SmokeSignals

CS56 Winter 2015 - Independent Android Project

Project Objective

Android app that allows you to automate several tasks that can be triggered by an incoming SMS

Say you forgot your phone, Using someone else's phone you can text yourself:

"//Location" : and the phone will text you back with it's gps coordinates.
"//Contact [name]" : and the phone will text you back with the stored contact info of anyone who fully or partially matches [name].
"//Battery" : and the phone will text you back with it's battery percentage.
"//Calls" : and the phone will text you back the last phone calls it has gotten.
"//Ring" : (WIP) and the phone will start ringing.
"//Help" : Return the list of all possible

Essentially you can come up with tons of different things to automate, so you can use that phone "by proxy" through SMS from some other phone.

Custom Commands: Commands shouldn't be hardcoded. The user should be allowed to change them.
Fix Ringing: It should ring for say 2 minutes and then stop ringing as soon as the user interacts with the phone (hint: you might find Intent android.intent.action.USER_PRESENT usefull)
GUI :Setup a GUI that lets you change commands to custom commands, blacklist, whitelists, turn certain commands on or off.
Whitlist/Blacklist: which phones are allowed to use our service.
//Location: Use Fused location instead of GSM only. Maybe add some timer, so that if it can't find any GSM location it stops after certain time (otherwise it'll drain the battery)
(NEW) //Powersave: Turn off/on Wi-Fi or Mobile Data
(NEW) //Snap: Take a selfie and send media sms with the picture (mobile data has to be enabled)
(NEW) //ScreenSnap: Take a screenshot of what is going on your phone currently and send media sms with the picture
//Battery: Add info regarding if charging/discharging status
//SMS [number] m:[message] : Send an sms to [number] saying [message].