[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V2.2.4.5A up!

Hey folks, long time :cool:

Pretty much everything is in place for Kickstarter, but it has taken ages! There were more features I wanted to show off on the new demo video, so coding them took me a while too…The video will be out to view soon!

Anyway, here is an updated version that should be faster and more reliable with some more features added. If you can let me know that they work ok for you please. I’ll release some more features very soon, as there are plenty sat waiting on my test versions.

The app now runs with a permanent notification icon. I tried as hard as I could to work around this, but Android would just kill utter! too often and that lead to further problems re-initialising the voice engine.. So, it’s a done deal. There’s an on/off switch in the apps main page. *See bugs below.

Included:

Wave to wake

It will take you a little practice to get the right speed to wave back and forth in front of the proximity sensor in a windscreen-wiper fashion. I’ve made it purposely hard to activate for obvious reasons... Once you get the rhythm and timing right, you should be able to start utter! like this every time. Handy for driving…

Visual results

I think I’ve solved the bug that was causing this to crash on many devices.

Cancel

You can say ‘cancel cancel’ mid command/sentence to stop everything.

Screenshot

For rooted devices, it will work with Screencast or for custom ROM users perhaps without. It depends if the ICS+ screenshot functionality has been built into the ROM you’re using. There’s only one way to find out!

Texting

First release of this for you to try! Auto-send is disabled until it’s tried and tested. I haven’t dealt with contacts with multiple mobile numbers. I would be greatful if you could confirm the behaviour of which number utter! selects if:

1)	More than one mobile number, one of which is primary

2)	More than one mobile number, none of which are primary

I can confirm the same behaviour cross-device then – I hope…

Toast the clipboard

Not much use to you now, but it works with some other commands that are coming soon.

Silent mode

If your device is in silent/vibrate mode, utter! will now communicate in toasts! However, I’ve been getting a few crashes on this, not all of which I’ve been able to catch…

Navigation

Only supports Google Navigation right now, but that will be updated soon.

BUGS!

Due to an annoying Android bug, some of you may experience the foreground notification disappearing shortly after you enable the application. For all of my testing, I can’t see that it makes any difference to the apps behaviour though. The icon will remain after a reboot.

Still having problems with IVONA initialising. If nothing is happening when you’re trying to activate utter! kill IVONA with a task-killer and then it should start working ok.

YOU WILL NEED TO UNINSTALL YOUR PREVIOUS VERSION BEFORE INSTALLING THIS UPDATE! (due to a signature change).

Right, I think I’ve waffled enough!

Thanks in advance for your testing skills folks!

Ps. I’ve removed the advanced testing menu – It was a let down…

Pps. I need to sleep, so will return in a few hours!

EDIT: Removed 2.2 compatibility on this version. So 2.3+ only now I'm afraid.