Yo hello guys. I have a very good idea on how to make apple's 3d touch come to life on any android phone with just software. They way it should work is to see the point of touch in the screen. When you press harder , the point is getting bigger. So the program should detect if the point is getting bigger so it will give the 3d touch menu. All this sound great to me , but unfortunately I am not a developer yet. I hope a developer can make this happen . If you know any , give them this link
Hmmm. To get it working system-wide would probably require changing some low-level View hierarchy code that I don't like to think about... But to add such a thing to your own app? I think even I could whip up a demo. The next problem would be in getting accurate readings from the pressure sensor.
3D Touch is only supported on the newer Apple devices because they already have the necessary hardware in place. Older iPhones aren't getting it officially (even though there's at least one Jailbreak tweak for that under development). I'm not sure all phones even have a pressure sensor, let alone one that works well. For now, I think I'd rather stick to long-clicks.
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I have been dual booting my Kaiser as of the last couple weeks, and have fallen in love with Android. When it works, which it does about 90% of the time, it is 100x better than WM. All I find myself longing for is the stabilty of an actual Android specific phone.
I have a couple questions for those of you that have experience with the Hero, as well the G1...
Hero questions (And please forgive me if search would answer some of these, my google search didn't net any direct comparisons of the Hero and G1 in a true personal use sense, just passing in reviews, and I didn't find much on XDA other than hardware comparisons):
1. How well does the onscreen keyboard work? Are there apps out there that give a bigger better keyboard, or is the pre-installed already as good as it gets? I do a decent amount of typing, from couple paragraph work emails to IM with the lady.
2. How would you rate the screen image quality in person? I am not a snob when it comes to 'spec' numbers, what I care about is how it actually looks, ie clear and crisp.
3. How is the video playback?
If you have owned/ used a G1, could you compare the Hero directly with the G1 as well.
Basically, I am trying to decide between the two, or possibly the Samsung Galaxy. I do like a physical keyboard, so i have been leaning towards the G1 because of that, but the spec sheets on the Hero are far superior. So if the onscreen keyboard flies well, I will likely take that route then.
strange that you totally don't care about/aware of the voice quality of a phone.
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strange that you totally don't care about/aware of the voice quality of a phone.
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Pretty much every review out there already covers call quality, and it isn't at the top of my list, to say the least. I type much more than I actually talk on my phone. The only time I make phone calls is to my dad to let him know I am on my way, and to my manager for imediete approval of an exception for a customer. And I have to use my BB at work (I sell cell phones, and they gave us one for free, but we have to use them at work).
This is mostly a treat for myself, and will be used mainly for web browsing, IM with the lady, video playback, and messing around with android in general.
The on screen keyboard is actually good and its so forgiving , also I think you can install other keyboard from the android market , the screen is ok ( I had an iphone before and the iphone's one is better ) also the samsung has a better screen ( samsung!! ) , the hero is my first android phone so really I can't compare it for you , but I will say go for the better hardware (magic ,hero) so you make sure if there are updates you will get them .
The keyboard is superb! By far the best on screen keyboard I have ever used.
It fixes most typos or mis-presses. very impressive.
The screen quality isn't groundbreaking, but is very nice. Personally I don't need anything better.
The Oleophobic coating (anti fingerprint) on the screen works as advertised.
I barely have the need to wipe the screen. It's actually very cool.
I haven't tried video playback yet, but I heard that it's not that good.
All I can tell you is the Hero plays the Intro video that it comes with perfectly.
All in all a very good/impressive phone.
The user experience is very good.
HTC have earned some extra credit points with me.
Hi all, can anyone explain why there are no multitouch enabled apps for the hero? As far as I know there is only Dolphin browser so if they can do it why no one else?
there are some apps (PicSay), but the need for mt-apps just isnt there atm.
the album and stock browser on hero are also mt capable. there were rumors about google not implementing full multi touch in android because they have kind of an agreement with apple, so apple doesn't sue them. i have no idea whether this is true.
also the mt support is not really multi touch, the driver report the position of the first touch, if you add a second touch the distance between the two points is represented by the diameter of the first touch. that's all, no coordinates for the second touch.
Yeah ^ Apple has some patents on MT now so google arent allowed to put MT in most places but i guess apple loosened the agreement cause more apps have MT now.
In addition to what kendong2 said, the "multitouch" we currently have is not based in the Android OS. It's added in by HTC. (Although, this is the first time I've heard about non-HTC apps having multitouch, like PicSay.)
To tack onto the rumours about Google keeping MT out of Android to appease Apple, it *should* be easy to re-enable it on rooted phones, since this Apple/Google agreement only applies in certain countries.
In response to the original question, you probably won't see many MT apps until MT is officially part of Android, but who knows when that'll be.
Hello, this is mt first post here because i'm going made about this decision:
I've Seen an Atrix and want to buy it..
But i Have 2 Devices, 1 Apple Ipod Touch 4 and a ZTE Racer (Very cheap cellphone with android 2.1, horrible touchscreen...) I Would Be Fine with Ipod touch if it id support SIM Cards so i could use a Cellphone internet Connection like 3G, but it doesnt, in other hand, my Phone does support it, but it has so many down sides, that im using him ONLY to make calls and to be the "mobile router" to allow my Ipod to use His internet... yeah its complicated, and i want to only use 1 Phone. Because i like to PLAY 3D Games, Like Modern Combat, Nova, Order & Chaos etc.. I was going to buy the atrix but i've seen reviews about a touchscreen bug that stops responding about 10~20 secs (i dont know if this was fixed in the latest update) and something about games not (yet) being compatible with him (like Order & Chaos). I Dont Really like Apple "not allowing almost nothing" and im a bit of power user/Hacker, so i do know about hardware, operating systems and all.. but staying with ipod seems to be more "safe" to be sure that it will run the games that will yet come.. please your opinion would be helpful about: How Much this phone will do until its trash?, the games will be ported or no chance? the finger prob will be fixed?
Im Looking into the future and i see android getting over apple quickly so i want to stick to the "best" thinking in the future soon.
Sorry if this is not the category
Many thanks
I would say Atrix is the best investment at the moment. It has a very attractive price for a dual core phone. It has an unlocked bootloader and vanilla android / CM7 on the way.
In terms of hardware Atrix is also very future proof. If I were you I'd get the Atrix.
p.s. I haven't noticed the touch screen bug though I played pretty much all of the tegra 2 games.
Ideally, I would like to be able to broadcast any display (if we're dreaming, any section of any display) to any other display.
I can do that fairly well from Apple's iOS or MacOSX to an AppleTV. But, I can't go iOS to MacOSx and vice versa. I can't go from any mac device to pc. Pc to PC might be possible, but it's clunky. Android to PC - I dont know of a way. Same vice versa. I know I can use iTunes on my pc and Remote on either Android or Apple to turn it on and off and that seems to be an excellent way to manage your music system especially with iTunes Match and AppleTV.
But, if you want to teach it's hard to do that if people have to look over your shoulder. I would like to buy a couple devices, like two Nexus 7's, and be able to grab any information / control my pcs with it, kind of as a repository or to do any difficult processes with either device as well as being able to get either device send stuff back and forth.
It doesn't need to be complicated, either. Apple pretty well has the right idea. Pull (or up) a control menu of some kind, press one button and then choose the destination to start broadcasting your display. When you do that, the other device automatically starts displaying it. Since it's only on your home network we can presume you will only be able to send your displays to devices you are also on the network for. Tunnelling into other networks might be a way to connect multiple homes together...but I digress...
A display is a display. A keyboard is a keyboard. There is no reason, other than $, to build a screen that only works on one computer. Even if one computer runs Android and one runs iOS and one MacOSX and one Windows 7, just like java can have an environment in any of them (iOS?), surely you could build a way for them to send and display whatever is on the screen.
Technically, it should be very possible. There just needs to be the will.
A long time ago they thought one computer in every home would be an achievement. I'm thinking the average person is going to have, or at least have access to, a LOT of screens. It would be nice if you could actually manipulate those things. Toss this movie on one screen, toss that document on that tablet, pass that animation to a desktop screen. Use the cloud computing to keep everything connected. The last thing is processing power...to be able to have a home desktop do all your heavy lifting (ie: rendering crysis 2) and then all your other devices need to be able to do is download fast enough to display at a reasonable fps and the other device capable of sending. That's already possible on Apple. Google is already starting down that road with the Nexus Q. Logmein has already started on the cloud aspect. There are probably lots of little projects that will work for a while then fizzle out in the light of something better.
And typing on a keyboard is still infinitely better than typing on any screen or tiny keypad or weird device. A keyboard that you can specifically point at any device to control it with would be awesome. You'd just need one nice keyboard in your entire house and if you wanted to type onto your Nexus 7 or your iPad or your Nexus Prime or iPhone or Windows 7 pc -- you would just 'point' (not literally) that keyboard at the device you intend. Maybe with those neural attenuators you might be able to use slight muscle movement and maybe with a magnetometer you could also tell which way you were facing and with the location of all objects in the room you would literally just need to look toward something and it would display on a device.
Oh, like if you had something called Google Glass -- you would look at a screen and with a few commands select the screen you want and then whatever it is you want to display. Cloud servers could do the heavy processing and then stream your word processor or whatever software you like onto whatever screen you have. That way you could use Sony Vegas on your big screen tv or your iPad because it would actually be running on a remote server somewhere else and all you would need is to broadcast at a reasonable framerate.
We are literally on the verge of that being widely possible with the average man's bandwidth. Then, it doesn't matter how intensive the application is. All you need is a device that can display that stream and all the ramping up and down of processing power would be done on the servers -- computers specifically designed to be extremely efficient and powerful at central processing or graphical processing, etc.
Ideally, everyone should have their home desktops being these power computer stations. That way you would be responsible for maintaining your own cloud and worst case scenario if anything ever happened youw ould still own your files, and applications, etc. Using public cloud services like Dropbox or iCloud are convenient, but do you really want to completely take all storage and computing power out of your hands and put them into some giant conglomerate that you have no control over?
Yes, it would be more efficient but I think that's kind of like saying the world would be safer if only one army could buy, build or use any weapons. Maybe...but it would also be ripe for oppression.
Balance is the key to life.
Yes, I realize this post kind of went all over the place. Sorry about that. I still think the idea is neat.
There is some progress towards what you are talking off. There is an app in the store that enables your Android device to act as a second monitor for your PC/mac
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idisplay.virtualscreen&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5pZGlzcGxheS52aXJ0dWFsc2NyZWVuIl0.
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There is some progress towards what you are talking off. There is an app in the store that enables your Android device to act as a second monitor for your PC/mac
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idisplay.virtualscreen&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5pZGlzcGxheS52aXJ0dWFsc2NyZWVuIl0.
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That's cool, but shows how far we've yet to go. We'll all be old before this really unfolds. But, there's something fun about looking at the future and seeing what is yet to come before it does. The computer revolution probably will not slow in our lifetime. Maybe not for a thousand years. I don't know of any theoretical way all the computers of star trek couldn't exist and do at least everything it did in the series. Or minority report. Or 1984.
Space travel, on the other hand, is almost always impossible no matter how simple they try to make the concept. Maybe one day, sure, but unlike computer and software advances, I don't think it's as sure of a thing. I think it takes a LOT of energy and there's more empty space and dead worlds than living ones. A living world takes perfect balance. A dead world takes anything else.
It's more likely and almost certain that one day humanity is going to have to face the threat of the androids(ie: the terminator), cyborgs(deus ex), genetically engineered super humans(and you thought doping at the olympics was bad), or some combination of those. It certainly could exist. It wo:laugh:uld require mapping out the human brain and learning so that we can rewire it. We've already unlocked the genetic code. We already use computers to model protein folding and unfolding. We can already induce or suppress regions of the brain with magnetic induction. There's probably a way to communicate directly with the brain directly as a computer like in the matrix. In a hundred years we could have the computing power to unfold an entire brain. An entire human.
Imagine that -- you put in your DNA and the program literally 'grows' you. You see yourself live and die in the program on accelerated speed. Atom for atom, true to life. Virtual you. Every neuron firing, every muscle growing..all those countless atoms making molecules making cells making organs making you, or him, or her, or them... All ran in a virtual environment at accelerated speeds. Hundreds of them born then die to see if they have any problems with their genes. If you have a super computer that can literally simulate a thousand people atom for atom...are you creating life and are you torturing them? Does a computer program feel pain?
And when they do this, they can cut out the code for one protein and replace it with another and see how that changes things. Simulation after simulation -- like with combinatorial chemistry, they could just throw down every permutation and see which one out competes (out lives in this case) the others. You would just throw all kinds of random variations of DNA in the program and grow one person, then ad ifferent one, then a different one...until you finally find the one that works really well. That one looks like the universal soldier -- so you grow it for real. Sequence the DNA, and fertilize an egg with it and then let nature do it's thing.
And if your computer can keep up with this it can also record this data....so it remembers what does what. If you need to improve your arm strength it can start using what it knows to search for genetic code that might improve things. So, instead of guessing random with brute force hoping for the best, you can guess random but select certain choices first because you have a feeling they might offer better results.
It's not like you're going to throw this information away, either. So each successive generation will have a larger library to work through, a greater understanding, and better tools. They can genetically engineer humans to be even stronger, healthier, happier, faster, smarter, and even more obedient and accepting of social groups. It's only limited by what the universe allows...which is pretty unlimited for our scope.
And if one day we write a programming language and build a computer that can interface with people. Real people. So that we can hack a person and program their brain to do anything, be anything...be anyone. What will become of us then? It's not like the lack of will exists -- what do you think billions of dollars are invested into advertising and marketing every year for? And do you think there are control freaks in the world?
It sounds like a silly question today but one day it will be the only question.
If a Djinni appeared and said, "I will grant you unlimited wishes with which to change yourself", who would you become? Who would we all become?
Hey guys. Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but it wouldnt allow me to post in other area as I have fewer than 10 posts. Appologies if it should be in a different area
Anyways. I am a big blackberry fan due to the physical keyboard, and although the new OS is good, im still an android lover when it comes to software
i'm just wondering though, now that their chipset has changed to the snapdragon processor, would this make it any easier to root the device to run a version of android in the future? Or would it be very difficult?
I remember they did it to the HTC device that was on windows 6.5 a while back and the initial process took quite a while, but once some people had android up and running the rest was a breeze
so question is, would anyone else be interested in this? there is a real lack of high-end phones with physical keyboards and this is one of the reasons i bought the Q10. i do however still love android
anyone else interested? post here or let me know how difficult the process would be.
I was thinking the same.
I would immediately buy Android phone with Q10 form factor. I would even try using BB10 because I dont use as many apps on my GNote. Problem is me relying heavily on Google services (drive, music, etc.) and it seems like BB10 lacks native Google apps.
Also I burned myself with Palm (and I have to say Pre 3 was great, definitely on-par with Android phones of its time) and can't be sure Blackberry will be around in six months from now
Same here
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Hey guys. Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but it wouldnt allow me to post in other area as I have fewer than 10 posts. Appologies if it should be in a different area
Anyways. I am a big blackberry fan due to the physical keyboard, and although the new OS is good, im still an android lover when it comes to software
i'm just wondering though, now that their chipset has changed to the snapdragon processor, would this make it any easier to root the device to run a version of android in the future? Or would it be very difficult?
I remember they did it to the HTC device that was on windows 6.5 a while back and the initial process took quite a while, but once some people had android up and running the rest was a breeze
so question is, would anyone else be interested in this? there is a real lack of high-end phones with physical keyboards and this is one of the reasons i bought the Q10. i do however still love android
anyone else interested? post here or let me know how difficult the process would be.
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Same here. I really need a qwerty phone, but LTE Android phones don't have it...
Yes, Please provide a way of rooting q10. I love qwerty phones. But no android phones has qwerty keypad.
You have the priv which is an android, and also you could have a jolla +physical keyboard (sailfish) which it is suppose that can run google services seamless. It is a non sense this lack of physical keyboards... we are going to a very basic scenario. Time ago we has touchkeyb, physical keyb and stylus. Can we call it progress?
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