[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V2.2.4.9A up!

Hey folks, here's a recap of what's been updated since the original V2.2.4A (Play Store version):

*SIGNATURE CHANGE! - If you are updating directly from 2.2.4 you'll need to uninstall your current version first.

*App uses permanent notification to prevent Android from killing it mid calculation. Icon will be customisable soon.

*Removed 2.2 compatibility on this version. So 2.3+ only now.

*Link Applications tab added to authorise and/or install compatible applications.

*MASSIVE speed improvements. A lot of commands halved in processing time.

NEW COMMANDS

Directory Searches

Browse directory +'directory name'

Example:

"Browse directory My Documents"

Also:

Browse subdirectory +'directory path'

Example:

"Browse subdirectory Music, Beatles, Let it Be"

You'll need to go to the Link Applications tab in the main app and click the link to File Magic, which is a file explorer designed by the developer of Tasker - As you'd expect from such a dev, it has plenty of compatibility options for other applications. I can't find any other File Explorers that have such features. I hope that will change when utter! becomes a little more popular and developers want to make their apps compatible.

The subdirectory command can be slow - Java and recursive directory searches don't play well together. I'm checking/every/individual/subdirectory/level on your external storage against every/possible/command/string/heard - there is a MASSIVE amount of work being done... Is it quicker than browsing to it manually...? You'll have to tell me...

Play

"Play +artist +track name"

for example...

"Play The Beatles Hey Jude"

I'm not sure how it will perform on your devices, or how fast it will be - it really depends on how well organised and tagged your music collection is... If it's all over the device and external storage, then utter! will definitely take longer to return the closest match... but I'm using some tricks to speed things up... So, actually, I've no idea how this will work! :eek: Let me know!

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

Say 'text Joe Blogs' and utter! will take over. Auto-send is disabled until it’s tried and tested. *I haven’t dealt with contacts with multiple mobile numbers - default to primary.

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.

Email

Say 'email Joe Blogs' and utter! will take over. *I haven’t dealt with contacts with multiple email addresses - default to primary.

Spell

Not very exciting, but sometimes comes in handy! You can say 'toast the clipboard' afterwards to see it.

Facebook

Say 'Facebook status' and utter! will take over. **

Twitter

Say 'Tweet' and utter! will take over. **

** Facebook reads back the status to confirm - Twitter displays it to confirm. You'll have to let me know which you prefer. If you prefer 'read back', then I'll introduce some editing options. They both need authorisation in the Link Applications tab.

Alarms

Say 'Set (an) alarm in X hours Y minutes called +alarm name'

for example...

Set an alarm in 2 hours and 53 minutes called check the dinner.

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 or if you kill utter! with a task-killer. Please do star this issue if you suffer from it - it will never be fixed otherwise.

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.

The Android bug detailed here stops voice results being returned for English US - Please star it if you are a custom ROM user (or stock Jelly Bean!), as it will surely rear its head in your coming ROM updates. You'll need to change your Voice Search Settings language to English UK.

Google Voice Search results are starting to get too clever for their own good. When I say 'Turn on bluetooth' (very clearly), I get the following in the returned voice possibilities:

Turn off bluetooth

Turn on wifi

Call turn on bluetooth

Text turn on bluetooth

This is of course not helpful to deciphering what you wanted utter! to do. I'm not sure whether to raise a bug report with them yet as their matching algorithms have gone a little OTT... It's causing utter! to detect more 'multiple commands'.

CM9/10 Bugs

The inbuilt music player does not handle standard 'play music' intents.

Icon notification resizing issues

Android Settings crashes

Finally

There are a few more commands in this version that I'll save informing you of until I get the ok for what's there!

The kickstarter project has been submitted to them for approval - it won't be long now! Would be great when the time comes if you could all use the power of social media to spread it around...

Thanks in advance for your testing as always.