wDialer, contact search using Dialer for quick contacts search using phonetic transcr

[wwc]

1. search contacts using pinyin, search for the field : last , first and organization
2. waiting for a moment when the first time run
3. using all charactors of a word's pinyin or only the first charactor of the word's pinyin to search
4. default using number keypad , the key in left-down corner will change the keypad to character's keyboard,
the right-down corner key is backspace.
5. do not use chinese word to search when using character keyboard
6. press the Call button to dial the number entered
7. using Hide/Show button in Navigation Bar to hide/show keypad
8. select the row for the contact's detailed information, and you can switch dialing or sending SMS using the Call/SMS
button in navigation bar

download the install package using URL :
http://wwc.wang.googlepages.com/wDialer_02.pxl

[xmenreturn]

Thanks for your contribution, I like this app.
I've found there are some bugs after installing this app:
- If my contact has the telephone number with format +xxxxxxxxx, it does not take the plus when dialing, so dial failed.
- When I press the bottom left button, the keyboard change to qwerty but then can not come back to dial key pad
And your package is still the 0.1 version but not the 0.2 as I expected.

[iphonecake]

great app~~~~

[eternal]

suggestion for the app, instead of having the transparent keyboard, use the phone's default keyboard for dialpad ( the one which appears for adding a number in contacts) and with the alternative of normal qwerty keyboard. by the way, the qwerty keyboard goes away after pressing enter. also make the numners look in alphabetical order as in default contact apps with a-z on side. This would make the app really good. also you need to change the default screen graphic and dialer icon. otherwise it's a cool application

[wwc]

eternal, thanks for your great suggestion, I will make it soon.
xmenreturn, press return key of kwenty keyboard, the keyboard will change back to dialer keypad. thanks

[xmenreturn]

Thanks
Hope it will come soon.

[Nettwerk]

Any Screenshot?

[xmenreturn]

Originally Posted by Nettwerk

Any Screenshot?

Here it is

[aquitaine]

Really nice work - im looking forward to updates on this one.

Would be nice to have an english translation

[tweety2000]

it is exactly what I am looking for, yet still a small step from perfect.
1. as Xmenreturn said, it does not respond to the + in my number, so the call fails if I have a number like +852951......
2. Try the steps as follows: let the keyboard goes to qwerty and press the globe to switch to Chinese input, press return to come back to transparent numberpad and press the bottom left key again. a solid numberpad shows up and it won't change any more. You can call it 'a bug' but normally you won't go that far to be bothered.
3. what does 'button should here' means when I am on the contact page?
4. I still have problems in searching. for example, as I press 94664 in search for a name with XIONG, I can only find 熊, but not 雄. But if I do it in qwerty, I can get both. How come?
5. I like the idea of transparent keyboard, which allows you to see a longer list of matches, except that the letters beneath the numbers as well as on the bottom left & right keys are too light to read.
6. It is great that I can search a contact from a certain company now. Maybe a next version would support search from numbers also?

[wwc]

update 0.5
1. changed keypad to system default number keypad, can input "+#*" now
2. set qwuerty keyboad to default , you can swith qwuerty keyboad and number pad using delete key
3. disable chinese IME because you just need to use first charactor of each word's pinyin , or use full pinyin to search, chinese is never needed
4. you can exit the application from about dialog

[eternal]

Originally Posted by wwc

update 0.5
1. changed keypad to system default number keypad, can input "+#*" now
2. set qwuerty keyboad to default , you can swith qwuerty keyboad and number pad using delete key
3. disable chinese IME because you just need to use first charactor of each word's pinyin , or use full pinyin to search, chinese is never needed
4. you can exit the application from about dialog

Request for the app, make it an option to have the keyboard transparent and also when i open a contact, it shows some chinese text infront of the number so please make that optional too.

[xmenreturn]

wwc, that's great to hear from you again.
The app now runs more smoothly but the problem to call a number with "+" in the contact is still there.
It's not the problem that we can not enter "+" for dialing. The problem is that:
1. I choose the contact detail after searching from the list
2. If the phone number of the contact has "+[contrycode][number]" format, when i choose the number to dial, the final number wDialer use to make call is the number in the format "[contrycode][number]" without "+". That's why the call was failed.
If I choose to SMS the number "+[contrycode][number]", wDialer activate SMS application, but the number in the To field is "//[contrycode][number]"
Could you fix this issue.
I like this app and I want to use it, but every phonenumber in my contact list has "+xxxxxx" format.
And one more request that in the contact detail, there is a button that does not have any action. Could you create action for it or remove it to make the app more professional.
Thanks so much.

[wwc]

xmenreturn,
have fixed the problem, thanks.

[xmenreturn]

wwc,
Thanks so much for your quick reply and fixed version of the wDialer.
May I ask you for some more favours:
- Could you make the Contact detail look like the original one such as the attached image
- Could you translate the chines to english also