[APP][4.0+] Wayk - An Alarm About Wayking Up

APrinceAmongMen · Mar 7, 2012

Wayk is back!

Wayk

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Hello again everyone!

After a far too long hiatus building out the Whisper app, (whisper.sh, check it out). We're back for some Senti madness. We've learned a hell of a lot over the past year and are ready to drop some delicious app goodness on you guys. We started by rebooting Wayk. We rebuilt Wayk from the ground up to be a lean, mean, Wayking machine. It's working wonderfully, and we're soft launching this puppy one more time. We've got some sweet features and upgrades in store for you guys and just can't wait to get it all out!

Glad to be back,
Cheers!

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Hi everyone,

This is Zed, a noobie developer at Senti. We just soft-launched our first app and I wanted this wonderful community to help us test it out and gather feedback before we started to promote this bad boy.

The app is called Wayk. What we've done is try to completely revamp the way you interact with your alarm. We've created an actual wedge clock that makes setting most alarm times only two taps away. We've also made it so that you just have to wave your hand over the phone to snooze it in the morning. You're greeted with a voice response. We've added your calendar and news feeds for you to read when you wake up in an easy to read format.

We've got a lot to add to this app, but we wanted to guage your interest before putting in the time, because we do have quite a few apps in the labs right now.

We'd really appreciate bug reports, feature requests and improvements you might have!

Thanks!

P.S. You can see screenshots in the market description or on our website http://senti.in

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We wrote a blog post because of how awesome everyone has been! Thanks for the support!

ysuleman · Mar 7, 2012

APrinceAmongMen said:
Hi everyone,

This is Zed, a noobie developer at Senti. We just soft-launched our first app and I wanted this wonderful community to help us test it out and gather feedback before we started to promote this bad boy.

The app is called Senti Alarm. What we've done is try to completely revamp the way you interact with your alarm. We've created an actual wedge clock that makes setting most alarm times only two taps away. We've also made it so that you just have to wave your hand over the phone to snooze it in the morning. You're greeted with a voice response. We've added your calendar and news feeds for you to read when you wake up in an easy to read format. The alarm is automatically dismissed based on what you do with your phone after snoozing it.

We've got a lot to add to this app, but we wanted to guage your interest before putting in the time, because we do have quite a few apps in the labs right now.

We'd really appreciate bug reports, feature requests and improvements you might have!

Here is a copy of the apk
https://s3.amazonaws.com/senti-in/com.senti.alarm.apk

The app is currently in the market for $2 at:
market://details?id=com.senti.alarm

Thanks!

P.S. You can see screenshots in the market description or on our website http://senti.in

Will give this a try tonight!

APrinceAmongMen · Mar 7, 2012

ysuleman said:
Will give this a try tonight!

Great! Looking forward to your feedback

tebuddy · Mar 7, 2012

Looks cool, will also test tonight.

Edit:

Downloaded, installed without a problem. Ran a test alarm. Initially very impressed with the app design and modern style. The wake up voice addressing you by name and telling you the weather and opening Cnet was awesome. The swipe to snooze feature works for the most part. In the morning in a groggy state I don't see it working well enough to be as convenient as a quick mindless swipe, you would actually have to make sure to slowly go directly over the sensor for it to trigger properly. However I need to actually sleep and then try it before I make any real comments.

The only negative things were that on my mdpi HTC Aria on cm 7.2.0 the first pane of the tutorial goes below the viewing area and you cant swipe down to see it and cant go landscape. Also that on the alarm time set screen with the radial menus, the listed alarms and times go below the viewing area so that to save and finish the alarm you need be careful not to mess up your alarm settings while doing so which I did a couple of times on accident.

Also, on the radial menus you can set any time by five minutes, but how do you set them to any number in between? For example I want to set an alarm for 7:33 in the morning, so I tried messing with the smallest inner circle bar and could barely ever get it to move when I wanted it to and ended up going to another interval five minutes later.

Overall really impressed over the improvements from the default alarm. Will try tomorrow in a real sleep and then wake up setting to see if everything is still good.

APrinceAmongMen · Mar 8, 2012

tebuddy said:
Looks cool, will also test tonight.

Edit:

Downloaded, installed without a problem. Ran a test alarm. Initially very impressed with the app design and modern style. The wake up voice addressing you by name and telling you the weather and opening Cnet was awesome. The swipe to snooze feature works for the most part. In the morning in a groggy state I don't see it working well enough to be as convenient as a quick mindless swipe, you would actually have to make sure to slowly go directly over the sensor for it to trigger properly. However I need to actually sleep and then try it before I make any real comments.

The only negative things were that on my mdpi HTC Aria on cm 7.2.0 the first pane of the tutorial goes below the viewing area and you cant swipe down to see it and cant go landscape. Also that on the alarm time set screen with the radial menus, the listed alarms and times go below the viewing area so that to save and finish the alarm you need be careful not to mess up your alarm settings while doing so which I did a couple of times on accident.

Also, on the radial menus you can set any time by five minutes, but how do you set them to any number in between? For example I want to set an alarm for 7:33 in the morning, so I tried messing with the smallest inner circle bar and could barely ever get it to move when I wanted it to and ended up going to another interval five minutes later.

Overall really impressed over the improvements from the default alarm. Will try tomorrow in a real sleep and then wake up setting to see if everything is still good.

Wow! I appreciate the feedback already. I can see the issues are mainly stemming from our weak accommodation of mdpi devices. We'll get that sorted out asap.

If you had been able to read the clock screen on the tutorial, it would have told you tapping more than once on a 5 minute wedge adds a minute. It's interesting that you tried interacting with the minute wedges themselves. We'll look into adding support for that, since it seems to be a (more?) natural interaction.

Thanks a bunch for your input so far! I look forward to seeing how it works for you in the morning!

bryanchapman9999 · Mar 8, 2012

Looks nice. Downloading and installing now.

Will let you know in the morning!

APrinceAmongMen · Mar 8, 2012

bryanchapman9999 said:
Looks nice. Downloading and installing now.

Will let you know in the morning!

I suggest you test it out real quick now, if you have something important to wake up for in the morning. Just in case.

xriderx66 · Mar 8, 2012

Love the app so far.
Just did a quick test to see if it works, and it does.
It did have a problem loading my Calendar, it just said Loading...
The waving thing worked

Some suggestions:
I really like how to overall UI looks, when you start the app it shows ALARMS in a organized manner and thats really good, but when the alarm actually rings, I think you should change the sign from the sun to something else, or that in HD because it showed up really LOW res on my phone.
Also Make the MENU button options icons like NEW ALARM, SETTINGS etc. a better suited color. Green,red, etc does not look good on this simplistic white/blue UI.

Another problem; When selecting what time the alarm should be go off on, we cannot choose by exact minutes, or am i doing something wrong? You should probably add the feature to just press the [TIME] and keyboard pops up and then you can customize the time.

Also how does the voice work? I'm going to sleep right now, and do not want a weird voice talking to me and freaking me out in the morning so i've turned it off for now, but i'll report on it later.

edit: also you should probably add a alarm clock icon to the notification bar and make it optional to remove/keep it so people know if the alarm is active or not.

ysuleman · Mar 8, 2012

Here we go. I love it. The UI is awesome and simple. Everything works. You guys should try and add voice command!

Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA

APrinceAmongMen · Mar 8, 2012

Thanks for the great feedback!

xriderx66 said:
Love the app so far.
Just did a quick test to see if it works, and it does.
It did have a problem loading my Calendar, it just said Loading...
The waving thing worked

The calendar will be fixed!
Glad to hear everything else worked out

Some suggestions:
I really like how to overall UI looks, when you start the app it shows ALARMS in a organized manner and thats really good, but when the alarm actually rings, I think you should change the sign from the sun to something else, or that in HD because it showed up really LOW res on my phone.

It's time for some new weather icons!

Also Make the MENU button options icons like NEW ALARM, SETTINGS etc. a better suited color. Green,red, etc does not look good on this simplistic white/blue UI.

New menu icons too? Sweet.

Another problem; When selecting what time the alarm should be go off on, we cannot choose by exact minutes, or am i doing something wrong? You should probably add the feature to just press the [TIME] and keyboard pops up and then you can customize the time.

You can set exact minutes by tapping on the currently highlighted 5 minute wedge. Each tap adds a minute to the wedge.
This is obviously an issue though. We failed to deliver a sensible minute setting method.
New minute method on clock, coming right up!.

Also how does the voice work? I'm going to sleep right now, and do not want a weird voice talking to me and freaking me out in the morning so i've turned it off for now, but i'll report on it later.

We understand that the stock android voice is terrible, so we made the voice interaction as low key as possible. We think it turned out really nice and unobtrusive. You should try it out!

edit: also you should probably add a alarm clock icon to the notification bar and make it optional to remove/keep it so people know if the alarm is active or not.

Notification bar and option, I'm in!

ysuleman said:
Here we go. I love it. The UI is awesome and simple. Everything works. You guys should try and add voice command!

Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA

It's great to hear you like it!
Voice command sounds great! We'll definitely be adding that!

ysuleman · Mar 8, 2012

APrinceAmongMen said:
Thanks for the great feedback!

The calendar will be fixed!
Glad to hear everything else worked out

It's time for some new weather icons!

New menu icons too? Sweet.

You can set exact minutes by tapping on the currently highlighted 5 minute wedge. Each tap adds a minute to the wedge.
This is obviously an issue though. We failed to deliver a sensible minute setting method.
New minute method on clock, coming right up!.

We understand that the stock android voice is terrible, so we made the voice interaction as low key as possible. We think it turned out really nice and unobtrusive. You should try it out!

Notification bar and option, I'm in!

It's great to hear you like it!
Voice command sounds great! We'll definitely be adding that!

Hey guys there is a notification saying that alarm is set... The alarm clock logo on the right side of the nitification bar.
from my SGH-T989 using XDA

APrinceAmongMen · Mar 8, 2012

ysuleman said:
Hey guys there is a notification saying that alarm is set... The alarm clock logo on the right side of the nitification bar.
from my SGH-T989 using XDA

I think they were asking for a notification in the notification bar that says when the next alarm is going to ring with the option to enable or disable it in the settings. Would you like to see that feature included as well?

Btw, thanks again for all the help everyone. It's invaluable and we really appreciate it!

ysuleman · Mar 8, 2012

APrinceAmongMen said:
I think they were asking for a notification in the notification bar that says when the next alarm is going to ring with the option to enable or disable it in the settings. Would you like to see that feature included as well?

Btw, thanks again for all the help everyone. It's invaluable and we really appreciate it!

I have a better idea! You can have a setting to enable or disable if you want to see it on notifications. Get it?

Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA

Aganar · Mar 8, 2012

I've downloaded and installed it. I'll let you know how well it works tomorrow morning.

Honestly, there are too many good clock/alarm apps out there. I have Dock Clock for when my phone is charging at work in the morning, Alarm Clock Plus for work after noon (I like to listen to music at my desk and ACP has an awesome option to include widgets on the Dock Clock, meaning I can have google music controls while still displaying the clock), and some combination of those and stock alarms for waking me up in the morning. Now I get to add this to the mix as well!

PrimeDeluxe · Mar 8, 2012

Great App.
Very clean and easy to use.
Will there be a 24 hours clock?

Created with Galaxy S AOKP

pieru · Mar 8, 2012

Nice app indeed, i really like the whole concept of making available the infos you need in the morning all at once.
I had some problem though:
-the ringtone the alarm uses is not the one I choose but the stock one
-except for the first time I used it, it force closes when snoozing and doesn't show any of the feed selected

Probably the FC i due to the fact that I run a custom rom. I will test a little more thoroughly, may be I find out what's the problem.

APrinceAmongMen · Mar 8, 2012

PrimeDeluxe said:
Great App.
Very clean and easy to use.
Will there be a 24 hours clock?

Created with Galaxy S AOKP

There are no plans for adding a 24 hour clock. We'll run a poll to see if there is enough interest. We have plans for a possible overhaul of the clock. Adding a 24 hour option would be really easy if we went with the plans for the new clock. I'll keep you posted.

pieru said:
Nice app indeed, i really like the whole concept of making available the infos you need in the morning all at once.
I had some problem though:
-the ringtone the alarm uses is not the one I choose but the stock one
-except for the first time I used it, it force closes when snoozing and doesn't show any of the feed selected

Probably the FC i due to the fact that I run a custom rom. I will test a little more thoroughly, may be I find out what's the problem.

I got your BugSense reports. We haven't tested ICS at all, so we'll go and add support for that asap. Thanks for that catch.

xriderx66 · Mar 9, 2012

Hey man, I want to thank you for this app, and not just that but i love how you're taking in all the suggestions. Great developer. Will be using this app for a while. thanks

jdiddy_ub · Mar 9, 2012

this app is awesome...however is there a setting to make it so i have to press a button to disable the alarm...i think simply moving the phone is wayyy to sensitive...in a half-sleep state i feel like i could easy touch my phone and fall back a sleep...especially if im trying to "wave" and enable snooze

xriderx66 · Mar 9, 2012

jdiddy_ub said:
this app is awesome...however is there a setting to make it so i have to press a button to disable the alarm...i think simply moving the phone is wayyy to sensitive...in a half-sleep state i feel like i could easy touch my phone and fall back a sleep...especially if im trying to "wave" and enable snooze

Can't confirm it right now, don't have my phone, but there is a option to disable the waving feature but im not sure how you would snooze after that..

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