Comments on: 2009 Android Wish List

By: OrenT

OrenT — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:09:39 +0000

Contacts. Calendar. Memo. To Do. These are the four basic apps the Palm Pilot had dedicated keys for about 13 years ago when it launched. Android does just two of them. Sure, they synchronize very nicely but that’s just two our of four.

To Do list and Memos. Memos should have two-way synchronization with Google Documents and To Do should probably sync with the Tasks feature of Gmail.

By: Mark Armendariz

Mark Armendariz — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:34:44 +0000

I’ve one major gripe. Not exactly a bug, but rather a lack of a feature.

Contacts that have a company name but no First Name or Last Name are listed in the contact list as a phone number. And you can’t even Search for them!! So at the top of my contacts listing, I have a list of about 25 phone numbers which are completely useless to me.

They’re nothing special, but definitely useful on a daily basis – local fast food delivery places, support numbers for my hosting company and isp, etc. They shouldn’t require a first name / last name. To top it off, they show up correctly on GMail, so why not on the application based on the GMail contacts api?

I’d also like the ability to better control incoming and outgoing calls (via code).

Ad-hoc wifi would also be nice, so we can tinker with the possibility of a massive mesh network.

And definitely multi-touch, better battery life and flash.

By: Mystech

Mystech — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:47:56 +0000

- REAL 3G Tethering (bonus for wireless tethering option)
- On Device screen capture (that doesn’t require root)
- Theme/Skin ability
- Widgets (starting with that Clock, grin)
- Support for non-image file attachments in Gmail app
- Video recording
- Better support for Google Docs
- Better support for Google Reader

By: Chi-Ngai Wan

Chi-Ngai Wan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:23:32 +0000

“More standard actions and reusable activities. For example, make it easy to select pictures from the filesystem, crop photos, etc. These pieces are all there, but not always included as public APIs.”

There is a project called OpenIntents, which tried to collect as much useful intents as we could find:
http://code.google.com/p/openintents/

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:18:00 +0000

You forgot to mention releasing Android compatible FLASH which was already demoed by Adobe back in November to work on the G1.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/