Does Bettercut do enough to solve this for you? http://betterandroid.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/bettercut-an-improved-version-of-anycut/
On Oct 12, 11:15 pm, Jaser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I'm a little new to Android. I was just using my phone earlier > when I had an idea to make it much easier to use. > > See, I was about to go for a bike ride, and I wanted to turn on my > phone's Stopwatch app to record my time, set my Away Message on my > instant messengers, turn on GPS and Latitude so my friends could see > where I was, record the exercise with Calorie Counter, and maybe even > tweet about it. But that's so much to do when I'm already standing by > my bike, ready to leave. What if a user could set up a shortcut button > on their home screen to do all of this at once? > > When a developer makes their app, they could have a list of available > functions to be accessed. Then the user could go to their home screen > menu and make a new function-combining shortcut, and be presented with > a list of their apps that contain available functions. When activating > the shortcut, notifications or a dialog displays what each app is > doing in the background as a result. Alternatively, there could be a > drop-down menu for the user's "Smart Status," where the user picks > what they're currently doing, and the appropriate functions are > activated. > > There are many possible uses for this. Users could have their Instant > Messenger status set for every little thing, like opening the browser, > playing a game, or composing an email, without having to do any extra > work other than setting it up once. Or users could press a button when > they get to work that changes their ringtone, sets their away message, > and records what time they arrived. If Settings supported it, it would > eliminate the need for the popular widget button apps from CurveFish. > Many apps in the market that simply provide better ways of using built- > in functions wouldn't be necessary if this were implemented. > > How could this be done? I'm not much of a developer, so don't tell me > to get Android's source and do it myself. I'm just putting the idea > out there. Should this feature be requested? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
