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[APP] Visidon AppLock - Mobile face recognition for Android

I noticed that there is some discussion about this application in this forum, so I decided to make an official thread.
The description from the market:
Fast, convenient and cool way to protect your mobile with face recognition.
Protect any application (i.e. SMS, Gallery, E-Mail, Facebook, etc.) on your phone using face recognition. Convenient and cool way to increase safety of your private apps and content.
Visidon AppLock lets you choose the apps to be protected. Your face is a key to open them! Application uses the frontal camera of your mobile and verifies in real-time that the face matches the one allowed to access the private apps.
NOTES AND TIPS:
1. You must have a front facing camera in your device to use the face recognition feature. Otherwise it is disabled and you are only able to use password verification.
2. This application was developed and tested with Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 and Acer Iconia A500. User experience may vary with other devices due different hardware (e.g. camera etc.).
3. In addition to the applications you wish to protect, you should also add Visidon AppLock itself and any application that can be used to close or unistall applications or services (task manager, settings etc.) as well as any application that can be used to install new applications (market, myfiles etc.) to the protection list to get your mobile fully secured.
4. If the preview image is upside down or sideways, please try to set different camera orientations from the settings tab.
5. The default security level is medium. If it seems too low (i.e. other people can get in too easily), you can set it to maximum from the settings tab.
6. The most accurate recognition will be achieved when all the training images are taken directly from front (i.e. no profile images etc.). Also, you should take training images in different illuminations (in those environments where you usually use your mobile). Sufficient amount of images per person is about 5 to 10.
Btw. this app requires at least Android version 2.3, since we use the frontal camera API.
Link to marketplace: https://market.android.com/details?id=visidon.AppLock
Remember to watch the youtube video! It gives you the basic idea about how to use it.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FVWmeuj3T4
Any comments, bug reports, suggestions etc.?

VisidonSupport said:
Thanks. We'll take those suggestions into consideration, but what do you mean by tasker options/plugins?
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Tasker is an automation app for Android. It's really useful. For eg: if your app had Tasker integration, I could say, write a Tasker profile to disable the lock when I was at home, or when I performed a certain gesture.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/developers.html

VisidonSupport said:
6. The most accurate recognition will be achieved when all the training images are taken directly from front (i.e. no profile images etc.). Also, you should take training images in different illuminations (in those environments where you usually use your mobile). Sufficient amount of images per person is about 5 to 10.
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What do you mean "per person"? Does that mean I can add more than one person's face as a key? That would be neat!

deejaylobo said:
Tasker is an automation app for Android. It's really useful. For eg: if your app had Tasker integration, I could say, write a Tasker profile to disable the lock when I was at home, or when I performed a certain gesture.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/developers.html
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OK. Thanks, we'll look into it.
deejaylobo said:
What do you mean "per person"? Does that mean I can add more than one person's face as a key? That would be neat!
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Yes.

When I hit the market link, it says request can't be found..
Sent from my Nexus S 4G

kijp15 said:
When I hit the market link, it says request can't be found..
Sent from my Nexus S 4G
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That is strange. It works for me :/
Please try to search from the marketplace with "visidon" as search word.

VisidonSupport said:
That is strange. It works for me :/
Please try to search from the marketplace with "visidon" as search word.
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This is what it tells me on the web market: "This app is incompatible with your Vodafone IN Samsung GT-I9100."

kalpik said:
This is what it tells me on the web market: "This app is incompatible with your Vodafone IN Samsung GT-I9100."
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Do you use custom rom? Also, this app is copyprotected, so it might prevent you from finding the app if you have unlocked device.

VisidonSupport said:
Do you use custom rom? Also, this app is copyprotected, so it might prevent you from finding the app if you have unlocked device.
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Yes, I am on a custom ROM which is rooted. You don't allow install on such ROMs?

yeah cant install it as well

kalpik said:
Yes, I am on a custom ROM which is rooted. You don't allow install on such ROMs?
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It's more about that Google doesn't allow.
This is sort of gray area. I understand why you want to use rooted/unlocked phones, but it also enables piracy. Although this is free app, we still would like that the marketplace is the only distribution channel for this, so we won't be sharing this directly.
We are going to discuss this in depth and we might change our distribution politics, but don't hold your breath

Is it possible to protect launcher/home app? For example I can't see launcherpro in app list, when I try to protect it.

Entropyst said:
Is it possible to protect launcher/home app? For example I can't see launcherpro in app list, when I try to protect it.
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Hmm. If the app can be started from the launcher, you should see it.
Anyway, there are some issues in this. I addressed them in the previous thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15667199&postcount=38

heres the file for direct dload from the original post for those (like me) running custom ROMs and get an incompatibility message on the Market.
/h2

It would be awesome if you could make it use the rear camera if there is no front one. I don't have an FFC but it would still be cool to feel dorky and turn my phone around to unlock things. If it isn't a big deal to add that, it would be a great way to expand your userbase even if we don't have quite as accessible functionality as those with FFCs.
Sent from my MIUI SCH-i500

The app isn't available on my Market. I'm using a Brazilia Motorola Atrix.

what about an unlock screen?

Ha. An unlock screen would be cool.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G

runs fine on HTC EVO 4G w/ CM7_#121.
ability to use it for the lockscreen would be slick.

Running on thunderbolt mostly well have it set to always run as service and not keep unlocked when screen on, every once in a while it stops running randomly. I wonder if its because I have too many apps locked? Add this to lock screen and I couldn't ask for more
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[APP][2.3+] Quicker Camera Launcher Pro - Turn on, rotate, take pictures!

Hi,
I'm the developer of "Quicker Camera Launcher Pro". This app launches your camera app without any click. Just turn on your device, rotate it to landscape or portrait (configurable) and this app will launch your camera app.
Camera app compatibility list: http://cygery.com/wordpress/faqs/compatible-camera-apps/
This thread is intended for questions, feedback, bug reports, feature requests, etc. Feel free to post!
The app is available on Google Play. As it's a commercial app I can't link to it directly.
Cheers,
cygery

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cygery said:
The app is available on Google Play. As it's a commercial app I can't link to it directly.
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I can't find it in play store..
Can you at least give the link of play store?

Masum56k said:
I can't find it in play store..
Can you at least give the link of play store?
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I've send you the link via PM.
Because the app is very new and hasn't many downloads yet it's apparently ranked very low by Google Play's search algorithm if you search for the name (without quotation marks). However, if you search for the name enclosed in quotation marks it'll be the only result.

An video would be good
Without link, it's very difficult to find this...

etag said:
An video would be good
[link removed]
Without link, it's very difficult to find this...
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Yes, a video is a good idea.
I didn't include a link because it's against forum rules.

May I delete?

etag said:
May I delete?
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Sure!

I've added the link to the camera app compatibility list to the first post.
If you're using a camera app which isn't supported or only works outside of the lock screen and isn't listed you can contact me via email or post here.
Additionally, I'm contacting developers of camera apps and ask them to make their apps compatible with Quicker Camera Launcher Pro. I've already contacted the developer of Camera Zoom FX and hope for a soon reply (and hopefully an update, too). If you think a specific camera app should be supported please contact either the developer directly and send him the link to the FAQ page or post here and I can contact him.

Does it use much battery? I wish we had a trial.

Experiences said:
Does it use much battery? I wish we had a trial.
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It uses almost no battery. Basically, it just runs when the screen turns on, checks the orientation for the configured amount of time and launches the camera app if the orientation matches the desired one. Then it waits again until the screen turns on again. In fact, I haven't seen it yet in the battery stats.
Maybe I'll add a trial in future. There's a seven day refund period but apparently many users either don't think that's enough or don't trust me or something else, I don't know.

There have already been a few smaller updates to Quicker Camera Launcher Pro, most notably the orientation detection was improved. I received a review from a user who experienced that the camera was launched when his phone was lying flat on a table and received an SMS (which caused the screen to turn on). If anyone experiences similar issues with the latest update (version 1.0.3) please post here or contact me via email so I can investigate this further.

This app is now available in Brazil.

This app is now available in Chile.

Camera app?

Is there any similar app to cinematography lense on Windows Phone? Please suggest?
More camera application which can take different type of video and photos? Thanks to all

Unfortunately limited knowledge on Apps for camera but what I did was go with proven camera and its abilities and downloaded Oppo camera apk and plugins and works flawlessly and easy to use, it gives professional like abilities to user and gives 50mp superpower to the oneplus one and 4k video as well, download apk and install like an app then the plugins same way install like an app then select and use, remember to follow instructions and you be fine , for some reason can't post link on here (spam concerns) but search for Oppo camera/ plugins apk for Oneplus One and look for site that you feel most comfortable with xda is a great place to start . Good Luck
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Youtube video downloader that is not bloated with ads?

On Android, all the streaming video downloaders I've tried are bloated with ads.
I'd be more than happy to pay for a good clean one — does that exist?
Thanks in advance for any tips.
(From other threads I've looked at I'm not under the impression that this question triggers the site's "no warez" policy, but if so @moderators please close it, with my apologies.)

definitely arkTube by arter97 (not on playstore but you get notification when update is available), but if you want full version you have to buy donation package from play store

Thank you for the advice!
Installed, immediately paid, installed, rebooted. But strangely the "Share" arrow in YT Vance does not show me Arktube as an option. Will write to the dev.

Ha, someone explained to me which icon to choose.
Works perfectly.
Thanks again !!!!

Look for New Pipe on F-Droid it's open source and no ads at all

3dxtrip said:
Look for New Pipe on F-Droid it's open source and no ads at all
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Fantastic! Seems to work great too! Thank you.
By the way, noobie question but I'm realizing that there are several alternative repositories of Android APP: F-Droid that you mentioned, Aptoide, Uptotown…
From a quick glance I'm getting a sense that F-Droid is the more "serious" of those, with less bloatware, from your experience is that the case?

F Droid is a repository only for open source apps

3dxtrip said:
F Droid is a repository only for open source apps
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So a lot more secure, in theory. Good to know, thanks.

who ah way said:
On Android, all the streaming video downloaders I've tried are bloated with ads.
I'd be more than happy to pay for a good clean one — does that exist?
Thanks in advance for any tips.
(From other threads I've looked at I'm not under the impression that this question triggers the site's "no warez" policy, but if so @moderators please close it, with my apologies.)
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I use tubemate

marcosorano said:
I use tubemate
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Last time I tried it, it seemed pretty full of ads. Are you using a special version, or do you have a way to block ads inside of TubeMate?

Question GW4 remote camera app

Greetings all! Is there a way to control the camera zoom on the phone through the original GW4 camera remote app? So far I have found no way. Maybe a modded app? I don't want to switch to another app, Camera One for example, I want to use the Samsung camera app on the phone. Any help would be appreciated!

Does not look like there is a way. It was intended for you to setup your camera and then take a picture with you in it, so functionality would be limited.

Where do I find this camera remote app?

It came on my watch. It is a system app called Camera Controller.

dalepl said:
It came on my watch. It is a system app called Camera Controller.
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Thanks! Yeah. I found it. It was right in front of me. Duh!