Hey guys,
I've been playing about with android for about a year now and I've written this app. It's a location and time-based profile application, so you can set ringer volume, vibrate mode and ring tones for when you are asleep or at work.
It's like an extremely light-weight version of Locale with very few features
Eventually I'll put it on the Market, so I'm trying to figure out if there's going to be enough interest for it.
-Would you pay 60p-£1 ($1 to £1.50) for it?
-If I put it on there as free and ask people to donate, will enough people bother at least to cover the Market fee... do people actually donate beer-money if they know they can get it for free?
-Let me know of any bugs or suggestions (Note: I'd like to keep it simple, if you want lots of features, then I'd suggest a different app)
-This version will expire mid February. I'll hopefully have decided how I want to proceed with it after mid February.
Cheers all!
Usage Instructions:
Llama comes with a predefined set of Profiles, but you can customise these.
Llama uses 'events'. Each event has a set of conditions and actions. When all of the conditions are met, the actions are run. Llama comes with some default events, but you can customise them appropriately. One of the events is named 'Quiet at night', and is based on the fact that you are at home, and the time is after 10pm. This means that when it is late and you are at home, it will turn the ringer to a lower volume. However, if you are at the pub and it's after 10pm, it will leave the ringer alone (NOTE: this is assuming that your home and the pub are suitably far away. Llama works best in built up areas with lots of phone masts). You can also create an event that disables/enables APN mobile data, so your phone isn't pointlessly checking your email overnight
Llama uses no data whatsoever, so you have to teach it the IDs of the phone masts near your home and workplace. Doing this is easy. Just go to the 'Areas' tab and long-press to tell the app to 'start learning' your home or workplace. Tell it how long you plan to be at home or work and it'll make a note of the phone masts that it finds. Then do the same for when you are at work.
Changelog:
1.2011.01.28.1330
-Donation button added
-Help text added
-Import/Export/Apn On-Off menus condensed into a popup
-Package name changed so it can be uploaded to the market after some evil person uploaded it to the market without my permission
1.2011.01.25.1500
-Wifi action can be set to only turn off wifi if not connected to a wifi network
-Improvements/hacks to the keylock action, because the API misbehaves if the service gets killed between disabling then reenabling they key lock
1.2011.01.22.1710
-Charging/Discharging condition
-Run application action
-Disable keylock action
-Confirm deletes in area, events and profiles
-Option to set whether 'no signal' causes Llama to leave an area
-Stuff is sorted alphabetically now
-Now expires 15th Feb
1.2011.01.12.2110
-Cdma network dump if you turn on Debug -> Write to LlamaLog.txt
(Not that exciting)
1.2011.01.10.2120
- Fix for Cdma networks (hopefully)
1.2011.01.09.1940
- Added Bluetooth toggle
- Added Day of the week condition
- Added a way to remove cells from an area
- Logging and data import/export goes in /sdcard/Llama
- Added free warning for twats that like to charge other people money for applications they have not written
1.201012262100
- Added Wifi toggle
ATTACHMENT REMOVED
Go get it from the market now
I've been playing about with android for about a year now and I've written this app. It's a location and time-based profile application, so you can set ringer volume, vibrate mode and ring tones for when you are asleep or at work.
It's like an extremely light-weight version of Locale with very few features
Eventually I'll put it on the Market, so I'm trying to figure out if there's going to be enough interest for it.
-Would you pay 60p-£1 ($1 to £1.50) for it?
-If I put it on there as free and ask people to donate, will enough people bother at least to cover the Market fee... do people actually donate beer-money if they know they can get it for free?
-Let me know of any bugs or suggestions (Note: I'd like to keep it simple, if you want lots of features, then I'd suggest a different app)
-This version will expire mid February. I'll hopefully have decided how I want to proceed with it after mid February.
Cheers all!
Usage Instructions:
Llama comes with a predefined set of Profiles, but you can customise these.
Llama uses 'events'. Each event has a set of conditions and actions. When all of the conditions are met, the actions are run. Llama comes with some default events, but you can customise them appropriately. One of the events is named 'Quiet at night', and is based on the fact that you are at home, and the time is after 10pm. This means that when it is late and you are at home, it will turn the ringer to a lower volume. However, if you are at the pub and it's after 10pm, it will leave the ringer alone (NOTE: this is assuming that your home and the pub are suitably far away. Llama works best in built up areas with lots of phone masts). You can also create an event that disables/enables APN mobile data, so your phone isn't pointlessly checking your email overnight
Llama uses no data whatsoever, so you have to teach it the IDs of the phone masts near your home and workplace. Doing this is easy. Just go to the 'Areas' tab and long-press to tell the app to 'start learning' your home or workplace. Tell it how long you plan to be at home or work and it'll make a note of the phone masts that it finds. Then do the same for when you are at work.
Changelog:
1.2011.01.28.1330
-Donation button added
-Help text added
-Import/Export/Apn On-Off menus condensed into a popup
-Package name changed so it can be uploaded to the market after some evil person uploaded it to the market without my permission
1.2011.01.25.1500
-Wifi action can be set to only turn off wifi if not connected to a wifi network
-Improvements/hacks to the keylock action, because the API misbehaves if the service gets killed between disabling then reenabling they key lock
1.2011.01.22.1710
-Charging/Discharging condition
-Run application action
-Disable keylock action
-Confirm deletes in area, events and profiles
-Option to set whether 'no signal' causes Llama to leave an area
-Stuff is sorted alphabetically now
-Now expires 15th Feb
1.2011.01.12.2110
-Cdma network dump if you turn on Debug -> Write to LlamaLog.txt
(Not that exciting)
1.2011.01.10.2120
- Fix for Cdma networks (hopefully)
1.2011.01.09.1940
- Added Bluetooth toggle
- Added Day of the week condition
- Added a way to remove cells from an area
- Logging and data import/export goes in /sdcard/Llama
- Added free warning for twats that like to charge other people money for applications they have not written
1.201012262100
- Added Wifi toggle
ATTACHMENT REMOVED
Go get it from the market now
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