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i recently flashed a rom with samsung task manager v1.11 included. i knew there was a newer version available but my samsung app always said "no updates" available. a google search revealed this thread with the following apps:
samsung task manager (listed as v1.11 but its actually v1.51)
asphalt 5
krazy kart racing
facebook S!
vlingo
samsung qwerty remote controller
nobex radio companion
eDict english-english, english-french, english-turkish
road sms
blinkx beat
comedy time
how cast
snap n go
click on the link above for app descriptions. these are not warez. all apps are freely available to samsung galaxy owners. i am not providing any support for these apps, just the link. the only app i have personally downloaded & tested is the task manager, and it works fine on a 2.2 rom. i do not know about the functionality/compatibility of the other apps. all credit goes to the original poster, and any questions or problems should be directed to that thread
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Hello everyone!
I've just built and released pressureNET 2.0, an app that collects user-submitted barometer readings with hopes that I'll be able to use the data to improve short-term, local weather prediction and eventually give users a personalized, 30-minute-range weather forecast. While only the Galaxy Nexus and Motorola Xoom have barometers, all Android devices 3.0+ can run the app and view the map.
Currently we attempt minimal interpretation of the data since we have only about 1,200 active users. However, as we grow our user base we will overlay useful weather information on the map, such as changes in atmospheric pressure over time. This can be correlated with radar imagery to provide improved weather forecasting.
The source code for both the Android app and the server side is on our blog at cumulonimbus.ca. Thanks,
Jacob
Cumulonimbus
Testing now....
I am downloading it now to check it out.
This app is pretty dang cool!! There are a lot more devices with a barometer now. Galaxy Nexus is one of them. Everyone who has a Galaxy Nexus should download this. Once it gets big enough cool things are going to happen from it I'm sure!
The OP has asked me to post the market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barometernetwork
and his blog post announcing the 2.0 release:
http://www.cumulonimbus.ca/announcing-pressurenet-2/
"Children guessed (but only a few) and down they forgot as up they grew." - e. e. cummings
Hi everyone,
I want to update you quickly: we are now receiving almost 500 barometer readings per hour from our users, which means we have grown massively since the launch of 1.0 and even since the 2.0 launch. For some perspective, just two weeks ago we were receiving only 80 per hour.
We really want to grow this to be a large network that will enable us to improve short term weather prediction as well as contribute to collecting global climate data. And so, pressureNET 2.0 has a whole bunch of new features:
- My Info button to show personalized statistics and your recent submission graph
- Log Viewer to see your last day’s worth of submissions
- Pressure tendencies viewable on the widget
- Export user data now available in CSV
- Multiple UI improvements and fixes, including a fully revamped widget
You can read more in the blog post and download the app from the link 0vermind posted above. Thanks!
Jacob
Cumulonimbus
The att samsung galaxy note (i717) also has a barometer. App works great and look good on ics leak for i717.
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Hi Notes is an iPhone iOS 6 UI style note app to manage lots of notes and lists easily. Very cool UI like iOS 6 and easy to use. You can get the iPhone Style and Android Capability Notes in Android Phone!
What's new in Version 1.5:
1.Support in-app purchase.
2.Support Hi Dev Studio Bundles Key(50% off).tudio Bundles Key
Download in Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.easyandroid.free.notepad
Introduction video:
What’s special:
1. Support iPhone iOS 6 UI Style
2. Support the iPhone gesture(slip from right to left) to delete the note in note list
Features list:
- Support iPhone iOS 6 UI Style
- Support all iPhone Notes feature
- Support same look and touch feeling with iPhone
- Support search in all the notes
- Support share and delete of the note
- Support the note switch between previous and next in note edit screen
- Support English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese language
- Support Hi Dev Studio Bundles Key
- Support the iPhone gesture(slip from right to left) to delete the note in note list
Download in Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.easyandroid.free.notepad
You can get more iPhone Style and Android capability Apps in "Hi Dev Studio":
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Hi+Dev+Studio
Contact US:
If you meet any issue, we hope your email the issue to us, we will definitely feedback and resolve your issue asap.
We are welcome volunteer to help us for different language translation, if you have time pls contact with us.
Our Email:[email protected]
Change list
v1.5:
1.Support in-app purchase.
2.Support Hi Dev Studio Bundles Key(50% off).
v1.4:
1. Support in-app purchase
2. Fix some bug
3. Support Hi Dev Studio Bundles Key(50% Off)
Does anyone encounter some issue?
Hi all, does anyone encounter some issues? you can feedback here and i will try to support you:laugh:
So sad, seems No one like it, i will upload some screen snap later
I have uploaded some screen snap, expect you like it:victory:
Everyone, do you have some expected features?
Everyone, do you have some expected features? we will consider them in our development plan.
Does this sync to gmail's notes label?
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Does this sync to gmail's notes label?
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Thanks, Suggestions and comments are always appreciated. currently it does not support sync function, if more people require it, we will consider it in our development plan
Hi all, Suggestions and comments are always appreciated.
password ?
and just like on the Iphone no password protection then
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and just like on the Iphone no password protection then
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Thanks, Suggestions and comments are always appreciated. currently it does not support sync function, if more people require it, we will consider it in our development plan:laugh:
3C Battery Watch, available on Play Store only, the battery monitoring tool for Wear OS smartwatches.
★ Display %, mA, mV, temperature and remaining time in one screen.
★ Tap to display historical data for each.
★ Mobile app can connect to wear app to show full historical data.
Beta 0.3
In this beta, I've made both the wear and mobile app.
Both must have the same package name to be able to communicate with each other. So the mobile app cannot be the toolbox nor battery manager. At least not directly.
Here are the possibilities:
- One independent wear app for each app accessing it: toolbox or battery manager.
- Existing wear app + plugin mobile app, toolbox or battery manager communicating with plugin to access wear app (itself going through wear os app).
The mobile app currently shows the main watch screen, the estimate graph, and full history using a graphic and list view.
I'm thinking of putting estimates summary (run-time, screen-on/standby/charge) and calibration summary (capacity) into the main screen, with taps to open new screens for graphics, history, detailed estimates and detailed calibration, similarly to battery manager.
It's in beta, so any feedback is welcome.
I've downloaded and paid for the full version of the all in one toolbox you've created. Love it!
Would you know of anyway to get this working with my galaxy frontier 3 watch and note 20 ultra 5g? Would love to test this out on my Samsung devices.
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I've downloaded and paid for the full version of the all in one toolbox you've created. Love it!
Would you know of anyway to get this working with my galaxy frontier 3 watch and note 20 ultra 5g? Would love to test this out on my Samsung devices.
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The frontier 3 is tizen-based if I'm correct, so it won't work on it. I'll be looking at Tizen development to see if I can port the app to that OS.
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The frontier 3 is tizen-based if I'm correct, so it won't work on it. I'll be looking at Tizen development to see if I can port the app to that OS.
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You are correct... id likely assume me along with many others have the galaxy watch series vs. Google wear OS watches.. once you are ready, I'd more than be welcome to testing tizen based version.. as I feel the Samsung based watches goes more in depth with watches vs. Wear OS.
demandarin said:
You are correct... id likely assume me along with many others have the galaxy watch series vs. Google wear OS watches.. once you are ready, I'd more than be welcome to testing tizen based version.. as I feel the Samsung based watches goes more in depth with watches vs. Wear OS.
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I have the mobvoi Ticwatch Pro 2020 and it delivers everything I need. I'm not into sports so I disabled all mobvoi specialized apps and I'm getting 3 days and half on full charge, 2 days and half before. It has google pay, talks and is perfect for my need. I'm looking into getting the ticwatch Pro 3 which has longer battery life and is faster. The pro 3 is impressive with all sports feature one can wish. My wife had the Galaxy Active 2 but sold it for a Mikael Corss watch running Wear OS, she's very happy with it. No sports addict either, so health features are of no interest to us.
On the developement side, it's way easier to develop for Wear OS than tizen where one will have to code the watch app in C/C++ and the Android app in Java. I've setup the dev environment which requires both Eclipse IDE and Android Studio IDE to be installed.
Anyway, smart watches have a long road ahead to become way better.
Google I/O is an annual developer keynote where many breakthrough technologies are announced. This event is always met with some hype and often a few leaks that can give us an idea of what to expect. This is where developers will get a first look at the newest Android build, followed by a beta that can be downloaded to specific devices. This year, Google is showing us the new features in Android 12. While the focus on the newest Android update takes up the majority of the keynote, there are still many more Announcements to cover.
Don't miss these great Google I/O articles from the XDA News team (and check out our amazing recap here):
Google FINALLY Shows Pending App Installs on the Android home screen
Android 12 Beta 1 Hands-on: A RADICAL Redesign comes to Android
Android 12 Generates AMAZING Themes from your Wallpaper
It's About Time! Google Overhauls Widgets in Android 12
Get Android 12 Beta for Google Pixel and other Android devices - RIGHT NOW
Android 12’s privacy controls Have TONS of NEW FEATURES
Android 12Right before the event began, Google released the first beta build for Android 12. This is one of the most significant updates that Android has seen. If you own a compatible Pixel phone, you'll be able to experience the beta right away. The beta can be installed as an OTA update, but if you prefer to manually install it, you can download the update from the list below.
Google Pixels
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GSI Downloads
[The Android 12 Beta GSI download links and the installation guide can be found here.]
ArchitectureGSI Packagex86+GMSDownload LinkARM64+GMSDownload Linkx86_64Download LinkARM64Download Link
Once you are ready to install the Android 12 beta 1, you can use the Android Flash Tool. The web-based installer comes with a handy GUI-based wizard that greatly simplifies the flashing process. Instead of focusing on the changes that were introduced in Android 12 Beta 1, Google released a more detailed press release that talks about the changes that will be seen in the next version of the OS.
New Features
The new Color Extraction feature will pull colors from your current wallpaper and implement them throughout the system, as a new theme. It uses a clustering algorithm to determine which shades are dominant and which are less dominant. This design, along with the rest of the new “Material You” changes, are coming to Google Pixel phones first in the fall.
Then there’s dynamic lighting, a feature wherein your lockscreen expands from darkness based on where you press the power button or unlock the phone. One feature we also spotted is that, on the lock screen, there’s a new button for Quick Wallet Access (Google Pay cards). Furthermore, the Quick Settings space has redesigned to include Google Pay and Home controls.
Another strong focus is the new privacy features. First, a new privacy dashboard to see a timeline of apps using a particular permission has been added. Furthermore, this privacy dashboard also gives easy access to manage that permission. Next, there are now privacy indicators in the top right to see when an app is using the camera or microphone. New Quick Settings toggles to disable camera or microphone access have been added. Finally, all machine learning processing (for features like smart reply, Now Playing, etc.) happens on-device under a new Private Compute Core software partition.
Google has reworked the Widgets API to enhance the user experience across different platforms, Android skins, and launchers. We see a consistent spread of the Google Sans font, flat icons, and cohesive color palettes, all of which together give widgets a more modern look. Widgets in Android 12 get new dynamic controls allowing you to interact with checkboxes, radio buttons, and switches without entering an app. The widget picker will now also offer responsive previews for widgets of different sizes.
Material YouAndroid's look is getting a complete redesign. These new design standards are called Material You. The colors of your Android theme can now be generated by your wallpaper. Android will pull a color pallet based on your own custom wallpaper, and apply it to different aspects of your phone. This gives a consistent and new look to your device, every time you change your wallpaper. As per the keynote at Google I/O 2021, the colors will apply uniformly across elements such as the lockscreen, quick settings, notifications panel, and even the newly-added adaptive widgets.
"We mix color science with years of investment in the disciplines of interaction design and engineering to make it possible to tailor any app—not just Google’s—to the user’s unique Material palette in real time. Material You includes users as co-creators, delivering a mode for every mood." - Google
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Material You will arrive as part of Android 12, and Google says it will share more details in the coming weeks. The design shift is described as a “multiyear journey,” so much like the original rollouts of Material Design and Google’s Material Theme (also known as ‘Material Design 2.0’), it will likely be a while before all of Google’s apps are migrated to the new style.
WearOS NewsGoogle has put effort into bringing some big updates to Wear OS. This update comes as a collaboration between Google and Samsung, in an attempt to revamp the OS. This keynote was the first time we got to see many of these new features in action.
Google transitioned from Google Play Music to YouTube Music last year, and one of the several issues users faced due to this transition was the lack of a Wear OS app for Google’s new music streaming service. Google has now confirmed that it will release a YouTube Music app for Wear OS later this year. The app will come with features like smart downloads that will let users download music to their watches for offline listening while they’re on the go.
Furthermore, Google announced that it’s making it easier for developers to build new Wear OS apps and Tiles with a couple of new tools. These include a new Tiles API and a watch face design editor built by Samsung. Apps from developers like Strava, Adidas Running, Bitmoji, and more will also make their way to the platform later this year.
"New tools, like a Tiles API and a watch face design editor built by Samsung, make it a breeze to develop new experiences on wearables." - Google
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Smart CanvasOne of the first announcements of the event was a new service called Smart Canvas. This is a team collaboration service that integrates Google Meet and Docs. Think of it as a replacement for services like Slack or Asana. Google showed an example of a team tracking an advertising campaign from beginning to end. The process first starts like an idea board, which evolves as the project goes on. You can assign and track tasks for specific team members.
Google Meet is being integrated into Docs, as a part of Smart Canvas. Now when you're working on a document with the team, you can start a call from within your doc. This is an easy way to collaborate with your team while tackling one project. Features similar to this are being added that have the goal of unifying all of Google's different work/office tools.
Android Augmented Reality APIARCore for Android will be receiving some important upgrades, according to the I/O keynote. The company's augmented reality platform powers more than 850 million Android smartphones worldwide. ARCore relies on your phone’s existing hardware and sensors to collect data on depth, motion tracking, and light estimation to help developers build interactive AR experiences. This API is essential for developers to continue to create advanced AR apps for the Android platform.
Now Google introduces the raw Depth API, which builds upon the Depth API to provide more detailed representations of surrounding objects by generating raw depth maps with corresponding confidence images. While the Depth API focused on generating smoothed depth maps with depth estimates for all pixels, the Raw Depth API aims to capture more realistic depth maps with confidence images providing a per-pixel depth estimate.
Another area of improvement is the hit-test which now uses depth maps instead of planes to provide more hit-test results even on non-planar and low-texture floors. TeamViewer’s LifeAR app has utilized the depth hit-test to integrate AR capabilities into video calls.
Continue to follow XDA's coverage of the 2021 Google I/O and the first beta build of Android 12.
this is the first android version in a long time that looks so vastly different. i personally love it..
Pixel 3a is compatible with Materia You? OR It will work on new Pixel phones (Pixel 5 and newer) only?