OpenIntents

We present two new applications: Timesheet lets you track the times you spend on your various jobs. You can specify customer, hourly rate, and task description. You can track your working hours "live" (start, stop, have a break), or adjust manually later. A special feature is that you can see live updates of total duration and costs per customer or for all customers. You can export the timesheet in CSV format that you can import in Excel or OpenOffice Calc.

PocketPlay is an audio player for your pocket. It is designed to be as easy to use as possible, even without looking at the phone (e.g. while in your pocket ). It comes with only three big, friendly buttons while playing so that you can not press a wrong button accidentally. A Playlist Editor and Trackbrowser are included.

These applications are from the same team of developers who created all the great OI applications, but we we wanted to charge for these applications. So they are not open source, and we dropped "OI" from the name to make that clear. We still hope that you like them and we are convinced that they are worth their salt. :-)

Currently only the trial versions are available from the Market. You can buy full version licenses at our new business web site OpenIntents.biz.

We are happy to announce the OI File Manager. It supports easy navigation through your folders on your SD card, and basic functions like rename, move, delete. A nice feature is the "Send" command that allows you to send files as attachements. The great news for developers is that it contains pick intents for files and folders: third party applications can use the OI File Manager to display an "Open file", "Save file", or "Select directory" activity.

The following extensions are now on the Market: OI Voice Notes is an extension for OI Notepad and OI Shopping List and allows to record and play a voice memo attached to a note or shopping list. The second extension is OI Convert CSV that lets you import and export notes or shopping lists to CSV files. Shopping list CSV files can be imported in Excel or Outlook. Notes are compatible to the Palm CSV format. Furthermore, Convert CSV lets you use the OI File Manager to select import or export files.

PS: Since we have seen many confused posts on the Market, let us point out the following: THE EXTENSIONS WILL NOT LAUNCH BY THEMSELVES. The extensions will show up as additional menu entries in OI Notepad and OI Shopping list (either directly, or through the menu / More command). Please help to spread this information in the Market comment section :-)

Our latest application, OI Update, is now in the Market. It keeps version information of all your installed applications in a central place and notifies you of available updates. The main advantage for developers and end users is that not every application has to include their own update routine. This saves a lot of duplicated code, and many applications can drop the INTERNET permission if they only used it for automatic updates.

One of the first applications to make use of OI Update is OI Countdown. The application does what it says. Features include notification with sound and vibration, and you can define an unlimited number of named countdowns that you can launch concurrently. Make perfectly boiled eggs while you take out the pizza of the stove when it just starts to get crispy.

Our latest application, the OpenIntents Notepad has been downloaded from the Android Market over 10,000 times in less than 24 hours. It has already surpassed our other applications, the OI News Reader, the OI Shopping list, and the OI Flashlight. We have seen over 200 comments in the Market, ranging from "I love you" to "where can I donate". Well - we love you, too, and you can donate here (since you asked... :-) ).

But more important is that you like our applications. We constantly try to improve them, so if you have found bugs, have feedback, comments, or suggestions for new features, we'd love to hear about that in our forum.

Have fun with the apps, and remember to check back frequently, as we still have some goodies in our pipeline.

Since Oct 27, 2008, we have the first three OpenIntents application in the Android Market.

The OI News Reader helps you get the latest news to your phone. The OI Shopping list allows you to keep track of your shopping items or create a ToDo list. And the OI Flashlight is a small application that allows you to find your way in the dark by keeping the devices backlight turned on.

Of course, there is also the ADC top 50 winner SplashPlay in the Android Market.

We will upload more applications over time and improve the existing ones thanks to your feedback, so be sure to check back this site frequently!

We are progressing on our public intent registration system and we provide a list of applications.

If you have publicly available applications that define new intents or content URIs, or if your applications use intents provided by other
applications, we would like to have that information in our database. Note that we do not add applications to this list that do not interact with other applications.

Let us know what you think of this so far. We welcome any feedback or suggestions on how to improve this service!

The list of intents should help developers to share and reuse application activities.
If you have an activity in your application you would like to share with other application this is the place to publish it.
In the future, there might be an Android application that suggests one or more published application if an intent could not be resolved.

See the list of intents for publicly defined intents.

The OpenIntents team is back! :-)

Just to give you a quick update of what happened in the meantime: SplashPlay, a collaboration between SplashPlay.mobi and OpenIntents, won the first round of the Android Developer Challenge and became one of 50 finalists. We tried hard to write a great application, but unfortunately we did not quite make it into the top 20. The competition was a very tough one, and we congratulate the top 20 winners.

In the meantime, the new 0.9 SDK has been released, so it was time to also upgrade the OpenIntents code. There have been many changes that we needed to take care of. Most notably, the Sensors class had been completely rewritten. We now fully support the new interface, and we enhanced Android's API Demos that use sensors so that they can connect to the Sensor simulator.

Enjoy the applications! We are happy for feedback or suggestions. Please leave a message in our forum!

Get release 0.9.0 from our download page

The last days before the Android Developer Challenge deadline have been quite stressful. Here we present the final version that we submitted to the ADC.
We put all our efforts into fixing bugs and polishing the documentation.

One notable addition is the inclusion of the wii-mote patch by Dale Thatcher: It allows to control the Sensor simulator and therefore also applications in the Android emulator that use sensors.

We have also added a new activity that can add default locations, newsfeeds, and an mp3 file if you start OpenIntents for the first time. SplashPlay got extended looping functionality.

Get release 0.1.7 from our download page

We are getting closer to the final deadline of the Android Developer Challenge. As such, one of our main tasks was to improve the documentation and include step-by-step instructions for all our intents.

But also code-wise there has been a lot going on under the hood: The alert provider has been improved and interacts nicely with locations. Locations show also the distance to the current location. This made the favorite locations sample obsolete, so we removed it. The content browser is now called tag browser. Among many fixed issues, it lets you define unique tags. The shopping list has new share capabilities using GTalk and comes with three distinct themes.

Get release 0.1.6 from our download page.