mystic7

You press a button and an uber hot chick pops out of the battery pack and is automatically in love with you.

Hey, I don't care how ridiculous you think that is, that's what I want!

Seriously, my idea isn't all that exotic. Lots of people like myself love to read the letters to the editor section of newspapers and magazines. I'd love an app that collects those sections all in one place. I tried to build one myself, but most newspapers use non-sensical naming protocols that don't change logically from day to day. For example the Charlotte Observer's Letters section url has a subdirectory named with about 8 numbers which change in a random fashion every day. Anyway, that's what I want.

btw, it's funny reading comments from 2008 wishing for apps that you can get today for free.

mrqs

that requires a transmitter chip on the phone - you can't add hardware with an app

i really miss the fm transmitter of my old n8

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dofdiamond

I am trying to develop one application,

Definition :-
1) create one menu with option like Text file, image file, Song file , video file
2) Call file from location and play automatically
3) Search with Instant Search option
4) play all mp3 and video one by one ( call and play )

Thanks in advance for any reply

marc12868

I want a lockscreen app that you can slide your finger across your capacitive buttons to unlock the phone... Like for the Triumph it would be basically pressing menu, home, back, and then search, but you could slide your finger across them and the phone would unlock. Now that would be awesome!

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Prov1

Click a button, and into a new text sends the google maps location link to where I am

radman2020

Need an app to allow me to select, resize (smaller), and send multiple pictures without adding the smaller pictures to my gallery. This is a major omission on android. iphone does it automatically.

jfever311

I just saw that the NRA (National Rifle Association) has a really nice app for iphone. How about one for Android!!

Who would one contact to send this request up the ladder?

jfe

I want an app, that I can record a message, and it automatically calls a number and plays that message

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jfe

This is what I want

Open App

Record a voice message
Input phone number to call (including additional numeric inputs, pauses, waits, etc)
enter time and date
setup a recurring schedule (optional)
save

The phone will then call the number at the scheduled time and play the recorded message

Ladyhawke49

As a seamstress, (and knowing many others), we love the apps for Joann’s and other coupon and crafting help. One that is desperately needed is one for sewing patterns. Seamstresses buy so many patterns that we lose track of what we have or want. I am hoping someone can help us with that! I have one for my books and DVD's but I have 5 times more patterns than both books and DVDs put together!

mrqs

i don't quite follow - what is it that you'd want this hypothetical app to do with your patterns?

Roze

It's not quite what you're asking for but there's a Profile app based on cell tower and you can set a lot of profiles for it. It's called Llama. For your example, if you always go to sleep at 10pm, you can set it up for your house cell tower and 10pm for all calls/messages are put onto silent.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kebab.Llama&feature=search_result#? t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rZWJhYi5MbGFtYSJd

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feckineck

a barcode app that can tell you the ingredients and higlight the ones i have a allergy to in all products including resturant and sweets

jfe

I want to play scrabble with my daughter, the actual physical board game, yes, I know, shocking, but I think that is better for someone younger.

What I want is an app, that has all the alphabet, and you just place it on the board, and scores and validates the word.

No helping with making words, or anything like that, just to match the actual board on the app, regardless of player

You got $1.99 from my pocket for that.

temidayo james

hi guys..

i will like to know if the R program can work on my samsung GT-p7500.......thanks a lot

Jacobsmile8

1. everything stored on the cloud

2. super fast 4g connections

3. GPS in every tablet (tablet knows where you are, can provide data based on your location)

4. ultra mobile, can be taken anywhere

5. lots of ports, allows it to be used as full scale laptop.

6. mobile based payment systems (soon to go mainstream).

7.I can't find a good remote desktop app. All the ones I find need some random port and I can never get it to work. Wanna make something as easy as mstsc?

cm3pak

I am looking for a super simple Buisness app. I need something that tracks mileage, hotel rooms, food, gas... just BUISNESS related expences ONLY! Something that can I can take a pic of the reciept, or choose to enter the info myself. I need something where I can choose to use or not use GPS but where I have that option. I dont want to choose between 2 cars or seperate jobs. I want one car, one set of mileage enter in the begining, and the ending and when I press stop it logs that milage then I can start it over with the mileage I enter incase I have personal stuff to do in the intrum. So I can use my family vehicle as business as I want/ need to. At the end of the day I want it where it will AUTO e-mail to an e-mail address of my choice my log for the day. I am not looking for complicated or anything like that. Some days I travel for work some days I dont. But when I do travel, go take classes and training, buisness lunches, gas, milage, ect... I need something easy to keep me going so when tax time comes up I have this log!

KOLIO

Now that GOOGLE has been given the green-light to acquire MOTOROLA MOBILITY ®, how about an ANDROID app,much like we have for ourselves here w/the PHANDROID APP,for the MOTOROLA FORUMS.

Roze

I found an app on the market called Business Expense Log. Only thing is that I don't think it can differentiate between personal/business milage. You might want to contact the developer to add that.

Last edited by Roze; February 17th, 2012 at 01:45 PM.

Payel

I just want to develop a Quiz application in Android.... Can anyone help me out please ??

pudgyoldguy

I'm looking for a tablet app which would let you scroll the screen with a software touch (click) pad which is always on top and can be dragged/locked anywhere on the screen. This is for physically handicapped users who may be using alternate input such as a mouth operated mouse.

Dark Jedi

I was thinking seems like most people has either an iphone or android phone. while sitting at a restaurant waiting for the pager thing to go off. Why cant they make an app that somehow the restaurant can press a button to let you know your table is ready? I wouldnt think it would be that hard. they can use some kinda unique identifier on the phone.

armymen

I have a app I will love to see and all IT and all geek.. Have a program that I can select a iso image from my phone, and connect my phone usb to load the iso.. Just make thing easier to fix computer and no more usb flash drive or cd dvd to fix computer and also I can have more then 1 iso to select.

djrishabh

i was wondering that if an application can be build for battery charger disconnection .as in when the battery is fully charged then it would automatically not let it charge further so that the battery life extends cause generally we put our fone charge in the night and we spoil its battery by letting it charge for the whole night.

Dark Jedi

the phone already does that automatically. You ever notice when the battery fully charges. The battery charging icon goes away? It stops charging the battery and runs off the plug. Or so how I was told. lol

EarlyMon

When a phone is fully charged, charging stops and you run off the battery (otherwise, the battery would catch fire).

No modern phone meeting minimum safety standards trickles charges.

Leaving a charged phone on the charger does no harm to the battery.

mills2533

True but if you have apps still running that do updates or checks periodically you will constantly be charging the battery and wake up with a "hot" phone.

sawduster

Maybe this exists, but I have spent a lot of hours looking and trying things without success. Closest I have found is Memento, but it lacked the ability to make the entry forms.

I need an app for my phone/tablet that allows me to quickly go through my inventory and bring up an item and quickly adjust the level. I am a screen printer with many different items in my stock inventory.

I would prefer that when I open the app it shows me rows and columns of buttons --> lets say "T-Shirts" and "Sweatshirts" and "Caps" and "Jackets". When I push one of those items, I am shown a new screen with buttons for the subtype --> for example, if I push "T-Shirts" then the next screen would have options for "Short Sleeve" and "Long Sleeve" and "Sleeveless". If I push Short Sleeve then I want to see the brands that I carry. After pushing a brand, I want to see the colors, then the sizes. Once I drill down to the size, it shows me how many I have - with the option to "+" or "-" the total on hand.

I would like the options to setup my own records at each level and also to add records at each level as I go. Bonus points for assigning color buttons the actual color of the garment - or close just to make it visually more useful and quicker.

I can do this myself in something like MS Access, but no clue in Android. Is something already out there? It just seems like there would already exist some sort of recursive structure that could quickly be tuned on the fly into whatever the business would need for their particular items. I would easily pay $50 or more for this if it already exists and know that lots of other small business people would, as well.

Thanks!

androidg8r

Very simple yet unavailable on an Android.

An application that actually works like (Outlook Mail Pro for iPhone) that is continuously logged into a corporate Outlook Web Access http site.

How difficult would it be to develop that app. I can't believe that with all the open source, etc, developers out there that no one can get this right. There are a few apps like red cloud, touchdown, etc, that do not work.

I am so frustrated with this issue that I would 1) Pay some one to develop this or 2) Switch to an iPhone.

I don't want to do the latter (it is the cheaper option).

Help.

moose99

Hey. I was wondering if its possible to create an app that
switches from 3g to 2g if youre not active on the phone in 5-10 min.
That way everyone will save some battery on their smartphones

Bearcat37

A droid wall type app that will work without a root. I really need to get something like that, but I don't want to root my phone. Android needed to stop these apps from using data in the background.

Dawkins

To start off, I have an unrooted Droid Bionic. I just bought a case for it, but the case covers a portion of the top of the screen making it near impossible to drag the "notifications" screen down. Is it possible to make an app that lowers the screen grab tab or moves it to the bottom or side?

P.S.
Not rooted because I'm a Mac user without 10.5 installed and I refuse to buy another Windows product.

coyote1

My idea is simple. A GPS location alarm for those of us who need to park in cities. Cities often have parking rules such as "alternate side" where a side of a street must be cleared for 90 minutes or so to allow for street cleaning trucks to do their job. Often people get tickets just because, when they park, they are unaware of what day today is!

So the app is simple. You program it so it goes off within a certain range of a particular location. At that point, it speaks the day and time once every minute until you turn it off. It could be made better by allowing multiple locations, and then even more so by allowing schedules so it would only alert you on day's and at times where you have told it to do so.

But the bottom line minimum need is to have it speak out loud "Thursday, 7:32AM" each minute when you have reached the neighborhood where you park while at work.

aliawan01

Android application development:
I want to develop bar code scanner with some modified form………….
I want to know what tool it will require and time ?
Level of complexity also ?
Level is bscs……………standard…… plz plz give suggestionssss

sohail.awan01@gmail.com

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rKayw

I would like a Video, Music, and Photo roll widget(s) please. Like the Youtube widget on Android 3.2 Gingerbread. If there is one for these, I have not been able to find it.

Archos has these, but I recently upgraded my tablet to Samsung Glaxy 10.1. It does not have these widgets. Sure miss them.

TIA.

NickanM

I want an app that converts pictures to show the same picture in a cross stitch design, do you know what i mean?
Small coloured rectangles, i don't really know how to describe it.

so you just print it out, then use for stitching and otherwise....

DealerMan

I've looked through the descriptions of quite a few of the alarms in the Market, but have yet to see one that allows me to set an alarm on a specific day. Yeah yeah, I can set a Google calendar reminder, but I would much rather have an alarm.

I suppose I could try to build it myself...

sonofaresiii

Okay, I've got one. A grocery app. I enter in all the groceries I buy regularly (food, toiletries, paper towels, whatever). Then from this giant list, anytime I run out of something I can easily tap it or mark it. The app saves everything I'm out of so I can check it easily, but more importantly... it keeps a running total of prices so I know when I've hit the minimum to order groceries online (fresh direct is $30 to deliver, for example).

I imagine there's plenty that are similar, but the key for me would be keeping running totals of costs (either by linking up with my favorite delivery site or just letting me manually input the costs when I enter the groceries, with the ability to adjust if the prices change)

mathewsimmons

Pandora did some useful changes in application.

montboyd

I was looking for a place to post a application idea (wish) that I have that I believe is totally unique.

Perhaps it already exists and I have just not been able to find it.

I posted this idea in a different forum website. It was deleted by someone. Perhaps I did something wrong and my idea was not wanted.

At this website I there is a place to post ideas, but it does not seem active.

So I am doing it here. Here goes, I hope it is OK

There are a bunch of Lecture apps out there. The biggest problem I have with them is the a recording of a lecture gets me no closer to studying and learning the information that the first time the lecture was heard live. If hand written notes taken it is difficult to reconcile the location written notes with the location of the information in the recording.

If I like most people keeping up with detailed lectures can be difficult to do. You end up with notes that are vague and with missing details.

What I am proposing is to have a standard recording app but one that displays LARGE index recording numbers. From time to time or when the lecture person changes subjects, the person taking the notes can quickly jot down the current recording index number.

In this way, later it would be a simple task to back to the recording and use the written index number to find that location on the recording. At this point, the missing details can be better filled in.

Also if the Android OS allows it, the device can also be configured so that if needed, it can be lifted up, and pointed at a board and automatically take some quick snapshots of a white-board, if the lecture person is using one. In most cases there is little reason to record the entire event. After listening to the lecture in live, most people do not want to go through the entire thing again. They only need to find the most important needed information.

Does anyone think idea has merit?

Thanks
Monte

TSAndro

Hi! I'm new here because I have a pretty obvious app idea, but am no programmer.

You know the microphone in the swype-keyboard. I want an app that - i. E. - adds a "loudspeaker"-button in any app that has the keyboard (which is any app that deals with text), and by clicking it, it will read the text to you.

(By calling up the Google or pico or SVOX or ... tts engine like other apps for reading PDFs or text messages etc. do).

That way, you could have any text read to you w/o needing to copy&paste it (which is stupid!)

I already have "Open document viewer" app, which also reads aloud docx and some other formats, and "pdf to speech", which I use all the time to listen to blogs or white papers etc. in the car.

But I haven't found one app at all that will allow me to click on an existing email in my inbox and read it, or an existing text message.

What do you say? Block-buster? Who wants to programm it? Or does it already exist and I was too blind to find it?

BR, TSAndro

Xourii

What about an app that lets you connect to your computer and play MMORPG games using a controller setup for each individual game that you can create. Google "Razor Switchblade". It's a computer with a dynamic keyboard.

Something like that, but it's an app on your phone.

RWFarley

Right now I'm looking for an App that will let me copy data between Linked contacts for a person.

I have linked Outlook, Facebook, and Linkedin Contacts for most of my contact entries, but I cannot copy the Picture from any of the others to Outlook. I do not see how to choose which of the three pictures to show on the phone.

I need an App....

PS I have a MyTouch 4G Slide, Android 2.3.4, Sense 3.0

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Ngo93

If there was a working DS emulator I'd be in heaven.

Galane

One Ultimate Reader, or "OUR". An ebook reader that is compatible with PalmDOC, TealDoc, epub, all versions of the Mobipocket format, LIT, Plucker and as many other formats without DRM as possible.

Some people like having to put all their ebooks into a single folder. I much prefer how an older version of TealDoc worked on Palm OS. Go to open then browse to where the book files are, sorted into folders by author, select the book the user wants and... open it. (Tealpoint couldn't leave a good feature unbroken and "enhanced" TealDoc's file management to take about twice as many steps just to find and open a book.)

OUR should do that. With the storage space today's devices have, having 300+ books in a single scrolling list is very cumbersome. Think of a library that has only one very long shelf, without any card catalog, and the shelf reshuffles the books based on which book you last read. Sure you can sort the shelf by title or author, but can you do it in reverse alphabetical order? Still a pain when you have hundreds of books.

Of course OUR should have the option of the pile of books in a single folder for people who like that. It could even present folder sorted books as if they're all in one place. OUR should also be able to sort based on various metadata tags and be able to display the ISBN if it's in the ebook.

OUR should also have a method for annotating and for all formats possible directly editing ebooks on the phone or tablet. When I find a typo or OCR error I want to be able to fix it on the fly, or at least have some way of making annotations so that on a desktop I can quickly find and fix the errors then rebuild the ebook from its source, which is usually HTML.

Later versions of TealDoc added on-device editing but it was very cumbersome. Instead of being able to edit in place it opened the ebook in a separate program, at the beginning of the book so the user would have to search for the place to correct. Some kind of data passing so the editor would open at the same location would have made the editor actually useful.

If OUR's editor must be a separate app, it must open the book to the same location as the book is open to in the reader. If OUR would have a free and a paid version, editing could be the paid for feature but annotation files for off-Android use should be in the free version. Open source, possibly cross platform (OUR for Palm, WebOS, iOS, Blackberry, Windows, Mac, Linux and more!) would be better.

As for the design of OUR, I envision a core rendering engine with "plugins" for each ebook format. The plugins could be plain text files with each format's markup commands with translations to how the core engine does things like italics, bold etc. Supporting formats this way would make it possible for anyone to add and update support for different ebook formats. From what I've researched, most ebook formats are various text markup systems with the main text and other files such as images packed into an archive using various sorts of compression and with DRM, encryption.

Might be more trouble than it's worth, a paid "pro" version could support encrypted ebooks, but all the various companies what people using their own reader app and only their limited function reader app.

Displaying standard image types should use default Android APIs*. "Strange" image formats like TealPaint would probably need rendering support in the core engine. 'Course Tealpoint nor anyone else ever got around to a TealDoc book creation program that could embed TealPaint images, even though the format supports embedded and linked images. (Might be possible to manually edit a TealDoc book to have linked images, there are editor apps for Windows and other systems.)

Here's the motto/slogan for this app, "One Ultimate Reader, OUR software, not theirs."

OUR should be the best ebook reader app there is, giving the users the options to have as much or as little control over how their books are managed as they want.

Why write OUR? My reason is I have a very large ebook collection, lots of TealDoc, Plucker and PalmDOC files from when my main reading device was a succession of three different Palm OS PDA's. I also have many older Mobipocket books.

Amazon broke compatibility with PalmDOC and the original Mobipocket format when they added PDF support and line spacing and margin size settings and more font sizes to Kindle Reader for Android. (There's some other problems gone unfixed with it too.) It does not appear that Amazon is going to fix what they broke, so it's time for OUR software. Enough of having to convert ebooks or finding/re-purchasing them whenever Amazon etc decides to change things around.

*That's what standard APIs are for, so programmers don't have to reinvent every wheel with every program, like it was with DOS. Far too many apps and programs on every platform do not use the standard functions and interfaces provided by the OS, instead we see things like dozens of different file dialog boxes that are functionally identical. All these pointless changes do is bloat up the program size and make it harder for the user. (Of course Microsoft is an offender, MS Office file dialogs are wayyyy off their own standard.) One big glaring example of not using a standard API is how Firefox has had broken scrolling support since 4.0. The initial release of 4.0 didn't work with any scrolling device, not even mouse wheels. Mouse wheel support was fixed but to date no other scroll device works with Firefox - unlike nearly all other 32 and 64 bit Windows programs. Before Firefox decided to copy Google Chrome's design, scrolling worked fine. All the developers had to do was *exactly what they did before* - use the standard scroll input API. Use the OS provided APIs and use your creativity and time and code size to make the app better.

This is very important for OUR because it will need to fit on phones with lower amounts of RAM and internal storage without a Micro SD card, which the new and much bulkier and slower Kindle Reader app makes difficult or impossible.

Final thought. When you're writing software for other people to use, even if you're giving it away, you are no longer writing it just for yourself. It's a good thing to listen to what the users of the software would like to have in it. If you're writing software to sell, you're not writing it for yourself at all, even if you use it yourself. When a large number of users have the same request or complaint, it's highly likely the request is for something good/useful or what's being griped about really needs fixing.

When you write software for yourself, and put it online as-is, where is, for others to use if they find it useful, don't bother me about anything about it - that's when you can ignore the complaints. No guarantees expressed or implied.

Galane

Is there an app that will really, truly automatically upload new contacts I put on my phone to my Google account? That doesn't happen with Gingerbread. I have to export a file from the phone, copy it to my desktop computer then login to my Google account with a web browser and import the file.

It works the other way. If I add a contact to my Google account it automatically downloads to my phone.

Galane

OmniRemote for Palm PDAs with built in infrared did that years ago. Now there's a big clip on IR transmitter plus software for the iPhone. Back to what was available for OmniRemote on Palm before Palms had built in IR.

An IR transmitter that plugs into the headphone jack would be nifty, but that's hardware which = expensive to develop and manufacture.

Galane

A catalog app optimized for sewing patterns, with note fields to enter data like where the pattern is stored and what clothes the pattern has been used to make.

For example
Brand: Simplicity
Number: 2479
Type: Men's and Boy's vests
Collection: Inspired by Project Runway
Location: White plastic bin, left end of top shelf in sewing room closet.
Notes: Made this for Kevin's 6th birthday in blue denim. He's so cute in it!

(Yup, a real pattern. The only Kevin I know is over 50 years old.)

Basic database design. I can see a user community quickly building and sharing data files with the brand names, pattern numbers, collections etc.

Pretty it up with some graphics and yer good to go. If you do themes/skins, you'll want ones for gals and guys because some men do sew.

Galane

Easier than an app for Android, you could use one of many web inventory solutions, set it up on a private server in your shop and access it via WiFi using a browser on your phone. That way the inventory would also be manageable from desktop computers in your shop/office. I bet there's some free open source software that can do that. Could do it with ecart software like ZenCart or Presta Shop. Make all the products have a price of zero and "buy" them as you use them. Set it up to email you when stock runs low. That would work but I bet there's something more optimal.