My first Android application
28 Oct
My colleague at Web Ascender, Jeff McWherter, suggested an idea for an Android application one day. The concept was a caller id service that would retrieve information for unknown numbers when the phone rang. The next day I had a proof of concept and since then I have developed the app into a working version. The application uses the WhitePages API, and was effectively bought by them. Here’s a video.
Update:
Here are reviews and sightings of the app from around the interwebs:
- Lifehacker: Best Android Apps To Boost Your Mobile Productivity (So Far)
- Techcrunch/Mobile Crunch: Android Speed Reviews
- Gizmodo: Caller ID For Android…
- Phandroid: Advanced Caller ID with WhitePages Application
- Washington Post/Moco News: Android Market Opens To Developers…
- IBlast: WhitePages Caller ID for Android
- Mobile Phone Reviews: Android market gets Caller ID from WhitePages application: Video
- Android-Portal: Caller ID application for Android phones released by WhitePages
- Cup Of Blog: Caller ID by WhitePages for Google Android Phones
- Gadgetophilia: Google Android is equipped with An Advanced Caller ID Feature -- Thanks To Whitepages
Hey this is a great app! Works perfectly!
I’ve heard it doesn’t give you people’s cell number but have not had the opportunity to try that out.
I did have a question – is there a way to just turn it on and leave it on? So that when you turn off your phone you don’t have to turn it on again?
You can’t really do a reverse lookup on somebody’s cellphone number. That information is generally not published. It will only get the location of the cell caller.
Starting the app when you power on is not implemented yet. I didn’t think it would be urgent for this release as most people don’t turn their phone off much. Most people just plug it in at night.
Thanks for the good feedback though!
i am soooo loving this program but i wish you didnt have to turn it on and off so much. when i first downloaded it, it showed the persons name only, never has shown an address/location. now it only shows whether the number is a cell phone or a landline….any idea why? evidently i did something right when i downloaded it, but i cant figure how to get the names to show up again…..love the program
Nice application, very useful. Though I have suggestion/request.
How about adding talking caller ID using Text-To-Speech library from Android market. (http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/wiki/TTSLibraryExplanation) It would be great if your app would scan Phone Contacts and use the name to announce caller name.
Anyway thanks Caller Id.
Someone already did a talking caller id app – works great for me.
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.ideal.talkingcallerid
Note: You have to buy SMSpeaker too, but I had bought that app and then it came up with a note saying that I had a “free gift” – that turned out to be the talking caller ID. So I basically got 2 apps for the price of one – best $0.99 I ever spent.