Posts tagged photo support
Android BlackBook – MMS Support Coming Real Soon
Jul 10th
A sorely lacked feature has been MMS photo support. I am happy to report it is relatively close to being released. After this feature is stable, and released, its on to T-Mobile support. Then 2.2 support; I may need to wait for 2.2 on the Incredible, or actually purchase the Nexus 1 with a prepaid T-Mobile sim.
T-Mobile has proven tricky. The incoming telephone number has a 1 in it. I have compensated for this manually, but I want the process to be automatic. As of now BlackBook works with T-Mobile when the T-Mobile option in the main settings is checked. The option allows for a 1 to be stored in the contacts telephone number. For some reason even with the 1 in the contacts telephone number SMS filtering is not working.
SMS delivers a bundle. In the bundle is the message and the senders address(telephone). I have a feeling the senders telephone number does not have a 1 for SMS messages. This means T-Mobile is all over the place. There is definitely a 1 in the incoming telephone number, but most likley not a 1 in the incoming SMS message? Strange, where is the consistency?
If I cannot make T-Mobile detect automated I am going to make the T-Mobile option more obvious. I will also make it so when the option is disable and enabled the telephone numbers of all the contacts are re-adjusted automatically.
Android Blackbook Pro – Full Support & New Features
Jun 30th
Blackbook now supports two themes in the SMS client (Bubbles and Stock). You can toggle the them via the menu option (nice and easy). I fixed a couple of bugs last night, and completely removed the kill pill that is in the BETA version. The pro version will receive all updates from now on. There are many things on my list of todos. Two are from a recent comment on a previous blog post.
1) Photo support
2) Group sms sending
3) SMS auto responder
4) Message linkify (ex. hyperlinks)
5) I want to try send to voicemail using a clever hack to work around lack of such a feature in the sdk (this may prove to be a waste of time)
6) MMS support, which is not high priority because although it is an important feature it is used substantially less than SMS. Also it is remarkably more difficult.
And as always more code cleanup for efficiency.
Please comment if there are features you want me to add to the list of todos.