This is the second app by James and myself. It’s a one-click settings toggler, allowing you to quickly change phone settings like silent mode, wifi on/off, with one press on the desktop.
Most of the credit goes to James on this one – he dived straight into the (shaky!) widget framework released as part of Cupcake, managing to hack something together really quickly. We soon discovered that Google had quietly disabled the interaction with most settings, saying that they were being “abused” by some applications. Surely this is what the whole permissions framework is there for in the first place? If I grant an application permission to change my settings, then I’d expect it to be able to do exactly that! Now, however, the best you can do is link to the settings page, for the user to do it themselves. Still, we felt that the app was useful, as some settings were left “unsecured”, and others it was nice to have an on-screen status.
We’ve had over 3000 downloads to date, which is a pretty big accomplishment for a small app! James and I are both excited to see what’ll happen once Android becomes a more mainstream OS and hence the market gets bigger.
