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AdminCarter
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Good news!
Android 4.0 finally grants apps official access the built-in calendar, so we’re planning to support this with a new Calendar condition. This new Calendar condition will be Android 4.0+ only.
As a general design principle, Locale only has features that Android officially supports (for the developers out there, we only use public APIs). This ensures that Locale works reliably across different versions of Android and different Android devices. For those without Android 4.0 (or those looking to live on the edge), there are some third-party plug-ins that implement Calendar condition functionality. These plug-ins are using undocumented Android APIs, and may therefore not work on all devices or may break when new versions of Android are released. Anyway, here are links to these plug-ins on the Android Market:
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.acm.steidinger.calendar.localePlugin
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.DroidMunkey.LocaleCalendarConditions
DonVincenzo
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AdminCarter
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The original request here was for a logical NOT operator, although it doesn’t make sense to create a logical NOT operator in Locale. Most of the time, NOT isn’t the right way of thinking about a Condition. For example, NOT 9 am to 5 pm could be redefined as 5pm to 9am. NOT at work would simply be the Default situation. For the other conditions built-in to Locale, thinking about the problem in a different way usually means that NOT isn’t needed. If a Condition truly needs NOT logic, then that should probably be put into the individual Condition’s UI itself rather than as part of the Edit Situation screen in Locale.
Although this request is for a NOT operator, I believe the underlying request here is a way of detecting the transition between situations. The strongest use case would be detecting when you’ve left a particular Location. While Locale… more
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AdminCarter
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This should have been fixed with the updates in September, but I am unable to test this with the G1. So if it is fixed, please leave a comment.
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AdminCarter
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Scenes in HTC Sense is a private API, which means that third party apps like Locale cannot access it.
HTC has launched a new developer API for Sense UI devices at http://www.htcdev.com/
Unfortunately, these APIs are extremely limited and do not allow developers access to more advanced features such as Scenes.
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AdminCarter
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This is implemented by two third party plug-ins:
1. Locale Ping.fm Plug-in
2. Locale GTalk Plug-inBoth of these are available on the Android Market.]
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AdminCarter
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This is implemented by the Locale Google Voice Plug-in, available on the Android Market.
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AdminCarter
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A new version of this plug-in was released today which offers Android 1.6 (Donut) compatibility.
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Given that there are other ‘Toggle Settings’ apps out there that provide the ability to adjust sync options, this is clearly possible.
Why it has not been included thus far is however beyond me, as it is such a drain on battery (try using your phone as normal for a day, but with autosync off, and you’ll see the difference).
To be able to schedule synchronizations would be an incredibly useful feature!
Another thought is to set something up that uses the recently released HTTP POST/GET plugin. Maybe something that could post to a server that a condition had started, and then have code server-side that would hook into Google Voice and change a setting (i.e. which phones to divert to…)
I’m going to look into this more over the weekend, but I’d be curious to hear others’ thoughts…