[Idea] Lock screen, similar to the Nokia bubbles idea

[garfnodie]

After seeing this post on Gizmodo about Nokia using bubbles on the lock screen to get to different apps on the phone (SMS, Phone, etc), I got to thinking that though would be a great basis on a secure and dynamic lock screen for Android.

Imagine having about five or six bubble floating on your lock screen, each one having a different image or icon inside of it. You have to to tap the bubble in a certain order to unlock your phone. The catch is that the bubbles are moving and never in the same place each time you see your lock screen.

Example: six bubbles with different images (cat, car, house, speaker, android guy, phone), to unlock your phone you have to tap house, android guy, phone and then cat. Since they are always moving, and never start in the same place each time you wake your phone, you never have to worry about some glancing your lock pattern or worry about a smudge pattern on the screen that can be seen. All anyone will see is spots where you've tapped your screen like any other area of the OS.

Dynamic, secure, intuitive, easy to remember, images can be changed to keep it even more dynamic and secure.

 

[redbullcat]

I've been thinking about modding WidgetLocket to make custom lockscreen stuff - I'd love to make a Honeycomb esque unlock screen. I don't know if it's possible though, I'm guessing it would take quite a lot of work if it was. If I can, I might try this as well.

 

[Hollow.Droid]

The problem is that unlike normal lockscreens with passwords/patters is that the unlocking pattern will be different every time. While this keeps prying eyes at bay it could also get on your nerves after a few tries. Imagine waking up bleary eyed and trying to unlock your phone quickly or in the daylight where it may be much harder to distinguish between icons.

I do like the idea though but i'd something closer to the Nokia bubbles idea, something full of eye candy

 

[garfnodie]

As with anything that has some form of built in security lockouts, there is almost always many different levels to choose from. Generally, the more secure, the harder it is to use. It's just an excepted trade off, and it always will be until we're all rocking phones with retinal scanners built into them.

This is just an idea though and some fleshing out would be needed to make it easy to use weather wide awake, or half asleep, weather you have your glasses on or not.

An additional idea is to be able to choose from fancy pretty icons, or just simply make them colored bubbles. The later being easy for bad/blurry vision. The key here is that the icons are alway moving slowly and never start in the same place when the phone wakes and that there is no swiping finger smudge pattern on the screen.

I'm not a dev and really don't have the patience to code, so these could all be pipe dreams and not even possible with Android OS. But it seems to me that if someone is willing to dig deep enough into the code, I'm sure it could be done. Or Google themselves could possibly pick up on this and do it.

 

[sam80180]

please delete it. thanks.

 

[emptyness]

The problem is that unlike normal lockscreens with passwords/patters is that the unlocking pattern will be different every time. While this keeps prying eyes at bay it could also get on your nerves after a few tries. Imagine waking up bleary eyed and trying to unlock your phone quickly or in the daylight where it may be much harder to distinguish between icons.

I do like the idea though but i'd something closer to the Nokia bubbles idea, something full of eye candy

Sorry, wrong thread. Can any body delete this post?