[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] apurva.giri:
The Past:

I've been working on this app since last 3 months and I'm pretty happy with the progress I made:fingers-crossed:. I was waiting for this day to post the app publicly in the forum which taught me so much:laugh:. Well, some might say this app is completely useless, but other might find it useful. I've considered all kind of users and accordingly added features to make it as productive as possible. This is still an alpha release and you may find several bugs:rolleyes:, and I would really appreciate if you guys can report it whenever it crashes:angel:. I'm open to all kind of ideas and feel free to suggest me additional features;).

About Floating Commander:

Well, I'm sure you're all are in love with Google Now, but then, so I'm I. But it sucks sometimes, how Google Now can't do many things that I want it to do, may be like setting the brightness of my screen to lets say 50%, changing sound settings and so on.. So, I've tried to accommodate all that in this app. Yes, this is a voice command utility that will do many things which Google Now can't (may be in future, but not now). Moreover, I've seen people who don't like the app simply because it eats up a little bit of data from your data pack and affects the battery aswell. Now, this one also needs data, but just to transform your voice to text, and rest all the features are processed natively and accordingly invoked. Its superfast (atleast on my phone, Galaxy Note 2) and it gets the work done. This app starts a floating widget which can be put on any edge of the screen, or freely (if u choose so in settings), and upon clicking, will invoke a voice recognition utility (Google's own recognizer) to detect your command (English Only for now) and thanks to its SpeechOptimizerEngine, it processes the command very fast and accurately and executes it. You can basically select/de-select each and every feature this app has from its settings and accordingly it''ll take more or less time (which is again negligible). Now, I'm sure there are people who think this is just another bull**** app and they don't need it when they have Google Now. Trust me guys, I have something for you guys aswell;). I've put two new options which will be very helpful to most of you, I'm sure. Enable inbuilt "Google Now" mode in settings to launch "Google Now" from any screen using the floating widget, this will completely disable the native feature of the app. Also, another option is "One Touch" mode which can map to any activity, like changing sound profile, opening flash light, running memory cleaner or opening any installed app at the touch of a floating widget from any screen. The battery consumption is almost zero if it is not used, and if used, takes only for the internet data for converting voice to text. There's an additional feature to send the floating widget back to notification area by long clicking (when playing games) and bringing it back by clicking notification area. Its completely add free at the moment and I would definitely try to keep it that way. Overall, this app might or might not be suitable for your, but I would really appreciate if you guys devote some time analyzing and reviewing it here.

Ok, the final and the best thing, I've also tried integrating an offline mode, yes you heard it right.:laugh: But that's only for U.S. folks, since it works on only U.S. English accent. So, please don't review the app badly if it doesn't work offline for others.

Commands to try:

You can launch/open an app by saying:-

- launch <app name | any settings>

- open <app name | any settings>

- start <app name | any settings>

- run <app name | any settings>

Examples:-

- open bluetooth settings

- run cleaner

- launch whatsapp

- open browser

- open messaging

- run flashlight

You can toggle things by saying :-

- turn on <settings name>

- turn off <settings name>

- start <settings name>

- enable <settings name>

- toggle <settings name> on/off

- turn <settings name> on/off

Example:-

- turn on wifi

- start bluetooth

- switch on internet

- enable hotspot

- toggle autobrightness on

- turn rotation on

You can use set commands like:-

- set <settings name> to <value>

- change <settings name> to <value>

Example:-

- set brightness to 60%

- change ringer mode to silent

- change music volume to 80%

- set ringer volume to 100%

- change ringer mode to vibrate

- set all volume to 100%

- set alarm for 8:30 a.m.

- set alarm for 9:00 a.m. every weekday

- set alarm for 10:00 am. on monday tuesday thursday

Miscellanious Commands:-

Examples:-

- clean memory

- dial 12938

- call <contact name>/ <contact number>

- send message to <contact name>/ <contact number> <message>

- send message to joshua I'll be late tonight

- browse to www.google.com

- show my location

- drive from <location from> to <location to>

- drive to <location to> from <location from>

- show way from <location from>

- navigate to <location>

- navigate from <location> to <location>

These are a few bunch of examples, keep trying combinations and I'm sure most of them will work. Let me know if you have a worthy new command in mind. May be I've just wasted time in this, but I'm really looking forward to encouragement here for further development. And I repeat, I'm not doing it for financial gain.:o

Screens:-

Credits:

This app uses StandOut library by pingpongboss for creating the floating widget. Many thanks to him.:laugh:

This app also uses an open source application Searchlight without which, I couldn't have added an amazingly looking flash light inbuilt in the app. :laugh:

Apart from these, the application has been coded from scratch and supports only 4.1+ :cowboy:

Known Issues: :cyclops:

- I've witnessed a few weird things on Nexus devices (it opens and closes the last opened background activity when voice recognizer is called)

- The floating widget doesn't appear on center when launched for first time (something wrong with my calculations)

- One Touch mode has a few drawbacks (all solved in my latest code which I'll upload in a few days)

- The donation section is mapped to whatsapp (since I was testing something on that and whatsapp has an easy package name:silly:)

- I haven't changed the min sdk version yet, any device from 1.6 and above can install it, but trust me, that's not gonna work for sure. I'll change it in the next update for sure.

- Theme changer and Widget Types are not working yet, thats easy but uploading an app on playstore takes like 6 hrs.

Overall, I'm hoping I've created something useful and I don't expect any financial profit from it, so please review accordingly. Also, I'm also planning to make it open source in future, but let me think about that again. And yes, this app is just of 270 Kb.

Thanks a lot for wasting your time on reading this. This app doesn't have any help section yet, will add one soon.:cool:

Download:

Application is deployed on Playstore in alpha release mode. So, please join the following Google Plus community first:-

boggartWare Google Community

Once you're added, you can find the link under "Floating Commander" category. Alternatively, you can click here and select "BECOME A TESTER". Only who joins this community can be a part of beta testing (that's google's policy). Once you've done that, you'll get a link on that same page to download the app from Playstore. Make sure you access all the links and join the community using the same Google id with which you access Playstore on your own phone.

Thanks guys.