all the other email and calendar programs I tired including touchdown, it is not fixed, not in the calendar nor in email.
Three ) Given number one, that it just seems so very very odd to me that there are so many thousands of these phones out there and not more people are complaining on xda-developers in particular of this completely messed up feature. I feel like a lone voice prehaps.
I wonder if this is purely a messed up thing on Captivate and not on the other galaxy variants?
alphadog00 said:
Did you go into settings and tell it which items to parse? It works 100% for me. I can click on everything - phone, email, www and map links.
Happy to provide screen shots if you can't find settings.
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Thanks ... you have just saved me a lot of frustration every week.
This is amazing on several levels.
One) that it seems so very easy to fix.
Two) that in all the other email and calendar programs I tired including touchdown, it is not fixed, not in the calendar nor in email.
Three ) Given number one, that it just seems so very very odd to me that there are so many thousands of these phones out there and not more people are complaining on xda-developers in particular of this completely messed up feature. I feel like a lone voice prehaps.
I wonder if this is purely a messed up thing on Captivate and not on the other galaxy variants?
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It is broken on others as well - I tried the i9000 2.1 ROM months ago -when i first go the phone - hoping it was a captivate bug.
I think that that most people buying the phone are not using it for business - so calendar items don't contain much data, and they don't miss the functionality.
The iPhone was missing this until version 3.x - so it took apple almost 2 years to add it as a function. I am surprised Samsung overlooked it. But, if 2.2 comes out and it is missing, i will install the stock Froyo calendar and be all set.
BTW - it is an easy fix - but for some reason they did what apple did - although the calendar data is available - they treat the location and body fields like untouchable text - you can't even copy what is there. It is just a matter of telling the calendar app, that these fields are readable and to parse for phone, url, email.
I hope you send a bug report to their customer service email or something. The more people that complain the more likely they fix it.
I would hope that they have 1000's of reports of this already.
But assuming they don't or don't have enough to form a critical mass where the bug gets fixed, I am willing to add another.
What is the procedure for submitting a bug report to Samsung or do I submit it to AT&T?
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It is broken on others as well - I tried the i9000 2.1 ROM months ago -when i first go the phone - hoping it was a captivate bug.
I think that that most people buying the phone are not using it for business - so calendar items don't contain much data, and they don't miss the functionality.
The iPhone was missing this until version 3.x - so it took apple almost 2 years to add it as a function. I am surprised Samsung overlooked it. But, if 2.2 comes out and it is missing, i will install the stock Froyo calendar and be all set.
BTW - it is an easy fix - but for some reason they did what apple did - although the calendar data is available - they treat the location and body fields like untouchable text - you can't even copy what is there. It is just a matter of telling the calendar app, that these fields are readable and to parse for phone, url, email.
I hope you send a bug report to their customer service email or something. The more people that complain the more likely they fix it.
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I have not found a formal method. I emailed their "contact us" link on their web page, and posted to their twitter and facebook accounts.
Like i said before, it took 2 years for apple to fix it - even others at work that were iPhone users didn't mind it as much. It just depends what you are fixitated on. GPS works OK for me - not perfect, but not a show stopper. Others feel differently.
Twitter and facebook - search for samsungmobile.
I've been developing a client app for Delicious for android and its pretty close to being ready to release! Thanks to all the guys that helped me test it! If you find any issues, concerns, or have any suggestions to make it better, let me know in this thread or by opening an issue on the project site.
* UPDATE v1.0.0
Initial Market release! No real changes over 0.5.0.
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Features
Why DeliciousDroid? Aren't there other Delicious clients already in the market? Here are some of the features of DeliciousDroid:
Supports OAuth authentication (for Yahoo based accounts)
Notification of new bookmarks in inbox
Background sync for bookmarks and network contacts
Bookmarks are cached to allow offline viewing and to reduce network traffic
Accounts managed through Android's built-in account manager
New bookmarks by network contacts displayed as status updates
Bookmarks can be added in several ways:
A menu in the app
Directly from the browser via the "Share" menu
By long pressing a friend's bookmark and choosing "Add"
Bookmarks can be edited by long pressing and choosing "Edit"
Bookmark details can be viewed by long pressing and choosing "View Details"
Bookmarks can be deleted by long pressing and choosing "Delete"
Bookmark titles, tags and notes are searchable from both the global search and from within the app
Support for live folders, add a folder to your home screen that takes you straight to bookmarks within a specific tag
Code is licensed under the GPL v3 and is available on Github
Note: Requires Android 2.x (API Level 5+). Android 1.5 and 1.6 are not and will not be supported.
Known Issues
These are some of the known issues in the current build of DeliciousDroid. Feel free to open an issue on the Google code project site if you encounter a bug/issue not listed here, or have an idea for an enhancement.
Only a single Delicious account is currently supported.
Clicking inbox notification just takes you to the main app. As far as I can tell, delicious does not provide any way to get the contents of your inbox via the api. There is a feed for it, but it requires having a secret key that is used as a parameter.
Viewing the bookmark list for your network contacts only shows up to 100 bookmarks, this is a limitation of the api.
Syncing is handled by the OS and appears to happen every 24 hours. Froyo (Android 2.2) allows for setting a different sync interval, but I'd like to maintain compatibility with 2.1 for now.
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{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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DeliciousDroid is available on the Android Market. Make sure and rate it up or leave a comment if you like it!
Nice! I have *THREE* installed right now.. Two which view Delicious in two different ways, one I like the view of but it's online-only, the other I don't like the view, but it caches.. And the third to Share to Delicious.
Hopefully this one can replace all three. Having 3 is really ridiculous.
First observation; no obvious way to set up the account. No link from the application, doesn't forward you to the Accounts if it isn't set up. Just crashes. I suspect this is included in your "unelegant" mention, but wanted to say it. If there's no account set up, it should automatically send you to the Accounts settings IMO. And I think you should also make a quick link to the Account Setup page so the user can add/change, or even force a resync.
Once set up, mine synced, and I see "Network" recent but I'm seeing nothing else. Nothing in My Recent, nothing in My Tags. according to the Accounts setup, the sync is finished (It no longer says cancel sync). I tried to force it to sync again, and when I went back to the Accounts settings noticed Sync Delicious was not checked.
Maybe it didn't do this by default? It should unless you have no control over it? Once I checked this, my bookmarks showed up. Maybe I did something silly here and accidentally de-selected it.
Biggest problem so far; it seems to add random /'s onto the end of URLS!? I've got several bookmarks that won't load here, but I can load them fine on the PC. So I compared the URLs it's sending, and in my desktop it's h ttp://.....blah.html where in Android it's h ttp://....blah.html/ <-- trailing slash
So some stuff I've seen but looks like I could toss out the other 3 once they're fixed, so cheers!
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First observation; no obvious way to set up the account. No link from the application, doesn't forward you to the Accounts if it isn't set up. Just crashes. I suspect this is included in your "unelegant" mention, but wanted to say it. If there's no account set up, it should automatically send you to the Accounts settings IMO. And I think you should also make a quick link to the Account Setup page so the user can add/change, or even force a resync.
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Yep, that's what I meant about unelegent. I agree, it should either take you straight to the Accounts & Sync screen or at least display a message that you need to go there instead of just FC'ing. I'll try to incorporate that into the next build.
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Once set up, mine synced, and I see "Network" recent but I'm seeing nothing else. Nothing in My Recent, nothing in My Tags. according to the Accounts setup, the sync is finished (It no longer says cancel sync). I tried to force it to sync again, and when I went back to the Accounts settings noticed Sync Delicious was not checked.
Maybe it didn't do this by default? It should unless you have no control over it? Once I checked this, my bookmarks showed up. Maybe I did something silly here and accidentally de-selected it.
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Yea, the Sync Delicious part is not checked by default, I suppose it probably should be (or at least there should be a message or something in the My Recent or My Tags screens directing you to go check it.
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Biggest problem so far; it seems to add random /'s onto the end of URLS!? I've got several bookmarks that won't load here, but I can load them fine on the PC. So I compared the URLs it's sending, and in my desktop it's h ttp://.....blah.html where in Android it's h ttp://....blah.html/ <-- trailing slash
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I'll have to look in to that. Its only adding them in the cache, so don't be worried that its corrupting all your bookmarks on the server. It'll be fixed in the next build.
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So some stuff I've seen but looks like I could toss out the other 3 once they're fixed, so cheers!
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I forgot to ask too, what device are you testing it on? I've only tried it in the emulator and on my heroc, so I'd be interested to see if its handling other devices/resolutions fine.
Also, are you using a legacy delicious account, or a yahoo based oauth one?
Working nice in 2.1 HTC Hero, but I found that every bookmark shows twice in both Recent and by tag views. And everytime I have to select a listview it asks me to open with Delicious or with... Music.
But working ok and plays nice with browser.
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Yep, that's what I meant about unelegent. I agree, it should either take you straight to the Accounts & Sync screen or at least display a message that you need to go there instead of just FC'ing. I'll try to incorporate that into the next build.
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It'll make the initial install a lot smoother, less confusing.
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Yea, the Sync Delicious part is not checked by default, I suppose it probably should be (or at least there should be a message or something in the My Recent or My Tags screens directing you to go check it.
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If you can, I'd suggest checking it by default.
maxpower47 said:
I'll have to look in to that. Its only adding them in the cache, so don't be worried that its corrupting all your bookmarks on the server. It'll be fixed in the next build.
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Cool. Odd that's getting tacked on there, but you'll fix it.
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I forgot to ask too, what device are you testing it on? I've only tried it in the emulator and on my heroc, so I'd be interested to see if its handling other devices/resolutions fine.
Also, are you using a legacy delicious account, or a yahoo based oauth one?
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Nexus One using Enom's 2.12.3 ROM (I'm a little behind, not a ROM flashing addict) and using a legacy Delicious account.
I'm going to try Sharing from the browser later, and maybe try Yahoo, although Yahoo's password management is all screwed up on my account. I can't login to IM, but I can login to Yahoo Mail, and I can't login to some other thing.. all using the same Yahoo account. Maybe I need to change the password again, maybe it'll "sync" then.
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Working nice in 2.1 HTC Hero, but I found that every bookmark shows twice in both Recent and by tag views.
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If you uninstall/reinstall the app does it do it again? If so, can you provide me some more details about your setup? Delicious username, authentication type (delicious or yahoo), etc. You can PM me if you don't want to post it on here.
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And everytime I have to select a listview it asks me to open with Delicious or with... Music.
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Ok, I think I know what's causing that. It should be fixed in the next build, probably tomorrow.
Uninstalled and reinstalled, repeated items are gone. BTW, using classic delicious login.
Thanks.
Great feedback so far guys, keep it comimg. I've just updated the app with fixes for everything mentioned so far, the download link is in the original post.
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Installed latest version over previous version on my i9000, Yahoo OAuth account.
All the information disappeared when I entered the app.
Tried to remove the account and retry, both sync options were ticked. No information in all 3 view options. Is there a problem retrieving? Is there anyway to force a re-sync?
edit : did an uninstall, reinstalled the latest version. working again.
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Tried to remove the account and retry, both sync options were ticked. No information in all 3 view options. Is there a problem retrieving? Is there anyway to force a re-sync?
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Yea, while you're in the account in the accounts and sync screen hit menu, there should be a "Sync Now" option.
Thanks....totally didn't think to hit the menu button. Did as stated above, everything is fine.
Perfect. No more duplicated items so far, thank you, but still missing something. No more chosing between Delicious or Music when entering a list-view, but it still happens when selecting a single tag on second level. Might be the same issue, just different location so you didn't update that.
Thanks a lot, for this app and for this support.
ishkarioth said:
Perfect. No more duplicated items so far, thank you, but still missing something. No more chosing between Delicious or Music when entering a list-view, but it still happens when selecting a single tag on second level. Might be the same issue, just different location so you didn't update that.
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Oops, yep, forgot that one. Its fixed for the next build. I've got a couple new features cooking up for it too, so stay tuned...
Tried to use Yahoo today, and it FC's on me. Looks like when it calls back from the OAuth it gets a 404, which pisses off your program.
Tradition login worked but I got nothing except "recent bookmarks".
So I uninstalled, reinstalled, put in Delicious username, synced, works now. Seems like there are issues with the upgrade?
It's also possible that it's a problem I launched it before it was finished syncing? I exited, even killed the program, re-entered, still had no bookmarks synced I could see, but it was fine after the reinstall. However after the reinstall, I waited for it to finish syncing first.. Possible a problem there?
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Tried to use Yahoo today, and it FC's on me. Looks like when it calls back from the OAuth it gets a 404, which pisses off your program.
Tradition login worked but I got nothing except "recent bookmarks".
So I uninstalled, reinstalled, put in Delicious username, synced, works now. Seems like there are issues with the upgrade?
It's also possible that it's a problem I launched it before it was finished syncing? I exited, even killed the program, re-entered, still had no bookmarks synced I could see, but it was fine after the reinstall. However after the reinstall, I waited for it to finish syncing first.. Possible a problem there?
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Do you currently use delicious with that account? If you've never logged in to delicious with it then it wont work. You have to go in through the main delicious site to set up a new delicious account that gets linked to your yahoo id, it doesn't create one by default.
Another day, another update, version 0.2.1 is up. Download link on the original post.
http://code.google.com/p/deliciousdroid/wiki/Changelog
Edit: v0.2.0 had a nasty bug preventing Delicious accounts from being added, 0.2.1 fixes this.
Installed version 0.2.1 and works for my. This could be my favorite Delicious app. But on my Motorola Milestone (using Froyo), the font is so tiny, that I need magnify glasses to read it (looks like 4pt/5pt).
Haven't found an option to change the font size. Maybe this just occurs on high-res devices?
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Installed version 0.2.1 and works for my. This could be my favorite Delicious app. But on my Motorola Milestone (using Froyo), the font is so tiny, that I need magnify glasses to read it (looks like 4pt/5pt).
Haven't found an option to change the font size. Maybe this just occurs on high-res devices?
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Could be, I haven't tested it on one yet. I'll get the emulator set up with the Milestone's specs and see if I can reproduce it. I'll either see if I can make a setting to change it or see if I can just detect the resolution and change it automatically.
*****EDIT 2/25/2011*****
VERY SORRY for the delay in editing this post and/or replying to the comments!
I have had some very serious family problems in the last couple months and during this, didn't renew the lease with the server i was renting. I am currently looking to buy a server (or share one with any other dev??) that i can use to run this App. It requires its own server due to the amount of requests it needs to keep thousands of users up to date with all their accounts and push messages to your devices.
I am EXTREMELY sorry that I had not been able to come on and post this, but in the last 24 hours I have received TONS of emails stating you're getting an error signing up. Thats because The server isnt responding anymore to requests, I apologize.
I will have this fixed hopefully soon and also incorporate many more social media outlets into the app that don't currently have push updates.
Again, SORRY for the delay in updating this. I hope to have a new Beta out soon.
Thanks!
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Hey Guys..
This is our first post to XDA, and we are glad to be here.
We are a new Android development team, Atomic Pineapple. We wanted to let you guys know we have an app in Beta that brings push notifications for Facebook, and Twitter (this week for twitter) for ALL versions of Android. The app is called "Pushee"
Our plans are to grow the app into a full service push notification tool, including all the most used social platforms, FB, twitter, 4square, etc. We also have plans to bring push notifications for all POP3 email for non Gmail accounts as there is currently nothing for this. All these are in the works and will be integrated into pushee in the next few weeks.
If you want to get the Beta for Pushee just go to pushee(dot)atomicpineapple(dot)com and download it. Sorry we couldn't post a link because we are new users lol.
It will be out of Beta within a week or two and on the Market with a 7 Day Free Trial, and then for sale at 1.49.
Any comments on adding services to have notifications pushed are welcome!
Thanks!
Justin,
Atomic Pineapple.
I'm going to test it right now and it seems to be awesome !
I'm loving it so far. Few things..
1) Icon, I'm sure this will get changed soon. Just checking
2) When tapping on the notification for new items for Facebook, it wanted to open my browser. I would rather have it open my Facebook app. For example, when I see I have 2 new friend requests, I would like it to go to my Friends section of the Facebook app. Possible? =D
Also, do I have to add this to my task killer for it to monitor my Facebook?
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I'm loving it so far. Few things..
1) Icon, I'm sure this will get changed soon. Just checking
2) When tapping on the notification for new items for Facebook, it wanted to open my browser. I would rather have it open my Facebook app. For example, when I see I have 2 new friend requests, I would like it to go to my Friends section of the Facebook app. Possible? =D
Also, do I have to add this to my task killer for it to monitor my Facebook?
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Not sur but i think you must add this to your Task Killer
Waiting for the twitter option !
Looks great so far! One question, when we say "yes" when application asks for "exit?", are we gonna receive notifications?
And one addition, charset seems not "utf", or whatever (im new in android world), when we have non-english characters in the account name, it appears as a "□".
I just installed it, so im still waiting to see if i get a notification within 60 minutes (logged on gf's account and posted on one of my own comments)..
Bug/problem ->
Since i have an x10 mini pro, i have a small display - it is really hard to setup Pushee on this phone, as text is cluttered all over the screen, and email input is behind 'explanation text' etc.
Besides that, because of the MANY MANY permissions pushee needs, it was almost impossible (i got lucky) to press 'accept' to those permissions on facebook popup.
I've set facebook to 'never' update - i assume that is correct? As the Pushee servers will do the checking.
- If this app works & it enters the facebook app instead of the browser - then i'll definatly buy it - Even though 1.49$ seems like a bit much for a 'notification application'..
This app looked really promising.. but..
After a few hours, spamming myself with notifications and messages on facebook - I still didn't get any on the phone.
Installation/Configuration text is all messed up, and its hard to configure on an x10 mini pro.
Tried reinstalling - Cant create an account with the same email - Fair enough... But i cannot login to an existing account, the button simply doesn't work.
Sure this is a beta, and not alpha?
I've been working on this app for some time. I'm aware of the risks in using non-public API parts eg. Android calendar, but I needed the app features myself and so did many of my friends. So I've published it as a free app on Android market and it's been well received, but every now and then I get another error message. As I don't have any information on the phone or OS in question it's really hard to figure out what could be wrong. I typically test apps on 3 phones that I have readily available (HTC Hero, LG Optimus, SE X10 Mini Pro) and with Android 2.1 & 2.2. It would be great to hear if this app works as it should on your phones and if it breaks where/how it happens.
Your app looks quite useful.
Here's a clickable market link.
Do you mind adding some screenshots to your original post so we can get a better picture (pun intended)?
Edit: In case you don't add pics yourself, I've attached three from your market entry.
Edit 2: Here's the market description (for the lazy)
Android Market Description said:
ClickCal is a perfect blog tool, personal, family and work calendar app that allows you to create events and tasks by taking photos and/or via voice recording. No typing is required to create an event. Snap a photo of a document and save - your event is ready. Use your phones built-in camera to scan your paper invitation, dentist appointment note, screen of an e-mail/web page and your event is ready. You can record a voice message to add to the event as well. Optionally you can select event type, choose the calendar, set date and time, and if you really want to type you can add a description and location.
Adds an icon that allows to quick add an event from the desktop.
Syncs with Google calendar. Note: event images and audio can not be viewed in other calendar applications as they do not support this feature.
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The background of creating this app is that I got really tired of trying to manage our kitchen bulletin board. Full of paper docs of kids school stuff,sports events & other activities and naturally no sync with phone or other calendars. Typing in the info sounded like a nightmare. So I was thinking how I could get those digitalized easily. ClickCal solves that problem. Later a friend asked how she could handle taking notes of customer meetings while driving back from the meeting. I proposed adding an audio recording feature to ClickCal. Next feature coming up is being able to log the GPS/Wlan -based location with the event.
But I've been having some issues with sporadic error reports coming in - and I can't reproduce the errors as the app works fully on my 3 phones.
I installed it to my epic 4g but will not open, say that i need to setup my google account (which i have) on my phone before using Clickcal???????
Oh, and as a side note, I have featured this nice app on the XDA home page.
I'm getting error messages a couple of times per week. Previously they were usually caused by Motorola having a different calendar provider address. Took me a while to figure out that they changed it back to the standard one when they moved from 2.1->2.2. That was finally solved with ClickCal version 1.6.2.
Samsung with 2.2.1 not working is news to me. The error message is probably caused by the app not finding Samsung's calendar provider. Haven't been able to test on 2.2.1 yet. So there's clearly more to the story. App testing is really the biggest issue with Android - many phones with variable screens and OS-versions.
Thanks for the testing. One step ahead.
Just got an idea: some phones like Samsungs come with the manufacturers own calendar app. They might not be 100% compatible with the Google Android calendar.
Was the test with the pre-installed Samsung calendar or the Google standard one?
Thanks - but a little bit too soon I'm still trying to figure a couple of reported issues.
HTC Thunderbolt, 2.2 Stock
downloaded, installed, opened-- "No Calendars Available. No google calendars were found on your phone. you need to setup your google account on your phone before using ClickCal". application then closes. can't get past that text box.
i have at least 8 Google Calendars & have been using this phone since launch day 3 weeks ago, so my gmail account is setup on the phone successfully & all calendars can be viewed on the phone through the stock Calendar app.
Dev, please fix--i'm pretty curious about this app & its capabilities.
Ok, thx for the feedback. Will work on this over the weekend. I was wondering that the retention rate was pretty low for an app I consider useful. Not wondering anymore if it doesn't even start up on some phones...
Anyway, I'm happy I found this site - without it I'd still be deep in the woods.
If you need note taking with the camera and/or audio recordings, but without the calendaring part I've also published ClickNote on android market. Based on the same principles, but no calendar. I haven't had any issues with ClickNote so far from any users.
The Samsung calendar
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I'm getting the no google calendar message then its exiting too.
On sony Ericsson x10.
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Ugh - Sony Ericsson as well. I've actually developed this app for the SE X10 Mini Pro.
Ok, but based on the feedback on this board and a little more research I think I've discovered the problem. It's due to the manufacturers eg. built-in calendar which is not 100% compatible with the standard Android calendar. Now I can finally fix this issue. I'll develop a check for the calendars on the phone to test that they function correctly with ClickCal. On some phones it will probably mean that ClickCal will only work with the Google calendars.
Here is the logcat from my xperia x10. Hope it helps.
Finally got it! Thx for the X10 logcat output you sent. It showed that ClickCal was considering your phone as having Android 2.1.
Since the calendar provider is different (calendar vs. com.android.calendar) between 2.1 and 2.2 I'm doing a check on the OS version of the phone. Well my nice version string match was against "2.1". I think 2.2.1 might also match this
Just published version ClickCal 1.7 on Android market. Several fixes, but most importantly should work with Androdi 2.2.1 and hopefully Samsung stock calendar setup.
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Just published version ClickCal 1.7 on Android market. Several fixes, but most importantly should work with Androdi 2.2.1 and hopefully Samsung stock calendar setup.
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Don't have time to test it fully at the moment but i have installed the update and it recognises the google calendar and appears to work properly. I'll test it over the weekend fully hopefully.
Thanks for your quick response.
Ok i have tested it now ... i have a couple of things.
It only shows the main calendar that i have on my phone, not my holidays or birthdays calendar (these are both listed on the dropdown list at the top) it just doesn't pick up any appointments from them.
Is there a way to get it to add and appointment by long pressing at the correct time? I can't get used to having to go to the top and click new event.
Also can you get it to swipe left and right for next/previous day in the day view and not just the monthly view?
Also i know this is minor but can you move the save button to the bottom of the page? Or change its colour slightly? It is really hard to see.
Other than that i really like the app.
THanks
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Ok i have tested it now ... i have a couple of things.
It only shows the main calendar that i have on my phone, not my holidays or birthdays calendar (these are both listed on the dropdown list at the top) it just doesn't pick up any appointments from them.
Is there a way to get it to add and appointment by long pressing at the correct time? I can't get used to having to go to the top and click new event.
Also can you get it to swipe left and right for next/previous day in the day view and not just the monthly view?
Also i know this is minor but can you move the save button to the bottom of the page? Or change its colour slightly? It is really hard to see.
Other than that i really like the app.
THanks
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Are those holiday/birthday calendars internal phone calendars or google calendars? If you can do a few selections on these calendars and send me the logcat I can check what's happening.
Long-click to add event is a good idea - was thinking to enable long-click from the monthly view eg long click on a day to add event. But it's trivial to add to the day/agenda views as well. It may be hard to hit the exact right time though - the rows are narrow when there are no events on them.
Swiping to move days back/forward on day view is in the plans.
The Save button is on the bottom on some phones, but not all. Depends on screen sizes. I tried to optimize the view for the smallest screen eg the X10 Mini Pro. Perhaps a good idea would be to make the button full width and change the color?
Thx for the feedback. Will look into those items for the next release. Priority on the missing calendar data.
I have one google account with multiple calendars.
I can see the calendars etc but it only give info from one.
I tried to swap between them here. (logcat added)
Hope this helps