[Announce] Horizontal-Call > Call people in your contact list without HW keyboard, easily and fast.

[eitama]

I am glad to announce my first application for the N900! (Also my 1st C++ App that actually does something!!!)
Horizontal-Call - Donations are welcome

Ruksak - This makes you feel more secure?

Video Review : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfqS-eNJ3lU

Edit13 : New version 0.8-2 is in the extras-devel repository!

• Removed limitation enforcement on English only, we now have QtMobility 1.0.2 downloadable which fixes the unicode problems.
• Added libqtm-contacts 1.0.2 dependency, this should be installable from Application Manager without any problem.
• The package is fully optified.
• Using applications from extras-devel should only be done after educating yourself about extras-devel Pros & Conns.
• Download link for extras-devel : Install
• Download link for .deb package : deb
• Download link for soure : source

How To Install :

• The application is in extras-devel repository.
• Configure the extras-devel repo on your device, and use the application manager to install this application.
  OR
• Download the DEB file from the repository, link is at the top in the Edit details.
• Copy it to your device - Preffered to : /home/user/MyDocs
• Not sure if you need root or not, but it's always good to have! -> Install rootsh
• Open terminal -> Type "sudo gainroot"
• Install libqtm-contacts -> "apt-get install libqtm-contacts"
• Install libqt4-dbus -> "apt-get install libqt4-dbus"
• Install the app -> "dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/hor....deb" (Change name to fit your download)

Bugs to solve :

• Some crashes still occur sometimes and needs some addressing.
• Contact manual refresh crashes the app most of the time.

Description :

• The application loads the contacts into a a list.
• It then displays buttons with letters to reach the 1st char of each contact - This means that if no contacts start with the Letters "G, X and Z" those buttons won't appear, giving more room for the rest of the buttons.
• After 1 press, the buttons are recreated with the 2nd index letter, and so forth.
• The list is constantly filtered on the right, allowing the selection of the contact when found.
• The application will automatically select a contact, if it is the only one that matches the filter, immediately displaying it's phone numbers, allowing one less click!
• The application can work in fullscreen mode or normal mode, to togge between them, hit the "Toggle" button.
• To disable autorotation or set a manual rotation choice, switch to normal mode, and open the application menu by tapping the title.
• The application supports sending sms using 3rd party app called fastSMS by realsportcars

Motivation :

• When the phone is mounted in the car, in landscape mode, there is no simple way of searching for a contact, and dialing it.
• Contacts on the hildon-desktop force you to pre-configure it, and are limited to a number of contacts, according to available space.

Features :

• Written with QtMobility/C++
• Big fonts
• Easy, fast searching.
• Uses Dbus to dial the numbers providing the usual phone interface.
• Autorotation - Landscape / Portrait
• External qss files to allow plenty of customization.
• SMS support via fastSMS

Limitations :

• Due to QtMobility bugs, only English contacts will be displayed at the moment. (Help in this area is appreciated)
• Only "PhoneNumber" contacts will be displayed, this mean, no skype/gtalk contacts at the moment. (Don't know the dbus calls to dial skype calls).
• Loading contacts after the application starts takes about 3 seconds, this is a QtMoblity limitation which I will be able to solve soon by caching the contacts. (Still thinking about how to get around this).

TODOs :

• Solve the limitations (: (Pretty much wait for devel and Qt Mobility 1.0.1)
• Add skype / gmail / msn support - I need help with dbus on this one. Anyone knows how to start a skype call using dbus?
• Integrate with fastSMS (Done!)
• Improve UI

Screenies :





New version is now in the extras-devel repository. - Current version is 0.7-8

Special Thanks To:
MohammadAG, Felipe, wOOt, Venemo (Hope i'm not forgetting anyone) For helping me!

[HtheB]

Nice, keep up the good work pal

[d-iivil]

Suggestion: use a buttons included in theme (there's a scalable button included in every theme)

Bug: phone number & name does not match. I tried to call my co-worker but it showd my dad's number instead and when I tapped the number it actually tried to call my dad. Common thing with my dad & co-worker is that their both name starts with same letter in contact list.

[AlMehdi]

Wonderful! Like new thinking.. is there a way to make custom backgrounds for the buttons?

[Cue]

very cool.

[eitama]

@D-Livil :
Can you tell me what steps you took before that happened?
I don't have that problem on my N900 ):
Can you tell if you have any none ordinary contacts? (Nameless, numbers as 1st digit etc)
Also, I tried using the normal Maemo5 themed buttons, but it has problem when stretched beyond 80 i think, I thad to resort to setStyle.
If you know how to use a scalable maemo5 theme styled QPushButton, I'll be happy to know how (:

@AlMehdi,
I can export the button style into a file, and it can be edited, but 1st i'd like to solve all the other limitations. (i'll add it to TODOs).

Anyway else having the Name not matching the Number bug?

[w00t]

Great work, eitama!

Nice to see you making progress.

[nrajesh]

Seems like a nice app in lieu with contact apps of phones like 5800!

Downloaded from the link you provided but there seems to be a missing dependency with libqtm-contacts. Unable to install if this is not resolved.

Probably I'll lookup in this forum and see if someone has faced a similar pbm but thought of alerting you as well in case you yourself are able to resolve this!

Edit: libqtm-contacts dependency resolved with apt-get install

[nrajesh]

Originally Posted by D-Iivil

Bug: phone number & name does not match. I tried to call my co-worker but it showd my dad's number instead and when I tapped the number it actually tried to call my dad. Common thing with my dad & co-worker is that their both name starts with same letter in contact list.

+1 on this bug. Even I got it. Commonality with contacts was their starting characters were same.

[AlMehdi]

Yeah, that is cool. Was thinking everyone might not like the blue buttons