cabbage for android

Bluefoam

Just discovered cabbage for android in the market, great app. I didn't realise we were getting it so soon. Fair play to the developer - I know he's on here occasionally.

BTW its an app that let's you use your free network texts on your phone; desktop etc...

Gumbo

Bluefoam wrote: »

Just discovered cabbage for android in the market, great app. I didn't realise we were getting it so soon. Fair play to the developer - I know he's on here occasionally.

BTW its an app that let's you use your free network texts on your phone; desktop etc...

got a link to it?
this app will make my change to Android so much easier

Bluefoam

Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=p...ndroid.cabbage

Brian

It appears as Cabbage Lite on my Market. By the way, it wasn't done by Sam Vimes - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055805765

Sam Vimes

Baza210 wrote: »

It appears as Cabbage Lite on my Market. By the way, it wasn't done by Sam Vimes - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055805765

No it wasn't

It was done by a friend of mine and uses my texting scripts in the background but the android is all his

Brian

And it works well, must commend your friend on his porting skills

Sam Vimes

Baza210 wrote: »

And it works well, must commend your friend on his porting skills

It wasn't even porting, he wrote it himself from scratch. It's just the http request that's the same. So you can commend him for that

MiCr0

Sam was it any one i know?

godtabh

just installed it. Seems like it works well

chillin_penguin

Been using it the last few days and am delighted with it very useful

estreetb

has anyone used it and can they say if it works .

reason i ask is that im goin to buy new ph and considering a tattoo but had ruled it out after talking to Sam cos it doesnt support his cabbage progam

Spud83

Works on the Hero anyway. Great little app.

hal9000

works on n1 no prob, great little application :pac:

cpu.dude

Excellent, I though Jelly SMS was what I had to use from now on but I found it slow and it always signatured the sent texts, this is perfect.

BTW, on a G1 - Android 1.6 (Cyanogen). Thanks!

breeno

Brilliant little app. Using it on my hero(running Vanillian 2.1 rom) and worked perfectly. Tested it with my friends phone beside me and they received the text in less than 10 seconds after hitting the send button, very impressed

Mr E

Works great.... nice job by your friend, Sam.

A couple of issues he might look at for the next version:

1. I have my numbers stored as +353 (87) 1234567. If I select a number from my list (with this format), it says that "Info: Looks like you have no credit remaining....". If I put it in as 0871234567 it works fine.

2. On the contact lookup, it is showing all contacts (thousands of them from my years using gmail, and only 150 of them have phone numbers). Any way to automatically filter the list to show those with numbers only?

Sam Vimes

Mr E wrote: »

1. I have my numbers stored as +353 (87) 1234567. If I select a number from my list (with this format), it says that "Info: Looks like you have no credit remaining....". If I put it in as 0871234567 it works fine.

I'll have to tell him to change that error. That's the equivalent of the "unexpected response format" error you'd get on Cabbage. It means that the vodafone website didn't gives the expected page and I think I know why this is happening, he needs to url encode the phone numbers. I'll let him know, or just point him to this thread

Mr E wrote: »

2. On the contact lookup, it is showing all contacts (thousands of them from my years using gmail, and only 150 of them have phone numbers). Any way to automatically filter the list to show those with numbers only?

That's one for him again

MiCr0 wrote: »

Sam was it any one i know?

Yes it was. I think you can guess who from his username ryderster

Mr E

It was updated today, but my bugs weren't fixed.
On the plus side, the error message is better.

JohnK

Only partially works on the Nexus One for me. I can send a text if i manually type in the phone number but trying to choose a contact doesnt populate the field with a name or number. Also, some contacts appear multiple times in the list even though they're really only there once.

Mr E

Its a bit annoying that it puts the error in the text entry box too (so if you typed a long message and there is an error, you lose it).

Sam Vimes

I'm just going to tell him to subscribe to this thread

i warned him this would happen

flugel

I've been using the web based version of cabbage on the hero for the last while. The best thing about it is that you can add to your own little phone book your most contacted people, cause i'd only regurlarly text about 10/15 people on my phone.

If there could be a button to bring up your most contacted people, even if they were only ten spaces i think this program would be perfect, save having to search through the whole phone book every time trying to send a message.

Purely for this reason i'm sticking to the web based version. Still great program tho!

EPM

Great app. So handy that I dont really need to carry an Irish and UK phone with me!

ryderster

ill try fix your issues this weekend,

- the error message removing your message will be fixed tomorrow.
- the contact list issue, currently i am reading in all the contact stored on your phone, ill create a list to read only ones available with phones numbers tomorrow too

- and ill try pick up frequently send sms numbers if i can otherwise i may use frequent called numbers??
- if you want anything fixed i am available on gtalk @ ryderster@gmail.com or on mail.

regards,
ryderster

Mr E

Android has its own filter for phone contacts. Can that be used? I have thousands of contacts on my phone, but the Contacts/People screen only shows ones with phone numbers...

ryderster

yes ur right, but as far as i can see you have filter it for numbers; this is done by creating a object which stores names with numbers. well that was the way before they introduced the new sdk update anyway.

ill have a good look into it the weekend, but it should be quite straight forward.
regards,
ryderster

flugel

ryderster wrote: »

- and ill try pick up frequently send sms numbers if i can otherwise i may use frequent called numers?

Something like that'd be sweet. If you can't pick out that info I'd suggest even manually inputting numbers to the program (if even possible) for people you text the most. I'd just find it easier to scroll through the ten or so people I text rather than having to look through all my contacts.

Tis great that your looking for feed back btw, keep up the good work

cpu.dude

@ Ryderster - thank you for the application. A few requests please.

- Automatic clearing of the Text Message field when you tap it (instead of pressing clear).
- Auto Capitalisation of a new sentence and automatic grammar like Android has (e.g ill to I'll / dont to don't / recieve to receive)
- Outbox, Sent, Drafts and History option.
- Ability to send past the 160 character limit (like in all the other Cabbage versions).

Other than that, it works brilliantly, simple and effective.

Sam Vimes

cpu.dude wrote: »

- Ability to send past the 160 character limit (like in all the other Cabbage versions).

There should be no need to limit it to 160 characters, the scripts on my server support long messages.

cpu.dude

Sam Vimes wrote: »

There should be no need to limit it to 160 characters, the scripts on my server support long messages.

Exactly, the app itself only allows 160 (double checked there, typing 160 characters takes its toll when it's not by means of a normal text message)

ryderster

Okay,

sam, i should really sit down with you, next week and see is there anything else i need to know about your service

Right its only a setting on text box which is set to 160 characters... is there any max limit???

Regarding the other requests:

- Automatic clearing of the Text Message field when you tap it (instead of pressing clear).
-->not sure about this one, could be a little dangerous... but could put it in a settings file possible.

- Auto Capitalisation of a new sentence and automatic grammar like Android has (e.g ill to I'll / dont to don't / recieve to receive)
-->Yes this is something ill do, its only a text field parameters as far as I know.

- Outbox, Sent, Drafts and History option.
--> Okay, yes I'll do this but involves a little bit of work, so will put it on the list.

- Ability to send past the 160 character limit (like in all the other Cabbage versions).
--> Text field parameters, wasnt aware that sam vines server could handle over 160 characters, its my over sight, sorry.

regards,
ryderster

Sam Vimes

ryderster wrote: »

Right its only a setting on text box which is set to 160 characters... is there any max limit???

No, you can send as much as you want and the server chops it up into 160 character chunks (or 1000 characters for O2)

ryderster wrote: »

Regarding the other requests:

- Automatic clearing of the Text Message field when you tap it (instead of pressing clear).
-->not sure about this one, could be a little dangerous... but could put it in a settings file possible.

Only have it clear if it has specific text in the message box

Tipperarymike

and cabbage is the first one I have downloaded. This nexus one really is a tidy piece of tech.

However let me just say how fantastic this cabbage app is. My gratitude to the lads who created it and fair play on your skills. Is there somewhere to donate a few quid to whoever did this work. Doesnt seem right that it is free. I know apps aint really expensive anyway but all the same...

tallus

Hi Lads,

Just tried to download cabbage for Android and the link appears to be dead...

Any takers ?

Sam Vimes

You should be able to get it on the android market. If you can't find it I can get you a link when I get home

tallus

Sam Vimes wrote: »

You should be able to get it on the android market. If you can't find it I can get you a link when I get home

Cheers Sam Vimes, I logged onto the market and downloaded it earlier. It's my first day using Android so still finding my way around it.

Kudos! it's a great bit of software!

Sam Vimes

tallus wrote: »

Cheers Sam Vimes, I logged onto the market and downloaded it earlier. It's my first day using Android so still finding my way around it.

Kudos! it's a great bit of software!

I didn't write it, rydster did

It uses my scripts in the background though

Ludo

Any chance of making this available for the tattoo? It doesn't appear on my Market. I assume it is not set to support QVGA.

Sam Vimes

You can download it here: http://78.153.209.186/cabbage/Cabbage.apk

Let me know if it works on the tattoo would you?

Ludo

Thanks...Seems to work fine on the tattoo. Nice job.

ryderster

Hi guys,
Just fixed a few of the bugs.
Can any one test this on android 1.5 or 1.6 or 2.0..

The fix for the filtering the address book to only use the phone number contacts MAY only work on android 2.1 and would like to confirm it works before putting it up on the market place.

bugs fixed:

- Auto Capitalisation of a new sentence and automatic grammar like Android has (e.g ill to I'll / dont to don't / recieve to receive)


- Ability to send past the 160 character limit (like in all the other Cabbage versions).

- Error message removing sms message text


it can be downloaded for test from:
http://78.153.209.186/cabbage/CabbageV1_08.apk



ryderster

Sam Vimes

The link's not working for me

Mr E

If you remove the filename from the URL, you can see there is a file called Cabbage.apk (http://78.153.209.186/cabbage/Cabbage.apk). The datestamp is last Friday though....

ryderster

Sorry that link should work now, file permission issue.
Sorry

Mr E

"The application Cabbage (process com.cabbagetexter.android.cabbage) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. (force close)"

Tried uninstalling the older version first.
Any ideas?

h57xiucj2z946q

Mr E wrote: »

"The application Cabbage (process com.cabbagetexter.android.cabbage) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. (force close)"

Tried uninstalling the older version first.
Any ideas?

If you have adb installed, try repeat what you did with the phone plugged in via usb and collect logs. This just like an exception you get in Java, you won't know what it is until you see some error or stack trace.

ryderster

was this on installing it?

what version of android is your device running?

h57xiucj2z946q

Also are you rotating the phone to change layout to landscape/portait while its doing something? e.g A ProcessDialog can cause a force close here if instance states aren't handled correctly.

Andrew76

Wouldn't update for me but once I un-installed the existing version it then installed ok.

Hey ryderster - thanks for the excellent app. Question for you, one of my contacts has two mobile numbers 085 and 087 and when I select him it always chooses the 087 number - is there a way to select the 085? Cheers.

ryderster

Hi Andrew,
Just wondering if what version of android your running,
1.5, 1.6,2.0 or 2.1
this can be found in settings, about phone and then model number and firmware version


regarding the 085 number, ill add it on my list of bugs and get around to it as soon as i can, problz be the weekend before i get a chance to look at it doh...


hope thats okay.

regards,
ryderster

Andrew76

Hi there,

Sorry I left out that info! I'm using the Nexus One, firmware 2.1 update1. Ah no worries there's no rush at all. Previous to this version when I selected this contact neither of his numbers would appear so it's defo an improvement for me.

Andrew.