Hi all,
Thanks for your feedback. Please note that there there is no trickery used in this app. I merely declare in the AndroidManifest.xml that this app is a candidate to be launched with the buttons in question and the Android OS does the rest. I am not a fan of employing dirty hacks to hook buttons as this produces unexpected results and can interfer with other apps. The Opera browser app is an example of exactly one such app, it hacks a number of keys including the search soft key & call button and this is why my app, or indeed any other app that you have legitimately wired to the search soft key or call button, will NOT work within Opera. There is nothing I can do about this myself. I have emailed the development team to let them know of the issues they are causing and its entirely up to them to fix it, or not.
Please note I am hoping to have a long press of the camera button wired up soon using a BroadcastReciever. I am ensuring that I implement this correctly however because I don't want it to interfer with its standard short press operation!
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Thanks
Okay, so the HTC Incredible has no call button, and a long press of the search button is defaulted to activating the voice input for search. How about a long press of the Back button (which is the only button that does not already have a long press function)?
I assume you aware you can replace the voice input with my app using defaults or alternatively not select a default so you are presented with a Voice Command/Wifi Toggle option?
The back button is a system button and there is no way to hook it that I know of . If there were it would be a dirty hack and this is not something I'm prepared to investigate at present.
I'm in envy of your Incredible, not an option here in the UK :-( Does it have a camera button?
Just installed on my HTC Incredible works with the long pressing of the search button. When you press the search button long it brings up (complete action using either the search or In-app wifi). It will turn on and off the wifi but doesn't connect the wifi stays in 3g mode. I have to go into settings/wireless & Networks/WI-FI settings and then it connects. So lets say if the WiFi is turned on and i use IN-APP WIFI it will turn it off just fine. If i try to turn it back on using IN-APP WIFI it will not revert unless i go into wifi settings. Great idea though sir i hope you can get it to work on the incredible
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Update i uninstalled it Cycled my phone off and on reinstalled it worked fine for awhile then went back to Lagging. Don't know if it conflicts with HTC's Wifi widget.
Please can I emphasise that my app merely toggles wifi ON and OFF. It takes no responsibility for connecting to a network, obtaining an IP address etc. You have stated that my app enables Wifi on your phone, so my app has in-fact worked exactly as expected
If your phone is failing to connect to your network then I can only assume that there is some other problem occurring, or as you have mentioned, some other app is causing the issue.
Hi,
great idea!
Can you please add long-press the trackball button as an intent?
I'm aleady using long-press the search button to launch the dialer and there is no "call" button on the nexus.
Thanks
Please see my comments with regards the back button above. Again the trackball is a system button and performs different actions depending on the phones current context. A long press will frequently be the equivalent of long press on the screen, to bring up a context menu. Using hacks as well as handling scenario's like this would be impossible and produce unexpected results. Apologies but I can't implement this.
I really like this, But I was wondering if there was a way to set it up to give us a long press on the track ball as an option. I have a nexus one and I already have my search button set up for voice search when I long press.. and I don't have a call button. Anything else and I would be using this all the time. I absolutely hate that the only way to toggle wifi is to go to my home screen.. This is a beauty of an app. Keep up the great work.
As above, perhaps don't select a default for the search soft key long press? Sorry the trackball isn't possible.
Works partially on G1 (SuperBadCM5 1.3)
-Search butten doesn't work, but this seems to be known
-doesn't work in opera mini, as it remaps call button to 'mouse pointer right'
Very useful app, would be great though if it worked in opera. Thougth about using long press menu? It doesn't seem to be mapped to anything.
Hi, I apologise because in my app description I have put "Search Button" when what I really should have put was "Search Soft Key". Unfortunately these aren't the same thing and I am aware that the search button on the G1 keyboard doesn't activate my app. I will update the description shortly.
Please see my comments above regarding Opera and its dirty hacks. If it hijacks buttons when it has focus there's nothing other apps can do about it unforuntately.
A long press of the menu key is actually mapped to bring up the soft keyboard.