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[APP][2.2+] Impel - easily and automatically do things

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Impel is an automation and task creation utility for your phone or your tablet running Android 2.1 through 4.0.
Unlike other utilities, Impel is designed to be simple to use, easy to maintain, very low on memory consumption and polite to system resources (runs as a service or as an app - you choose). Root features are available but it runs just fine without root (su features will be hidden). It is worth noting that on Galaxy Nexus devices there is a force close issue if you use the lock screen camera button. We know about this issue and are working on a fix for this now.
Give Impel a try and see if you like it, then let us know. We're a small developer with some great talent and fast feedback response times, we're just looking for more customers and feedback. There are two versions of the app available in two different storefronts:
Free version with in-app Plus upgrade (no ads) :
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.phase2i.impel
Plus version only :
http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=com.phase2i.impel
Full details and features list :
http://impel.phase2i.com/
Product Video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4dosbj1F8M

Release Version (Android Market customers only):
Impel free and Plus version 1.1.1 [ Updated 1/23/2012 @ 8:00PM PST ]
Release Notes

I like it. The U.I is much friendlier when compared to a "Similar " app.
May have to upgrade now. I like it.
Thanks and regards

Tested and upgraded, takes 34mb of ram, Tasker takes 5,4mb for exacly the same tasks... :/ so for now..
Will wait a little before reinstall it !
But, really good job, very easier ! Will retry later !
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Hmm, interesting feedback on the memory usage. Is that 34MB while in use and the UI isn't being shown? I think there is something odd happening there.
I would be curious to know your device, OS and task setup. By comparison my heavily loaded Impel with 11 tasks using all types of receivers is only 6.9MB while running in app mode. The most I've ever seen Impel use in recent versions is 11MB. My goto, daily device is a Galaxy Nexus running 4.0.2 with Impel 1.1.0 on it.

mstroud said:
Hmm, interesting feedback on the memory usage. Is that 34MB while in use and the UI isn't being shown? I think there is something odd happening there.
I would be curious to know your device, OS and task setup. By comparison my heavily loaded Impel with 11 tasks using all types of receivers is only 6.9MB while running in app mode. The most I've ever seen Impel use in recent versions is 11MB. My goto, daily device is a Galaxy Nexus running 4.0.2 with Impel 1.1.0 on it.
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I got a SGS i9000 with a stock modded (themed and lmk tweaked) JVZ 2.3.6, i haven't got any oyher memory issue and i use very few apps to limit services.
Impel set up as "Quiet", UI closed with sgs task manager (so really closed).
My tasks are :
2 tasks to set media volume with headset plug in or out.
2 tasks to set autosync on/off when power is plugged in/out !
Edit : just retried, 25mo in memory for the processus !
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Very odd. How are you determining the memory in use by Impel on your device?
One other thing to check against is to set Impel to disable the tasks and see what is reported then. From within Impel, press Menu, Settings, and check Disable all tasks and exit to the launcher. In this state Impel will have shutdown all services and removed everything from a running state. In essence, it should not be around in memory at all when you reach the home screen.
If your phone still reports Impel as using memory at this point, the memory usage issue lies outside of our control.

Support language Polish please
Sent from my Htc Desire Runnymede AIO

linar10,
We haven't yet provided localized versions for any language, but I will add your request to the list. I would imagine that there would be other languages in the queue ahead of Polish due to the distribution of the app, however. I just want to set expectations appropriately.
As a more general question to the XDA forum, how do most apps from small developers handle localization? It is quite costly to do this work for apps that haven't made much money (that includes Impel at this point) and it seems that most apps are English or developer-native-language only that we see on the Android Market. Are there well known ways to get translations for less that actually are useful?

This looks promising. Will try later tonight if I have time.
As for localization, I've done many translations of software from English to French on different platforms free of charge (or nearly).
I've seen others do the same, I think you'd be surprised to see how many people are ready to translate software, given that you provide them with an easy to use solution/way of translating strings and seeing the changes made.
I've done games and apps translations in the past and I've been rewarded with the software itself for free (plus credits for translation) or a small monetary compensation in the form of a cheque or gift card. Good enough incentives in my opinion, I absolutely HATE when a developer uses google translate or any other automatic translation tool for their software.

An example how is terminated that competition http://muzikant-android.blogspot.com/2011/07/translateit-automateit-with-your.html (sorry my bad english)

OK, thanks for the feedback on the translation work. We will have to look into this for Impel at some point in the future. We don't yet have a way to give away Plus versions of the app, or comp someone who buys it, but that may be possible in the future.
Getting folks to do translations for free, and not put nonsense or bad words into those translations, is certainly a big concern. Not sure how everyone else handles those cases but it is something I worry about.

mstroud said:
OK, thanks for the feedback on the translation work. We will have to look into this for Impel at some point in the future. We don't yet have a way to give away Plus versions of the app, or comp someone who buys it, but that may be possible in the future.
Getting folks to do translations for free, and not put nonsense or bad words into those translations, is certainly a big concern. Not sure how everyone else handles those cases but it is something I worry about.
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Makes sense, I imagine you can counter verify by having more than one translator working on one language.
I don't think this issue has ever popped up in the past though, as unlikely as it seems. Some people simply have nice intentions.

polobunny, thanks for the input. Perhaps we'll call on you to help us with French at some point in the future, then

Hello again from the Impel HQ.
For those folks who would like to help test and provide feedback on an updated version of Impel, we have a release candidate for you to take a look at. A couple of fixes and additions have made it into this version, but no major features. Here's what's inside:
Fixed a crash when using the "camera swipe unlock" feature on Galaxy Nexus Android 4.x devices
Fixed a crash with the "network only" location provider service (not using GPS)
Fixed the color picker for very high dpi (Galaxy Nexus, Tablets) devices
Added a new setting: Location Services - restrict Impel to just GPS, just Network, or both
Added detailed location logging into the logcat stream
This build is an install-over-the-top version for Android Market customers only. Sorry about that, Amazon Appstore customers, but there is no way to do beta releases for your version at this time.
If you have Impel Plus, DO NOT uninstall Impel prior to installing this version or you WILL LOSE Plus functions. If you are a free customer this app works the same as your existing Impel does.
For people who want to see what Impel sees when it asks for locations, use your favorite logcat reader (ours is Catlog) and filter for Impel. You will see what Impel is seeing when it asks for a location from your device. The location data works like this:
Ask the device for all location services that are available: GPS and Network (WiFi and cell towers)
Device responds with all services and their accuracy level. The lower the number, the more accurate the service
Impel automatically chooses the most accurate service and gets the location data. This data is provided in Lat/Long format. This data can be dropped right into Google Maps to show exactly where the device thinks it is currently
Please give this a test and tell us what you think. We look forward to your feedback. Thanks!

Hello again. We've taken some more feedback in and have made some additional fixes and updates based on customer input:
* Fixed a crash when using the "camera swipe unlock" feature on Galaxy Nexus Android 4.x devices
* Fixed a crash with the "network only" location provider service (not using GPS)
* Fixed the color picker for very high dpi (Galaxy Nexus, Tablets) devices
* Fixed a WiFi receiver crash in location services
* Added a new setting: Location Services - restrict Impel to just GPS, just Network, or both
* Added detailed location logging into the logcat stream
* Added in-app logging of tasks in chronological order
* Added an additional boot-start permission to fix cases where Impel doesn't always auto-start
Grab a copy of the APK from post #2 and let us know how it works for you. Note: this version is meant to be installed on top of an existing Impel setup from the Android Market only. Amazon Appstore customers cannot use the betas, sorry.

We just released, posted and are starting to see the first bits of version 1.1.1 trickling out into the Android Market. Amazon Appstore folks will have to wait a bit longer for the approval process to see the new bits.
Our thanks goes out to those of you who tried the beta and gave us feedback. It was invaluable and you will find your fixes made it into this release version.
For all the details take a quick look over at our release notes post on our web site. The highlights are below for your perusal:
New setting: Location Services - restrict Impel to use GPS, Network or both
Added detailed location logging into the logcat stream
New stats: Task history shows a chronological list of when tasks were last run
New permission: additional boot-start permission to fix cases where Impel won't always auto-start
Fixed a crash when using the "camera swipe unlock" feature on Galaxy Nexus Android 4.x devices
Fixed "add widget" text to be correct for Android 4.x devices
Fixed a crash with the "network only" location provider service (not using GPS)
Fixed the color picker for very high dpi (Galaxy Nexus, Tablets) devices
Fixed a WiFi receiver crash in location services
General Fixes - some little issues were found and improved upon
Let us know what you think of it, we do hope you'll like it.

We've had quite a few people ask us "what is Impel" and "what can it do?"
So we put together a short, 30 second video with some highlights to explain it. Take a look and see for yourself what Impel can do.
Watch what can Impel do? on YouTube.

Hello there folks. We have had some customers periodically contact us, saying that Impel will lose all of their tasks at some interval (e.g. every week, every few days, etc.). We have researched this issue but have so far been unable to determine the cause and we have not seen this issue on any of our test devices.
We don't know if this issue impacts only a few people (since we've gotten just a handful of emails) or many. So, if you have this issue please contact us! It is very important that we capture all of the details of your device, your tasks, and the exact situations where this task loss occurs. Without your assistance we will continue to look for the issue, but it will be a much slower and more painful fixing process.
Thanks for your help and patience.

widgets
Are there any plans to introduce App Icons for task widgets?
Would like to set up a widget activated task to turn on WiFi then launch. Play store but using the play store icon.
Tasker does this but I don't like the app, UI is too complicated.

[CLOSED] [APP][4.1+][V1.3.7] Saiy | Your Open Source Virtual Assistant

Welcome to Saiy... Install - Mod edit: Broken DL link removed.
For those of you visiting this thread as subscribers to utter! you'll know the history well. A promising release, active development and then silence..... Please accept my apologies - if you don't know that 'sometimes life gets in the way' then you are the envy of most.
A bit of history for you...
To cut a half-decade-long story short, the Fragmentation of Android ground this project to a halt. When I first demoed my creation to the world, I had visions of knocking it up on Android and then focusing on how it functioned in the background. I was about to drown myself in machine learning to bring my vision to life. Job done? Well no...
It turned out that developing an app that covered almost every function available on an Android device (I refuse to say 'phone' - it's not 1983!) , was a job for 1,000+ developers, not just a lonesome one such as I, on a 10 year old Dell laptop - and each time a new update to Android was released, I huddled in a corner and wept, as I waited for the crash reports and 1* ratings to roll in.
It turns out that bugs aren't only specific to Android versions. You multiply that by Manufacturers messing with builds - and devices running multiple versions and then even the Locale of the device causing crashes and you end up with 12,000+ supported devices exponentially multiplied by all other eventualities as your user base.
I drowned... And my (in hindsight) naive plans of master AI'ery, whilst users enjoyed playing with it on Android, dropped down to the bottom of my to-do list. Things had to change.
I decided to shut myself away in a dark room to completely rewrite the Android code, so that it was both readable and scalable; despite its complexity. Rumours flew that I had died - and in some ways, I did....
Not really ^ that just felt justifiably dramatic! :cyclops:
So, utter! is reborn as Saiy® and Open Sourced, so it may have a chance of competing with the big boys, before they run away with all of our private data and souls, in order to use their services...
Install Saiy from the Play Store - here
Note - a direct download link will appear here shortly!
You can get involved by checking out the Development Section in the app, or alternatively, if you're a curious Android Developer, check out the base code published on GitHub here
The code base is pretty large, so briefly, there are two major classes in the app, that direct and distribute work elsewhere:
SelfAware is the main Foreground Service, responsible for managing the application state and channelling voice recognition, text to speech and other API requests.
Quantum is the main processing class, where commands are locally resolved (if required), sensibility checked and actioned.
Understanding the above two classes is essential to following the flow of the full application logic.
MyLog is a global verbose logging toggle. When enabled, the output will flow class to class, as well as display durations for time sensitive functions.
The following remains for the sake of me needing some sleep and posterity
About this thread
Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone for the positive feedback and encouragement and the huge amount of messages I’ve received on YouTube, email, twitter, G+ and here on XDA volunteering to be involved in beta testing. It’s very much appreciated and I apologise that I cannot respond to them all. Please take this intro as a thank you.
This thread is for your open discussion about utter! and the features you'd like to see included, so please feel free to throw your ideas back and forth (be nice to each other) and I’ll do my best to keep up with them when I have time.
About utter!
Unlike other voice applications, utter! will be configurable to the user, enabling you to assign spoken keywords to use the functionality of your favourite applications or make system related changes to your device. There's no cumbersome overlay or launching of another application to use the features, utter! sits in the background ready to be activated, whenever you want, without interrupting whatever you are doing.
Which applications will initially be compatible?
The more interest I can demonstrate in utter! the more likely your favourite application developer will want to make their functionality available to use. The purpose of the YouTube video and this thread is to get their attention and create a more functional first beta release.
I’m a developer and I'd like features of my application to be utter! compatible.
Please contact me to discuss how our applications can work together.

FAQs
Q) Will an offline speech engine be built in?
A) I hope so. I'm waiting to see what features of Google Now are made available to developers
Q) What languages will it be available in?
A) At first, English only. Once I have the framework functioning correctly, I can turn my attention to translations (thank you for the messages I’ve received offering translation help).
Q) Will it use natural speech recognition?
A) Over time it will, but in the testing stages commands will be more structured. As my algorithms develop, so will the application's ability to recognise exactly what you want.
For the conversation mode I’m really up against it. I’m almost trying to reinvent the wheel knowing that Google are no doubt sitting on a very advanced algorithm purposely for this… They are more than welcome to allow me to use it…
Q) How much is utter! going to cost when it’s out of beta?
A) I don’t know as yet. Not more than a couple of dollars... I just need to make sure that whatever the price, it's more than worth it.
Q) Which speech engine does it use?
A) In the video I used IVONA beta (available on the Market here). This option is configurable so you can use a free or premium engine of your choice.
Q) Google’s Project Majel will no doubt surpass this application. Why are you bothering?
A) Perhaps.. It remains to be seen the direction Google take and whether their focus will be too much in the interest of nudging you towards Google services, rather than providing an open and configurable voice integrated assistant.
For example: If you assign ‘Save Battery’ to a command, on detection utter! could go ahead and minimise your brightness level and screen time-out, turn off (or restrict) all data connections, set your device to GSM only, turn off vibrate functions and screen animations, underclock and undervolt your CPU (requires root) etc etc.. Is that what you expect from Majel? Personally, I don’t… [Update - I think I was right about this!]
Q) How do I register to beta test!?
A) Hang around this thread – thank you.
Q) The icon you used in the video for utter! was lame!
A) Yes! I just borrowed the inbuilt icon for now. If you think you can design a better one, please feel free! Maximum respect (at the very least) from the first post is offered in return!
Q) Can you adapt Siri to do these things please?
A) I honestly have had these requests – I’m afraid that’s not going to be possible now… or in the near/far future /ever…
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utter! release progress
FACEBOOK
TWITTER
CONTACTS
TASKER
BLUETOOTH
WIFI
MOBILE DATA
WORLD TIME
WORLD WEATHER
ROOT FUNCTIONS
Credits
pingpongboss - amazing StandOut library!
usaff22 - amazing icon and artists impression work
meadowsjared - Sharing his coding skills
nobnut - previously unknown generosity
waydownsouth - previously unknown patience and sharing of knowledge
fahadayaz - Bug solving GEEK
Permissions
Code:
All permissions are for device based command purposes. NONE of your personal data is uploaded or shared to any external server of any kind
Change Log
Code:
V2.2.5A RELEASED
Email
Text
Navigation
Facebook
Twitter
Directory Searches
Car Locator
Play Music
Visual Results
Wave-to-wake
+ many more features added! Please see the command list in the app for details.
Changed to foreground application with permanent notification to stop Android killing it!
V2.2.4A RELEASED
Skype fixed
FC's fixed on some commands
Speed increases
Added troubleshooting menu
Changed icon display
Enabled background test code (hidden).
V2.2.1A RELEASED
Code and UI revamp.
Converted to pre-beta background app
Usage details in the application.
V2.1.9.1A RELEASED
MASSIVE CHANGES!
Simply too many to list...
All details in the app
V2.1.0A RELEASED
Mobile data
Twitter
Facebook
Contacts (algorithm test)
Dropped 2.1 compatibility
Fahrenheit added to weather
Initialisation tweaked
Custom listener tweaked
Button labels and Loquendo sample now family friendly :eek:
HUGE code rebuild
V2.0.1A RELEASED
Tasker integration!
World Weather
Custom Listener test
Long-press-search integration
Loads of bug fixes and code improvements.
Fixed Weather and Time force closes on 2.1 & 2.2 devices
V1.9A RELEASED
Root-functions fixed
Tablet compatibility fixed
Errors when no recogniser fixed
Loads of bug fixes and code improvements.
V1.7A RELEASED
Root-functions included!
FIXED - Recogniser button errors
Loads and loads of bug fixes and code improvements.
V1.6A RELEASED
World-Time included
FIXED 'unknown' Bluetooth state message.
Loads and loads of bug fixes and code improvements.
V1.5A RELEASED
Bluetooth voice control test included
FIXED the V1.4A 4.0.3 ICS crash
FIXED FC on back button from config tab
FIXED FC when closing app
FIXED FC for Galaxy Nexus TTS settings
FIXED leaked Receiver
Loads and loads of bug fixes and code improvements.
V1.4A RELEASED
WiFi voice control test included
Loads of bug fixes and code improvements.
V1.3A - RELEASED
Fixed FC on Config Tab
V1.2A - RELEASED
Release version 'jumped' to match Play Store
Totally rewritten UI code
Totally rewritten engine logic
Prevented override of localised English voice
Added test contact loader
Intro changed to audio file
Option to record output to sdcard for translation help
So much else that I've forgotten...
V0.0.1A - RELEASED
Long presses for association are not functional yet
BUGS
Code:
IVONA registers itself in error, even if it may actually work. A full uninstall and reinstall of the IVONA files is required.
Buttons don't reactivate occasionally after utterance - 'utterance' code depreciated.
Weather and Time API's are useless for USA State searches. Need to change provider.
utter! stable version is available from Google Play here.
Saiy stable version is available from Google Play here.
Latest test releases can be found in my more recent posts

Looks like a really promising app!! Subscribed..
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Looks amazing
Cant wait to try this, am a lot on the road so can use this app.
Keep up the amazing work

subscribed! looking forward to this, it appears to be a much better solution than anything currently available. thanks for your hard work and determination.

Brandall - I congratulate you on what appears to be an amazing product. Would it be possible to navigate certain applications via voice? As an example, is something like this feasible: "Utter - scroll down 25%" to scroll down 25% of the way while viewing a web page in a browser, for instance?
Also, what about controlling a desktop computer via a Windows application/plug-in?

Brandall, this app looks amazing. In 4+ years of XDA'ing, I just hit subscribe for the first time. Can't wait to try it out. Do you have a twitter we can follow you at? Maybe @utter! or the likes.

Can't wait to try it out

Amazing looking app! Definently waiting to dl this asap
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Can't wait to try this app out have not been that impressed with the other similar apps.
This one looks slick.
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Looking forward to trying this out. Sounds like it will be better than what I have seen so far.

Awesome app, need someone to beta test, im ready, just shoot me a pm, subscribed for the first time btw

Looks amazing....
This looks absolutely incredible, I cannot wait to take it for a test drive.......Great work.
"Q) Google’s Project Majel will no doubt surpass this application. Why are you bothering?
A) Perhaps.. It remains to be seen the direction Google take and whether their focus will be too much in the interest of nudging you towards Google services, rather than providing an open and configurable voice integrated assistant."
One of my favorite aspects of Android over iOS is simply choices like this. Majel could very well have aspects that surpass this app and utter! will probably have aspects that surpass Majel - ultimately whichever works best for you personally is the one to go with.

Cant wait to try this when its ready
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utter!
This sounds utter!y amazing... I am staying tuned!

Subscribed
One of the most promising apps I've seen in awhile....can't wait to try it.

Roland Deschain said:
Brandall - I congratulate you on what appears to be an amazing product. Would it be possible to navigate certain applications via voice? As an example, is something like this feasible: "Utter - scroll down 25%" to scroll down 25% of the way while viewing a web page in a browser, for instance?
Also, what about controlling a desktop computer via a Windows application/plug-in?
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Thank you. When offline recognition is available it opens the door to many more mundane speech controlled functions. As it stands at the moment, implementing such commands would be more of a gimmick and wouldn't be quicker or save time/effort..
jirafabo said:
Brandall, this app looks amazing. In 4+ years of XDA'ing, I just hit subscribe for the first time. Can't wait to try it out. Do you have a twitter we can follow you at? Maybe @utter! or the likes.
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Good to know thank you twitter, g+ links in my signature below - I think they work!

Brandall:
I cannot tell you how impressed I am with your creativity, skills and vision in developing Utter! When I viewed the video last week I was in awe; brilliant, incredibly brilliant.
I would be thrilled to assist you in beta testing Utter!
I eagerly look forward to this app.
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Can't wait to try it out

[APP][2.2+] Simple lists app: Lists!

Update: 7/13 - added free version (ad supported) to market.
I've always wanted a very simple app to let me have lists on my phone - shopping lists, to-do lists, etc, but it seems like the ones on the market have too many features that get in the way of easily creating lists, adding items, marking items as complete, and that's about it. So, I went ahead and wrote my own.
As of now, I'm happy with the app, and I've been using it for a couple of months now with no problems. But, being my first Android app (I am a professional programmer, but work in the web & desktop worlds), I'm sure there are opportunities to add features/functionality that would enhance the pure list-making experience. I had though about drag-and-drop reordering of the lists, but that seems to be more difficult to implement than I anticipated. Aside from that, I'm all ears about how to make the app better, prettier, more efficient, and more useful.
See attached for screenshots:
1) Main Screen - add/delete/backup/restore lists here
2) Back up is a simple SQLite DB file copy to the SDCard
3) Here are items in one list. Notice that some are gray - these have been "cleared" or "marked" as being complete by the user, via a simple click/toggle. An item's "cleared" status persists in the database
4) Once you're done clearing items, you can remove them from the list and database. Or, alternatively, you can unmark all of them.
See attached for APK file...
As I said, any suggestions or criticisms would be welcomed - but keep in mind that this app has a narrow focus, and I want it be very good with regard to that focus.

EDIT: Forgot also that now the app has a minimum SDK version of 8, so this app will run on Froyo (2.2) and above
I've done quite a bit more work, and now this app is available in the Google Play store. Since I don't have 10 posts yet, it won't let me include a hyperlink but here's the URL:
Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kozzer.lists&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5rb3p6ZXIubGlzdHMiXQ..
You can also find it easily by searching on my Google Play developer name: WebKozzer.
The additions include:
* drag and drop reordering
* 2 themes (light and dark)
* Optional numbering of list items
* Edit list name, or item text
* Delete contents of list without deleting list itself
* Configurable backup path
and more!
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!

Added free, ad supported version to the market. Any feedback or feature requests would be welcomed. I was contemplating attempting to integrate voice commands. Like, once the app is open, you can use voice commands to do everything the app lets you do via touchscreen. It appears that this would require a fairly significant coding effort, and I'm not sure how useful that'd be either.

Both the pay and free versions have been updated. Some UI changes, undo functionality, and ability to add items using voice.
Play links:
Pay version
Free (ad) version

Update: 12/12 - Removed ads from Lists! Free.
Also/including:
More general cleanup
Removed network state / access permissions (since they were used for ads only)
APK size reduced by about 100kB (removed AdMob library)
Improved error handling

nice job keep working on it

imputazz said:
nice job keep working on it
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Thanks! I'm always open to criticism and feature requests! And giving a rating and/or review on the Play Store would be much appreciated.

[APP][5.0+] qeuBot - Chatbot for WhatsApp (no root)

qeuBot is a personal chatbot similar to Telegram inline bots or any other chatbots you may have encountered elsewhere. It can perform online operations as well as offline ones seamlessly through WhatsApp itself. No registration or adding of phone numbers is required.
Accessibility service needs to be turned on for qeuBot to work. With the app itself being less than 2 MB in size, it requires a maximum of 20-25 MB RAM when performing complex operations, while at other times, it requires no more than 5-10 MB to run in background. qeuBot runs only when WhatsApp is running in foreground and ignores all other foreground and background apps or services.
Screenshots
Screenshots are attached to the end of this post. Here's the link to the Imgur Album.
Features
Currently, qeuBot is capable of performing the following operations:
- Looking up Wikipedia articles
- Performing mathematical calculations
- Fetching news regarding any topic through Google News
- Providing movie ratings through IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes
- GIF search through Giphy
- Image search through Bing (Note that you need to use your own API key to avail this service)
- Current day and 5-day weather forecast of any region through Yahoo Weather
- Daily horoscope
More features will be added accordingly. Request for more features will be entertained in thread, not in PM.
*While most of the features can be used free of cost, you will need to make an in-app purchase to use image/GIF search and news search*
Privacy
No information is collected at all for the use of this app. We do not need to know your name, phone number, email address or anything of the sort for you to use the app. All kinds of exchange happen entirely between you and the 3rd party service providing you with the required information. There is no middle man, there is no logging of the queries you make, not even for analytics.
Is this legal?
Yes, completely. While WhatsApp has been known to ban accounts/numbers acting as bots, this will not be the case here. There is no phone number that one should add in a group or send a message to in order to get a reply. The app works independent of the service without exploiting any unofficial APIs.
Icon designed by @b16h22. Follow him here - https://plus.google.com/+RahulKDinesh
Note
- MIUI devices are not supported officially (yet)
- Image Search requires a Bing API Key which is available free of cost with rate limits upto 1000 calls per month. Get yours here - https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/bing-image-search-api
Important Links
1. Play Store
2. Google+

Changelog
V1.0
Initial Release.
V1.01
Minor Fix
V1.02
Fixed GIF not working with some devices
Added support for unofficial WhatsApp Mods
V1.04
Fixed permission crash on lollipop devices
Fixed having to confirm premium status after reboot or update
V1.05
Fixed preference not sticking
Added option to show toast after recognizing command
V1.08
Wikipedia multi-language support
Increased number of GIF and Image search
Probably fixed a bug causing weather to crash on some devices
App translated to Indonesian, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and French

Reserved

UPDATE
After getting a lot of requests, instead of going the paid way, most of the features are now available for free with just GIF/Image search and news search as paid addons which can be unlocked through a single in-app purchase.
Please do not PM for support, rather use the thread or the G+ community so that everyone can benefit.

First of all thank you for making it free.
It's an amazing app which is very useful at least for me in certain conversation.
One thing annoyed me is,
When I use things like news or horoscope or anything with text.
I don't know whether it's working in background or app is killed.
If you can add something like spinner or loader it would be good.
Anyways thumbs up for the app.
Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

raj.parekh07 said:
First of all thank you for making it free.
It's an amazing app which is very useful at least for me in certain conversation.
One thing annoyed me is,
When I use things like news or horoscope or anything with text.
I don't know whether it's working in background or app is killed.
If you can add something like spinner or loader it would be good.
Anyways thumbs up for the app.
Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
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Latest update has an option under "Extras" to show a short toast message when an action has been triggered.

Great work, i hope you can take this to next level by making a " google assistant" as in google Allo to Whatsapp.
Edit: could not make the calculator to work on nexus 6 android 7.0

torecdude said:
Great work, i hope you can take this to next level by making a " google assistant" as in google Allo to Whatsapp.
Edit: could not make the calculator to work on nexus 6 android 7.0
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Making a separate assistant will be useless since people will expect it to be on the same level as Google Assistant. Let's wait till Google opens up their API, then I'll think about adding it.
Make sure you use only numbers for the calculator. Invalid expressions will not work.

EatHeat said:
Making a separate assistant will be useless since people will expect it to be on the same level as Google Assistant. Let's wait till Google opens up their API, then I'll think about adding it.
Make sure you use only numbers for the calculator. Invalid expressions will not work.
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Tried 5-4 @Cal and (5-4) @Cal and 9*5 @Cal or even the same expression as in the guide but nothing happens

torecdude said:
Tried 5-4 @Cal and (5-4) @Cal and 9*5 @Cal or even the same expression as in the guide but nothing happens
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The command is @calc, not just @Cal.

EatHeat said:
The command is @calc, not just @Cal.
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My bad, thanks.

Nice App, would like to see if it could handle other languages. Wiki, News and other with german result would be awesome.

interesting app concept.. good work buddy

Could you please add an event organizer?
By creating an event in a whatsapp group, the members will answer @in or @out and the bot will keep count of who´s in and out.

why miui not supported?

Can't find the Bot, using official WhatsApp 2.16.354 on Nexus 5 Nitrogen ROM

TheKrates said:
Can't find the Bot, using official WhatsApp 2.16.354 on Nexus 5 Nitrogen ROM
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You have to text someone with for example : XDA @wiki
---------- Post added at 08:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:14 PM ----------
Yay everything is paid... Please give it to XDA for free, that would be much appreciated!

The app is telling me not to use a pirated version of the app, which I'm not. I downloaded it from the Google Play Store but I can't buy the rest of the features! Am I the only one that has this problem?

Qeubot bot is not showing in whatsapp. What am I doing wrong?

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[CLOSED] Unique App #1: Folder Sync

Hello community!
Google Play Store has millions of apps, and if I have to put a rough estimate, I would say over 70% of them are copy cats, are very poorly designed and offer little value to the user.
What that means for the end user is difficulty in finding a good app. I made a post earlier on the Best Android Apps I have found in several categories over the years.
This post intends to find something unique about an app you use. Please list the app (or apps) that you use which offer something very unique not available in (most) other apps.
Thanks.

Here I'll post a summary of all apps mentioned in comments to make it easier for users to find them.

FolderSync - Apps on Google Play
FolderSync enables easy sync of files between cloud storage and Android devices.
play.google.com
A very basic feature, File Organization, is unfortunately missing in File Manager apps. A lot of file manager apps offer much more than file management, yet they leave out this extremely fundamental aspect about file management.
Folder Sync allows you to create your own set of rules to organize files. This is extremely useful for the Downloads folder which contains several different types of files. Despite 'SEARCH' and 'SORT' features available, it is often helpful to organize files in sub-folders for specific reasons. This app helps do just that.
User can create rules to look for specific file extensions (multiple extensions can be used in a single rule) and move all files that match specified criteria into pre-defined sub-folders. I use it to organize my Downloads folder that contains the following sub-folders: Documents, Archives, Music, Pictures, Videos, Apps.
This is the only app on Google Play Store that does automatic File Organization perfectly well, and this aspect makes it UNIQUE.
ALTERNATIVES
1. Redirect Pro: not available on Play Store and not updated in a long time. It still works well even on Android 11.
2. BFileSync: Available on Play Store but not updated in a long time. Biggest problem with this app is that it changes the timestamps of files, making it unusable. But if that is not important to you, it will get the job done.
You'll find more such unique apps here:
Best Android Apps...
The list presented here is a collection of excellent apps (at the time of writing this) that excel in what they do (and supposed to do). They may or may not fit into the requirements of everyone perfectly. So choose whatever works best for you...
forum.xda-developers.com

Multiling O Keyboard
This app is ridiculously customizable. Unique about this app is DIY layout feature. I can't able find any other app like this easy to make DIY layout. Also no internet permission makes it privacy friendly.

HemanthJabalpuri said:
Multiling O Keyboard
This app is ridiculously customizable. Unique about this app is DIY layout feature. I can't able find any other app like this easy to make DIY layout. Also no internet permission makes it privacy friendly.
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What customizations do you do in a keyboard app?

Hi, may I suggest App Finder?
As far as I know it's the only advanced search engine for Android apps available as an app itself.
(There's the AppBrain app, but this has for example no range filters, and the result list is very basic)
And also if you compare it to web search engine for Android apps (like appagg, appshive, reallyfreeapps, playsearch, play.gqqnbig), it's search operators, many filters, detailed result list with scalable screenshots, flexible UI, and number of indexed apps make it unique.

jake n said:
Hi, may I suggest App Finder?
As far as I know it's the only advanced search engine for Android apps available as an app itself.
(There's the AppBrain app, but this has for example no range filters, and the result list is very basic)
And also if you compare it to web search engine for Android apps (like appagg, appshive, reallyfreeapps, playsearch, play.gqqnbig), it's search operators, many filters, detailed result list with scalable screenshots, flexible UI, and number of indexed apps make it unique.
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Very interesting and unique. I have added it to the Utilities section here.

Unique App #1: MiXplorer
Staying on the topic of file explorers, a few years ago I stumbled on this very app. I have been using it since then. No matter I am rooted or not I use this app daily.
Unique features which I like
- Small package
- Regularly updated
- Ability to download or copy shortcuts in the share menu of Android
- Share local link feature to access files on network (minimum steps required)
- Can play music, videos, pdf and tons of other file formats
- Zip features
- Root explorer
- Add Ons
many more...
Totally functional app
Thank you for taking the time read
peace

ahm_usa said:
Ability to download or copy shortcuts in the share menu of Android
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Can you elaborate on this?
Mixplorer is a very good file manager with plenty of customisations. But what are some unique features about it that other file managers don't support?

TheMystic said:
Very interesting and unique. I have added it to the Utilities section here.
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thank you!

MOD ACTION:
Thread closed.
@TheMystic
Since you already have a thread HERE, and you also link it in post #7 above, this thread is redundant and hence closed. Please avoid creating multiple threads for discussing apps.