Re: What do you want in Key Lime Pie?
android feature request. sorry about the length...
I would like to see the following things:
-An offline native attrctive holo-themed office/productivity app with really granular control over details like in Microsoft office, google must use that quickoffice purchase to good effect. Multiple fonts (more downloadable)/styles/save as multiple files, format painter. Formulas in spreadsheet app. Insert media etc.
-Ability to italicize' underline and bold text on stock keyboard onto any app that uses text.
-A native holo-themed stock android file manager with copy/paste/cut/share/rename/make homescreen shortcut/properties/openwith options on longpress
-More licensing agreements with multiple countries for content. Don't forget the little people google. Android market share is much bigger outside the us than in it. Don?t shaft the people outside the us who are loyal to android. We need more reasons to love android and local content is a great way to do it. Shows us you care?
-Integrated messaging: messages, email, gchat, g+ messenger, third party chat apps? Eg whatsapp, fb messenger, nimbuzz
-a better holo themed google finance app with plenty offline features, great holo widgets and an attractive ui. with support for lots of emerging markets stock exchanges, commodity markets and individual commodities as well. The current app seems like you just don't anymore. Would love to see those great looking google finance graphs on my android phone. Wanna see what a great graph looks like on android? Look at "battery widget reborn?s" battery graph (screenshot attatched). I want customizable graphs where I can add any stock or commodity/fund price and add technical analysis addons like moving averages, candlesticks, etc automatically with the click of a toggle button. I want this google!!! Why does ios get an attractive stocks app but we don?t? i would like A ticker widget for a particular exchange or custom list of stocks/commodities with live update, a single stock/commodity widget (with value & percentage up/down), a more complex single stock/commodity widget with live intraday prices in graph format,? countdown timer widget to opening or closing bell for any global exchange. all widgets must be time sensetive. ie show whether the market in question is currently open or is closed.
-add commodity prices to google now responses. Eg gold, platinum, wheat.
-Add more sports to google now not just american sports. In fact google should just be a COMPREHENSIVE repository for all sports scores past and current for all sports including live sports widgets that look stock. Add scores for soccer, golf, rugby, EVERYTHING. Want to be able to ask google now: ?who won the England vs south Africa rugby game in 1995?? or ?how many times have manchester united beaten Chelsea?
-holo themed notepad application. Simple straightforward, no evernote bells and whistles. With a homescreen widget/board for quick notetaking on my tab on the fly. Im a doctor sometimes need to take quick notes while on a ward round for example with my stylus and opening the app takes too long.
-offline handwriting recognition application like google handwriting for taking notes: should be able to write anywhere on the screen nd have typed text appear wherever the cursor is in realtime.
- offline voice assistant: majel
- a phone call manager that allows me to calculate my phone call usage and set the call rates so I can monitor calls ie I can find out how much did my call at three oclock yesterday cost me?
- more app by app information about data usage. Eg how much data does a certain app use every day on average, or which browser uses more data for a specific download kinda thing.
- ability to set timers for automated sms in messaging app. In fact timed messages for everything including email and gchat
-sms canned responses
- location aware, time aware profiles which allow me to set: appearance of the device, hide certain apps (like games at work), change the volume and the type of alerts eg. Have a serious ringtone for the work profile and a play fun one for home profile; and set particular conditions for profiles eg WiFi on etc as a native functionality. If you have to: buy two forty four am LLC, makers of the locale app
- call barring, divert, speed dial, call waiting, caller Id toggle
- stock weather widget with tons of sizes, and options. I've been trawling the web looking for weather icons that fit in the design of my phone/tab still not completely satisfied I?ve found it. Maybe google now theme on uccw app?
- ability to easily set any sound as a ringtone or message alert straight from settings.
- high res google contacts photos PLEASE!!!!!!!
- deeeeep FACEBOOK integration: just bury the hatchet dammit. Ie. Status updates and photos in people app, ability to go to someones profile from contacts and post to their wall or send Facebook message directly or poke people/like posts directly from ppl app without having to go into Facebook app. Ability to post to any social network directly without opening facebook . Include Facebook messenger into integrated messaging app
- some way to make navigating the app tray easier when you have tons of apps. Switching from apps to widgets is easy but from first apps page to the middle apps pages takes a lot of unnecessary swiping. I usually go to widgets then swipe back to get to the last apps eg zinio.
- History function in chrome with entries separated by date. and use those tiles on the new tab page for favourites which i set (like in firefox) not for recent pages.
- ability to set a homepage in chrome it will obviously be
Google as on my laptop
-Allow me to set desktop version as default in tablet chrome
- PC suite-like application not just some browser based thing but a full app that even allows me to control basic functions of the phone SMS, call, connection, even use some apps eg whatsapp. Kinda like tablet talk for example
-Stock compass, voice recorder, weather app
-get creative with the multiple sensors on android phones eg the proximity sensor for switching of/on the screen or changing music tracks or navigating around the phone or snoozing alarms etc. Looks really cool has a lot of ''showoff value'' and could be a unique feature of android. Eg when someone sees I have a cool nexus phone and ask me ''what can it do'' the first thing I show them is the proximity screenoff app. Second is the use of the proximity sensor to change music tracks then third is google now
- stock paintbrush type app with lots of features eg insert text and insert shapes select, fill, brush, effects, pich to zoom etc
- ability to hide system folders or pics from gallery like quickpic does
- better app discovery on google play store. Its soooo hard to find cool holo-themed apps. I literally check
Holo Everywhere every week and tech blogs every day for this. And give holo-themed apps special prominence
- take of the silly android Smiley's in messaging app. They look weird
- ability to use nicknames (as set in people app) for sending texts or searching for contacts or doing anything. Its more intuitive that way. I think: ?lemme send doggie a text?, not ?let me send craig a text?.
- ability to add pictures or logos to a calendar entry
- system wide feature to translate text like what google demonstrated for currents at IO
- whenever I type in a person's name or nickname or a favourite place the phone must recognize this as local content and a popup of the contact should pop up. for eg when adding a participant to the a meeting or event in the calendar app kinda just like an extension of local device search
-did I mention high res photos in people app? No arguments, just do it google...
- don't link the media consumption apps to the google play stores. Eg I am using a nexus 7 in a non-US country and therefore the video app is missing from my app drawer although it is definayely installed on the device. Same with play books although I have my three free books(alice in wonderland, great expectations and treasure island) plus the nexus guide book on my galaxy nexus plus my free borne dominion book. These media consumption appsnshould just be that. Apps. Any integration with the corresponding stores should be in as in obtrusive a way so that non US or UK users don't get stiffed or don't have to constantly look at content they can't buy. Its ridiculous that I now HAVE to find a third party video player app cos of this. Thank goodness you didn?t screw us on the play music app cos then I would have been pissed.
- improved clock application. Right now its just a deskclock with dimming settings. add world clock and ability to put clock widgets with different timezones on home screen. Want to know at a glance on my homescreen what the time is in another country (and see whether its a decent time to phone someone for example.) plus I want a holo themed clock widget like the clockwidget4ics widget which is available on the ply store. Not just the analog clock. Ps add more analog clock sizes and colours.
-just generally add more cool stock widget options. This is the strength of android and differentiates the ?tiles? of winphone or the icons of apple. Give us more stock options so tht homescreens don?t suffer from an ugly clusterf**k syndrome of android from having no common design.
-countdown timer widget from clock app. Also a current event widget. Eg a widget that will say: ?right now a certain event is happening? like the Olympic opening ceremony for example. With start and finish times and touching the widget links to the website or the calendar entry or whatever
- smarter calendars: ability to 'follow' public events eg: olympic opening ceremony or google io keynote or a sports game without neccesarily having to enter them into your calendar (since i wont be personally attenting them but woild still like to follow them or watch a liveblog etc) then organisations or companies or sports associations can even add their own official listings of their events which can be followed and come up on google now cards. these can be tied into a countdown timer widget or a ''currently happening'' widget as described earlier
- stock automation app like on{x} without the need for knowing coding
-Ability to mount a flash to my tab without rooting
-stock security features in android for stolen phone. phone can be reported stolen on some kind of webbased google platform then as soon as it is used tracking begins. kinda like my tracks google app but compulsory and stealthy. basically like wheres my droid with automatic sms or call or email to google servers.
- ability to stream ANY android screen (with sound) to ANY other android or non android device eg phone to tablet tablet to phone, tablet to tv etc. wirelessly just like android transporter by esr labs
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Ps if there are any typos in this post consider this: I typed it from my nexus 7. Is it just me or did the keyboard get a little worse in jellybean?
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Phone: galaxy nexus (unrooted)
Tab: nexus 7 (unrooted)
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