Thursday, March 21, 2013

[APP; 2.1+] Notify Me! (notifications on the lock screen) v1.7 14.3.13 [GPL]

Notify Me!
v1.7 14.3.2013

Did you ever look at an iOS device as it got a notification? Have you ever noticed that the screen lights up and that the notification can be displayed on the lock screen and thought that you would love to see that happen on your Android™ device?
 It lets you create a list of apps that are allowed to light the screen up and show their notifications on it as a popup in front of your lock screen. You may restrict the creation of the notification popups per app and decide to only show notifications that contain keywords of your choice. Everything that it takes for it to work is its activation as an AccessibilityService.
But enough words are spoken now, here are some screenshots for you:

  • Main screen
  • App's settings
  • Add app screen
  • And an actual notification

If you think that this is what you want to use, grab the latest release here or via the QR-code below - it's free (as in "free beer").

If you want to have a look at the source code, you can do this at Google Code, because this software is also free software (yes, "free" as in "freedom"), released under the GPLv3.

 Changelog:
  • v1:
    Initial release.
  • v1.1:
    If you want to view a notification, you no longer have to unlock the screen manually (unless you have a secure lock screen, of course).
    I removed logcat messages that were forgotten in the last release, including one that could infringe your privacy, so you better update.
  • v1.2:
    Notification popups should be fixed now, they also resemble the actual notifications more.
  • v1.3:
    Added ability to use a slider to interact with the notification popup. This is not completely mature, yet. It is usable and I didn't encounter any bugs, but it doesn't look very good at the moment.
    Lowered minimum SDK version to 7 (runs on Android 2.1 now).
  • v1.4:
    Made slider background customizable (defaults to 0xffffff on Android < 3, 0x181818 otherwise).
    App picker is now sorted alphabetically.
  • v1.5:
    Added ability to control if a notification lights up the display.
    Added ability to default to an expanded view of a notification.
    Squashed some bugs.
  • v1.6:
    Added option for aggressive popups.
    Added custom screen timeout for popups.
    Reduced frequency of app list reloads.
    Merged NotificationActivities (should have fixed bugs).
    Added icon!!! Thanks to XDA Senior Member thesparky007!
  • v1.7
    Increased frequency of checks for a working accessibility service.
    Added localizations for German, Spanish (thanks, XDA Senior Member alejobog), Polish (thanks, XDA Senior Member trurl3) and Chinese (thanks, XDA Junior Member zxc123coke).
    Changed icon, thank you XDA Junior Member taylorcoffelt!

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