Ultimate Call Screen HD
HD Full Screen Caller ID, Video Caller ID, Fullscreen SMS receiver and Call Blocker. The most complete fullscreen caller ID replacement and phone toolbox on Google Play, feature leader on its class, UCS is much more than a simple call ID app with big pictures. UCS combines:
- Fullscreen Caller ID replacement with true HD pictures of your contacts
- Full Screen Video ID
- FullScreen SMS notifications
- Fullscreen SMS Browser, including threaded mode
- Fullscreen Missed Calls notifications
- Unprecedented theming options, including 11 free themes
- Contact picture manager
- Call Blocker
- Sensor-base actions such as rejecting calls by turning the phone screen-down
- AND configurable swipe gestures just to be sure you handle your phone any way you want to.
As recommended on www.lifehacker.com:
"The features of this app are almost too numerous to list, but if you use your phone to make phone calls (you know, that thing it was originally intended for), it's a must-have."
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In one app, you get:
- Choose pictures from gallery, camera or link to Facebook friends using their HD profile pictures
- Choose Videos from your gallery to use as full screen caller ID
- Apply pictures to contacts directly from your gallery, with the android "share" function. Just choose "Add to UCS"!
- Answer calls with buttons, sliding buttons, rotary buttons, swipe gestures... You choose!
- Configure your phone to hangup calls, put on speaker or mute ringer simply by turning the phone screen-down!
- Swipe gestures (reject and answer calls, reject with sms, reply to sms, ...)
- Fully featured Call blocker
- Fullscreen SMS receiver
- Fullscreen Missed Calls Notifications, with dismiss, callback and answer functions, and configurable swipe gestures
- Complete theme support for both call and SMS screens, personalizable per contact
- Picture syncing of HD pictures to phone internal contacts
- Privacy Screen: hide incoming call and SMS details from prying eyes until it's safe to pick-up/read
Advanced Features:
- Use your current android contact picture as fullscreen caller ID (Licensed only!)
- Selectively enable only for outgoing/incoming calls
- Sync your android contact database to use your UCS-defined callscreen HD pictures, or batch-upload a set of pictures from your sdcard
- Hide parts of the call screen for cleaner interface.
- Option to make incoming SMS show above lockscreen, including turning the screen on
- Missed calls viewer
- You can ALWAYS go back to the default phone interface during a call, simply by pressing the phone "Back" while on a call
- Much MUCH more! Take a look through the available settings!
Getting Started and Important Notes
- To use the dialpad and other in-call functions, press the "Back" button on a call to bring up the default phone interface! Due to security restrictions imposed by Google, it's impossible for me to provide a working dialer during an ongoing non-VoIP call.
- In version V5.0.0 and upwards, the model of the free version changed due to userbase request. Almost all functions are available, but there is a personalizable contact limit.
Market Link for Lite Version:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lowveld.ucs
Enjoy
Changelogs
V10.3.9
- Lollipop compatibility
V10.3.3
- Improved Facebook auto-matching
- Performance optimizations
- Reduced memory footprint
- Minor bug fixes
V10.3.3
- Polish translation. Thanks cvxcvx and TomoS!
V10.3.0
- Contact manager now has its own tab on Settings, including Fast Scroll and visual status indicators
- More efficient contact lists
- Fixed issue with default Video ID for known contacts showing even if contact was personalized
- Fixed visibility issues on Facebook lists when using Dark UI
V10.2.0
- Updated UI to new light look
- Fixed VideoID for android 4.4 devices
- Missed Call Screen no longer deletes calls from Call Log
- Fixed minor issues in SMS theming
- Performance improvements
V10.1.1
- Fixed issue with overriding colors in SMS themes
- Updated French translation (Thanks Loic!)
- Performance improvements
V10.1.0
- Added option to block calls with hidden numbers
- Added option to force screen full brightness on calls (find it on "Call Settings"->"Callscreen Interface"). Option is On by default, and brightness is restored when call ends.
V10.0.0
- Redesigned User Interface
- New plugin to control UCS new UI animations
- Fixed issue with Video ID keeping playing audio after answering call with Headsets
- Fixed issue where "callback" function on new SMS notification screen was not working properly
- Hiding button block on SMS theme no longer also hides contact name and number
- Improved theming engine to support upcoming theme features
- Minor fixes and optimizations
V9.7.0
- Added SMS Browser: fast view of all SMS, tap to go fullscreen, accessible directly from your phone app drawer
- SMS Browser supports threaded mode (tap options to set it). When in thread mode, fullscreen viewer cycles through thread only
- Re-designed fullscreen SMS viewer to use HUD interface, added next and previous SMS buttons, and also a "callback" function
- Dimissing SMS, or pressing next/previous buttons mark current SMS as read
- Re-designed app icons, and some in-app graphics
- Fixed crash if user removed video from phone and it was being used by UCS
- Fixed issue with multiple calls
- Performance improvements
- Minor bugfixes
V9.5.1
- Changed default interface on new installs to HUD
- Added "Reject With SMS" button to HUD on incoming calls
- Removed Contact Manager shortcut from phone app drawer
- Increased possible call exit delay values to accommodate slower phones
- Performance improvements
V9.4.0
- Added configurable delay on Call Screen exit to allow laggy stock interface to finish (Call Settings -> Callscreen Interface)
- UCS now displays phone numbers formated according to your country (option to disable included in Call Settings -> Callscreen Interface)
- Added option to manually crop facebook pictures when linking individual contacts
V9.3.0
- Added UCS Plugins feature: LICENSED users only!
- "Standalone Syncer" is now a builtin plugin, several bugfixes included
- "FindMe plugin": make your phone ring even in silence mode with a pre-defined SMS
- "Theme Previewer Plugin": fast preview of themes on any UCS screens
- "Phonebook Pictures Plugin": use your existing photos for non personalized contacts
- Added some delay on call ends to give time to stock interface to exit
- Moved Privacy Screen Settings to Settings tab
- Themes also apply to Missed Call Screen now
- Optimized app memory footprint
- Minor fixes
V9.2.0
- Added new Heads Up Display compact call interface, custom position available
- Added new HUD Profile
- Added text color customization to SMS Theme Manager
- Added option to exclude contacts from UCS
- Themes now also apply to Privacy Screen
- Re-designed Detailed Contact view on Contact Manager
- Fixed issue with call answering on some phones
- Fix contact preview wrongly applying Smart Info for non-personalized contacts
V9.1.0
- Added "Smart Info": for personalized known contacts, automatically hide name, number and CID block background
- Added "Profiles" feature: one touch configuration of UCS behavior
- Added full costumization of Ring Picker interface targets, you define what each button does
- Added option to invert position of Answer and Decline buttons on Rotary, Sliding Tab, and Push Buttons interfaces
- Added option to use different default pictures for unknown contacts on incoming and outgoing calls
- Added workaround option for dual-sim phones to be able to choose sim card on outgoing calls
- Privacy Screen now supports sensor actions (turn to mute ringer or hang up call)
- FIX: allow USSD type messages to correctly show
- FIX: allow notifications to be pulled down if the status bar is not hidden in call screens
- minor bugfixes and optimizations
V9.0.0
- Drastic performance improvement on caller ID display: instant response
- Re-organized existing call settings for more logical configuration
- Optional override of theme colors for name, number and call time
- Removed possibility of custom separate themes for unknown contacts: one default theme for everyone
- Still possible to personalize theme differently for known and unknown contacts
- Added option to use SMS templates for "Reject With SMS" function
- Several rare-bugs fixes
V8.1.0
- Increased facebook pictures quality
- IMPORTANT: existing users should do a "Sync Pictures Now" to improve old pictures
- Optimized facebook "I Feel Lucky": more reliable auto-matching of contacts (Licensed only)
- Other performance optimizations
V8.0.0
- Added Fullscreen Missed Calls Notifications
- Notification screen allows swipe actions, dismiss, callback, and reply with SMS
- Added optional on-screen "mute" button during calls
- Added Privacy Options also to Fullscreen notifications
- Optimizations on image handling: should solve rare issues with FC on loading or rotating pictures
- Increased picture quality when using existing android contact pictures on ICS and above (Licensed only)
- Increased functions on Contact Manager detailed view: click picture now offers also options to reset contact, reset facebook linking, using current internal contact picture as source, and syncing the current UCS picture to internal Android database
- Added dedicated Un-link menu to Facebook options. Single press any facebook contact to clear association. Great for errors after using "I Feel Lucky" Option
V7.4.0
- Added Privacy options for both calls and SMS - check rigt-most tab on UCS settings
- Choose to hide caller name and picture until you choose to unlock the callscreen
- Choose to selectively hide text, or all contact details, on SMS screen until you unlock it
- Moved Internal Phone Syncing menu to General Settings tab on UCS settings
- FIX: issue with retrieving friend list on Facebook synchronization
V7.3.3
- Fixed issue with proximity sensor not turning off screen during call (SGS3 and possibly other phones)
- Fixed wrong call duration indication on some devices
- Fixed possible issues with unknown phone callers causing rare crashes
- Fixed layout issue on SMS. SMS now adjusts to the presence or not of buttons.
- Added configurable font size for calls/SMS
V7.3.2
- Fixed possible issue with Answer on SGS III
- Added optional root-required methods for answering/declining calls. Should ONLY be used if you have problems with UCS, and your phone MUST be rooted.
- Added Setup Wizard for initial configuration
- Added option to hide UCS after answering a call
- Increased customization of SMS screen. You can now hide the buttons, etc.
- FIXED: Facebook authorization issues on some phones
- FIXED: issue when choosing Ring Picker interface for German users
V 6.2.0
- JellyBean compatibility
V 5.1.3
- Fixed issue in phone syncing for ICS builds, where pictures could be assigned to wrong contacts
- Optimized memory usage on image editing: should fix the issue for rare FCs when rotating images
- Improved facebook picture fetching, possibly fixing rare cases where contact pictures were not being downloaded
- Several optimizations on phone syncing code
- Improved theming capabilities: look for new theme "Snow White"
- Several minor bugfixes
V 4.0.0
- New: Reject call with SMS. Only accessible with swipe gesture, to keep the interface clean.
- New: Ultimate SMS Screen can flip through all your SMS messages. Only accessible with swipe gesture
- Swipe actions are now fully configurable
- In calls, any swipe can be configured to reject, answer, reject with SMS, and default phone interface.
- In SMS, any swipe can be configured to dismiss, reply to the SMS, view previous and view next SMS
- Portuguese translation
- German translation
V 2.2.0
- Added Rotate function to Picture Editor
- Launch the Contact Manager directly from your app drawer
- New option to force UCS to ignore answer/reject button presses, and only react to long presses (press and hold the button, avoids accidental pickup/hangup)
- Licensed Users: Added capability to set different default themes, as well as independent hiding of callscreen elements, for known and unknown callers
- Free Users: Can selectively hide callscreen elements for unknown callers only
V 1.4.0
- You can hide parts of the callscreen, like buttons and backgrounds.
- You can set different default HD default pictures for Unknown contacts.
- (Licensed) You can apply different themes per-contact. With a transparent theme and swipe gestures, you can achieve true fullscreen for selected contacts.
- Fixed issue where UCS would sometimes not show on calls
- Rearranged UCS preferences into sub-menus.
- Added a "Tips and Tricks" section to preferences.
V 1.2.4
- fixed the issue where some people would get the status bar cover part of the caller name. There should be no fullscreen issues now.
- When you press back on Contact Manager or Theme Manager, you will now go back to UCS Preferences (would exit UCS before)
- Remember position on contact list: when you exit a detailed contact view, the list will start from that contact, not from the beginning. (yes, was annoying)
- Press visual feedback on UCS buttons (change color when pressed)
V 1.2.3
- Option to show on-screen "set on loudspeaker" button
- Option to show/hide status bar on lockscreen: people with problems where the status bar shows anyway, and hides part of the caller ID, set this OFF as a workaround!
- Option to give haptic feedback (vibrate) on UCS key presses
- FIX: Hopefully motorola people will stop having FCs when saving pictures
- Optimized memory footprint
- Removed unnecessary "save" option after saving an image on the editor
V 1.2.0
- Added theming capability, and a Theme Manager, for Licensed users only! Search for "UCS Suave theme" in google play to see it in action, and I will be doing a lot more themes in the near future.
- Changed answer/call buttons for a more polished look.
- Fixed issues with rare random crashes while viewing detailed contact info.
V 1.1.0:
- Removed restriction on editing pictures only on portrait, it now serves as simple rotate feature: turn the phone to landscape when editing pictures, and on saving, UCS will rotate the visible area to portrait. So UCS still shows exactly what you cropped and are seeing, plus it rotated the original image.
- Fixed race condition that lead to a very "rare" FC (thanks to whoever reported the crash to google play)
- Changed application icon
V 1.0.1:
- Restrict image editing and cropping to portrait mode to avoid FC until I rework it
V 1.0.0:
- Initial release
Theming guide
This is a tutorial on how to build themes for UCS. You will need the Android SDK and Eclipse installed and setup.
I provide an Eclipse project which you can use as base and example to give you a quick startup. Note that there are other ways to do this without eclipse, but I won't get into that. But it is not enough to open the apk and just drop images into there (unless you decompile it, recompile it, and sign it). Well, at least not enough to use the full power of the theming engine: you won't be able to change text size, element position, and other stuff without recompiling.
Take the attached eclipse project and import it. (please don't ask how to do this, there are numerous tutorials on how to setup eclipse/android SDK, and that is not the purpose of this post/thread).
Template Eclipse Project: View attachment UCS_Template_Theme.1.0.0.tar.gz
Alternatively, here is the compiled apk from the project above: View attachment UCS_Template_Theme.1.0.0.apk
The apk is useful if you just want to change some images, and also if you use some of the toolkits around here in xda to decompile/compile apks. In fact, you don't actually need Eclipse to completely change the template: use something like ApkManager, and just decompile the apk.
The theming does not involve java programming, that's why it works so nice with a decompiler: no smali editing. All you need for theming is replacing drawables, and editing xml files.
When starting, take a look at the files in:
res/drawables/
res/values/
The xml files in the drawables folder point to the actual images in /res/drawable-hdpi, and those are what you want to change
The xml files in res/values control everything from text color to element placing. Take special attention to integers.xml, I inserted comments on it to make clearer what every key does.
Play around with this, run it with the "run as android application" command with your phone connected to your PC if you're using Eclipse. Getting the offsets just the way you wanto to can be tricky.
When you're done, just export as signed application and share it here if you feel like it!
Cheers
As always....brilliant.....
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Great work like ever, tried it on latest reaper and it will become my default call screen
Great work lowveld! Using it on reaper now, but just to clarify, if i want to turn on speaker and so on I have to go back to the default one?
I don't know how you do it, you're way to talented dude
Cheers!
e2zippo said:
Great work lowveld! Using it on reaper now, but just to clarify, if i want to turn on speaker and so on I have to go back to the default one?
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Yep, I believe that you must hit the back button to return to normal dialer and then enable speaker from there.
Great. Will check it on my sgsii und give you feedback
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ben_pyett said:
Yep, I believe that you must hit the back button to return to normal dialer and then enable speaker from there.
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No, just activate the "turn to speaker" feature. During a call, just turn the phone screen down!
Cheers
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium
Thanks app seems really awesome
lowveld said:
Reserved one...
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earlier failure to post was obviously a tapatalk (xda app) issue. Already loving this application....
Is it too early for future functionality requests?
Please incorporate a backup and restore option, so that the custom linkages and pictures can be saved across ROMs. In the meantime how can I manually backup these, will titanium do? or is there an SD card directory?
ben_pyett said:
earlier failure to post was obviously a tapatalk (xda app) issue. Already loving this application....
Is it too early for future functionality requests?
Please incorporate a backup and restore option, so that the custom linkages and pictures can be saved across ROMs. In the meantime how can I manually backup these, will titanium do? or is there an SD card directory?
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You can safely backup with titanium and restore to the same rom with no issues. Across roms you can't do that, because the internal android contact database changes.
Its never too early for requests, ill try to figure out a way around this!
Cheers
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium
One thing i would like to see on ucs is the ability to rotate the pictures, if I'm allowed to make a feature request.
I came across this, because i have a picture i rotated myself at the gallery, but if i import it to ucs it isn't rotated, i know it can easily be solved with another app, but it would be nice if ucs takes to rotation from gallery or if i would be able to rotate it myself.
ben_pyett said:
earlier failure to post was obviously a tapatalk (xda app) issue. Already loving this application....
Is it too early for future functionality requests?
Please incorporate a backup and restore option, so that the custom linkages and pictures can be saved across ROMs. In the meantime how can I manually backup these, will titanium do? or is there an SD card directory?
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Ben, let me rephrase my earlier answer: if you use titanium to restore both the contacts database and UCS, when restoring both to another rom all should be ok with UCS internal contact mapping. But you know how I feel about restoring system data across roms, so I'll try to come up with a better solution.
Tectas said:
One thing i would like to see on ucs is the ability to rotate the pictures, if I'm allowed to make a feature request (and maybe to crop them).
I came across this, because i have a picture i rotated myself at the gallery, but if i import it to ucs it isn't rotated, i know it can easily be solved with another app, but it would be nice if ucs takes to rotation from gallery or if i would be able to rotate it myself.
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Hey mate!
Well, I will surely look into this. Plus, your request lead me to identify the first bug in ICS, and I just uploaded version V1.0.1 because of you, so thanks for that! (the bug was that if you tried using the image editor/cropper on landscape mode, it would FC on saving the image).
But I got a bit confused about your "maybe to crop them" part of the request. Currently you can zoom in and out of any picture, move it around, and when saving, UCS will crop the image to what is showing on the screen (minus the buttons of course). You can use either the in-screen zoom buttons, or regular multi-touch (pinch to zoom), and simple dragging to move the picture around.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough about this before...
Cheers
Excellent, a new version
In response to the rotate request, it's +1 that world be really useful
Crop not needed, as you said already multi touch, although it would be good if when you're on the resize image screen, if there were lines at the top and bottom of the screen indicating the size that the image has to be stretched to, as I like the top and bottom that show the calling number and buttons not to also have the image behind (hope that makes sense).
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backup/restore question
Does the UCS app make and store a copy of the edited pictures or simply keep a link to the original pictures?
As, I've created a new directory on my sd card simply for my UCS pictures, so could any backup function you create simply map the existing contacts to their UCS contact picture file path, it would be incredible if it would also remember the sizing settings for each image.
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ben_pyett said:
Excellent, a new version
In response to the rotate request, it's +1 that world be really useful
Crop not needed, as you said already multi touch, although it would be good if when you're on the resize image screen, if there were lines at the top and bottom of the screen indicating the size that the image has to be stretched to, as I like the top and bottom that show the calling number and buttons not to also have the image behind (hope that makes sense).
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Hey,
Yeah, I think I got what you meant. Showing guidelines to tell the user where the caller ID interface elements will actually show would be possible, I guess. But it would be a pain for you to align the picture. Actually I never thought that it could be used that way (with black headers and footers instead of fullscreen pic).
Anyway, what about a compromise meanwhile: I give the option to instead of those semi-transparent rectangles that show beneath the buttons and contact numbers/names, paint it black. What do you think? The end result will be what you want, I guess, but you should scale the images to fullscreen, and sort of guess where the black will be.
The reason I'm reluctant to add guidelines or whatever to the cropper, is because I'm trying to figure out a way to let the user change the position of those elements on the call screen, and it would become inconsistent on that case. Ok, I'm rambling now...
Cheers
ben_pyett said:
backup/restore question
Does the UCS app make and store a copy of the edited pictures or simply keep a link to the original pictures?
As, I've created a new directory on my sd card simply for my UCS pictures, so could any backup function you create simply map the existing contacts to their UCS contact picture file path, it would be incredible if it would also remember the sizing settings for each image.
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UCS saves the final cropped image you assign to a contact, and that's the one that will be used from there on. You can even delete the original, no harm done.
There's no need for you to create another backup dir on the sdcard: the saved files are on the app own directory, and will be saved by Titanium backup. If you still want to keep sort of a catalog of what you use, so clean installs of UCS on other roms go faster, just copy the .jpg files from /data/data/com.lowveld.ucs/files
Mapping the picture to contacts is a different matter, and the main difficulty regarding a save/restore functionality. I'll have to really think hard on how to achieve this...
Cheers, and thanks for the input!
On thinking about it, forget about guidelines, just don't make the backgrounds at the top and bottom of the screen semi transparent, if possible make this colour/transparency configurable through options? I'd prefer none so you gave full screen pictures, with number and buttons simply overlaid, you could even have the colour of the text of the calling number configurable
Last request for today, promise, night
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ben_pyett said:
On thinking about it, forget about guidelines, just don't make the backgrounds at the top and bottom of the screen semi transparent, if possible make this colour/transparency configurable through options? I'd prefer none so you gave full screen pictures, with number and buttons simply overlaid, you could even have the colour of the text of the calling number configurable
Last request for today, promise, night
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Fair enough. Let me see what I can do
Cheers, and good night.
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Hi guys!
My new creation is a fast and slim facebook client called Fast Facebook.
For now is in beta, but I want to build a complete app for a full but fast facebook experience.
Please I need feedbacks, translators and maybe someone deeper involved in the project. I am the only one programmer!
Fast on google play
This is our facebook page Fast on facebook
This is our translation community Fast on getlocalization.com
Actual Release 2.8.0
Features:
Comment, share and like
Real-time Home feeds
Write new status
Read notifications
Access to news, status, photos, etc etc
Send private messages
Chat
Personal Profile
Search friends, people, pages and everything else
Write on friends'wall
Friends Management
Read your private messages
Add Photos
Add locations (check-in)
View Videos
View Galleries
View Members Profiles
Background themes (grey, app theme or photo loaded from your Device)
High security level: Facebook takes care of your user and password, we don't store anything!
Android 4.0 Design
Access to Groups
All feedback are useful and I try to follow every request. Don't put 1 star or judge bad at the first impression. Thank you!
App permissions and differences with Facebook app.
Android app permissions
Fast:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
This is the main permission just to access to internet.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
This is a permission to get your gps position. It's triggered only when you do a checking, I never check the position or have any analytic about where you are.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE"/>
For the vibration of the chat
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
I use it to check if your phone is connected or not
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
This is used only to store the images and for data caching to save bandwidth.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
This one is triggered only when you open the camera view and take a photo.
Facebook app:
This app has access to these permissions:
Your accounts
find accounts on the device
create accounts and set passwords
add or remove accounts
Your location
precise location (GPS and network-based)
approximate location (network-based)
Your messages
read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
Network communication
view network connections
receive data from Internet
full network access
change network connectivity
download files without notification
view Wi-Fi connections
connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
Your personal information
read calendar events plus confidential information
add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
read your own contact card
Phone calls
directly call phone numbers
read phone status and identity
Storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
System tools
install shortcuts
test access to protected storage
send sticky broadcast
read battery statistics
Your applications information
run at startup
retrieve running apps
reorder running apps
Camera
take pictures and videos
Other Application UI
draw over other apps
Microphone
record audio
Your social information
write call log
read your contacts
modify your contacts
read call log
Affects battery
prevent device from sleeping
control vibration
Audio settings
change your audio settings
Status bar
expand/collapse status bar
Sync Settings
toggle sync on and off
read sync settings
Wallpaper
set wallpaper
adjust your wallpaper size
Crazy. Just crazy.
Facebook permissions.
Fast:
Fast asks for a lot of permissions because there is no way to access to your data or write a new object without them. The good thing is that the app does what you want to do and there is no background process that spies or catch your information. There is no analytic or hidden services. At the first installation the app asks if you want to post a status with information about Fast, but you can choose if you want this or not.
This is the list of permissions that Fast can ask you (all are optional, if you need a feature you accept, otherwise you can decide to decline):
So, if you need a client that is triggered only by your actions, Fast it's your choice. The app doesn't have any control on your sms, contacts, phone data and status. It's not connected to any spying web services and there are no logs or personal information that are sent to me. I have no idea who is using Fast, what the user is doing. I just have Facebook data about active monthly user, geographical stats (only countries percentage), language and stats about how many api calls are made + api errors.
Facebook App:
The thing with official app is that you can't decide what permissions you can give to it, because it's official and it can do everything. If you loose your phone and you don't have the proper security level, everyone can do everything on your FB account with the Fb app.
Moreover, you don't know what kind of analytic, hidden services and hidden processes are on the app. You have to give so many android permissions that you literally give the app a full control of your phone.
I know that I am no one, and it's hard to trust, but Fast is here from almost 2 years and people trust my app. You can check the ratings and all the discussion here, I am always open to change the app, follow feedback and fix everything. My motto is to be transparent and always open to accept critics and new ideas.
If someone needs more info, feel free to write here!!
Old changelogs
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[B][SIZE="3"]Fast 1.9.8.7 Build "cops"[/SIZE][/B]
• Updated to the latest Facebook© SDK for android
• Modified login behavior in order to be in compliance with the Facebook© Policy
• Fixed comments in notification detail view
• Improved News Feed parser
• Fix of some crashes
• Improved graphics layout
[B][SIZE="3"]Fast 1.9.8.4 Build "Eldar"[/SIZE][/B]
• Added photo tagging (for album and “just uploaded” photos)
• Added new tablet landscape layout
• Added full private messages history (if you are on top of the message history the old messages are loaded automatically)
• Added possibility to post a photo directly in a status update
• Added Friendship request
• Added custom color background selectable with a color picker
• Added search bar in sliding menu
• Added birthdays in friends list
• Added button to go to the top of the main feed list if new stories are loaded (it shows also how many new stories are loaded)
• Added counter of likes in a page
• Added text description for same action bar buttons
• Added progress update in webview login
• Added in sliding menu the profile photo of the actual user
• Added confirm to leave status update (tap back too)
• Updated write on wall feature following the new Face-book© Rules: [url]https://developers.facebook.com/road...leted-changes/[/url]
• Updated main view action bar
• Updated languages
• Updated sliding menu layout
• Fixed main news feed jump when load new stories
• Improved chat loadings
• Improved messaging
• Improved status update
• Added landscape view for security view
• Removed main news feed update on resume of the app (if you want a refresh just type the refresh button in the action bar or pull to refresh)
[B][SIZE="1"]Fast 1.9.8.2 Build "OnOff" [/B]
• A lot of improvements on memory management
• A lot of improvements on images show and cache
• Reduced size of the app from 3.5MB to 2.9MB
• Fixed notifications red button bug
[B]Fast 1.9.8.1 Build "wii" [/B]
• Less ads! Removed ads in detailed news view (free version)
• Once you tap on a banner you will not see it for 24 hours (free version)
• Improved chat and private messages layout
• Improved user-page-group feed list
• Removed some bugs and crashes
[B]Fast 1.98 Build "logan" [/B]
• New 3 graphic designs of news feed for both themes
• Main news feed accessible offline
• Changed profile-page-group layout
• Improved loadings of main news feed and friends list
• Improved main news feed scrolling
• Improved sharing features
• Improved zoom feature for pictures
• Improved recommend feature
• Reduced a lot the flickering on main news feed
• Polished layout for the action bar
• Removed a (rare) crash on exit and other bugs
[B]Fast 1.97 Build "bee" [/B]
- improved news feed management
- improved tutorial
- improved first time login management
- faster and smoother scrolling
- fixed grey theme
- added recommend fast to your friends
[B] Fast 1.94 Build "Gordon"[/B]
• New icon design
• Added endless load of comments (now is possible to scroll down until the last comment)
• Added splash screen (during the splash Fast starts to load data)
• Added module to link Fast Notification add-on to Fast for Facebook
• Updated Facebook SDK to the latest version
• Bigger images on tablet layout
• Improved visualization of photos and pictures in gallery and in save view
• Added dedicated link and picture link space in status update and user/page/group wall
• Added preview of the last comments on every posts with less than 20 comments (like Facebook website)
• Added direct open of Youtube videos trough video preview
• Added external share
• Fixed external picture share
• Fixed external share
• Fixed page-user gallery
• Fixed the page - user view
• Fixed notification open
• Fixed a bug in friends list
• Fixed avatar preview
• Fixed bug in passkey code reset
• Fixed security lock
• Fixed layout issues in grey theme and with white font
• Changed search layout (now is possible to search using keyboard action search)
[B] Fast 1.9 Build "Lime" [/B]
•New login system
•Added multi user access (up to 6 users)
•Migration to new Facebook SDK 3.0
•Added dynamic list for user online in chat (now when someone enters or lefts the chat, his name will appear or disappear from the online list)
•Added themes for status update view
•Added widget preview
•Added permissions check when posting something on Facebook
•Friends list completely rewritten, now is blazing fast
•Improved layouts
•Improved connectivity
•Updated all languages
[B] Fast 1.86 Build "Apple"[/B]
• Added album selection when upload a pic inside the app
• Added link manager in order to open a link with the chosen external app
• New action bar
• Improved album management
• Fixed YouTube link
• Fixed crash when resume news reader from background
• Fixed various bugs and crashes
[B]Fast 1.85 Build “Strawberry”[/B]
• new read view with horizontal swipe and new functionalities
• new like system: now is possible to see who liked what
• new memory management to avoid heap overflow
• new facebook sdk changes
• new big screens layout (5" +)
• new comment system for like, share and likes visualization
• new image download system with notification
• added autofocus in camera
• added autoflash in camera
• added notifications refresh
• added messages refresh
• added Bulgarian language
• faster chat access
• changed layout in user-page-groups profile ( now is possible to write directly on the timeline)
• pics in main wall are now tapable
• changed chat layout
• now chat show only online and afk users
• now pictures are in full size in the zoom view
• updated all languages
• bug fixes
[B]Fast 1.8 Build “Pineapple”[/B]
Change log:
Added photos view for groups
Added save picture feature in album
Added notification icon type
Added notification time
Added theme in photos album
Added theme to news details view
Added album name in album's view title bar
Notifications view and management completely rewritten
Now all notifications are read if notifications main button is tapped
Improved albums load and management
Improved performance and memory management of images loading
Improved user experience of settings
Improved notification details loading
Updated Turkish, Russian and Portuguese (Brazil)
Fixed settings for main theme
Fixed a lot of crashes and bugs
Fixed home news feed order bug
Fixed private messages notifications number bug
Beta 10 v1.7
Added share post, link and status with picture
Added linkified text in main feed, user feed, chat and comments. Now you can tap on websites, email, phone numbers and locations
Added friends tag in status updates and share news improved loading friends list
Added tutorial
Added endless load in the page, user and group views
Added description to news details view (better understand what is button for)
Added progress indication to update status view
Added location info in each post (if present)
Added Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian and Thai languages
Added black arrow for pull to refresh in white screen
Added groups notifications
Added load of notifications related to friends lists
Fixed some chat bugs
Fixed private messages that doesn't show in some cases
Fixed private messages layout
Fixed bug "Facebook error"
Fixed portrait in chat notification
Fixed text dimension in pull to refresh
Fixed notifications list load
Fixed some search bugs
Improved speed of private message loading
Improved speed of loading notification details
Expanded types of readable private messages
Expanded limit of viewable photos in each album (from 25 to 100)
Now is possible to delete own post created in fast
Updated all translations of all languages
Search people need a complete name to show a result
[B]Beta 9 v1.6[/B]
- Improved connectivity
- Fixed the bug of sporadic endless loadings
- Profile-page-groups visualizations
- Fixed notifications unread number in main view
- Improved and fixed all share features
- Improved profile-page-groups loading speed
- Added copy text of chat message
- Added icon in chat to hide online-offline people list
- Changed chat layout in order to save space
- Fixed bugs and force close
- Default theme is now White
- Fixed scale type in photo preview in gallery
- Added indonesian and thai
[B][SIZE="1"]Beta 8 v1.55[/SIZE][/B]
- Fix private messages and chat history
- Added languages:
Finnish
Catalan
Czech
Greek
Arabic
- General bug fixes and improvements
Beta 7 v1.5
General
Share with customized privacy options
Review of the sharing content before real sharing
Added Cross Promotion, this is not admob or similar. It's only a PNG! No bandwidth consumption
Front camera bug fixed
Layouts
Added bookmarks menu for pages and groups
New swipe between news
New layout for share menu and news visualization
Improved chat layout
Graphics
Added white theme and dark font
Pictures and photos
Zoom
Download
Higher definition
[SIZE="2"]Beta 6 v1.4[/SIZE]
General:
- Optimized loading and connectivity
- Introduced an advanced cache that automatically loads images and minimizes the internet usage
Thanks to this system is faster too
- Fixed bugs and problems reported by users
- Ability to delete own comments
- Ability to delete status from your profile
- Grouped sharing icons on the main screen, by pressing the button "+" the icons appear
Appearance:
- After a report by Facebook, We changed name, icon and graphics
- Updated some icons
- Introduced a higher quality and larger fonts for TABLETS
Bulletin board:
- Increased the number of news readable in the main screen
Chat:
- Optimized the loading speed
- Adjusted the position of notifications to avoid overlapping of action bar.
Safety:
- Introduced optional security system that works every time you close the application. The system allows to open the app only by inserting pin previously set. The system is optional and enabled / disabled from the settings menu.
Camera:
- Added the ability to take pictures and to upload your photos immediately. It’s possible to take
and upload multiple photos at once.
Quick Links:
- Quick link to update own state.
Widget:
- Introduced 2 widgets for quick access to sharing features (new state, new checkin, new picture taken from camera, new image, new Private Message)
Languages:
- Update German, Hungarian
- Added turkish, Portuguese, Polish
Miscellaneous:
- Tuned refresh pull down.
- Fixed bug on ICS for the display of text written in Search and Chat
- Slightly increased the size of the friends online list in chat
- Improved management of notifications
- Introduced the ability to directly open the photo album in case a notification refers to multiple photos
- Introduced a dialog in the case when there are connectivity problems
- Optimized external sharing
- Optimized photos upload
- Optimized friends list loading
- Optimized login / logout
- Increased font size in some sections
- Added donate to support us
Beta 5 v1.36
New languages:
Croatian
German
Hungarian
Danish
Chinese
Improved load of main screen
Bug fixes
Beta 4 v1.3
- Mainscreen:
Increased the number of types of news
User Photos in the News
News and news in detail horizontal view
Color identification for each type of news
Added Groups (Reading, Comment, Like, Share)
HD Images
PinchToZoom on Pictures and news
Possibility of removing "Likes" by a news
-Chat:
Added New Chat system
Added list online / offline Friends
Real-time notification in the chat with multiple users simultaneously (no background)
Added search form for Friends in chat
Friends List expandable and reducible
Chat also in horizontal
-Friends:
Optimized scrolling speed of Buddy List
Quick Search form
Cover photos and friends time line
-Settings:
Login / Logout
Added menu backgrounds
Performance settings added (Ability to change the performance settings and option to free up cache)
-Image Gallery:
Added Albums
Added comments displayed for each image
PinchToZoom on each individual photo
-Private Messages:
List messages with details of the person you contacted
Easy searching of the person that you want to contact
Possibility to send private messages directly from your profile page
-Improvements
Optimized loading speed
Optimized pagination News
Optimized the update rate Notifications
Optimized speed of loading images
Optimized search speed
Fixed all the bugs found
Added possibility to open notifications in Groups[/SIZE]
wish you a good luck i will try it
Any screenshots?
voddles said:
Any screenshots?
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Love the holo themed UI!
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Love the Holo theme, but what about data privacy please ?
Trojan38 said:
Love the Holo theme, but what about data privacy please ?
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Well,
login is trough a webview directly connected with Facebook (fb dialog), so no data is passed trough the app. The are no analytics such as google, flurry, socialize, etc etc. So the only data I receive is from the developer dashboard of Facebook.
So, all the connections are trough facebook open graph or the xmpp facebook server (using SASL, no md5 with user and password in clear )
Talking about privacy, I will introduce the possibility to use the privacy settings for the sharing of content and update status.
Thank u
Will test your app. Works push notification with your App ?
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Urokinase said:
Will test your app. Works push notification with your App ?
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Not for now... it will be in the next updates
taomorpheus said:
Well,
login is trough a webview directly connected with Facebook (fb dialog), so no data is passed trough the app. The are no analytics such as google, flurry, socialize, etc etc. So the only data I receive is from the developer dashboard of Facebook.
So, all the connections are trough facebook open graph or the xmpp facebook server (using SASL, no md5 with user and password in clear )
Talking about privacy, I will introduce the possibility to use the privacy settings for the sharing of content and update status.
Thank u
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Thanks for explaning, that's what I wanted to hear . Gonna try .
nice app! really liked it
Hey dude, it look sick! Would recommend to my frens naw! Uninstalling Official fb app naw + Do make a widget... ;(
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Complimenti, grande app!
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Any chance of implementing contact sync? It's the only reason I even keep the official client installed.
execute_method said:
Any chance of implementing contact sync? It's the only reason I even keep the official client installed.
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This is on my roadmap, but there are so many features and tweaks that i want to do!!!
Probably after April I will do it (I've put it on the 1.4 release)
wow, wicked, just what i needed, i used to freeze facebook when not in use using titanium backup due to heavy service/ram usage. thanks
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wow great new facebook app :d
one suggestion:
I would like to see a built in picture viewer so you can look at ALL pictures inside the app...I wasn´t able to get a viewer option at least ...
keep it up
+1 on the proper background service. I stopped using the official since most versions would always run no matter the settings which resulted being a battery killer. if you can configure it to cache to the background so it's not running consistently you may just be on the road to compete against friendcaster
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Landscape support please......otherwise....looks good!
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Hey guys,
I'm very interrested what apps you all out there are using. And I think it is very convenient for everyone if we had a collection of very useful apps. What do you think? Tell the others what useful tools you have installed on your phone! If enough people participate this eventually could become sticky...
Here is the current list:
Last Update: 2012-05-19Backup & Restore:
Call Logs backup and restore - as the name suggests (exctngdude)
Rom Toolbox - The biggest app for rom management, includes nearly every thing a root user dreams of: backup and restore, cpu and io tweaks, ad
SMS back up and restore - as the name suggests (exctngdude)
Titanium Backup - Probably the most famous backup and restore app (whitebaldman, bscraze)
Browser:
Boat Browser -
Dolphin HD 7 - (Vrz.)
Maxthon Browser - (bscraze)
Opera Mobile - A powerful and fast webbrower (bscraze)
Opera Mini - A fast browser with compression trough the opera servers
Downloader:
TTorrent - (nicsptl)
ADownloader - (Gondya bhau)
GPS:
SpeedView - App to show your speed (exctngdude)
Sygic - A very good navigation app with TomTom maps
Keyboards:
Smart Keyboard - A nice and simple customizable Keyboard with useful functions
SwiftkeyX (exctngdude)
Launchers:
Go Launcher - A very fast, beautiful customizable Launcher
Zeam Launcher - (Vrz.)
Management:
AirDroid - Manage your Phone via PC over a web interface (xda_emanuel)
MyPhoneExplorer - Manage your Phone, install apps, write messages and call friends with this app via your PC
Markets
Aptoide - (whitebaldman)
Appbrain market app - Useful for managing app updates (exctngdude)
Media:
Camera 360 Ultimate - A Camera app with many effects and a stabilizer
Camera fv5 - camera app with default dslr setting (loneagl)
MIUI Music Player - (loneagl)
Mx Video Player - (loneagl)
PowerAMP - A music player with a great dsp/equalizer plugin
QuickPic - A very fast picture browser (bscraze)
Zedge - Find Backgrounds and Ringtones (Gondya bhau)
Phone:
Go SMS - A good SMS app with useful features (nicsptl)
exDialer - A nice MIUI styled dialer and contact browser
Contacts GroupU - it integrates with phone contacts & you can assign contacts into groups so no need what so ever to use stupid kies. Use this with contact & SMS backup app mentioned in 1st post. (sgsI9003)
Security:
DroidWall - Allow or forbid apps to access the internet
LBE Privacy Guard - Manage permissions of your installed apps
Kaspersky Mobile Security - Anti Virus, Anti Theft, Call & SMS Filter (whitebaldman)
Social
Tapatalk - Unite all Tapatalk supported forums in one app (whitebaldman)
TweakDeck - (Vrz.)
XDA - A Tapatalk derivate that lets you participate in the xda forums (bscraze)
Tasks:
Any.do - (Vrz.)
Tools:
AdAway - A good adblocker (Gondya bhau)
AdFree - A good adblocker
Brightest flash light - Makes your screen to goto full brightness with white color (exctngdude)
DiskUsage - Shows a graphic of diskspace being used (exctngdude)
EboBirthday - Manage your relatives and friends birthdays with customized reminders and calendar export
ES File Explorer - A good file explorer with network browsing (Gondya bhau)
HandyCalc - A powerful calculator app with equation solver, graph, converter and all that usual stuff in a easy way to use.
MyPhoneExplorer Client - Access your phones file system, calendar, contacts, do calls and write sms from your computer
Network booster - it selects the best cell tower in your area automatically. (sgsI9003)
PdaNet - USB and Bluetooth tethering (loneagl)
Prefixer - Useful for me when in roaming, it automatically adds the digit 0 to outgoing calls. Various other rules possible. (exctngdude)
QuickDic - A good offline dictionary for translation into english
Rings Extended - Replaces the standard ringtone selector to easily select ringtones from files of apps like zedge
Solid Explorer Beta - Powerful multitab file explorer with root access and a very nice interface
Tasker - a swiss army knife for your phone automation, anything & everything is possible to automate. (sgsI9003)
Tools 4 Root
Blade Buddy - Enables you to do some to edit some build.prop values with a single tap
Clock Sync - Automaticly syncs your devices time with the atomic time
Directory Bind - Mounts folders to other places. Have all your gamedata on external sd instead of internal memory!
Rom Toolbox - The biggest app for rom management, includes nearly every thing a root user dreams of: backup and restore, cpu and io tweaks, ad blocker, terminal, root browser, ...
Rootdim - Lower your screen brightness levels to below stock level (exctngdude)
Screenshot ER Demo - Makes taking screenshots easier
Solid Explorer Beta - Powerful multitab file explorer with root access and a very nice interface
Weather
AccuWeather - Detailed weather app with widget (whitebaldman)
Widgets:
Aix Weather - Nice 24h graph showing temp and rainfall
AccuWeather - Detailed weather app with widget (whitebaldman)
Minimalistic Text - Powerful app showing information as text
GoCalendar - Very nice calendar for Go Launcher
Widgetsoid - Very good toogle widget for both homescreen and notification area.
Do you have anything to add? Reply and name your additions!
Taraen
Widgets: accuweather...it is the most accurate for me!
Clock(any kind)I need to see the time very big always!
Apps: tapatalk...reunite all forums in one place is really useful!
Titanium backup...well known for everyone.
Cachemate...for root users only,it cleans all cache and it is very useful to free memory!
Kaspersky... I use it for blocking unwanted messages from my phone company,hehe
Aptoide...it is the best to try everything before buying!
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Titanium backup and xda are hr most important apps for me . Maxthon browser and opera mobile too.
Cheers
Sent from my GT-i9003 powered by Stable and Smooth CyanogenMod 9!
Thanks for your additions. I have added them to the list and at the same time I have sorted it a little better.
Anything more? Dont forget to give a little description
Oh quickpic too, its a fast picture browser .
Cheers
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apps
Browser
Android Stock
Dolphin HD 7 ( new are really stupid with sonar )
Opera *
Launchers
Zeam Launcher
Zeam Launcher.
Zeam Launcherr
Security
Only true security app are droidwall
Social
XDA_Premium, donation to xda are always welcome
Tweakdeck
Utility
Any.do
ttorrent for torrent download.
Go sms for sms apps.
Imdb for movies and videos
dont forget AirDroid. The best app for manage ur phone via pc.
I like TB, Go launcher, Maxthon, ES file explorer and Zedge....BTW any good app to increase speaker volume ?? Is DSP manager the best...i read it can double the volume....
EDIT : and ya Adaway, Adownloader(torrents) and droid wall...
Thank you everyone. I've updated the list.
My list:
1. Rootdim - Lower your screen brightness levels to below stock level
2. Appbrain market app - Useful for managing app updates
3. SwiftkeyX - awesome keyboard
4. Speedview - App to show your speed
5. SMS back up and restore - as the name suggests
6. Call Logs backup and restore - as the name suggests
7. Brightest flash light - Makes your screen to goto full brightness with white color
8. DiskUsage - Shows a graphic of diskspace being used
9. Prefixer - Useful for me when i'm in roaming, it automatically adds the digit 0 to my outgoing calls. Various other rules possible
Network booster - it selects the best cell tower in your area automatically.
Contacts GroupU- it integrates with phone contacts & you can assign contacts into groups so no need what so ever to use stupid kies. Use this with contact & SMS backup app mentioned in 1st post.
Tasker- a swiss army knife for your phone automation, anything & everything is possible to automate.
You might want to try-
Miui music player (add to system/apps)
Mx video player
Camera fv5 -camera app with default dslr setting
Pdanet
The latest Swype-just make a backup of default Swype n delete it via root explorer.the download Swype installer n download Swype
press thanks if i helped u!!
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Woow that list is getting big, thank you everyone for your help
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