TextCloud Beta for Android
I will continue to add new shapes related to holidays and events. Shoot me an email if you have any suggestions.
FAQ:
→Can you pull messages from Facebook Messengers? No [1].
→Can you pull messages from Google Hangouts? Unlikely.
→Can you pull messages from WhatsApp? It's being investigated.
→Can you pull messages from Telegram? It's being worked on.
Planned Features:
→Unicode Integration (Support for special characters).
→Updating stop words for languages other than English.
→Potentially integrating with WhatsApp and Telegram.
Permissions:
→WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Required: Yes
Reason: To write the photo to your external memory.
→READ_SMS
Required: Yes
Reason: Used to read messages from a selected contact for the TextCloud.
→INTERNET
Required: Yes
Reason: Used to connect with the TextCloud server to build the image. The image requires extensive computational power to place the words. Large images with many words can take considerably longer.
→READ_CONTACTS
Required: Yes
Reason: Used to select the contact to create a cloud with.
This application is still in beta and as such some features may not work as intended. Many improvements are in progress. This application uses an undocumented Content Resolver to fetch SMS messages and is not guaranteed to be supported on all Android devices [2].
All communications are sent over a secure channel with 2048bit RSA and no data is retained after the connection is completed. If you have any privacy concerns or inquiries, please send me an email and I will respond as soon as possible.
Thank you.
1. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions#reference-read_mailbox
2. http://android-developers.blogspot.ca/2010/05/be-careful-with-content-providers.html
Doesn't work
Everything works great and looks even better. I just wish I could use apps like kik or couple to create the clouds. Great work!
Connection to textcloud server failed. I tried wifi, mobile data, both with and without a vpn, no luck.
Nothing displays on my Nexus 6P
Support for group texts anytime soon?
I'd like it more if you could see who said what in addition to the option to see the most common as a group. The font options are a bit confusing since you can't see what they look like and the names are odd. Also, I was surprised that the cloud icon wasn't a shape to choose from! I'd want to use that one :)
Amazing but would really like to see support for something like whatsapp
Super cool little app - really fun to play with. A simple top 10 of by importance would be pretty neat, too. Would be interesting to have a way to toggle to filter out "generic" words with (arguably) no real value, like "Like", on top of existing cleansing.
Works, and it's really really cool! I've been doing it to everyone I know. Pretty cool to see what words we say to each other. I'd kinda prefer seeing who said what, or even filtering out colloquially overused words like "like" but still, 5 stars.
by Y####:
Would be neat if I could design my own layouts. There is one thing it needs. I mean to be able to delete ones that I have made