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pilot51 / voicenotify

Android app that speaks notifications
https://voicenotify.app
Apache License 2.0
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White list #11

Open JunCTionS opened 11 years ago

JunCTionS commented 11 years ago

Opposite of an Ignore filter. If you only want certain messages to be read out loud and not the rest.

pilot51 commented 11 years ago

I like that idea. How do you think it should be done? I'm not coming up with very intuitive ideas to effectively combine flexibility and usability. An invert toggle for each setting would be ideal for flexibility, but UI-wise it can easily become messy. I assume you've noticed that my UI skills are very weak.

As for an app white list, you can select Ignore All in the menu which not only ignores all apps in the list, but also changes the default (for new apps) to ignored, then you pick the ones you want to white list.

JunCTionS commented 11 years ago

Thanks for answering all my requests so fast. And don't worry about your UI skills... at least you've taken the step towards actually developing your apps (I have yet to start that). And even more, thanks for making this app freely available. So right now the UI is basically a settings screen. If you want to keep it that way it's ok, in this case I would suggest making the white list an option within the Ignore Text dialog, that is: if someone wants to ignore everything but bananas, have the possibility to write something like *,-bananas (and place an example like that on the dialog description) Another more robust option is to add some regular expressions functionality to this dialog... I bet some more advanced users might find use for this (and regexp is so flexible that basic users won't even notice).

pilot51 commented 11 years ago

Awesome, I can do that and I like regex. :-)