Hello!
This is a simple app i developed a while back, basically to be able to read in bed without turning the lights on and bothering other people.
When launched it will max the brightness of the phone, and by tapping the screen you can adjust the intensity of the light.
I find it very useful for reading, and over time i've got some user requests to add features, like sleep-timer, so you can fall asleep without draining your battery.
And now i'm posting it here, to hear what you think, and i'd be very happy to get some feedback and request for new features, so I can expand this little app.
Here's the link to the free app in the Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pickle.ReadingLight
Thanks!
Pickle.
New Verision
By user comments request, added Brightness Lock to avoid unintentional taps while reading.
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[Q] Constant acoustic and optical feedback for touchevent and a "touch logger"
Hello everybody !
I want to know if the following things are possible:
1) A constant optical feedback whenever the user touches the display. (e.g. A green circle around the touchposition.) Not only at the homescreen but in every application. ( e.g. browser ,games etc.)
2) A constant acoustic that plays a certain sound whenever the user touches the display. This should also work no matter what apllication is used at that moment.
3) A Touch logger that creates a file where the used apps and the number of touches are saved.
(e.g. Open App: Browser; Number of touches: 35)
This should help patients with limited motor skills and sensory damage to train. It is hard to imagine but these people can not feel when they touch something.
The touch logger should show if they realy use the device (e.g. tablet like Samsung Galaxy).
Since my question(s) are not really general I wanted to aks them in the developing Forum but I am not allowed to. Maybe an Admin could move it to the developing section if he or she thinks the questions belong there.
Thanks in Advance
This sounds like a fantastic idea, although i'm sure things exist for this purpose in medicine already.
The closest thing I can think of is an application that I believe was called "Plasma". Basically you could turn it into ghost mode and it would hide the applications black background so you'd see your home screen. When you touch the screen a plasma-like bolt emerges and the phone vibrates. This does remove all interactivity with the phone though i'm afraid, I suppose the application needs to manage the screen entirely to be able to respond to user input.
I have not developed in Android yet but if there is a function for userinput that allows an event regardless of what the phone is doing then this app would be doable. I would imagine that this application would need to be Service based to ensure it runs at all times.
Edit:
Resource 1:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068007/android-how-do-i-get-raw-touch-screen-information
Resource 2:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2939332/get-the-co-ordinates-of-a-touch-event-on-android
Can be modified to produce what you want.
Maybe something similar to the overlay of ScreenFilter or Total Screen Control, that just puts a semitransparent overlay on the screen to save battery. You could use the same methods to possibly run an overlay that catches and responds to touch.
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dkl_uk said:
This sounds like a fantastic idea, although i'm sure things exist for this purpose in medicine already.
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Unfortunately the current therapy methods are more like "touch a sensors and a light flashes". This is effectiv feedback but as you can imagen the patient is not motivated to keep playing/exercising.
I was not able to find a way for the genarl feedback. The plasma application gives a good idea of what i am looking for but as you already mentioned I need interactivity.
Looks like I have to modify open source games.
Has anyonen an idea if i could use the logcat recordings to monitor how often the user has touched the display. (For every application not just open source projects where I added something like Log.d("TOUCHTEST", "count" + ": " +numoftouch)
Hi guys!
I've just released my second project to the Play Store, and it's a FREE 2D game in which you control a truck and race it to the finish line. The levels are easy at first, but then get tricky as you progress. There are 16 of them for starters, but I'm preparing new levels for every update!
The feature list goes like this:
•customize your car (suspensions, wheel size and more!)
•customize control options*
•realistic 4 wheel drive
•level variety
•addictive gameplay
•build for new and old hardware (has an ugly mode for very old phones)
You can try it out, from its Google Play Store page--> http://goo.gl/SBULv
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We're open to opinions, and ideas! For support you can always e-mail us:
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Fun game.
Maybe you should integrate the "about" and support in the screen. The motor noise in the menu's is quite disturbing.
Oh, and you won't need the wakelock permission, I think. Intuitively, I would choose to place the steering on the left, and the gas/brake on the right.
The first level I played was quite hard
Hey thanks for trying it out, you're our first "customer" for this game
I understand, I will be trying to see how I can make options for the controls to be customized. By the way, if you go to Options, you'll see there are a couple of control options (although I personally prefer those I've made default).
With the engine noises I'm not that happy, and that's currently being worked on.
Thanks for your feedback, really appreciate it!
New update this weekend with lots of fixes, and improvements!
Game is very nice, but graphics could be better.
Why there is no question when you turn the game to on/off sound?
Hello, and thank you for trying out Crazy Wheels!
To answer your post, we are working first on a sound update, then we will update the graphics, so the game will look more polished. The update schedule is one new version a week, so we don't affect our user's data plans.
Regarding the sound toggle, we thought that having it in a menu, instead of a simple button, would prevent accidental turning on/off.
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Licence Violation
This game is obviously based on my game - "Wheelz".
You have broken the terms of the General Public Licence I published the source code under. This is completely unacceptable, and illegal.
The terms are very liberal - but you have broken them, taken a game that is Free software, and closed it for your own personal gain.
You seem to have made no attempt to contact me and ask if you can re-use my code under a licence other than the GPL.
I have submitted a copyright infringement notice to Google before sending this message.
I suggest you immediately:
-publicly apologize at the start of you games description on the Google play store.
-contact me to find out what terms you may keep distributing this game on.
-generally be more ethical.
If you follow these actions, we can probably come to an amicable agreement.
My email is [email protected] - though you did know that having removed it from the source code...
Hi, I am an amateur android developer. I have a few apps on the google play market, and one has made it to over 10,000 doownloads. I recently created this new app call the Annoyolator. It is based on the same idea of the Annoy-O-Tron device from thinkgeek. I have a randomizing algorithm programmed to pick a random beep at a random time interval. The app will run in the background while you do other tasks, or it will run with the screen off so you can hide it. The goal is for the beep to be random enough that it is hard for your friends to locate the source.
I really just need some people to try it out. I have spent countless hours developing this and I would love to have feedback. I want negative and positive. Im always open to suggestions, even if you just think I could do a UI improvement. However, if you feel negatively about the app, please post it here and give me an opportunity to fix it before giving it a bad review on the market. I have only tested this app on the emulator, so I am excited to hear the results. Here is a link to the app, thanks for the help.......Annoyolator
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Considering how often I get sick and my (lack of) memory, this is all I need. :good:
Hi, this is a small app I made to remind myself to do things that don't have a set due date or deadline.
About the app
A simple app to keep you on top of things. Type in your reminder and click create, and the reminder will stay in your notification tray until you clear it. It's a simpler and more efficient way to manage things. There's no way to set a reminder for an event(Read: household tasks, school related things) that doesn't have a deadline, so the solution is to keep the event in your notifcation tray until you clear it. People glance at the notification area everytime they turn on the phone, so it's impossible to miss the reminder that Simple Reminders creates. This app is most useful for students but it can also be useful for adults.
Example
You have to buy milk the next time you go to the grocery store. No one makes plans to the grocery store, you just go when you have free time. Regular reminder apps can't remind you to get milk because they don't know when you're going to the store. Simple Reminders gets around this by keeping a notification in the tray that you'll notice when you're going to the store.
About the developer
I'm a 16 year old high school student learning java/android programming in my spare time.
Feel free to leave any feedback/tips/concerns.
I'm a huge fan of simple apps that take care of basic things such as this, bychance would this work on a Nexus 7 and are there any widgets for it as well? It would work great on my lockscreen
Just tried it, pretty good but please add the option to make the reminder sticky if need be as swiping them clears the notification away (obviously not good if you accidentally cleared the notification area)
Oh and please add the option of a black and white theme to the creation page
Many thanks
EDIT: Before I forget, there's a typo in the apps options page. Should be "created" not "creator" :good: