I'm teaching myself to make Android apps.
ITT: Suggest terrible ideas for apps and some of them may turn into actual things. I'll also post as I go about how my learnings are doing and am thinking of making Android versions of things like the choose your own adventure wiki as simple starter projects, maybe bundle Discordian reading materials into a single app.
Does anyone about these parts have experience with developing for Android? I'm at the stage where I plug my phone into my computer and make HELLO WURLD appear on the screen. IT'S ALIVE!
I've been building some apps with Icenium ( http://www.icenium.com/ ), which lets you build html/javascript apps for phone/tablets. Basically it just packages up single-page apps and has some built in source control.
As for an app - I'd like to see a thingy that lets you build sort-of-random playlists. Like, you can define a playlist that will always play a specific intro track, and then fork down two paths after that, with the second path having a couple of variations variations on tracks 2 and 4 which can be selected independently.
App that interjects noises like you're being old-school wiretapped into phone calls after you use words or phrases from the NSA watch list.
Random porn app: in slideshow format, you literally will not know what the next image will be. App pulls from straight, gay, fetish, Hentai, and WTF porn sites.
Tag line: "There's a Fap for that."
App that "locks" your phone and displays what looks like a normal passcode screen, but nothing you enter works and the only way to close it is tapping a specific spot on the screen three times.
An app that monitors your typing accuracy, and after a certian set deviation says, "Go home, you're drunk" and shuts itself off.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on July 01, 2013, 04:48:43 PM
An app that monitors your typing accuracy, and after a certian set deviation says, "Go home, you're drunk" and shuts itself off.
Similar, an app that, when you attempt to make a comment on Youtube, says "what the hell were you thinking?" and closes the browser.
An app that limits your ability to connect with facebook to three minutes every hour.
YouTube comments are a great place for apps to explore.
I WILL MAKE AN APP WHICH PROVIDES ACCESS TO YOUTUBE COMMENTS WITHOUT THE DISTRACTING VIDEOS.
If I wasn't already a programmer the android.com app developing tutorial would break me.
The following is given without any definitons except to explain that an intent is used to show the app intends to do something:
QuoteIntent intent = new Intent(this, DisplayMessageActivity.class);
The constructor used here takes two parameters:
A Context as its first parameter (this is used because the Activity class is a subclass of Context)
The Class of the app component to which the system should deliver the Intent (in this case, the activity that should be started)
Also, I can now make apps talk to each other and take text input, which means ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
An app that makes a phone call to you partway through your date for easy running away.
An app that forwards texts from people you can't be fucked talking to, to cleverbot and then texts the person back with the response
An app that screams when you drop the phone.
Quote from: Pæs on July 02, 2013, 09:51:55 AM
YouTube comments are a great place for apps to explore.
I WILL MAKE AN APP WHICH PROVIDES ACCESS TO YOUTUBE COMMENTS WITHOUT THE DISTRACTING VIDEOS.
YES.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 02, 2013, 04:11:44 PM
An app that screams when you drop the phone.
ALSO YES.
An application that replaces whatever shitty hold music you're subjected to with a selection from your phone's music until you're off hold and it magically switches back to the call.
An app that takes a giant shit on the face of whoever designed this shitty autocorrect.
An app that, upon picking up on the audio cues indicating someone just said "There's an app for that." as though they just discovered a wealth of comedic timing and material before unknown to then, as though they were some kind of God damned comedic genius, dumps a metric ton of guano from pods floating in the sky right onto their stupid faces.
Please.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 02, 2013, 04:08:04 PM
An app that forwards texts from people you can't be fucked talking to, to cleverbot and then texts the person back with the response
I love this idea.
For SRSBSNS apps, I wanted to make an app to help local musicians somehow, but my vision included going beyond "just an app." I was thinking it would be a combination of "find musicians to join your weird ass project," "connect with fans," and "flash the app at the door for a discount on cover charges at local venues."
Oooh! An app where you put in the part you play in a band and what your band is looking for, then when you walk around it alerts you if someone nearby is looking for your part/does the thing you need!
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 02, 2013, 07:14:36 PM
Oooh! An app where you put in the part you play in a band and what your band is looking for, then when you walk around it alerts you if someone nearby is looking for your part/does the thing you need!
This is brilliant. You could even do the same thing with a live matchmaking app. Like it alerts you when you're over say 80% compatible with someone nearby.
actually...maybe not.
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:39:51 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 02, 2013, 07:14:36 PM
Oooh! An app where you put in the part you play in a band and what your band is looking for, then when you walk around it alerts you if someone nearby is looking for your part/does the thing you need!
This is brilliant. You could even do the same thing with a live matchmaking app. Like it alerts you when you're over say 80% compatible with someone nearby.
actually...maybe not.
OKC's working on that.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:41:44 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:39:51 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 02, 2013, 07:14:36 PM
Oooh! An app where you put in the part you play in a band and what your band is looking for, then when you walk around it alerts you if someone nearby is looking for your part/does the thing you need!
This is brilliant. You could even do the same thing with a live matchmaking app. Like it alerts you when you're over say 80% compatible with someone nearby.
actually...maybe not.
OKC's working on that.
oh shit...you're NOT serious. :eek:
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:45:05 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:41:44 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:39:51 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 02, 2013, 07:14:36 PM
Oooh! An app where you put in the part you play in a band and what your band is looking for, then when you walk around it alerts you if someone nearby is looking for your part/does the thing you need!
This is brilliant. You could even do the same thing with a live matchmaking app. Like it alerts you when you're over say 80% compatible with someone nearby.
actually...maybe not.
OKC's working on that.
oh shit...you're NOT serious. :eek:
The mobile stuff posts your general location if you let it and when you log it it throws people nearby at you who say they want to hangouts with people and have a reasonable match.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:47:13 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:45:05 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:41:44 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:39:51 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 02, 2013, 07:14:36 PM
Oooh! An app where you put in the part you play in a band and what your band is looking for, then when you walk around it alerts you if someone nearby is looking for your part/does the thing you need!
This is brilliant. You could even do the same thing with a live matchmaking app. Like it alerts you when you're over say 80% compatible with someone nearby.
actually...maybe not.
OKC's working on that.
oh shit...you're NOT serious. :eek:
The mobile stuff posts your general location if you let it and when you log it it throws people nearby at you who say they want to hangouts with people and have a reasonable match.
Craaaazy. It's also kinda dangerous.
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:56:21 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:47:13 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:45:05 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:41:44 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:39:51 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 02, 2013, 07:14:36 PM
Oooh! An app where you put in the part you play in a band and what your band is looking for, then when you walk around it alerts you if someone nearby is looking for your part/does the thing you need!
This is brilliant. You could even do the same thing with a live matchmaking app. Like it alerts you when you're over say 80% compatible with someone nearby.
actually...maybe not.
OKC's working on that.
oh shit...you're NOT serious. :eek:
The mobile stuff posts your general location if you let it and when you log it it throws people nearby at you who say they want to hangouts with people and have a reasonable match.
Craaaazy. It's also kinda dangerous.
So's meeting strangers from the internet?
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:58:13 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:56:21 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:47:13 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:45:05 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:41:44 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:39:51 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 02, 2013, 07:14:36 PM
Oooh! An app where you put in the part you play in a band and what your band is looking for, then when you walk around it alerts you if someone nearby is looking for your part/does the thing you need!
This is brilliant. You could even do the same thing with a live matchmaking app. Like it alerts you when you're over say 80% compatible with someone nearby.
actually...maybe not.
OKC's working on that.
oh shit...you're NOT serious. :eek:
The mobile stuff posts your general location if you let it and when you log it it throws people nearby at you who say they want to hangouts with people and have a reasonable match.
Craaaazy. It's also kinda dangerous.
So's meeting strangers from the internet?
I suppose...the former just adds another layer.
I want an app that blasts "FUCK OFF" at everyone I walk near.
I want ALL THESE APPS. Except the OKC one.
Also an app that sends the equivalent of a nimp link to telemarketers, etc.
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:56:21 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:47:13 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:45:05 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 03, 2013, 03:41:44 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 03, 2013, 03:39:51 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 02, 2013, 07:14:36 PM
Oooh! An app where you put in the part you play in a band and what your band is looking for, then when you walk around it alerts you if someone nearby is looking for your part/does the thing you need!
This is brilliant. You could even do the same thing with a live matchmaking app. Like it alerts you when you're over say 80% compatible with someone nearby.
actually...maybe not.
OKC's working on that.
oh shit...you're NOT serious. :eek:
The mobile stuff posts your general location if you let it and when you log it it throws people nearby at you who say they want to hangouts with people and have a reasonable match.
Craaaazy. It's also kinda dangerous.
Yeah, they also have one that's called "Crazy Blind Date" where you can post that you want to meet up with someone and it will match you with someone and you will meet someplace WITHOUT EVER HAVING SPOKEN OR SEEING EACH OTHER'S PICS, so you can't even tell your best friend "hey, I'm going out with this guy I met on OKC, here's his profile, his name, and his phone #".
So if you end up raped and murdered, there will be NO LEADS AT ALL.
I want to make some kind of GPS drawing tool, allowing you to send pictures you drew on top of maps by exploring the area... but combine it with dérive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive) somehow.
Maybe flag a random location and bring up an alert: OPPORTUNITY FOR AN AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE AT THIS LOCATION, GO GO GO.
Sometimes the authentic experience will be a meeting or being witness to a puppy or something. Other times the authentic experience will be disappointment.
Quote from: Pæs on July 04, 2013, 01:14:46 AM
I want to make some kind of GPS drawing tool, allowing you to send pictures you drew on top of maps by exploring the area... but combine it with dérive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive) somehow.
Maybe flag a random location and bring up an alert: OPPORTUNITY FOR AN AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE AT THIS LOCATION, GO GO GO.
Sometimes the authentic experience will be a meeting or being witness to a puppy or something. Other times the authentic experience will be disappointment.
That's pretty awesome. Although how would one implement what seems to be a spontaneous experience?
an app that will make an "emergency call from a family member or friend" during a bad date so you can extricate yourself quickly.
an app that lists shitty housemates so you can vet them when you are looking for new ones. That would be nice. headings such as violent,. lazy, bigoted (with appropriate sub categories) and the headings of the unpleasantness.
Quote from: Bu☆ns on July 04, 2013, 05:32:30 AM
Quote from: Pæs on July 04, 2013, 01:14:46 AM
I want to make some kind of GPS drawing tool, allowing you to send pictures you drew on top of maps by exploring the area... but combine it with dérive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive) somehow.
Maybe flag a random location and bring up an alert: OPPORTUNITY FOR AN AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE AT THIS LOCATION, GO GO GO.
Sometimes the authentic experience will be a meeting or being witness to a puppy or something. Other times the authentic experience will be disappointment.
That's pretty awesome. Although how would one implement what seems to be a spontaneous experience?
By framing the lack of experience as an experience. "Other times the authentic experience will be disappointment."
Quote from: Pixie on July 04, 2013, 05:43:08 AM
an app that lists shitty housemates so you can vet them when you are looking for new ones. That would be nice. headings such as violent,. lazy, bigoted (with appropriate sub categories) and the headings of the unpleasantness.
I'm stunned that doesn't exist already.
Also, you should check out this site: http://myveryworstroommate.com
Using the light sensor (I think android has those) make a my pet vampire game. Basically its just a cartoon picture of a vampire. If you bring your phone into the light the animation shows it catching on fire and it screams really loud.
Also you can never turn it off.
I was always rather inpired by Cow Clicker. It was meant to be a satirical stab at Zynga games, but then people actually started enjoying and playing it.
http://www.bogost.com/blog/cow_clicker_1.shtml
I'm working on a GPS-based classifieds app, which lets you set the sensitivity for distance you'd like to pick up ads from, say 50km and anyone in that range who has listed something appears on an ugly list of FOR SALE/WANTED TO BUY OR TRADE.
Categories will be decided by the users by something similar to the hashtag system, so suggested tags will be provided but it will be up to users to decide on their preferred tags and which tags ("used cars", "free", "pets") they follow.
Will also look at other uses for location-based text content, such as scavenger hunts or leaving invisible notes in strange locations. Need to investigate low-maintenance moderation or disincentive to spam the service, like a karma system or similar.
EDIT: Initially, I was thinking that the app would never reveal the precise location you listed an ad from but I'm considering whether "share location with interested party" might be a request people can make of your ad. I don't want to make it possible to lure hipsters to secluded locations with the promise of a vintage typewriter only to have them Nigeled.
Quote from: Pæs on July 04, 2013, 01:14:46 AM
I want to make some kind of GPS drawing tool, allowing you to send pictures you drew on top of maps by exploring the area... but combine it with dérive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive) somehow.
Maybe flag a random location and bring up an alert: OPPORTUNITY FOR AN AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE AT THIS LOCATION, GO GO GO.
Sometimes the authentic experience will be a meeting or being witness to a puppy or something. Other times the authentic experience will be disappointment.
I like this a lot
what I'd want - Following the current naming convention I'd call this something like Derivestr
You can upload (or link to) a piece of media - song, image, video, or text.
Wherever you were standing when you posted it -- that asset becomes associated with those GPS coordinates.
Other people can see that asset's location on a map, but not where it is. If they want to view it, they have to walk within 10 meters of that location and hit View.
You could associate a song with a particular place.
You could take a picture of yourself and send it forward in time to somebody standing on the same spot.
You could let people know you were there, or where you'll be. Post a vine of a little moment you wanted to share.
If you wanted to make it into a game, it could be gamified by awarding points for posting or viewing assets. Or maybe each asset could be up/downvoted like reddit, so you could have people competing for the official song of the street.
kind of like a noncompetitive version of Ingress
I like this a lot.
Cram, my friend Nabil recommends contacting these people with your idea: https://geoloqi.com/
One of the co-founder's website (Nabil's friend): http://caseorganic.com/
Hm, I'm not familiar with this. You think I should hit the contact link on this geoloqi site, e-mail them blind, and suggest they should develop that? Or should I e-mail this amber case character directly?
Looking over the websites, you may want to email Amber directly (the geoloqi site seems more geared towards corporate communications). This is a really good idea, and having caught up on your Ingress thread for context I think it has promise.
cool - I mailed her!
An app to gamify everything and win at life. Can take informatioon from all of your other apps and use it to credit you with LIFE POINTS. Want to challenge yourself to get up early? Apply a Gamify penalty to your alarm clock snooze. Go for a ten minute run three times a week? Tell Gamify when you're going and it will provide the framework to verify that you've achieved your goal and reward you with LIFE POINTS.
ALSO: Gamify for kids, like a Gold Star Chart, only controlled by parents through a web interface and accessed by the child through a mobile device.
Rewards once you complete enough chores! Select from a list of things your parent selected OR one of our sponsored reward suggestions!
That's a cool idea! So like, set custom triggers (read:goals) that will award points.
Like, I want to get in shape. So I tell the app to give me a small reward (+1) every time I do sit ups in the morning, a medium reward (+3) every time I go jogging, and a big reward (+5) every time I go to the gym.
When I do one of those things, I flip open the app and log my action, it awards points and eventually badges, etc.
You could save a set of these goals (call it a Quest) and share them with friends. You could invite people to join your quest party, and that quest consists of whatever you choose. The app would display the other people in your party and their level/achievements as well.
Ok, that's actually a pretty fantastic app. Would buy.
That's fucking brilliant!
it would be kind of like a customizable World of Chorecraft (http://www.worldofchorecraft.com/help.php)
Quote from: Cramulus on July 23, 2013, 06:45:22 PM
it would be kind of like a customizable World of Chorecraft (http://www.worldofchorecraft.com/help.php)
Oh, wow.